Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1847)

Sketches of Ireland Sixty Years Ago (1847) PDF

Author: John Edward Walsh

Publisher:

Published: 2008-08

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781436925624

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Rare Old Dublin

Rare Old Dublin PDF

Author: Frank Hopkins

Publisher: Mercier Press Ltd

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1860231543

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Pirates executed in St Stephen's Green; Mother Bungy's 'sink of sin' in what is now Temple Bar; the Viking thingmote in College Green where human sacrifices took place; hidden holy wells under the city streets: these are just some of the things uncovered by Dubliner Frank Hopkins in this surprising and entertaining book. Famous sons and daughters of the city also make an appearance: John Pius Boland of the famous milling family, who won two Olympic medals for tennis in 1896 playing in street clothes and leather shoes; Jack Langan, the bare-knuckle boxer of Ballybough; Sir William Cameron, the public health specialist who devised a bounty scheme for captured houseflies in 1913; and the Dolocher, the savage eighteenth-century beast in the form of a pig who turned out to be a man.

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces and Introductions

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces and Introductions PDF

Author: William Butler Yeats

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-06-30

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781439106235

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Prefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson, and Rabindranath Tagore. The introductions, which span the Nobel laureate’s entire career, reflect the broad reach of Yeats’s literary and cultural interests. Always insightful and often charming, Prefaces and Introductions reveals the breadth of Yeats’s talent as essayist, critic, folklorist, and raconteur.

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