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“dr ian maxwell”

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  • Everyday Life in 19th Century Ireland

    by Dr Ian Maxwell ...
    To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes – Luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter). This thorough and engaging social history of Ireland offers new insights into the ways in which ordinary people lived during this dramatic moment in Ireland's history from 1800-1914. It covers wide range of aspects of everyday lives: from work on ... Read more

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    by Various Authors ...
    Household Stories IN this class is properly comprised those fictions which, with some variations, are told at the domestic gatherings of Celts, Teutons, and Slavonians, and are more distinguished by a succession of wild and wonderful adventures than a carefully-constructed framework. A dramatic piece exhibiting reflection, and judgment, and keen perception of character, but few incidents or ... Read more

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  • The Legendary 'Lugs Branigan' – Ireland's Most Famed Garda

    How One Man became Dublin's Tough Justice Legend

    by Kevin C. Kearns ...
    Garda and guardian. Protector and punisher. This is 'Lugs' Branigan: the man, the legend. The story of 'Lugs' Branigan is a tale that is long overdue. It is a story of extraordinary courage and compassion, a story of heroism and altruism, a story of crime, punishment and redemption. The legend of 'Lugs''s career as Ireland's most famous garda (police officer), founded on his physical strength and ... Read more

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  • Watching The Door

    A Memoir 1971-1978

    by Kevin Myers ...
    As an Irish Catholic raised in Leicester, fresh from University College Dublin with a first in History, Kevin Myers is sent north to work for the Belfast bureau of RTE News. There he covers the increasingly vicious conflict erupting in the city as the IRA campaign begins. Reporting too for Dublin's Hibernia, the London Observer and NBC Radio for North America, Kevin Myers becomes the eyes and ears ... Read more

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  • Southside Provisional

    From Freedom Fighter to the Four Courts

    by Kieran Conway ...
    "One of the more important, courageous and insightful books on the Troubles, all the more so because of the southern angle. I predict that it will be remembered for a long time."– Ed Moloney, journalist and authorIt's August 1969 and Northern Ireland is burning. Catholics are marching for civil rights and loyalist attacks have brought the British army onto the streets to quell the riots. In the ... Read more

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  • The Framing of Harry Gleeson

    by Kieran Fagan ...
    In November 1940 the body of Moll McCarthy, an unmarried mother, was found in a field in Tipperary. She had been shot. The man who reported the discovery was neighbour Harry Gleeson. Although Harry had an alibi, he was swiftly convicted and hanged. This travesty of justice suited the parish priest, the Gardaí, and respectable families whose sons, brothers and husbands had fathered Moll's seven ... Read more

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  • A History of Ireland - A New Perspective (Part 1)

    by J. E. Hazlett Lynch ...
    Brief introduction to Irish history, approaching it from a theological perspective. Book sets the scene and the approach for the other 'parts' of this interesting, gripping and contested history. These will be published in due course. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Leaving of Loughrea

    An Irish Family in the Great Famine

    by Stephen Lally ...
    This is the story of the Lally family between 1818 and 1848. It could just as easily be your story if you have ancestors who were among over a million people who left the beautiful and tragic land of Ireland in the 1840s. This family lived in the Loughrea area, County Galway, Ireland, and their story is similar to that of so many Irish families as they struggled against the odds, were overwhelmed ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Below Stairs

    Domestic Service Remembered in Dublin and Beyond, 1880-1922

    by Mona Hearn ...
    A hundred years ago sevants underpinned middle- and upper-class life in Ireland, and domestic service was the major source of employment for women before social conditions changed utterly after the First World War and labour-saving appliances took their place. Two generations on, the domestic servant is an almost extinct species. This book examines an area of life which has never been adequately ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dublin Burning: The Easter Rising From Behind the Barricades

    The Only Eye-Witness Account of the Easter Rising written by a senior participant

    by W.J. Brennan-Whitmore ...
    Dublin Burning is a vivid, clear-eyed account of the 1916 Rising and is the most complete account we have from a senior participant. No other senior Volunteer figure has left a similar memoir of Easter Week. Commandant W.J. Brennan-Whitmore was officer commanding the Volunteer position at the head of North Earl Street, an outworking of the GPO garrison. Its purpose was to delay and frustrate any ... Read more

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  • Hallelujah – The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life

    George Frideric Handel's Messiah in Dublin

    by Jonathan Bardon ...
    18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world's greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for its maiden performance the following spring …In Hallelujah, Jonathan Bardon, one of Ireland's leading historians, explores the remarkable circumstances surrounding the first performance of Handel's now iconic oratorio in ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Ireland

    A Story of National Liberation--A Selection from Vanished Kingdoms (Penguin Tracks)

    by Norman Davies ...
    The history of contemporary Ireland and its struggle for independence—excerpted from internationally bestselling author Norman Davies’s Vanished KingdomsVanished Kingdoms introduces readers to once-powerful European empires that have left scant traces on the modern map. In this excerpt from his widely acclaimed book, Norman Davies chronicles the history of the Republic of Ireland and Northern ... Read more

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