Download or read book Man of the Century written by John Ramsden and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man of the Century is the often surprising story of how Winston Churchill, in the last years of his life, carefully crafted his reputation for posterity, revealing him to be perhaps the twentieth century's first, and most gifted, "spin doctor." Ramsden draws on fresh material and extensive research on three continents to argue that the statesman's force of personality and romantic, imperial notion of Britain has contributed directly to many of the political debates of the last decades--including American involvement in Vietnam and the role of the Anglo-American alliance in promoting and protecting a certain vision of world order.
Download or read book The Oxford History of the Irish Book Volume V written by Clare Hutton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series providing an authoritative history of the book in Ireland, this volume comprehensively outlines the history of 20th-century Irish book culture. This book embraces all the written and printed traditions and heritages of Ireland and places them in the global context of a worldwide interest in book histories.
Download or read book A Short History of Dublin written by Pat Boran and published by Mercier Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A canter through Dublin in all the ages of prehistory and history.
Download or read book A Story of Dublin written by John McCormack and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wolfhound Guide to the Shamrock written by Bob Curran and published by Wolfhound Press (IE). This book was released on 1999 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other plant is intertwined with both the history and folklore of Ireland as the shamrock. In this fascinating book, author Bob Curran explores the traditions of the shamrock, from its pre-Christian beginnings through its pivotal role in the story of Ireland's patron saint. Patrick, to its association with Irish politics.
Download or read book The Wolfhound Guide to the Dublin Monuments written by Elizabeth Healy and published by Wolfhound Press (IE). This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland's struggle for independence has been its major political preoccupation over the past few centuries, and its major monuments mirror this. From Parnell Square (the Garden of Remembrance, The Irish Volenteers), through O'Connell Street (Parnell right down to Mr Screen), to College Green (Thomas Moore to The Tain in the Setanta Centre) and College Park (including Cactus, Sfere Con Sfere, and Kecky and Salmon), Merrion Square, St Stephen's Green and the Canals, this pocketbook offers a guide to Dublin's monuments. The book explains their background and directs the reader to some which may not have been noticed.
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 2520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Ireland Irish written by Eric G. E. Zuelow and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dark shadow of civil war to the pastel-painted towns of today, Making Ireland Irish provides a sweeping account of the evolution of the Irish tourist industry over the twentieth century. Drawing on an extensive array of previously untapped or underused sources, Eric G. E. Zuelow examines how a small group of tourism advocates, inspired by tourist development movements in countries such as France and Spain, worked tirelessly to convince their Irish compatriots that tourism was the secret to Ireland’s success. Over time, tourism went from being a national joke to a national interest. Men and women from across Irish society joined in, eager to help shape their country and culture for visitors’ eyes. The result was Ireland as it is depicted today, a land of blue skies, smiling faces, pastel towns, natural beauty, ancient history, and timeless traditions. With lucid prose and vivid detail, Zuelow explains how careful planning transformed Irish towns and villages from grey and unattractive to bright and inviting; sanitized Irish history to avoid offending Ireland’s largest tourist market, the English; and supplanted traditional rural fairs revolving around muddy animals and featuring sexually suggestive ceremonies with new family-friendly festivals and events filling today’s tourist calendar. By challenging existing notions that the Irish tourist product is either timeless or the consequence of colonialism, Zuelow demonstrates that the development of tourist imagery and Irish national identity was not the result of a handful of elites or a postcolonial legacy, but rather the product of an extended discussion that ultimately involved a broad cross-section of society, both inside and outside Ireland. Tourism, he argues, played a vital role in “making Ireland Irish.”
Download or read book Guide to Historic Dublin written by Adrian MacLoughlin and published by Gill. This book was released on 1979 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia of Dublin written by Douglas Bennett and published by Gill. This book was released on 2005 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the standard reference work on the city of Dublin which reflects the welter of change that has swept the city since the early 1990s.
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Annals of Dublin written by Edward Eugene O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annals of Dublin consists of a chronology of the history of Dublin from the earliest known sources to the current day. As well as historical information there is a focus on interesting characters and events to make this and engaging read. The text is accompanied by some of the finest Father Brown photographs, many never seen before in print.
Download or read book Our Own Devices written by Ewan Morris and published by New Directions in Irish Histor. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National symbols have long been highly contentious in Ireland, and they remain so today. While there have been a number of studies which have examined the role of symbols in the contemporary conflict in Northern Ireland, as yet there has been no detailed study of debates about national symbols in twentieth-century Ireland. This book fills that gap, outlining the historical background to the continuing controversy about national symbols in Ireland and shedding new light on the deep political divisions which have marked Irish society throughout this century. Our Own Devices focuses on the crucial period from 1922 to 1939 which saw the creation and consolidation of new governments in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It also examines in detail the selection of official symbols of state by governments in both parts of Ireland, and public responses to those symbols. Having discussed the conflicts over symbols which took place in the early decades of the two states, the book concludes by bringing the story up-to-date and relating earlier controversies about national symbols to current debates about the role of symbols in conflict and peacemaking in Northern Ireland. This study is a pioneering work in this relatively new area of Irish history, and is based on extensive original research, using many sources which have not previously been cited in published works.
