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Captain Jack White DSO (1879 1946) is a fascinating yet neglected figure in Irish history. Son of Field Marshal Sir George White V.C., he became a Boer war hero, and crucially was the first Commandant of the Irish Citizen Army. One of the few notable figures in Ireland to declare himself an anarchist, he led a remarkable life of action, and was a most unsystematic thinker. This is a long overdue assessment of his life and times. Leo Keohane vividly brings to life the contradictory worlds and...
| Автор | Leo Keohane |
In 2002, almost a decade after he became the first man to lead Derry’s footballers to All-Ireland success – and in the most unlikely of moves for the cagey Ballymaguigan bricklayer – Eamonn Coleman sat down with a journalist and told his story. That that journalist was his niece and goddaughter gave the infamously secretive Coleman the time and space to relive the white-hot battles of Ulster football in the early 90s, from Casement to Clones with the boys of ’93, and their triumphant march to...
| Автор | Eamonn Coleman |
This pioneering study, first published in 1995, retains its rank as one of the most powerful histories ever written about Irish involvement in World War 1. This year, the centenary of the war, sees its timely re-publication as the Irishmen who fought in that war re-enter the national memory after decades of indifference and hostility. The gradual softening of attitudes over the last twenty years amid great historic change on the island of Ireland, is due in no small part to the efforts of...
| Автор | Myles Dungan |
Jeremiah O Donovan Rossa died on 29th June 1915 at Staten Island, New York. On hearing of his death, Tom Clarke sent an urgent telegram from Dublin to John Devoy in New York, with the simple message: Send his body home at once . His funeral in Glasnevin Cemetery on 1st August that year was one of the largest political funerals in Irish history, and is now accepted as the precursor to the Easter Rising. Patrick Pearse famously declared at Rossa s graveside, The fools, the fools, the fools! They...
| Автор | Shane Kenna |
Belfast 1972. It s the bloodiest year of the Northern Irish Troubles and sixteen-year-old Eimear O'Callaghan, a Catholic schoolgirl in West Belfast, bears witness to it all in her diary. What follows is a window into the daily life of an ordinary teenager coming of age in extraordinary times. The immediacy of the diary entries are complemented with the author's mature reflections written forty years later. The result is poignant, shocking, wryly funny, sometimes prophetic, and above...
| Автор | Eimear O’Callaghan |
Thomas 'Buck' Whaley was one of the greatest adventurers in Irish history. In 1788 he made an extraordinary 10-month journey from Dublin to Jerusalem for a wager of £15,000, equivalent to several million today. Nearly shipwrecked in the Sea of Crete, he almost died of plague in Constantinople, narrowly avoided a pirate attack, was waylaid by bandits, and met an infamous Ottoman governor known as 'the Butcher'. On his return, he became an overnight celebrity before suffering...
| Автор | David Ryan |
Arthur Kingsley Porter, (1883 1933) renowned American, Harvard professor and owner of Glenveagh Castle, vanished without trace from Inishbofin Island, Co. Donegal, in 1933. No trace of the professor was ever found. Over the decades stories of Porter's disappearance turned into legend. A strong swimmer and always fond of the outdoors, was it likely that Porter had been drowned by misadventure or was foul play involved? Perhaps Porter took off alone to pursue new adventures? By the late 1920s...
| Автор | Lucy Costigan |
March 2011: Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore have just formed a coalition government between Fine Gael and Labour. Ireland’s banks are broken, unemployment is heading for half a million, the public finances are in deficit, international lenders rate Ireland as ‘junk’ and the country is in an IMF bailout. As Tánaiste in the new Coalition, Eamon Gilmore was at the heart of every major economic decision taken during his term, and as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade was primarily responsible for...
| Автор | Eamon Gilmore |
Despite a propensity toward fierce criticism of his generals, with great regard the Duke of Wellington referred to William Carr Beresford as 'the ablest man I have yet seen in the army'. Marshal William Carr Beresford is the story of a celebrated and distinguished Irishman, honoured and decorated by the governments of Great Britain, Portugal and Spain, who served as Commander in Chief of the Portuguese army for eleven years. The book follows the trajectory of Beresford's...
| Автор | Marcus de la Poer Beresford |
This is the first-ever biography of Emmet Dalton, an American-born Dubliner, Home Ruler and later Republican, whose extraordinary military career as a British officer, IRA leader and General in the Free State army brought him from Flanders to Beal na Bláth. A decorated hero of the Battle of the Somme, he returned from the war with the rank of Captain and transferred his military expertise to the now rampant IRA, serving as Director of Training, and greatly impressing Michael Collins with his...
| Автор | Sean Boyne |
Rafael de Grenade was twelve years old when she quit school and soon began to work on a rough-country mountain ranch in Arizona. There she learned how to sleep out when there was no fast way home; how to track her way by familiar spires and rivers; how to survive off the water that seeped from moss hidden in the valleys. But when she read about cattlemen working the far edges of the Australian outback, they sparked a dream in her far wilder than anything she had ever known. A little over a...
| Автор | Rafael de Grenade |
Coauthor Sarah Ruhl is Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominated playwright whose book 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write was a New York Times Notable Book in 2014 Coauthor Max Ritvo’s Four Reincarnations was named a Best Book of 2016 by Lit Hub, Shelf Awareness , the Irish Times , and Adroit Journal ; it was reviewed by the New York Times Book Review , O, The Oprah Magazine , Publishers Weekly (starred), Booklist (starred), hailed as “one of the most original and...
| Автор | Sarah Ruhl |
The first time journalist Jon Lurie meets José Perez, the smart, angry, fifteen-year-old Lakota-Puerto Rican draws blood. Five years later, both men are floundering. Lurie, now in his thirties, is newly divorced, depressed, and self-medicating. José is embedded in a haze of weed, women, and street feuds. Both lack a meaningful connection to their cultural roots: Lurie feels an absence of identity as the son of a Holocaust survivor who refuses to talk about her experience, and for José, communal...
| Автор | Jon Lurie |
Spanning one year of the author's life, I Will Not Leave You Comfortless is the intimate memoir of a young boy coming to consciousness in small-town Missouri. 1984 is the year that greets ten-year-old Jeremy with first loves, first losses, and a break from the innocence of boyhood that will never be fully repaired. For Jeremy, the seeming security of family is at once and forever shaken by the life-altering events of that pivotal year. Through tenderhearted, steadfast prose —...
| Автор | Jeremy Jackson |
Strip Naked & Re-Dress With Happiness is a handbook not only for surviving adversity, but for discovering how to thrive as a result. Maria Hocking’s own inspiring personal story is woven throughout the book, accompanied by ‘changing room tips’ – tools and techniques to help you understand your emotions and behaviours, and move through personal challenge. You’ll discover that ‘getting naked’ – losing what you used to take for granted – is an opportunity to let go of who you thought you...
| Автор | Maria Hocking |
<P>Henry p kaha ia (ca. 1792–;1818), Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879–;1900), Oglala Lakota, lived almost a century apart. Yet the cultural circumstances that led them to leave their homelands and eventually die in Connecticut have striking similarities. p kaha ia was orphaned during the turmoil caused in part by Kamehameha's wars in Hawai'i and found passage on a ship to New England, where he was introduced and converted to...
| Автор | Nick Bellantoni |
Alpine expert Kev Reynolds has spent fifty years exploring mountain landscapes and thirty writing about his experiences. Here he shares some of the high points of a full life as a wanderer and writer. Kev is the leading international authority on many mountain ranges, including the Pyrenees, many regions of the Alps and the Nepal Himalaya. As the author of numerous guides he has inspired many thousands of trekkers to follow in his footsteps. As a lecturer he regularly evokes the mood and majesty...
| Автор | Kev Reynolds |
Daniela Katzenberger Sei schlau, stell dich dumm gelesen von Daniela Katzenberger Isch bin wie isch bin ? ganz normal bekloppt! DER SPIEGEL spricht von der ?blondesten Medienkarriere des Jahres?, für DIE BUNTE ist sie ?Deutschlands neues Phänomen?. Wer ist diese Frau, die rundum für Aufsehen sorgt? Wasserstoffblondierte Kunsthaarmähne, cappuccinofarbene Studiobräune und Doppel-D-Silikon-Busen. An ?der Katze? scheint wenig echt zu sein, trotzdem kommt sie bestechend authentisch und ehrlich...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Setouchi was eminently qualified to write this historical novel on women's liberation in Japan, which had its roots in sexual politics, socialism, and anarchism, movements in decline following the famous massacre after the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and neighboring prefectures on September 1, 1923. Among those put to death in the frenzied and prejudicial aftermath of the quake was Noe Ito (1895– 1923), the heroine of Beauty in Disarray.Was Ito a selfless «new...
| Автор | Harumi Setouchi |
Dr. Hyde and Mr. Stevenson is a biography of the Rev. Dr. Charles McEwen Hyde, one of the most influential Americans in 19th century Hawaii.What manner of man was this Dr. Hyde? He was a truly good example of the New England-bred, community-minded leader who throughout the course of several generations formulated the pattern we speak of as «the American way.»What role did he play in the history of Hawaii? He was very influential in setting up of the Kamehameha Schools, the Bishop Museum, and...
| Автор | Harold Winfield Kent |
In the aftermath of World War II, “a new dynamism” was taking shape in Persian poetry. Award-winning translator Niloufar Talebi explains how Iranian poets were increasingly instrumental in “freeing Persian poetry from the state of decline and stagnation.” Into this backdrop emerges the poet Ahmad Shamlou in this part-memoir, part-biography, and part-history of literature in Iran. “There are two books in this book, one portrait of me and one of Ahmad Shamlou. And they intersect,” Talebi writes of...
| Автор | Niloufar Talebi |
Erleben sie die Erfolgsgeschichte der größten Band aller Zeiten als Hörbuch: Vom ersten Aufeinandertreffen John Lennons mit Paul McCartney bis zur Auflösung der Band 1970 wird die Karriere des Liverpooler Quartetts detailgetreu nachgezeichnet. «The Beatles – The Audiostory» wurde eingesprochen von Tony Sheridan, der 1961 mit den Beatles ihre erste Platte aufnahm. Tony Sheridan verstarb am 16.02.2013 im Alter von 72 Jahren.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The book originated from the author's reaction to a diagnosis of osteoporosis while she was in her thirties. She felt that her body had once again betrayed her, and the diagnosis re-opened many submerged feelings she had about her spinal fusion and bracing from her adolescent years. The impetus for much of Horvath's writing is two-pronged: vexation and inquiry. That is, if something is bothering her, she needs to understand why. The “something” in this case was her body, and the need...
| Автор | Patricia Horvath |
Offers unique perspective of autism that will appeal to far-reaching network of people, such as parents, teachers, psychologists, social workers, and speech therapistsPublication corresponds with recent data that 1 in 88 children receive an autism diagnosis in the United States aloneArtful writing, moving storytelling, and general themes of family relationships will appeal not only to autism market but also to readers of memoir and literary nonfictionNature of prose and narrative voice will...
| Автор | Bruce Mills |