Hungry No More (Irish)
Author: Tana Reiff
Publisher: Fearon Teacher Aids
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780822436805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the McGee family, who left Ireland during the potato famine for a new life in America.
Author: Tana Reiff
Publisher: Fearon Teacher Aids
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780822436805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of the McGee family, who left Ireland during the potato famine for a new life in America.
Author: Ronan Hession
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1612199089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A disarming novel that asks a simple question: Can gentle people change the world? In this charming and truly unique debut, popular Irish musician Ronan Hession tells the story of two single, thirty-something men who still live with their parents and who are . . . nice. They take care of their parents and play board games together. They like to read. They take satisfaction from their work. They are resolutely kind. And they realize that none of this is considered . . . normal. Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends struggling to protect their understanding of what’s meaningful in life. It is about the uncelebrated people of this world — the gentle, the meek, the humble. And as they struggle to persevere, the book asks a surprisingly enthralling question: Is it really them against the world, or are they on to something?
Author: Christine Kinealy
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-10-10
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1441133089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.
Author: Michael C. Mentel
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2024-02-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1476693951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The hunger strike of 1981 is regarded as one of the most tragic events in Irish history. Ten men died over a period of 217 days in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh (Maze) prison while exercising the most extreme form of civil disobedience available to them. The Troubles that gave rise to the hunger strike had roots in the centuries of socio-economic subjugation and religious persecution in Ireland. In 1971, the British government began internment without trial for persons suspected of belonging to paramilitary organizations. Eventually, the British government granted Special Category Status to these prisoners before later stripping it from the prisons by 1976, leading to a five-year prisoner protest that culminated in the 1981 hunger strike. This book critically examines declassified British government documents that detail how the government's policies led to the 1981 hunger strike, how Margaret Thatcher exacerbated the strike by refusing steps to end it, and how the hunger strike eventually led to peace in the north. Analysis also illustrates how the 1981 hunger strike, and the ten men who died on it, forced a revolutionary change in the political and governmental structure of the north and paved a road to peace that concluded with the signing of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Author: Padraig O'Malley
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1991-10-31
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780807002094
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of the British Government and the hopeless combat of the Protestant and Roman Catholic factions in the Northern Ireland struggle explicable, and exposes the politics behind it."--The New York Times Book Review
Author: Tana Reiff
Publisher: Hopes and Dreams
Published: 2016-10
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780866474207
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Author: David A. Valone
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2009-12-21
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0761849009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history.
Author: Cole Moreton
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780141001944
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Moreton delivers this beautiful, haunting, previously untold story of a vanished people from the edge of Ireland and the events that led to the abandonment of their way of life. This book is about home and what that means and a gripping account of the quest for a vanished people.
Author: Terry Eagleton
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781859840276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work explores the interrelation of Irish political history and Irish literature. It discusses a host of unusual topics, from Shaw and science and Irish attitudes, to nature and the question of language, and a full-scale investigation of the Celtic revival.