Download or read book Wexford Then Now written by Jarlath Glynn and published by Pitkin. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wexford is a town of great character and individuality. It has been in existence for one thousand years, and this new publication, researched and written by County Librarian Jarlath Glynn explores that vibrant history. This is done here by the authors contrasting forty-five archive images with full colour professional photographs. This book takes in the buildings and streetscapes of the town, capturing the changing character of Wexford. Most of the original photographs date from 1900 or before, and were chosen to highlight particularly important aspects of the heritage of the town.
Download or read book Wexford Then and Now written by Sue Page and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of County Wexford written by Nicholas Furlong and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brimming with vitality and information, Nicholas Furlong's comprehensive A History of County Wexford is an indispensable guide to Wexford's history, culture and people. Furlong starts with Wexford's first settlement and tells the story of Wexford up to the present day, looking at its Gaelic origins, its turbulence during Cromwellian times and its pivotal role in 1798. County Wexford lies in the south eastern corner of Ireland. It is bounded to the west by the River Barrow and the Blackstairs Mountains, to the north by the Wicklow Mountains and by the sea on the other two sides. The River Slaney flows diagonally through the centre, dividing the county north and south. First settled seven thousand years ago, the county has hosted a variety of cultures from Celts to Vikings, Flemish and Normans to English. Historically, it maintained a social, confessional and ethnic mix of populations that was more varied than most other parts of the island. Because of its key strategic position, it has always been militarily important and was the focus of the great rebellion of 1798, the most bloody conflict in modern Irish history. Nicholas Furlong traces the history of the county from its earliest settlements through its Gaelic, Christian, Norse and Norman phases of life to the turbulence of the Elizabethan and Cromwellian regimes. He brings the reader through the great upheaval of 1798 and the institutional revival of Catholicism in the nineteenth century, which was particularly focused on County Wexford. He details the continued prosperity of the county throughout modern times. Driven by the sporting and cultural revival of the 1950s – the birth of the Wexford Opera Festival and the legendary hurling team of that era – Wexford has today built itself into the nation's holiday playground and a vital European transport hub. A History of County Wexford: Table of Contents - County Wexford's First Humans - The Celts and the Age of Iron - The Dawn of Christianity - The Kingdom of Uí Chennselaig - Uí Chennselaig Expands, Norsemen Land - The Vikings in Wexford - Years of Power - Dermot, King of Leinster - The Market for Swords - The New Foreigners - Infestation and Restoration - Art Mór MacMurrough Kavanagh - The World Changes - Havoc and War - From Cromwell to William - Two Kings, Two Bishops - Revolution - A Final Solution - Less Turbulent Years - The Technology Age - War and Peace - ConsolidationEpilogue Our Homeland
Download or read book The History of the Wexford Festival Opera 1951 2021 written by Karina Daly and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951, the first ever Wexford Opera Festival (now known as 'Wexford Festival Opera') took place in a small town in the southeast corner of Ireland. What started out as an informal gathering of friends listening to gramophone music, developed into one of Europe's leading classical music events. T.J. Walsh, a medical doctor by profession and an amateur musician, was the man whose novel idea it was to start an opera festival from such humble beginnings.This book traces the history of the Festival, from its establishment up to the present day. The uneasy shift from amateur status to becoming a more professional body characterised much of the early life of the Festival. The book looks at the spectacular success of what T.J. Walsh had achieved and follows the story through the difficult period in the 1960s when Walsh felt that the Festival was taking a different direction than had been intended from its inception. He never fully reconciled with the new regime and bowed out to leave way for the growing professional outfit. This difficult transition continued throughout the seventies and into an even more difficult financial period in the 1980s. The core focus however remained on producing an impossibly high standard of opera. The next chapter in the Festival's incredible journey saw the replacement of the original Theatre Royal with a purpose built, state-of-the-art opera house, now Ireland's National Opera House.Wexford Festival Opera remains a truly unique cultural event. That it has managed to survive so many significant challenges over 70 years and continued to flourish is a testament to the incredible efforts of those at the helm and the spirit of resilience that is synonymous with the Wexford community. The History of the Wexford Opera Festival, 1951-2021 has been written for those who have enjoyed Wexford Festival Opera over many years, travelling from all over the world because of their love of little-known operas, the standard of Wexford's Festival repertoire and the unique welcome and atmosphere that is synonymous with Wexford at Festival time.
Download or read book Waterford Harbour written by Andrew Doherty and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterford harbour has centuries of tradition based on its extensive fishery and maritime trade. Steeped in history, customs and an enviable spirit, it was there that Andrew Doherty was born and raised amongst a treasure chest of stories spun by the fishermen, sailors and their families. As an adult he began to research these accounts and, to his surprise, found many were based on fact. In this book, Doherty will take you on a fascinating journey along the harbour, introduce you to some of its most important sites and people, the area's history, and some of its most fantastic tales. Dreaded press gangs who raided whole communities for crew, the search for buried gold and a ship seized by pirates, the horror of a German bombing of the rural idyll during the Second World War – on every page of this incredible account you will learn something of the maritime community of Waterford Harbour.
Download or read book Enniscorthy The Forgotten Republic written by Pat Doran and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Well we have had a few days Republic in Enniscorthy." Séan Etchingham When the 1916 Easter Rising is discussed or wrote about nationally, the role of Enniscorthy is treated like a postscript. The fact that from the 27th of April to the 1st of May 1916 Enniscorthy was an Independent Republic is rarely mentioned. The reality that the local Volunteer force took control of the town and its citizens, confined the R.I.C. to their barracks, marched to Ferns and took it over and were nearly at Camolin when orders from Padraig Pearse, (who was in his cell in Arbour Hill) to surrender arrived is barely acknowledged. In the town itself the names and stories of the leaders have gone down in local folklore; however the rank-and-file participants are lucky if their names are remembered by anyone outside their families and even some may not be remembered by their own. This book is an attempt to shine the spotlight on the stories of some of those brave men and women. Men and women who in many instances were treated despicably by the Republic they fought for when they went looking for recognition of all they had done Individual stories like that of the Volunteer who served with the British Admiralty during World War Two after previously being the Town Clerk of Enniscorthy for nearly a dozen years. The Chemistry teacher from the Christian Brothers School who put his skills to other uses. The Volunteer whose son became the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces in the 1980s. The Volunteer who ended up in New York on the orders of Michael Collins and crossed the Atlantic numerous times smuggling weapons. A local man who was a serving British soldier and was home on leave at the time of the Rising and the tragic death of an infant boy in the days following the Rising, whose mother was a member of Cumann na mBan and father a Volunteer.
Download or read book Ireland written by Victoria Murphy and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Victoria Murphy takes a trip through Ireland marking the centenary of the 1798 rebellion And The massive changes that had swept though Ireland in the century after.
Download or read book The Monster in the Box written by Ruth Rendell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author called the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world ("Time") comes her newest novel featuring Inspector Wexford.
Download or read book No More Dying Then written by Ruth Rendell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will you be able to get to the bottom of the mystery multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell presents in No More Dying Then? Fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will devour this with its compelling drama and intricately woven web of murder, mystery, clues and crimes... 'Ruth Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing' -- Sunday Times 'Rendell never fails to come up trumps, and her millions of admirers will eagerly consume this offering as they have all the others.' -- The Irish Times 'Didn't want to stop reading it!' -- ***** Reader review 'Excellent book - had me gripped from the start' -- ***** Reader review 'Great writing as always by the mistress of crime novels' -- ***** Reader review 'A must read'-- ***** Reader review ****************************************************************************************** On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappears - never to be seen again. There are no clues, no demands and no traces. And there is nowhere for Wexford and his team to look. All that remains is the cold fear and awful dread that touches everyone in Kingsmarkham. Just months later, another child vanishes - five-year-old John Lawrence. Wexford and Inspector Burden are launched into another investigation and, all too quickly, they discover chilling similarities to the Stella Rivers case. Then the letters begin. The horrifying, evil, threatening letters of a madman. And suddenly Wexford is fighting against time to find the missing boy, before he meets the same fate as poor Stella...
Download or read book The Wexford written by Paul Carroll and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes. The romance and adventure of her British and French history in the South American trade followed her. Under newly appointed 24-year-old captain Bruce Cameron, her fateful final voyage was punctuated with opportunities to be saved from destruction , but his persistence in trying to make port at Goderich led to tragedy - a victim of the storm of 1913. Over a period of 87 years, she eluded many efforts to locate her remains, but was finally discovered in 2000 by a sailor using a fish-finding device. Since then, she has been visited by thousands, but sadly plundered. Our story traces her history from her British origins in 1883, through the transition to become a "Laker," the eventful storm, the search, and her ultimate discovery in southern Lake Huron, and the controversy over how she should be protected.
Download or read book History of the Insurrection of the County of Wexford A D 1798 written by Edward Hay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Insurrection of the County of Wexford, A. D. 1798: Including an Account of Transactions Preceding That Event, With an Appendix; Embellished With an Elegant Map of the County of Wexford (elves under fuch obligations to me, that at treaty I lived in the fame hoofe wiih them, furrender of the town until the 29th of Jo they departed for Waterford. Being well malice and obloquy, I conflantly exprefl'ed a defn'e, during their Ray, to be brought to trial, for any alle' gation that might.be framed againfi me; and I am now confident, that had it been polhble to procure any proof againfi me, it would by no means be neglefled hot this being impraelicable, even in fuch crazy times, other means of deep malignity were reforted to, and thefe, as well as I am hitherto acquainted with them, .i (hall endeavour to 'defcribe. My former intention of going to America, was by no means Iefi'ened but aug mentedaby the feenes of which I had fo recently been witnefs to in my native country. I accordingly perfifled in my refolution, and was determined to get out of the country as fpeedily as poihble. The committee that had been appointed by lieutenant general Lake, to act as a kind.of council to general Hunter, then in com mod in W'exford, and to grant pafl'es, now began to praeiife their malicious arts againft me, which they avoided before, being apprehenlive, if not well aware, that their fchemes worild be counterae'led and defeated, if attempted to be put in execution, .while the oficers, who were acquainted. With my conduel, remained in Wexford. I received a, note from the chairman of this committee, (and it was delivered to me by one of the body, whom I then confidered as my friend) defiring I would write to him, fiating what I would with to be done, and that my requefi would be taken into imme diate confideration. This induced me to write to them, intimating the delire, I had fo often exprefi'ed, of going to America, adding, that I wilhed to fct off the next dayday in order to fail in a {hip then in the harbour of Dublin 5 and this determination I would, in all proba bility, have fince put in execution, but that I confidered it might have given freer fanelion to the calom nies fo indhfirioufly raifed againll me. This confide ration has detained me in Ireland, as here I was the better enabled to vindicate my honour, and this, ia deed, my perfecutors have completely efi'eeled, quite in contradielion to their inclinations and withes. The immediate con/ideraiion of the committee was, in confe quence of premeditation to fend back the gentleman, who brought me the note and took my anfwer, to ar rej} me. This he did at my lodgings, where I was publicly known to be fince the infurrefi'ion, and two yeomen were'there placed as a guard over me. This whole conduel, from feveral circumftances of which I have hoce come to the knowledge, was certainly prerau carted. Had I been fent to gaol, it would have been produelive of a trial by court martial, and this was a benefit which they did not wifh to allow me, as they were well aware of the fentiments of the oflicers, whom I would have fummoned back to Wexford; befides fome individuals among them were molt ungratefully induced to forward the vile proceedings againft me, at they were apprehenfive I might call on them as wit nefi'es, when their loyalty may have been called in queflion, were they to' do jufiice to my conduel and it may alfo have been manifefled, that whatever ho nour fome of them now polfefs, is owing to their taking my advice in preference to their own; as if they efcaped piking on the one fide, they may have been hanged on the other, and with much more juflicc than feveral who have forfeited their lives on the occafion. To tranfport me without further enquiry, was tl1e1e. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Download or read book Wexford written by Padge Reck and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wexford Castles written by Billy Colfer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Billy Colfer's Wexford Castles expands the Irish Landscapes series by taking a thematic approach, while still staying loyal to the central landscape focus. Rather than adapting a narrowly architectural approach, he situates these buildings in a superbly reconstructed historical, social, and cultural milieu. County Wexford has three strikingly different regions - the Anglo-Norman south, the hybridised middle and the Gaelic north - which render it a remarkable version in parvo of the wider island. Colfer's wide-angle lens takes in so much than the castles themselves, as he ranges widely and deeply in reading these striking buildings as texts, revealing the cultural assumptions and historical circumstances which shaped them. In this most cosmopolitan of counties, we range far and wide in search of the wide-spreading roots of its cultural landscape - from the Crusades and the Mani peninsula in Greece to the Bristol Channel, from Crac des Chevaliers to Westminster, from the Viking north and the cold Atlantic to the warm Mediterranean south. The book breaks new ground in exploring the long-run cultural shadow cast by the Anglo-Normans and their castles, as this appears in the Gothic Revival, in the poetry of Yeats and in the surprisingly profuse crop of Wexford historians and writers. While most books on a single architectural form can end up visually monotonous, creativity has been lavished on this volume in terms of keeping the images varied, fresh and constantly appealing. The result is a sympathetic and innovative treatment of the castles, understood not just as a mere architectural form, but as keys to unlocking the mentalitae of those who lived in them. Wexford Castles: landscape, context and settlement is a worthy conclusion of Billy's Colfer's superb trilogy of landscape studies."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book The People s Rising written by Daniel Gahan and published by Gill & MacMillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People's Rising is already established as the definitive account of Wexford in 1798. The story of this tragic and heroic episode in Irish history, in which as many as 30,000 people may have died, is told with authority, passion and attention to detail.
Download or read book The Veiled One written by Ruth Rendell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Wexford searches for answers after an elderly woman is murdered in this “spellbinder” from a New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). When Chief Inspector Wexford enters the parking garage, the woman is already dead, slumped between two cars, concealed under a velvet shroud. The inspector doesn’t even notice her as he drives away. Only later, when he sees on the news that an old woman was garroted in the shopping mall garage, does he realize how close he was to discovering the body. In a case that starts with a hidden corpse, the truth will be dangerously elusive. Before Wexford can sink his teeth into the elderly woman’s murder, he is nearly killed himself—by a politically motivated car bombing targeting his daughter. With the inspector in the hospital, the case falls to his partner, the intrepid Mike Burden, who must solve both mysteries before the shopping mall killer strikes again. The winner of three Edgar Awards, Ruth Rendell was one of the finest mystery authors of the twentieth century. Inspector Wexford was one of her most beloved creations, and The Veiled One is another “stunning” entry in the series (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book Chronicles of the County Wexford written by George Griffith and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1890-01-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles of the County Wexford, being a record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences, and crimes, also, biographies of eminent persons, &c., &c., brought down to the year 1877
