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By Dennis Sommers
In this easily read overview applicable to both scholars and the general reading public, Dr. Sommers covers the extremely interesting history of this ancient island of Saints and Scholars. He presents the historical facts within the context of the overall story and delivers these in the more exciting method of a traditional storyteller. Topics discussed include the Neolithic peoples, Celtic Mythology, the Vikings, the Norman English, Medieval Ireland, the Williamite Wars, the Cromwellian Period, Irish Secret Societies, the Irish Literary Renaissance, the Easter Rising, the War for Independence, the I.R.A., the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Civil War, the Constitution of 1937, the Troubles, and Modern Ireland. Dr. Sommers has researched thoroughly the facts surrounding many of Irish history's most notable events and individuals, presenting them here in a most understandable and enjoyable context. His work has been praised by many notable academics, historians, and literary figures.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Dennis Sommers
In this easily read overview applicable to both scholars and the general reading public, Dr. Sommers covers the extremely interesting history of this ancient island of Saints and Scholars. He presents the historical facts within the context of the overall story and delivers these in the more exciting method of a traditional storyteller. Topics discussed include the Neolithic peoples, Celtic Mythology, the Vikings, the Norman English, Medieval Ireland, the Williamite Wars, the Cromwellian Period, Irish Secret Societies, the Irish Literary Renaissance, the Easter Rising, the War for Independence, the I.R.A., the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Civil War, the Constitution of 1937, the Troubles, and Modern Ireland. Dr. Sommers has researched thoroughly the facts surrounding many of Irish history's most notable events and individuals, presenting them here in a most understandable and enjoyable context. His work has been praised by many notable academics, historians, and literary figures.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Dennis Sommers
An Historical Examination of Irish Literature and Authors explores the extremely rich Irish literary tradition from the earliest times (over 6000 years ago) through the four Nobel Prize winners for Literature from the twentieth century. Topics discussed include the oral traditions and folktales of the Celtic/Gaelic peoples, gaelic literature, the fantastic illuminated manuscripts produced during the Christian monastic period, the literature of resistence against foreign oppression, the Irish literary revival at the turn of the twentieth century, and the great wealth of perhaps the most highly developed body of poetry on earth. The work includes forty biographical renderings discussing such authors as St. Patrick, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, and others.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Charles Fox
Among the first wave of Baby Boomers, Charles S. Fox was born in the wilds of Hollywood, California of an Irish father and a Norwegian mother, hence the ancient Norse/Irish battles rage in his blood. Throughout his school years he was noted for his leadership, his ability to talk himself into and out of tight spots and a penchant for the written word. It soon became apparent that young master Fox was, as some put it, "Such a ham he should sleep on a hook at night!" Fox has been named "Irishman of the Year" by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of San Diego and the Irish Congress of Southern California. In 1984 he served as Chairman of the San Diego Irish Olympic Team Host Committee and is a member of the American Ireland Fund Dinner Committee. His writing has earned him awards from the Press Club of San Diego and the International Society of Poets. He continues his career as a journalist, novelist, documentary producer/writer and screenwriter, having retreated to his Druidesque, canyon side treehouse with his wife Sheila (she of the Kellys and Doyles) and his Golden Retriever, Casey.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Charles Fox
Among the first wave of Baby Boomers, Charles S. Fox was born in the wilds of Hollywood, California of an Irish father and a Norwegian mother, hence the ancient Norse/Irish battles rage in his blood. Throughout his school years he was noted for his leadership, his ability to talk himself into and out of tight spots and a penchant for the written word. It soon became apparent that young master Fox was, as some put it, "Such a ham he should sleep on a hook at night!" Fox has been named "Irishman of the Year" by the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of San Diego and the Irish Congress of Southern California. In 1984 he served as Chairman of the San Diego Irish Olympic Team Host Committee and is a member of the American Ireland Fund Dinner Committee. His writing has earned him awards from the Press Club of San Diego and the International Society of Poets. He continues his career as a journalist, novelist, documentary producer/writer and screenwriter, having retreated to his Druidesque, canyon side treehouse with his wife Sheila (she of the Kellys and Doyles) and his Golden Retriever, Casey.
FORMAT: E-Book
By Clifford D. Conner
ARTHUR O’CONNOR was an Irish revolutionary whose historical importance has been vastly underappreciated. He was the most important leader of the United Irishmen, the powerful conspiracy that culminated in the Rebellion of 1798. Although that uprising ended in failure, it was a watershed event in Irish history that left an important legacy of revolutionary precedent for later generations of Irish republicans and nationalists. The conflict in Ireland that persists to the present can be traced in an unbroken line to the war between the British government and the United Irish army in 1798. Although Arthur O’Connor has not become an icon of romantic legend in Ireland, his revolutionary career was full of color, drama, and controversy. He was a skilled conspirator and a charismatic orator who was capable of charming the likes of Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Many of his allies expected—and his rivals feared—that O’Connor would have become Bonaparte’s anointed king of Ireland if the French had succeeded in driving the British out.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Clifford D. Conner
ARTHUR O’CONNOR was an Irish revolutionary whose historical importance has been vastly underappreciated. He was the most important leader of the United Irishmen, the powerful conspiracy that culminated in the Rebellion of 1798. Although that uprising ended in failure, it was a watershed event in Irish history that left an important legacy of revolutionary precedent for later generations of Irish republicans and nationalists. The conflict in Ireland that persists to the present can be traced in an unbroken line to the war between the British government and the United Irish army in 1798. Although Arthur O’Connor has not become an icon of romantic legend in Ireland, his revolutionary career was full of color, drama, and controversy. He was a skilled conspirator and a charismatic orator who was capable of charming the likes of Charles James Fox, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Many of his allies expected—and his rivals feared—that O’Connor would have become Bonaparte’s anointed king of Ireland if the French had succeeded in driving the British out.
FORMAT: Hardcover
By Clifford D. Conner
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FORMAT: E-Book
By Kenneth Craven
The book bridges disciplines-24 journals in literature, history, science, medicine, philosophy, religion and Ireland have acclaimed this classic fascinating, extraordinarily well-informed, careful and encyclopedic. "Craven reminds us of Swift's uncanny foreknowledge that democratic governments tend toward a populace inundated by false information it cannot process, and leaders intent only upon power and the deceptions by which it is gained."-Melvyn New "This new edition situates Swift's early masterpiece in its most resonant possible context - its savage critique of John Locke, whose life and philosophical work simultaneously served to legitimate government by popular sovereignty and to countenance colonial violence and slavery."-Clement Hawes
FORMAT: Softcover
By Edward Wakin
The Irish position "is one of shame and poverty. 'My master is a great tyrant,' said a Negro lately. 'He treats me as badly as if I was a common Irishman.'" -an Irishman writing home, 1851. "I am sorry to find that England is right about the lower class of Irish. They are brutal, base, cruel, cowards, and as insolent as base...my own theory is that St. Patrick's campaign against the snakes is a Papish delusion. They perished of biting the Irish people."
-a prominent New Yorker, 1863. "If you lived in this place, you would ask for whisky instead of milk."
-an Irishwoman in a New York tenement, 1868. "Thousands of my countrymen at this time fill with dignity and invulnerable fidelity, various situations of trust and emolument in the land of their adoption."
-a traveling Irish author, 1864. "Scratch a convict or a pauper, and the chances are that you tickle the skin of an Irish Catholic."
-the Chicago Post, 1868. "Of all the tricks which the Irish nation have played on the slow-witted Saxon, the most outrageous is the palming off on him of the imaginary Irishman of romance."
-George Bernard Shaw, 1896. "Anyhow 'tis a good thing to be an Irishman because people think that all an Irishman does is laugh without a reason an' fight without an objik. But ye an' I, Hinnissy, know these things ar-re on'y our divarsions. It's a good thing to have people size ye up wrong, whin they're got ye'er measure ye're in danger."
-Finley Peter Dunne, 1919.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Clifford Morrow
Before the age of instant communication, storytelling was an art form that occupied what would now be called family quality time. The attention paid storytelling depending on the quality of performance as well as the pertinence of the narrative. Both my parents were masters of the art. After there passing, at infrequent reunions with my cousins I discovered so were their parents, and our meetings were filled with story swaps from earlier days. Here are a couple of quotes dished up from the table of master storytellers. "As a sideline Abbey kept a heard of a couple dozen shoats penned back of the mill where the apple pulp was dumped. Shoats, being hogs, stuffed themselves with pulp. The pulp, loaded with sugar, fermented and turned into alcohol and the pigs into drunken swine. Their antics were fully as amusing as those of their human counterparts in a similar state." "A lot can be said for coon hunting-it gets both hunters and huntees out in the fresh air; it is contemplative It is character-building (few activities offer the opportunity to associate with a wider variety of characters then coon hunting); and it is infrequently fatal to either party."
FORMAT: Softcover
By Clifford Morrow
Before the age of instant communication, storytelling was an art form that occupied what would now be called family quality time. The attention paid storytelling depending on the quality of performance as well as the pertinence of the narrative. Both my parents were masters of the art. After there passing, at infrequent reunions with my cousins I discovered so were their parents, and our meetings were filled with story swaps from earlier days. Here are a couple of quotes dished up from the table of master storytellers. "As a sideline Abbey kept a heard of a couple dozen shoats penned back of the mill where the apple pulp was dumped. Shoats, being hogs, stuffed themselves with pulp. The pulp, loaded with sugar, fermented and turned into alcohol and the pigs into drunken swine. Their antics were fully as amusing as those of their human counterparts in a similar state." "A lot can be said for coon hunting-it gets both hunters and huntees out in the fresh air; it is contemplative It is character-building (few activities offer the opportunity to associate with a wider variety of characters then coon hunting); and it is infrequently fatal to either party."
FORMAT: E-Book
By Patrick Lavin
This book, the outcome of twenty-five years of research, focuses on the lives and times of Lavins, Callerys, O'Haras, and Flynns-unpretentious families who have lived for generations in Ireland's western province of Connacht. Through good times and bad, shaped by social and religious circumstances, they managed to eke out modest livelihoods in their respective communities. While much has been written about the dynastic clans of Connacht (O'Hara and O'Flynn included)-their rise to power, their decline brought about by endless conflict with their kinsmen and invaders, and their final collapse following the confiscation of their lands-little has been passed down about the families of lesser status to which the Lavins and Callerys belonged. Needless to say, they were among the great majority of families who, over the centuries, had become dispossessed of their lands, casualties of the endless hostilities that plagued the Gaelic tribal social system to which they belonged. As my research evolved, my curiosity increased. I was not content with simply knowing the names of my ancestors; I was eager to know about the quality of their lives and the times in which they lived.
FORMAT: Softcover
By Patrick Lavin
This book, the outcome of twenty-five years of research, focuses on the lives and times of Lavins, Callerys, O'Haras, and Flynns-unpretentious families who have lived for generations in Ireland's western province of Connacht. Through good times and bad, shaped by social and religious circumstances, they managed to eke out modest livelihoods in their respective communities. While much has been written about the dynastic clans of Connacht (O'Hara and O'Flynn included)-their rise to power, their decline brought about by endless conflict with their kinsmen and invaders, and their final collapse following the confiscation of their lands-little has been passed down about the families of lesser status to which the Lavins and Callerys belonged. Needless to say, they were among the great majority of families who, over the centuries, had become dispossessed of their lands, casualties of the endless hostilities that plagued the Gaelic tribal social system to which they belonged. As my research evolved, my curiosity increased. I was not content with simply knowing the names of my ancestors; I was eager to know about the quality of their lives and the times in which they lived.
FORMAT: E-Book
By M. Clogston
Raised in New York City, the daughter of Irish immigrants shares an ancient History passed on by her father completely contradictory to what we have learned in our History Books. The author also explores the inconsistencies between the Histories we have passed on and the Religions we profess to believe in. We are at a crossroads. Which way will we go and will God help us?
FORMAT: Softcover
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