Download or read book The Fate of Irish Sons written by Mark Mayfield and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THE MISTS OF IRISH LORE is the story of legendary Gaelic heroes, Cuchullin and Ferdia, fast friends that Destiny ruled must face each other in a battle to the death. The struggle lasted three days with each warrior suffering severe wounds, but in the end one had to triumph and the other must die, his blood sanctifying the soil of ancient Ireland. In this epic story, as though through that glass darkly, Sean O'Hanlon and Denis McCullen play out their own Destiny as warriors of a modern time. Sean, an Irish American, is irrevocably linked to the land of his birth - that ancient place, its history and its people - as if by a cruel design. Sean struggles to make sense of the legacy left to him by successive generations of family. Returning to Derry as a youth during The Troubles between Catholics and Protestants, fateful bonds were formed with his beloved Maggie and a friend and rival, Denis McCullen. When Sean is drawn into the nightmare of violence while attempting to save others and nearly loses his life escaping a police trap, he becomes an outlaw himself. Prophetically, Denis, who becomes a member of the Provisional Wing of the IRA, before being banished by them to pursue a life of an international terrorist, convinces Sean that their separate paths are destinies entwined for life. Sean leaves Maggie behind and becomes a Navy SEAL and begins to doubt, then curse the choices he has made along the way. He longs for his precious Maggie. Their love transcended their own mortality, yet whether by God's design or his own ill choices, they could never be together. Sean embarks on a life journey that takes him from The Troubles in Ulster to the jungles of Southeast Asia; from California beaches to the wind-swept mountains of Iran; and from the polished Pentagon corridors to the cool morning skies above the Iraqi desert. Like pieces of a puzzle, every turn in his life is an integral part of a prophetic equation. The final piece is a terrorist plot that leads Sean back to Maggie and Denis where it began in Derry and the climactic confrontation. Through it all, Sean strives to shape his own destiny, only to succumb time and time again to those unyielding bonds, The Fate of Irish Sons.
Download or read book The King of Ireland s Son written by Padraic Colum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Favorite tales from the Emerald Isle: "When the King of the Cats Came to King Connal's Dominion," "The Town of the Red Castle," 5 more. 9 full-page illustrations, numerous decorations.
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Download or read book My Name is Bridget written by Alison O'Reilly and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, twenty-six-year-old Bridget Dolan walked up the path to the front door of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home. Alone and pregnant, she was following in the footsteps of more than a century's worth of lost souls. Shunned by society for her sins and offered no comfort for her pain, Bridget gave birth to a boy, John, who died at the home in a horrendous state of neglect less than two years later. Her second child was once again delivered into the care of the nuns and was taken from her, never to be seen or heard from again. She would go on to marry a wonderful man and have a daughter, Anna Corrigan, but it was only after Bridget's death that Anna discovered she had two brothers her mother had never spoken about. In the aftermath of the explosive revelations that the remains of 796 babies had been found in a septic tank on the site of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home, she became compelled to try and find out if her baby brothers' remains were among them. Here, Anna and Alison O'Reilly piece together the erased chapter of the life of Bridget Dolan and her forgotten sons, reminding us that we must never forget what was done to the women and children of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home.
Download or read book Erin s Sons written by Terrence M. Punch and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of "Erin's Sons" covers the same time period as its predecessor and the same geographic area--the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia--and it lists an additional 7,000 Irish arrivals in Atlantic Canada before 1853. What is remarkable about this second volume is the rich variety of information derived from hard-to-find sources such as church records of marriages and burials, cemetery records, headstone inscriptions, military description books, newspapers, poor house records, and passenger lists.
Download or read book Deirdri Or the Lamentable Fate of the Sons of Usnach an Ancient Dramatic Irish Tale One of the Three Tragic Stories of Eirin written by Theophilus O'Flanagan and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deirdri Or the Lamentable Fate of the Sons of Usnach An Ancient Dramatic Irish Tale 1808 written by Theophilus O'Flanagan and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The history of the ancient Irish from their reception of Christianity till the invitation of the English in the reign of Henry the second tr from the orig Irish book 2 with amendments by D O Connor written by Geoffrey Keating and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Name of the Son written by Richard O’Rawe and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2017-10-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 19 October 1989. An electrified young man, with eyes wild and a clenched fist, bursts out of the Old Bailey and declares his innocence to the world. Gerry Conlon has just won his appeal for the 1974 Guildford pub bombing. After fifteen years in prison, freedom beckons. Or does it? Following his release, Conlon received close to one million pounds from government compensation, movie and book deals; he ran in the same circles as Johnny Depp, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Shane MacGowan. Conlon seemed to have it all. Yet within five years he was hooked on crack cocaine and eating out of bins in the backstreets of London. Beyond the elation of his release was the awful descent into addiction, isolation and self-loathing. But this is a book about the resilience of the human spirit. What emerges from the darkness and the addiction is Gerry Conlon the pacifist; the man who came to be recognised around the world as a campaigner against miscarriages of justice. In the Name of the Son also reveals damning new evidence of statement tampering by the authorities which would’ve cleared Conlon at the initial trial. Life-long friend, Richard O’Rawe, has written a powerful and candid story of Gerry Conlon’s extraordinary life following his years of brutal incarceration at the hands of the British justice system.
Download or read book Say Nothing written by Patrick Radden Keefe and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SOON TO BE AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. One of The New York Times’s 20 Best Books of the 21st Century "Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book—as finely paced as a novel—Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga." —New York Times Book Review "Reads like a novel ... Keefe is ... a master of narrative nonfiction. . .An incredible story."—Rolling Stone A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, NPR, and more! Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.
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Download or read book Booking Passage We Irish and Americans written by Thomas Lynch and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-06-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A good read even for those who have not the least ancestral or national bias—for those who desire civilized entertainment along with brilliant narrative." —Seattle Times In thirty-five years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Thomas Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish. Part memoir, part cultural study, Booking Passage is a brilliant, often comedic guidebook for those "fellow travelers, fellow pilgrims" making their way through the complexities of their own lives and times.
Download or read book The History of Ireland Ancient and Modern written by James MacGeoghegan and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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