Download or read book The Breathing Burren written by Gordon D'Arcy and published by Collins Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watercolors and anecdotes from the Irish Burren, celebrating the flora, fauna, and people of the region. In full color.
Download or read book The Burren written by E. Charles Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Four Elements written by John O'Donohue and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beloved author of the bestselling To Bless the Space Between Us and Anam Cara comes a new work that shares his insights on nature and the ancient wisdom of this earth. John O'Donohue won hundreds of thousands of admirers with his now classic work on Celtic spirituality Anam Cara. Unfortunately he died suddenly at age fifty-two just as his book of blessings, To Bless the Space Between Us, was being published. The loss of his powerfully wise and lyrical voice has been profoundly missed, but his many readers are given a special opportunity to revisit John in a new book based on a series of papers he wrote on the elements of water, stone, air, and fire, now published here for the first time. O'Donohue's readers know him as both a spiritual guide and a poet, and in this work he exhibits both qualities, sharing his Celtic heritage and his love for his native landscape in the west of Ireland. As O'Donohue explores a range of themes relating to the way we live our lives today, he reveals how the energy and rhythm of the natural world—its innocence and creativity, its power and splendor—hold profound lessons for us all. With a foreword written by his beloved brother, Pat, this illuminating book is an inspired reflection on the ancient wisdom of the earth.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to Ireland Travel Guide eBook written by Rough Guides and published by Apa Publications (UK) Limited. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover this evergreen destination with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to ride the length of the wonderful Wild Atlantic Way, take a foodie tour of the southwest or discover a city reborn in Belfast, The Rough Guide to Ireland will show you the ideal places to sleep, eat, drink, shop and visit along the way. - Independent, trusted reviews written with Rough Guides' trademark blend of humour, honesty and insight, to help you get the most out of your visit, with options to suit every budget. - Full-colour maps throughout- navigate the backstreets of Dublin's Temple Bar or Derry's famous city walls without needing to get online. - Stunning images - a rich collection of inspiring colour photography. -Things not to miss - Rough Guides' rundown of Ireland's best sights and experiences. - Itineraries- carefully planned routes to help you organize your trip. -Detailed regional coverage- whether off the beaten track or in more mainstream tourist destinations, this travel guide has in-depth practical advice for every step of the way. Areas covered (all Ireland's counties) include: Dublin; the Midlands; Cavan; Mayo; Galway; Clare; Limerick; Kerry; Cork; Kilkenny; Kildare; Meath; Belfast; Antrim and Derry. Attractions include: The Giant's Causeway; Dublin's Trinity College; Titanic Belfast; the Wild Atlantic Way; Bruna Boinne; Skellig Michael; Kylemore Abbey; Bantry House; the Burren and Croagh Patrick. -Basics- essential pre-departure practical information including getting there, local transport, accommodation, food and drink, health, festivals, sports and outdoor activities, culture and etiquette, the media and more. -Background information - a Contexts chapter devoted to history, traditional music and literature,plus a handy language section and glossary. Make the Most of Your Time on Earth with The Rough Guide to Ireland.
Download or read book 150 Gems of Irish Music for Tin Whistle written by Grey E. Larsen and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grey Larsen, in the 150 Gems collection, has given us a most welcome follow-up to his encyclopedic volume, The Essential Guide to Irish Flute and Tin Whistle (Mel Bay Publications, 2003) and The Essential Tin Whistle Toolbox (Mel Bay Publications, 2004). The Gems feature not only meticulously-selected tunes, but represent the first major offerings that use Larsen's innovative system of notating Irish ornamentation. This book and online audio will help players gain a deeper understanding of the Irish musical tradition as well as provide new material to enhance the experience of the solo player and Irish session participant alike.
Download or read book Wild Waters written by Richard Nairn and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I often sit by the bank of the small river that flows through our farm in County Wicklow, fascinated by its many moods ... Getting to know a river is like reading the story of a person's life ... from its young energetic stages in the hills to the slower-moving mature river, through to the tranquil water of lakes and finally to its resting place in the sea.' Richard Nairn is an ecologist who has been visiting waterways around Ireland for over half a century, fascinated by how they sustain and enrich our lives. Here he sets out on a year-long adventure to explore every stretch and tributary of the Avonmore River, which runs through Co. Wicklow. From source to sea, he immerses himself in the wildlife, archaeology, history and people connected to the river. Travelling to explore more of Ireland's rivers, lakes, wet woodlands, ponds and canals, Richard details encounters with dragonflies, crayfish, otters and great flocks of migratory waterbirds, and finds himself awestruck by the sense of a lost wilderness they convey. With our waterways now under serious threat, this is a love letter to Ireland's rivers and lakes, and a reminder of what we stand to lose. 'Opens the window into a watery world. Personal yet panoramic.' Colin Stafford-Johnson, filmmaker.
Download or read book Contemporary Irish Writing and Environmentalism written by Donna L. Potts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the Irish environmental movement, which began gaining momentum in the 1970s, has influenced and been addressed by contemporary Irish writers, artists, and musicians. It examines Irish environmental writing, music, and art within their cultural contexts, considers how postcolonial ecocriticism might usefully be applied to Ireland, and analyzes the rhetoric of Irish environmental protests. It places the Irish environmental movement within the broader contexts of Irish national and postcolonial discourses, focusing on the following protests: the M3 Motorway, the Burren campaign, the Carnsore Point anti-nuclear protest, Shell to Sea, the turf debate, and the animal rights movement.
Download or read book Rainbow s End written by Katie Flynn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIVIDLY EVOKING IRELAND AND LIVERPOOL, RAINBOW'S END IS A WARM AND ENGROSSING SAGA FROM A RISING STAR. Tracing the stories of two quite diffrent girls: Ellen Docherty, in Liverpool, bringing up her younger sister and brother single-handedly, and Maggie McVeigh, in the Dublin tenements, finding a better life working for the Nolan family, and falling in love with Liam, the eldest son, RAINBOW'S END follows two girls on their struggle for happiness. But the First World War changes everything -and unearths a long-buried link between the families.
Download or read book We Are the ARK written by Mary Reynolds and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city planner, and the nature lover will all be inspired for this wonderful book shows how thousands of even small wildlife friendly gardens can provide habitat for embattled wildlife around the world.” —Jane Goodall, Phd, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace Individuals can’t save the world alone. But if millions of us work together to save our own patch of earth—then we really have a shot. How do we do it? With Acts of Restorative Kindness (ARK). An ARK is a restored, native ecosystem. It’s a thriving patch of native plants and creatures that have been allowed and supported to re-establish in the earth's intelligent, successional process of natural restoration. Over time, this becomes a pantry and a habitat for our pollinators and wild creatures who are in desperate need of support. These ARKs will become the seeding grounds for our planet’s new story. They will be sanctuaries for our shared kin—the rooted and unrooted—and safe havens for the magic and abundance of the natural world. Most importantly, the ARK-building actions are within our control and laid out here in We Are the ARK. In these inspiring pages, discover how one person’s actions can effect big change in this world. Even the tiniest postage stamp patch of land matters! Together we are building a patchwork quilt of life that will wrap its way around this planet.
Download or read book The Natural History of the Burren written by Gordon D'Arcy and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the Burren's geology, archaeology and ecology reveals the secrets of a delicately balanced interdependence of rock, water, flora and fauna throughout the seasons. Supplemented with maps, tables, charts and diagrams, this text is suitable for both tourists and botanists alike.
Download or read book Heartstar written by Elva Thompson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hate the antithesis of love, wages war upon the Triad Realms of High Faerie, Faerie and the Mortal World. In the third dimension, Emma Cameron the mortal warrior of Air has been captured by the Demon Lord Zugalfar and his legions, which wait in the shadow realm for the gates to Pandemonia to open. In the fourth dimension, Kilfannan and Kilcannan, the sylphs of the House of Kilfenoran are on an urgent quest to find the stolen key made of air that will unlock the power of the HeartStar. The hounds of hell have been released to stop them. In High Faerie, the rulers of Gorias are imprisoned in the outer darkness, and their emerald city is in flames. All seems lost as the fate of three worlds hangs in the balance. In this race against time, the sylphs of Kilfenoran are all that stand between the death of the HeartStar and the annihilation of all life as the threat of Pandemonia inches ever darkly onward.
Download or read book Steenie O shea written by Mali Berger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 2, 2002, the Seanachais (Gallic for storyteller) Steenie OShea of Galway, Ireland, discloses to her young niece, Aine, the mysterious family secret that occurred in 1977. The narrator describes Steenies amnesia and its effect on author, Maeve McCourt, in Fountain Hills, Arizona. What is the source of identical books created by the two storytellers, an ocean apart, the same year? Maeve travels to Galway, meets the OShea bookshop clan and enters into the strange evolutionary transformation of the Blues. Travel with the OSheas from the Sligo of W.B. Yeats down the coast of Galway Bay to The Burren as the venture becomes more and more convoluted, entangled with a 350,000 year-old mystery. Maurice Meehan, Steenies fiance, a poet of the sea, disappears in 1974, shortly before their wedding day. Did he drown with his Da and brothers in the curagh accident off the Aran Island of Inishmaan where J.M. Synge lived and wrote his plays? What is the "Third Way" and its connection between Belfast and the Giants Crossing in Northern Ireland? Mali Berger, storyteller of this fiction thriller, combines mystery, romance and philosophy in her fey Irish happening, enticing, entrapping the reader into this strange OShea family secret.
Download or read book And Blue Skies From Pain written by Stina Leicht and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northern Ireland, 1977. Liam Kelly is many things: a former wheelman for the IRA, a one-time political prisoner, the half-breed son of a mystic Fey warrior and a mortal woman, and a troubled young man literally haunted by the ghosts of his past. Liam has turned his back on his land’s bloody sectarian Troubles, but the war isn’t done with him yet, and neither is an older, more mythic battle–between the Church and its demonic enemies, the Fallen. After centuries of misunderstanding and conflict, the Church is on the verge of accepting that the Fey and the Fallen are not the same. But to achieve this historic truce, Liam must prove to the Church’s Inquisitors that he is not a demon, even as he wrestles with his own guilt and confusion, while being hunted by enemies both earthly and unworldly. A shape-shifter by nature, Liam has a foot in two worlds–and it’s driving him mad.
Download or read book Salamander Crossing written by Úna Ní Cheallaigh and published by Lapwing Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fast Train Approaching written by Steve Walter and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Steve is a man who lives life vividly, creatively, courageously. Someone who uses every experience; inspiring, painful, loving and terrifying, to deepen his understanding and illuminate his spiritual journey. This is a deeply moving book, it is a revelation and a wake up call. Read and be inspired!"" - Liz Aram, MIND Trustee""I hope that 'FAST TRAIN APPROACHING...' will be a tool that can be used to help erode the stigma that continues to surround mental illness, for such illness is no respecter of persons! It can happen to any one of us and at any time."" - Jenny Bloomer, Psychotherapist Description'FAST TRAIN APPROACHING...' is a novella length autobiographical story of breakdown and survival. The text is interspersed with poems which represent a form of compressed experience and a thread of continuity throughout the book. 'FAST TRAIN APPROACHING...' is a frank and open account spanning the decade from Steve's first breakdown in 1997 (when he was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder) to the present day. This is a confessional book, in many places raw, honest, and in parts shocking. It traces the circumstances and thoughts that contributed towards Steve's breakdown, through illness, losing touch with reality, to returning to whatever normality is. This book challenges common perceptions of mental illness and demonstrates how very real the experience of delusions can be.Steve Walter has written this story, not only because it is therapeutic, but also because he knew that other people often like to read and to understand someone else's experience, to help make sense of their own, or of problems experienced by those close to them. He also thinks it is important to talk about the issues surrounding mental ill health, in the interests of crushing stigma. Too often the experience and effects of depression, mania, delusions are hushed up or result in unfair treatment and discrimination. Mental health problems are often treated as if there's been a death in the family. People avoid talking about them. In 'FAST TRAIN APPROACHING...' Steve offers people an insight into his thinking, his emotions and, with the detail of the actual medical reports, distancing himself through the third person, he takes them through the pain. He shows that it is possible to come out the other side and, with the support of his employer, to be rehabilitated and integrated back into work, into life.
Download or read book The Burren Wall written by Gordon D'Arcy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Burren and the Aran Islands have some of the most distinctive stone walls to be found anywhere. This book deals with their social history, from the earliest prehistoric examples to the most modern, indicating how different styles may be attributed to specific periods of construction.
Download or read book Mugs and Monasteries written by Cait O'Sullivan and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Orchid hunter Evie Bourke stumbles across a near deserted monastery deep in the Burren, she doesn’t realize that she’s the first person alive to see it. All she knows is that her life suddenly takes a strange turn and nothing will ever be the same. Aiden Dunne’s family has been connected to Munster Abbey for generations, he is determined to find it and to find out what happened to his ancestral relative, the former Prior. What happened all those years ago and why does Aiden seem so familiar to Evie when they’ve never met? Together they must face the Wanderer and dispatch him back to the darkness where he belongs before he destroys everything they hold dear. Can they trust each other before time runs out?
