Shapes of Ireland
Author | : John Harwood Andrews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Harwood Andrews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lisa Ireland |
Publisher | : Macmillan Publishers Aus. |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2017-03-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1760552925 |
"A wonderful story, full of emotional depth and heart." Rachael Johns FOUR DIFFERENT WOMEN. THE SAME BIG PROBLEM. ONE MAGICAL SOLUTION? Mezz is overweight and overworked: she's convinced it's only a matter of time until her husband starts to stray. Jewels is fat and fabulous, but if she wants the baby she craves, the Tim Tams have to go. Ellie's life looks perfect to her London friends on Facebook: she keeps her waistline out of the photos and her loneliness to herself. Kat will do anything to keep her daughter Ami happy and safe. If she can just lose that baby weight, she's sure Ami's dad will stick around. In this heartwarming, heartbreaking story, four women who meet online in a weight loss forum learn that losing weight might not be the key to happiness, but believing in the ones you live - and yourself - just might be. MORE PRAISE FOR THE SHAPE OF US 'Lisa Ireland gets right to the heart of female friendship, exploring topics every woman can relate to.' Rachael Johns, author of The Art of Keeping Secrets 'Every so often a book comes along which captures your thoughts so well it could have been written with you in mind. The Shape of Us is a thought-provoking and perceptive glance into the lives of women (and men) grappling with confidence and self-image problems and the impact it has on their lives.' Queensland Times 'The Shape of Us is a heart-warming, heart-breaking tale of women's friendship.' Daily Examiner 'Will make you both laugh and cry...Lisa Ireland believes people are worth so much more than numbers on a scale or what clothing they can fit into - and her book shows how important that is.' The Weekly Times 'A highly relatable story on many levels...ultimately, a book about friendship and support.' Beauty & Lace
Author | : A.T.Q. Stewart |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2001-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773570004 |
In an exploration of the essential structure of what is called Irish history, A.T.Q. Stewart looks at some shadowy areas and asks provocative questions about popular misconceptions. Even where such misconceptions have been refuted by academic research, Stewart argues, the information has not percolated into the general domain because modern historians, writing mainly for one another, have lost the wider audience. Criticizing his own profession for purporting to be scientific while largely ignoring the implications of, for example, scientific archaeology, Stewart also opens up the closed shop of Irish history for the general reader. The result is a landmark book - the terrain of Irish history will never be the same again.
Author | : Library of Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1992 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1662 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Subject headings, Library of Congress |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jim Webb |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2005-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0767922956 |
In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character. Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music. Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.
Author | : Laura McKenna |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Slaves |
ISBN | : 9781848407954 |
In 1857, Harriet Small is given her father's True Narrative of his life - his escape from slavery in America and his journey into the heart of revolutionary Ireland. The story of Tony Small and Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Words to Shape My Name is about hope, failure, resilience, and narrative - an adventure of great intelligence and awareness.
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 534 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Bills, Legislative |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |