Rails to Achill
Author: Jonathan Beaumont
Publisher: Locomotion Papers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780853615880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jonathan Beaumont
Publisher: Locomotion Papers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780853615880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patricia Byrne
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Published: 2012-04-07
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 184889953X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At Valley House on Achill Island in 1894, an English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home burnt. James Lynchehaun, her former land agent, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped twice and won a groundbreaking case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. . A Franciscan monk in Achill, Brother Paul Carney, who had befriended and assisted Lynchehaun, wrote up the fugitive's story, and Lynchehaun became a folk hero. John Millington Synge visited Mayo in 1904/1905 and decided to locate The Playboy of the Western World in north Mayo. Lynchehaun was one of Synge's inspirations for constructing the character of Christy Mahon. The crime, the trial and escapes, and the island tensions are unravelled in a gripping account.
Author: Nicolas Wheatley
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2020-10-01
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0750996358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published, Nicolas Wheatley's work details how the mainline railways carried out this important yet often hidden work from the Victorian age to the 1980s, as well as how ceremonial funeral transport continues on heritage railways today. From royalty, aristocrats and other VIPs (including Sir Winston Churchill and the Unknown Warrior) to victims of accidents and ordinary people, Final Journey explores the way in which these people travelled for the last time by train before being laid to rest.
Author: Royal Irish Academy
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 846
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes also Minutes of [the] Proceedings, and Report of [the] President and Council for the year (beginning 1965/66 called Annual report).