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Author | : Patricia Byrne |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-04-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 184889953X |
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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.
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Achill Island (Ireland) |
ISBN | : 9781848898103 |
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Author | : Patricia Byrne |
Publisher | : Merrion Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2018-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785371703 |
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This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute people of Achill out of degradation and idolatry through his Achill Mission Colony. The fury of the island elements, the devastation of famine, and Nangle’s own volatile temperament all threatened the project’s survival. In the years of the Great Famine the ugly charge of ‘souperism’, offering food and material benefits in return for religious conversion, tainted the Achill Mission’s work. John MacHale, powerful Archbishop of Tuam, spearheaded the Catholic Church’s fightback against Nangle’s Protestant colony, with the two clergymen unleashing fierce passions while spewing vitriol and polemic from pen and pulpit. Did Edward Nangle and the Achill Mission Colony save hundreds from certain death, or did they shamefully exploit a vulnerable people for religious conversion? This dramatic tale of the Achill Mission Colony exposes the fault-lines of religion, society and politics in nineteenth century Ireland, and continues to excite controversy and division to this day.
Author | : Elizabeth Butler |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1909-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1465554688 |
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Author | : Fr Sean McManus |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2011-03-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1848899319 |
Download My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For almost forty years, Fr Sean McManus has been at the heart of the Irish American campaign to pressurise the British government regarding injustice in Northern Ireland. This is a deeply personal account of how his lone voice mainstreamed Northern Ireland on Capitol Hill, after the Catholic Church removed him from Britain. He became 'Britain's nemesis in America', founding the Irish National Caucus in 1974. Also chronicles the events and social context that influenced him, growing up in a parish divided by the Border.
Author | : Mary J. Murphy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Achill Island (Ireland) |
ISBN | : 9780956074935 |
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Author | : Kieran Fagan |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2015-04-20 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1848899084 |
Download The Framing of Harry Gleeson Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In November 1940 the body of Moll McCarthy, an unmarried mother, was found in a field in Tipperary. She had been shot. The man who reported the discovery was neighbour Harry Gleeson. Although Harry had an alibi, he was swiftly convicted and hanged. This travesty of justice suited the parish priest, the Gardaí, and respectable families whose sons, brothers and husbands had fathered Moll's seven children. The investigation was hijacked and the defence compromised. Neighbours and friends felt intimidated. Moll's daughter Mary, approaching death over fifty years later, became upset and said to a nurse 'I saw my own mother shot on the kitchen floor, and an innocent man died'. Somewhere in the grounds of Mountjoy Jail lies the body of Harry Gleeson, posthumously pardoned by the State in 2015. This is the story of how and why he was framed and who the guilty parties were.
Author | : T. J. Boynton |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2021-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438481829 |
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Emerging at a moment of escalating colonial conflict between England and Ireland, the figure of the Irish Celt enjoyed a long and varied career in both English and Irish literature from the late Victorian era to World War II. While this figure assumes many forms and functions, T. J. Boynton argues that he is consistently cast as inherently resistant to capitalism. Beginning with an innovative reassessment of Matthew Arnold's The Study of Celtic Literature, from which the book also takes its title, Against the Despotism of Fact offers new readings of major works by writers such as Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett. In their writing, Boynton argues, the Irish Celt served as a transnational vehicle of modernist experimentation geared toward interrogating the imperial, social, and pop-cultural dimensions of capitalist modernity. Making a significant contribution to Irish studies, modernist studies, and postcolonial studies, Against the Despotism of Fact draws attention to not only the prevalence but also the critical potential of this fraught figure.
Author | : Damian Corless |
Publisher | : Gill & Macmillan Ltd |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2013-09-09 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1848898150 |
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The name the Romans gave to Ireland was Hibernia, which means 'Land of Winter', and cold feet may have been a factor in their decision to leave the Irish to their own devices. The weather is our main topic of conversation and has done its bit in shaping our character. This lively overview shines a light on incidents when the weather – generally bad – changed the course of Ireland's history. Along the way it takes in those years – and there were quite a few – when the sun really didn't shine. We learn how Oliver Cromwell, invincible in war, most likely caught his death from a Cork mosquito. The Irish climate created the heavy soil that made the potato flourish in Ireland like nowhere else, with disastrous consequences. David Lean came to Ireland fully intending to give the County Kerry weather a starring role in his film Ryan's Daughter. He didn't make another film for fourteen years. Our professional forecasters still hedge their bets by predicting four seasons in one day – and still often get it laughably wrong. But there are sunny stories too, such as how, in 1973, the brooding Antrim weather produced one of rock music's greatest album covers, and how the Irish legend of the crock of gold at the rainbow's end came about. Remarkably, Ireland's weather has remained the same moderate mixed blessing since the Romans left.
Author | : Barbara Freitag |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2005-08-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1134282494 |
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A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.