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“tom mac intyre”

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  • The Great Famine

    by Tom Mac Intyre ...
    The Great Hunger, Tom Mac Intyre's internationally celebrated play of 1983, and The Gallant John-Joe, his most recent dramatic work, show Mac Intyre to be one of the most daringly and excitingly original Irish writers working today. The Great Hunger is Mac Intyre's version of Patrick Kavanagh's long poem of the same name. It represents the life and dreams of Patrick Maguire, Monaghan small farmer ... Read more

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  • The Great Famine

    Studies in Irish History 1845-52

    by Tom Mac Intyre ...
    The Great Hunger, Tom Mac Intyre's internationally celebrated play of 1983, and The Gallant John-Joe, his most recent dramatic work, show Mac Intyre to be one of the most daringly and excitingly original Irish writers working today. The Great Hunger is Mac Intyre's version of Patrick Kavanagh's long poem of the same name. It represents the life and dreams of Patrick Maguire, Monaghan small farmer ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Graves Are Walking

    The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

    by John Kelly ...
    "Though the story of the potato famine has been told before, it's never been as thoroughly reported or as hauntingly told." — New York PostIt started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century—it ... Read more

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  • The Famine Plot

    England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

    by Tim Pat Coogan ...
    During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a ... Read more

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  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    by James S Donnelly ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

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  • The Palace Letters

    The Queen, the governor-general, and the plot to dismiss Gough Whitlam

    by Professor Jenny Hocking ...
    A political betrayal.A constitutional crisis.A hidden correspondence.Gough Whitlam was a progressive prime minister whose reign from 1972 proved tumultuous after 23 years of conservative government in Australia. After a second election victory in May 1974, when a hostile Senate refused to vote on his 1975 budget, the political deadlock that ensued culminated in Whitlam’s unexpected and deeply ... Read more

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  • The East India Company 1784 - 1834

    by C. H. Philips ...
    Originally published in 1940, this '.is the first detailed study and appraisal of the relations between the Court of Directors and the Board of Control during the fifty formative years after Pitt set up this government office to direct and control the Company's Indian administration. it was an extremely intricate system of dual government with checks and balances and interlocking factions and ... Read more

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  • Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus

    The Great Scottish Exodus

    by Margery Harper, Dr Marjory Harper ...
    'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their restlessness exploded into a sustained surge of emigration that carried Scotland almost to the top of a European league table of emigrant exporting countries.' This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of that 'Great Exodus'. In many ways it challenges ... Read more

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  • The Great Plague of London

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Plague has been the most feared disease across Europe since the Black Death in the 1340s. Dreaded because of the scale of the mortality and its sheer foulness, its periodic outbreaks had a devastating impact. London’s last and most destructive attack came in 1665, when, according to Bishop Gilbert Burnet, ‘a most terrible plague broke out, that depopulated the city of London, ruined the trade of ... Read more

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  • Burning the Big House

    The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution

    by Terence Dooley ...
    The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These “Big Houses” were powerful symbols of conquest, plantation, and colonial oppression, and were caught up in the struggle for independence and the conflict between the aristocracy ... Read more

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  • Sir Robert Peel

    The Life of Sir Robert Peel after 1830

    by Norman Gash ...
    Norman Gash's magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel - Mr Secretary Peel (1961) and Sir Robert Peel (1972) - is the standard work on the great statesman, and is widely considered one of the great biographies of nineteenth-century prime ministers. Faber Finds is delighted to return both to print.In this second volume, Gash focuses on the years between 1830 and 1850, the height of Peel's ... Read more

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  • The Fiery Spirits

    Popular protest, Parliament and the English Revolution

    by John Rees ...
    The thrilling history of Parliament’s ‘fiery spirits’, whose actions led to the defeat of Charles I in the English Civil War and paved the way for the execution of the King in 1649The Fiery Spirits tells the story of the MPs in parliament and the protestors in the streets who played a pivotal role in the English Civil Wars. Through their stories, John Rees reveals the hidden history of the ... Read more

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