Download or read book The Irish in Australia Classic Reprint written by James Francis Hogan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Irish in Australia Success, to present in this volume a faithful panorama of Irish life, Irish history, and Irish achievements in the land I know and love so well. 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 Irish in Australia written by James Francis Hogan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Irish in Australia It is now some five years since I conceived the idea of writing a history of my fellow-countrymen in Australasia, but it was only within the last year or two that I could find sufficient time to make any material progress with the undertaking, although I had been collecting the materials for some period in advance. To all those old Irish colonists, to whom I applied for general reminiscences or specific information, and who very kindly, readily, and fully complied with my request, I am deeply indebted for a variety of interesting details concerning the events of the early days that were not otherwise obtainable. Written for the most part in Melbourne the work was subjected to a thorough revision during my recent three weeks voyage across the Pacific from Sydney to San Francisco, and the seven days on the Atlantic between New York and Liverpool. We are now at the close of the first century of colonisation in Australia, and the time is therefore opportune for an estimate of the influence exercised by the Irish element of the population on the remarkable growth and development of the Greater Britain of the South. Having lived in Australia from childhood, I have endeavoured, not I hope without some success, to present in this volume a faithful panorama of Irish life, Irish history, and Irish achievements in the I land I know and love so well. 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 How the Irish Saved Civilization written by Thomas Cahill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
Download or read book The Pleasant Career of a Spendthrift Classic Reprint written by George Meudell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Pleasant Career of a Spendthrift All these years Of travel over the Seven Seas have fixed firmly in my soul and mind the belief that my native land, Australia, is the best country and the Australians are the best people on the globe. The finest people of all the nations are the French, and unlike most other peoples the French as a nation love their homeland, passionately and devotedly. The English, the Scotch, the Londoners (who are a curious sect of the British people standing apart), Germans, Italians, Swiss and all those other races from the cold north of Europe have no obsessing love of country. The Irish have mostly left Ireland, but they were forced out. For freedom, for food, for work, for money, they leave their homes as soon as they can. And most of those countries are good places to get away from. 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 Irish Republic written by Patrick Cudmore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Irish Republic: A Historical Memoir on Ireland and Her Oppressors The object of the author in presenting this volume to the public, has been to give in one volume a condensed sketch of the wrongs, grievances and mlsgovernment of Ireland under British despotism, the colonial tyrants of the pale, and the tyrannical landlords of Ireland. To place be fore the world the wrongs of Ireland, under British despot ism and misrule, since the time of Henry II. To the present. Those who have [neither time nor opportunity to read the standard works on Ireland, will, the author hopes, find in this volume an interesting outline of the political history of Ireland from the early ages to the present; and those who have read the standard histories of Ireland will find this volume 'a useful and convenient manual 5 as a book of reference. This, volume has been carefully compiled from the most approved standard authors, ancient and modern, lay and clerical. The author has, in some instances, given the eicact language of] the authors themselves. This, he presumes, will give more satisfaction to his readers. The author confidently hopes that this volume will be welcomed by every Irish patriot; and that Irishmen in the United States will send it to their friends In Ireland, England Scotland, the British Possessions, and Australia. 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 LOST TRIBES OF THE IRISH IN THE SOUTH written by IRVIN S. COBB and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irish Neighbours Classic Reprint written by Jane Barlow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Irish Neighbours Now as he stood at the little green wooden gate, he looked about him with small curiosity, so firmly was he convinced that in his lost Barnadrum alone could life be worth living. The fact that he had known no other place in his five-and-twenty years did but strengthen this conviction. He could not be said to have chosen a propitious moment for his first survey of pre judged Portcormac. It was that trying hour before sunrise when in the lack-lustre twilight everything wears a drearily unreal aspect, mean ingless somehow, and yet menacing. Murtagh saw a flat stretch of tilled land, with a sprinkling of cottages and trees. Close at hand the fields were large and square, divided by low, straight hedges, and mostly filled with cabbages and turnips. 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 A History of the Irish Dominicans from Original Sources and Unpublished Records Vol 1 written by M. H. Macinerny and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the Irish Dominicans, From Original Sources and Unpublished Records, Vol. 1: Irish Dominican Bishops (1224-1307) Recalled from Australia, over four years ago, to write a history of the Dominicans in Ireland, I soon realised that the task was far larger than a careless observer might suppose. For one thing, I discovered that the Dominicans had been intimately associated, in one way or another, with almost every important movement that had taken place in Ireland during the last seven centuries. To form a right estimate of the part which members of the Order had taken in these various movements would entail a vast amount of close and painstaking research. A hundred and fifty years ago, the illustrious De Burgo. Author of the Hibernia Dominicana, wrote a history of the Irish Dominicans which still remains a classic in Irish his torical literature. But if De Burgo were alive to-day, he could not conscientiously compress a history of the Irish Dominicans into the compass of a single volume. Since his time, and especially within the last fifty or sixty years, all manner of new sources have been Opened to the historical inquirer. Among the most valuable of these sources are the Calendars of State Papers and of Papal Registers, which throw a flood of light upon many persons and transactions that were but dimly known in De Burgo's day. 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 Just Irish Classic Reprint written by Charles Battell Loomis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Just Irish "Irish hospitality." I have often heard the term used, but I did not suppose that I should get such convincing evidence of it within twelve hours of my arrival at this northern port. This is to be a straightforward relation of what happened to some half dozen Americans, strangers to each other, a week ago, and strangers to all Ireland upon arrival. In details it is somewhat unusual, but in spirit I am sure it is characteristic of what might have befallen good Americans in any one of the four provinces. 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 Irish People written by Edmund Hogan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Irish People: Their Height, Form, and Strength Book was compiled, the Predominant Partner, notwithstanding his detestation of pinpricks, unfriendly acts and closed doors, and in spite of his delicate conscience, nonconformist and otherwise, pursued this policy towards the Irish race in the United Kingdom, the United States and everywhere. While plundering Irishmen of millions of money as his own Financial Relations' Report testifies, he treated. 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 Round About Home written by P. J. Carroll and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Round About Home: Irish Scenes and Memories On Saturday afternoon, ' from two to Six, he heard confessions in an Old confessional that was hidden away under the stairs leading to the gallery. When he gave a word of counsel or consolation, he spoke so low the people said 'the ould boy himself couldn't hear, and SO couldn't make plans to spoil the good work of his reverence.' 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 Society of St Columban written by Edward John McCarthy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Society of St. Columban: A Historical Sketch Page four sight saddened him, as it has saddened many another heart before and since. He saw how the missionaries of France were recalled from their missions to become soldiers. He knew that many of them would never return. And as he saw the utter spiritual helplessness of China with all its cruel fearsome superstitions, his thoughts turned to other lands where the Faith was strong and fervent and where men, many of them at least, loved God; to Ireland, where he was born, and to America, where he had lived and worked. In these countries there was a strong, virile Faith. Ireland had a missionary history unparalleled; in America the idea of foreign mis sions had scarcely begun to stir abroad, but Father Galvin had vision enough to grasp its possibilities. He began his campaign. He wrote for the Irish Catholic and he wrote for the students of Maynooth. His letters were read and published there by a friend whose interest was awakening. If he failed to receive a ready response, he got at least a sympathetic hearing. He wrote constantly for such American papers as The Lamp (graymoor) and the Brooklyn Tah let. Two Irish priests joined him in 1915 and their sphere of influence spread to Australia. More than one Australian priest now attributes his missionary vocation to articles that appeared in the Austral Light at that period. Something was taking shape. Neither Father Galvin nor his. Com rades could guess then what the future would bring, and as a matter of fact it far surpassed their wildest dreams. But the ground was being pre pared, and in 1916 Father Galvin himself appeared on. The scene. In the summer of that year he was in America, in the autumn he was in Ireland. 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 Irish in Australia written by Patrick O'Farrell and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed history of the Irish in Australia, first published in 1986, which won the NSW Premier's Award for Non-fiction and the Ernest Scott Prize for Australian history. This second edition has a new chapter, TThe New Irish', which examines recent developments, and a supplementary bibliography containing an additional 220 items published since 1986. Includes a bibliography, further reading list, and an index. The author holds a personal chair of history at the University of NSW and his other works include a companion study, TVanished Kingdoms', and the standard Australian history of TThe Catholic Church and Community'.
Download or read book The Great Shame written by Thomas Keneally and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us in The Great Shame a people despised and rejected to the point of death, who in the face of all their sorrows manage to keep their souls. This story of oppression, famine, and emigration--a principal chapter in the story of man's inhumanity to man--becomes in Keneally's hands an act of resurrection; Irishmen and Irishwomen of a century and a half ago live once more within the pages of this book." --Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization In the nineteenth century, Ireland lost half of its population to famine, emigration to the United States and Canada, and the forced transportation of convicts to Australia. The forebears of Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's List, were victims of that tragedy, and in The Great Shame Keneally has written an astonishing, monumental work that tells the full story of the Irish diaspora with the narrative grip and flair of a great novel. Based on unique research among little-known sources, this masterly book surveys eighty years of Irish history through the eyes of political prisoners--including Keneally's ancestors--who left Ireland in chains and eventually found glory, in one form or another, in Australia and America. We meet William Smith O'Brien, leader of an uprising at the height of the Irish Famine, who rose from solitary confinement in Australia to become the Mandela of his age; Thomas Francis Meagher, whose escape from Australian captivity led to a glittering American career as an orator, a Union general, and governor of Montana; John Mitchel, who became a Confederate newspaper reporter, gave two of his sons to the Southern cause, was imprisoned with Jefferson Davis--and returned to Ireland to become mayor of Tipperary; and John Boyle O'Reilly, who fled a life sentence in Australia to become one of nineteenth-century America's leading literary lights. Through the lives of many such men and women--famous and obscure, some heroes and some fools (most a little of both), all of them stubborn, acutely sensitive, and devastatingly charming--we become immersed in the Irish experience and its astonishing history. From Ireland to Canada and the United States to the bush towns of Australia, we are plunged into stories of tragedy, survival, and triumph. All are vividly portrayed in Keneally's spellbinding prose, as he reveals the enormous influence the exiled Irish have had on the English-speaking world. "A terrible and personal saga, history delivered with a scholar's density of detail but with the individualizing power of a multi-talented novelist." --William Kennedy
Download or read book An Irish Cousin Classic Reprint written by E. Oe. Somerville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Irish Cousin There had been several days of thick, murky weather dull, uncomplaining days, that bore their burden of fog and rain in monotonous endurance. Six of such I had lived through; a passive existence, parcelled out to me by the uncomprehended clanging of bells, and the, to me, still more incomprehensible clatter which, recurring at regular intervals, told that a hungry multitude were plying their knives and forks in the saloon. 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 Report of the Central Committee for Relief of Distress in Ireland written by Central Committee for Relief of Ireland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Central Committee for Relief of Distress in Ireland: 1862-3; With Appendices Colonies of Australia, emigrants, of whom were Irish, towards whose passage money, was contributed in those Colonies. The amount remitted by settlers in Australia was, in 1859, in 1860, in 1861, in 1862, or a total, in the four years, of of which a very large portion was to Ireland. These returns do not include remittances by hand, or through commercial firms, or private parties, the amount of which is estimated by the Emigration Commissioners at one-half that sent through ofiicial channels.the most effective and satisfactory manner. About 600 eligible persons, carefully selected, will be sent, free of all cost, to Melbourne, and it is intended to append to this Report a full account of the proceed ings connected therewith, drawn up by the Lord Mayor and the Committee charged with the under taking? 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 Poets of Ireland written by D. J. O'Donoghue and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poets of Ireland: A Biographical and Bibliographical, Dictionary of Irish, Writers of English Verse The very imperfect work issued by me under the same title twenty years ago, although brought out under many disadvantages, met with such success that from the first I was encouraged to contemplate an improved edition in a form more worthy of its subject. Originally published in parts, and from the author's private residence, never: advertised or pushed in any way, conceived and carried through in London, away from the most fruitful sources of information, nevertheless, not only did the original parts go quickly out of print, but for some years hardly a week passed which did not bring its batch of interesting and suggestive correspondence from well-wishers and subscribers in the United Kingdom, America, and Australia con cerning the book. It was warmly praised by the Press, which recognised its utility to all interested in Irish literary effort, and appreciated what it not unfairly described as the enthusiasm of the author. But, if the work was received far more generously than I had expected, still, I, at least, never failed to observe its many defects and shortcomings. The information was too loosely strung together, it was often too vague and general, and occasionally the bibliographies lacked directness and method. I realised the want of a book of the kind on a more comprehensive plan. No sooner was the original publication issued than I commenced to glean additional information from all available sources, and I continued that unwearying research which 'had become such a hobby with me that no occasion for increasing my rapidly accumulating material was allowed to slip. From friendly correspondents in three Continents I gained many valuable items of information. To such an extent did the work grow, that the edition which I am now, by the enterprise of 3. Dublin publisher, enabled to offer to the public, may almost claim to be an entirely new book. 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.
