Download or read book The Bogs of Ireland written by John Feehan and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunted Ground written by Darryl V. Caterine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating and insightful tour through present-day meetings of Spiritualists, UFOlogists, and dowsers illuminates our obsession with the paranormal and challenges the misunderstanding of the paranormal as a marginal or inconsequential feature of America's religious landscape. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 75 percent of Americans believe in some form of paranormal activity. The United States has had a collective fascination with the paranormal since the mid-1800s, and it remains an integral part of our culture. Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America examines three of the most vibrant paranormal gatherings in the United States—Lily Dale, a Spiritualist summer camp; the Roswell UFO Festival; and the American Society of Dowsers' annual convention of "water witches"—to explore and explain the reasons for our obsession with the paranormal. Both academically informed and thoroughly entertaining, this book takes readers on a "road trip" through our nation, guided by professor of American religion Darryl V. Caterine, PhD. The author interprets seemingly unrelated case studies of phantasmagoria collectively as an integral part of the modern discourse about "nature" as ultimate reality. Along the way, Dr. Caterine reveals how Americans' interest in the paranormal is rooted in their anxieties about cultural, political, and economic instability—and in a historic sense of alienation and homelessness.
Download or read book The First fourth Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire Into the Nature and Extent of the Several Bogs in Ireland and the Practicability of Draining and Cultivating Them With an Appendix to Each Report written by Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Nature and Extent of the Several Bogs in Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Nature and Extent of the Several Bogs in Ireland and the Practicability of Draining and Cultivating Them written by Großbritannien Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Nature and Extent of the Several Bogs in Ireland and the Practicability of Draining and Cultivating Them and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bog Child written by Siobhan Dowd and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.
Download or read book Buried In a Bog written by Sheila Connolly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly introduces the first novel in the County Cork mystery series—set in a small village in Ireland where buried secrets are about to rise to the surface... Honoring the wish of her late grandmother, Maura Donovan visits the small Irish village where her Gran was born—though she never expected to get bogged down in a murder mystery. Nor had she planned to take a job in one of the local pubs, but she finds herself excited to get to know the people who knew her Gran. In the pub, she’s swamped with drink orders as everyone in town gathers to talk about the recent discovery of a nearly one-hundred-year-old body in a nearby bog. When Maura realizes she may know something about the dead man—and that the body’s connected to another, more recent, death—she fears she’s about to become mired in a homicide investigation. After she discovers the death is connected to another from almost a century earlier, Maura has a sinking feeling she may really be getting in over her head...
Download or read book Hints for the Cultivation of the Peat Bogs in Ireland with a View to the Increase of Population Security and Public Happiness Especially in that Part of the United Kingdom written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drainage of the Bogs of Ireland written by Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Nature and Extent of the Several Bogs in Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Enquire Into the Several Bogs in Ireland written by Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Nature and Extent of the Several Bogs in Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Conservation and Restoration of Raised Bogs written by Matthijs G. C. Schouten and published by Duchas -The Heritage Service of Department of Environment and Loc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of a decade of co-operation between the Irish and Dutch state organizations responsible for nature conservation and between Irish and Dutch scientists. Published (among others) by Staatsbosbeheer
Download or read book Drainage of the Bogs of Ireland written by Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Enquire into the Nature and Extent of the Several Bogs in Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bog Irish written by Frank Murphy and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1987 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on period from 1600 - 1850.
Download or read book By the Bog of Cats written by Marina Carr and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her, Hester is once again betrayed, this time by the father of her child, the man she loves. On the brink of despair, she embarks on a terrible journey of vengeance as the secrets of her tangled history are revealed. 'A piece of poetic realism steeped in the past... Carr has an extraordinary ability to move between the mythic and the real.' Guardian 'A great play... a great work of poetry... the word should soon carry across both sides of the Atlantic.' Independent By the Bog of Cats premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1998. It was revived at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in November 2004.
Download or read book Essay on the Peat Bogs of Ireland To which is added an appendix Doctor Rennie s position relative to the sterility of peat moss combated etc written by William RICHARDSON (D.D., of Moy.) and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bog Bodies Uncovered Solving Europe s Ancient Mystery written by Miranda Aldhouse-Green and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grisly story of the bog bodies, updated via details of archaeological discovery and crime-scene techniques Some 2,000 years ago, certain unfortunate individuals were violently killed and buried not in graves but in bogs. What was a tragedy for the victims has proved an archaeologist’s dream, for the peculiar and acidic properties of the bog have preserved the bodies so that their skin, hair, soft tissue, and internal organs—even their brains—survive. Most of these ancient swamp victims have been discovered in regions with large areas of raised bog: Ireland, northwest England, Denmark, the Netherlands, and northern Germany. They were almost certainly murder victims and, as such, their bodies and their burial places can be treated as crime scenes. The cases are cold, but this book explores the extraordinary information they reveal about our prehistoric past. Bog Bodies Uncovered updates Professor P. V. Glob’s seminal publication The Bog People, published in 1969, in the light of vastly improved scientific techniques and newly found bodies. Approached in a radically different style akin to a criminal investigation, here the bog victims appear, uncannily well-preserved, in full-page images that let the reader get up close and personal with the ancient past.
Download or read book Life in Ireland written by Conor W. O'Brien and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before the first people set foot here. In Life in Ireland, Conor O’Brien guides the reader on a journey around the island to explore the history of natural life here, from the Jurassic Coast of Antrim to the great Ice Age bone-beds of Cork. Along the way, we’ll meet some of the astonishing creatures to have called Ireland home through the ages: shelled monsters; huge marine lizards; armoured dinosaurs; giant deer; mighty mammoths. Vital strands in the story of life on Earth have left their mark here, including some of the first creatures to crawl onto land or take to the wing. This epic journey will take us from the first fossils to the present day, to see how our wildlife has adapted to the human age and explore what the future might hold for life in Ireland.
Download or read book Culture and Climate Resilience written by Grit Martinez and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the importance of cultural values, local knowledge and identity in building community resilience in place based contexts. There is a growing impetus among policy makers and practitioners to support and empower capacities of communities under changing climatic conditions. Despite this there is little systematic understanding of why approaches work at local levels or not and what makes some communities resilient and others less so. Europe is typically thought to be well equipped for coping with the effects of a changing climate - because of its moderate climate, its manifold urban-industrialized regions, it’s typically highly skilled population, its successes in science and technology and its advanced climate change policies. However, there is a growing need to understand the effects culture has on communal resiliency and for decision makers and planners to pay attention to historical and cultural characteristics and the complexity of contextualized local conditions to enable successful and durable implementation of climate change policies, programs and measures. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers, students, practitioners and policy makers interested in facilitating sustainable, resilient communities.
