Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780099287797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959, when Elizabeth Bowen was forced to sell the family house she loved. Bowen reviews ten generations of her family, representatives of the Protestant Irish gentry whose lives were dominated by property, lawsuits, formidable matriarchs, violent conflicts, hunting, drinking, and self-destructive fantasies.Seven Winters recalls with endearing candour Bowen's family and her Dublin childhood as seen through the eyes of a child who could not read till she was seven and who fed her imagination only on sights and sounds.
Author: Eunan O'Halpin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-10-27
Total Pages: 725
ISBN-13: 0300257473
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first comprehensive account to record and analyze all deaths arising from the Irish revolution between 1916 and 1921 This account covers the turbulent period from the 1916 Rising to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921—a period which saw the achievement of independence for most of nationalist Ireland and the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-governing province of the United Kingdom. Separatists fought for independence against government forces and, in North East Ulster, armed loyalists. Civilians suffered violence from all combatants, sometimes as collateral damage, often as targets. Eunan O’Halpin and Daithí Ó Corráin catalogue and analyze the deaths of all men, women, and children who died during the revolutionary years—505 in 1916; 2,344 between 1917 and 1921. This study provides a unique and comprehensive picture of everyone who died: in what manner, by whose hands, and why. Through their stories we obtain original insight into the Irish revolution itself.
Author: Charlotte M. Mason
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1000697568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1905, this book argues that the educational outlook was rather misty and depressing both at home and abroad. That science should be a staple of education, that the teaching of Latin, of modern languages, of mathematics, must be reformed, that nature and handicrafts should be pressed into service for the training of the eye and hand, that boys and girls must learn to write English and therefore must know something of history and literature; and, on the other hand, that education must be made more technical and utilitarian - these, and such as these, are the cries of expedience with which we take the field. But we have no unifying principle, no definte aim; in fact, no philosophy of education.
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-06
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Of Captain Mission" by Daniel Defoe James Misson was a pirate captain during the Age of Piracy, best known as the founder of the utopian pirate community, Libertalia. Though the existence of this colony has become speculative, it still garnered much fascination in pirates for centuries. This book acts as a history of pirates as well as an introductory biography of one of the supposed greatest pirates of all time.
Author: Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters
Publisher:
Published: 1888
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
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