Download or read book The Hovels of Ireland Classic Reprint written by Fanny Parnell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Hovels of Ireland The most Complete, Instructive, Beautiful, Attractive and Illustrated Work ever Published on Ireland, Picturesque Ireland. Picturesque Ireland A Literary and Artistic Delineation of the Natural Scenery, Remarkable Places, Historical Antiquities, Public Buildings, Ancient Abbeys, Ruins, Towers, Castles, and other Romantic and Attractive Features of Ireland. Edited By John Savage, LL. D. This splendid work will present the most complete, varied, beautiful and extensive collection of Illustrations of Scenes and Sights in the Emerald Isle, which has ever been brought together and presented to the Public. Picturesque Ireland Is designed to embrace striking features of preceding works-reproductions of the pictures and drawings of the eminent Artists who have for the last fifty years given such a notable impetus to the study of Irish scenery. All the characteristic features, natural and architectural, of all sections of the country, North and South, East and West-the public streets and buildings of the chief cities, the beautiful rivers and enchanting lakes, magnificent coast lines, historical castles, old abbeys and ruins, wild mountains, picturesque valleys, glens and waterfalls-from the Giant's Causeway, and the solemn grandeur of the Coasts of Antrim and Donegal in the North, to the poetical Lakes of Killarney, and the romantic mountain gaps and river scenery of Tipperary, Waterford, Cork, and Kerry in the South; from the exquisite glens and cataracts on the Liffey in Dublin and Wicklow in the East, to the expanding magnificence of the Shannon, and the wilds of Connemara in the West-will be reproduced in an attractive form, and at a price which will be within the means of every intelligent family. The Engravings, of which there will be over One Thousand, will consist of steel and wood. The Work, when completed, will be such as has never before appeared in this country, as no expense will be spared in paper or press-work, to impart to every impression the full artistic beauty and finish of the engravings. It will be issued in 25 parts at Fifty Cents each.Each part will have one fine Steel Plate Engraving, and one colored County Map of Ireland. Subscriptions only 50 cents monthly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Hovels of Ireland written by Fanny 1854-1882 Parnell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel paints a dismaying picture of the hovels and poverty-stricken people of Ireland. Parnell's work is an indirect response to the Great Famine that beset the country from 1845 to 1849 and profoundly affected the lives of the Irish people. Her vivid descriptions will leave readers devastated and heartbroken. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Irish Classics written by Declan Kiberd and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the tenacious life of the enduring Irish classics, this book by one of Irish writing's most eloquent readers offers a brilliant and accessible survey of the greatest works since 1600 in Gaelic and English, which together have shaped one of the world's most original literary cultures. In the course of his discussion of the great seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Gaelic poems of dispossession, and of later work in that language that refuses to die, Declan Kiberd provides vivid and idiomatic translations that bring the Irish texts alive for the English-speaking reader. Extending from the Irish poets who confronted modernity as a cataclysm, and who responded by using traditional forms in novel and radical ways, to the great modern practitioners of such paradoxically conservative and revolutionary writing, Kiberd's work embraces three sorts of Irish classics: those of awesome beauty and internal rigor, such as works by the Gaelic bards, Yeats, Synge, Beckett, and Joyce; those that generate a myth so powerful as to obscure the individual writer and unleash an almost superhuman force, such as the Cuchulain story, the lament for Art O'Laoghaire, and even Dracula; and those whose power exerts a palpable influence on the course of human action, such as Swift's Drapier's Letters, the speeches of Edmund Burke, or the autobiography of Wolfe Tone. The book closes with a moving and daring coda on the Anglo-Irish agreement, claiming that the seeds of such a settlement were sown in the works of Irish literature. A delight to read throughout, Irish Classics is a fitting tribute to the works it reads so well and inspires us to read, and read again.
Download or read book The Bog of Stars and Other Stories and Sketches written by Standish O'Grady and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Bog of Stars and Other Stories and Sketches: Of Elizabethan Ireland Generally has been to bring the modern Irish reader into closer and more sympathetic relation with a most remarkable century of Irish history a century which, more than any other, seems. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Year of the French written by Thomas Flanagan and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2004-10-31 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader of the rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverished local peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before long the insurgency collapsed in the face of a brutal English counterattack. Very few books succeed in registering the sudden terrible impact of historical events; Thomas Flanagan's is one. Subtly conceived, masterfully paced, with a wide and memorable cast of characters, The Year of the French brings to life peasants and landlords, Protestants and Catholics, along with old and abiding questions of secular and religious commitments, empire, occupation, and rebellion. It is quite simply a great historical novel. Named the most distinguished work of fiction in 1979 by the National Book Critics' Circle.
Download or read book The Story of the Irish Race written by Seumas MacManus and published by New York : Irish Publishing Company, 1922 [c1921]. This book was released on 1922 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How the Irish Became White written by Noel Ignatiev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country – a land of opportunity – they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a person’s skin. Noel Ignatiev’s 1995 book – the first published work of one of America’s leading and most controversial historians – tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors; how the new Irish immigrants achieved acceptance among an initially hostile population only by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists. This is the story of How the Irish Became White.
Download or read book The Story of the Irish Race written by Seumas MacManus and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Irish Pub. Co., 1921.
Download or read book Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size written by Maurice James Craig and published by London : Architectural Press ; New York : Architectural Book Publishing Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Girls of Slender Means New Directions Classic written by Muriel Spark and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1998-04-17 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."
Download or read book Medieval Households written by David HERLIHY and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law, and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation of family life. In a series of bold hypotheses, he presents his ideas about the emergence of a distinctive medieval household and its transformation over a thousand years. Ancient societies lacked the concept of the family as a moral unit and displayed an extraordinary variety of living arrangements, from the huge palaces of the rich to the hovels of the slaves. Not until the seventh and eighth centuries did families take on a more standard form as a result of the congruence of material circumstances, ideological pressures, and the force of cultural norms. By the eleventh century, families had acquired a characteristic kinship organization first visible among elites and then spreading to other classes. From an indifferent network of descent through either male or female lines evolved the new concept of patrilineage, or descent and inheritance through the male line. For the first time a clear set of emotional ties linked family members. It is the author's singular contribution to show how, as they evolved from their heritages of either barbarian society or classical antiquity, medieval households developed commensurable forms, distinctive ties of kindred, and a tighter moral and emotional unity to produce the family as we know it. Herlihy's range of sources is prodigious: ancient Roman and Greek authors, Aquinas, Augustine, archives of monasteries, sermons of saints, civil and canon law, inquisitorial records, civil registers, charters, censuses and surveys, wills, marriage certificates, birth records, and more. This well-written book will be the starting point for all future studies of medieval domestic life.
Download or read book History of Ireland written by Geoffrey Keating and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ancient Legends Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland written by Lady Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A City So Grand written by Stephen Puleo and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a metamorphosis to become a thriving metropolis, one that achieved prominence in politics, medicine, education, science, and transportation. "A City So Grand" chronicles this breathtaking period in Boston's history.
Download or read book The Great Hunger written by Cecil Woodham Smith and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and its impact on Anglo-Irish relations.
