A New Ireland

Author : Niall O'Dowd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781510749306

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A New Ireland by Niall O'Dowd Pdf

It’s not your father’s Ireland. Not anymore. A story of modern revolution in Ireland told by the founder of IrishCentral, Irish America magazine, and the Irish Voice newspaper. In a May 2019 countrywide referendum, Ireland voted overwhelmingly to make abortion legal; three years earlier, it had done the same with same-sex marriage, becoming the only country in the world to pass such a law by universal suffrage. Pope Francis’s visit to the country saw protests and a fraction of the emphatic welcome that Pope John Paul’s had seen forty years earlier. There have been two female heads of state since 1990, the first two in Ireland’s history. Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, an openly gay man of Indian heritage, declared that “a quiet revolution had taken place.” It had. For nearly all of its modern history, Ireland was Europe’s most conservative country. The Catholic Church was its most powerful institution and held power over all facets of Irish life. But as scandal eroded the Church’s hold on Irish life, a new Ireland has flourished. War in the North has ended. EU membership and an influx of American multinational corporations have helped Ireland weather economic depression and transform into Europe’s headquarters for Apple, Facebook, and Google. With help from prominent Irish and Irish American voices like historian and bestselling author Tim Pat Coogan and the New York Times’s Maureen Dowd, A New Ireland tells the story of a modern revolution against all odds.

Author : Gerry Adams
Publisher : Brandon Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122236446

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The New Ireland by Gerry Adams Pdf

A unique political manifesto at a crucial moment from the leading figure in Irish Republicanism. Adams outlines the challenge of transforming Irish society through a vision of self-determination and sovereignty, inclusiveness and equality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081643565

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The New Ireland Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Julieann Veronica Ulin,Heather Edwards,Sean T. O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 0268027773

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Race and Immigration in the New Ireland by Julieann Veronica Ulin,Heather Edwards,Sean T. O'Brien Pdf

'Race and Immigration in the New Ireland' offers a variety of expert perspectives and a comprehensive approach to the social, political, linguistic, cultural, religious, and economic transformations in Ireland that are related to immigration. It includes a wide range of critical voices and approaches to reflect the broad impact of immigration on multiple aspects of Irish society and culture.

Author : Piaras Beaslai
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789126891

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Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland by Piaras Beaslai Pdf

Michael Collins and the Making of a New Ireland, which was first published in 1926 as two volumes, was written by Piaras Beaslai, a Major-General in the Sinn Fein army who was an intimate friend of Michael Collins and his senior in the inner councils of the most extreme section of the party. Michael Collins (1890-1922) was an Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early-20th-century Irish struggle for independence. He was Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Irish Free State from January 1922 until his assassination in August 1922. Collins’ family had republican connections reaching back to the 1798 rebellion. He moved to London in 1906 and became a member of the London GAA, through which he became associated with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Gaelic League. He returned to Ireland in 1916 and fought in the Easter Rising. He was subsequently imprisoned in the Frongoch internment camp as a prisoner of war, but was released in December 1916. After his release, Collins rose through the ranks of the Irish Volunteers and Sinn Féin. He became a Teachta Dála for South Cork in 1918, and was appointed Minister for Finance in the First Dáil. He was present when the Dáil convened on 21 Jan. 1919 and declared the independence of the Irish Republic. In the ensuing War of Independence, he was Director of Organisation and Adj.-Gen. for the Irish Volunteers, and Director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army. He gained fame as a guerrilla warfare strategist, planning and directing many successful attacks on British forces. After the July 1921 ceasefire, Collins and Arthur Griffith were sent to London by Eamon de Valera to negotiate peace terms. A provisional government was formed under his chairmanship in early 1922 but was soon disrupted by the Irish Civil War, in which Collins was commander-in-chief of the National Army. He was shot and killed in an ambush by anti-Treaty forces on 22 Aug. 1922.

Author : John Hume
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461660248

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A New Ireland by John Hume Pdf

Hume recounts the struggle for the nationalist community's rights and presents a blueprint for peace.

Author : Garret FitzGerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 0853141614

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Towards a new Ireland by Garret FitzGerald Pdf

Author : P. M. Toner
Publisher : Fredericton, N.B. : New Ireland Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034193198

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New Ireland Remembered by P. M. Toner Pdf

Author : Alexander Martin Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Ireland
ISBN : HARVARD:HNZQQD

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New Ireland by Alexander Martin Sullivan Pdf

Author : Tom Healy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 1848407254

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An Ireland Worth Working for by Tom Healy Pdf

Author : Fintan O'Toole
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631496547

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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole Pdf

“[L]ike reading a great tragicomic Irish novel.” —James Wood, The New Yorker “Masterful . . . astonishing.” —Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic "A landmark history . . . Leavened by the brilliance of O'Toole's insights and wit.” —Claire Messud, Harper’s Winner • 2021 An Post Irish Book Award — Nonfiction Book of the Year • from the judges: “The most remarkable Irish nonfiction book I’ve read in the last 10 years”; “[A] book for the ages.” A celebrated Irish writer’s magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. Fintan O’Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government—in despair, because all the young people were leaving—opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We Don’t Know Ourselves, O’Toole, one of the Anglophone world’s most consummate stylists, weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary “backwater” to an almost totally open society—perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history. Born to a working-class family in the Dublin suburbs, O’Toole served as an altar boy and attended a Christian Brothers school, much as his forebears did. He was enthralled by American Westerns suddenly appearing on Irish television, which were not that far from his own experience, given that Ireland’s main export was beef and it was still not unknown for herds of cattle to clatter down Dublin’s streets. Yet the Westerns were a sign of what was to come. O’Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish, women in particular. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism. In O’Toole’s telling, America became a lodestar, from John F. Kennedy’s 1963 visit, when the soon-to-be martyred American president was welcomed as a native son, to the emergence of the Irish technology sector in the late 1990s, driven by American corporations, which set Ireland on the path toward particular disaster during the 2008 financial crisis. A remarkably compassionate yet exacting observer, O’Toole in coruscating prose captures the peculiar Irish habit of “deliberate unknowing,” which allowed myths of national greatness to persist even as the foundations were crumbling. Forty years in the making, We Don’t Know Ourselves is a landmark work, a memoir and a national history that ultimately reveals how the two modes are entwined for all of us.

Author : Brian Rowan
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785373831

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Political Purgatory by Brian Rowan Pdf

This is a book about political stasis; the purgatory that Stormont became, and the sins of that long standoff. The story begins in January 2017, with Martin McGuinness’s dramatic resignation as Deputy First Minister, and chronicles all the behind-the-scenes negotiations that ultimately resulted in the restoration of the Executive in January 2020, with the ‘New Decade, New Approach’ agreement. Then, that new fight with a fearsome and unknowable foe: coronavirus. Political Purgatory charts the three years from the collapse then restoration of the northern Executive to Covid-19 in the wider frame of building peace after conflict, and it turns the next corner into the centenary of Northern Ireland and that louder call for Irish unity since Brexit, like a piece of heavy machinery on fragile ground, has left cracks across the Union. Spanning several decades, some of the biggest names on the inside of Irish and British politics, including Gerry Adams, Naomi Long, Peter Robinson, Julian Smith and Simon Coveney, help veteran journalist Brian Rowan turn the pages in what President Clinton has called the ‘long war for peace’.

Author : Paul Teague
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000378306

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Brexit and the Political Economy of Ireland by Paul Teague Pdf

The UK’s departure from the EU has profoundly affected the politics and economics of Northern Ireland. Brexit has shattered a political accommodation that was taking shape in the region that involved nationalism and unionism refraining from aggressively pursuing their own objectives or making excessive demands on each other. Economically, it has made the task of building an innovative economy in the region immeasurably more difficult. Without radical change, Northern Ireland is destined to be an economic outhouse of an under-performing UK economy. This book represents the first systematic study of the impact of Brexit on the political and economic future of Northern Ireland and Ireland. It provides a detailed assessment of the consequences of the Belfast Agreement and highlights how Brexit imperils the advances that have been made since its signing in 1998. It makes a dispassionate assessment of the changes that may be necessary to create a stronger Northern Ireland economy. On the one hand, demands for the immediate unification of Ireland that are now being made loudly and persistently by nationalists and republicans are considered too precipitous. The two economies on the island are not yet ready for Irish unity. On the other hand, the book argues the case for a radical reorientation of the Northern Ireland economy through the incremental creation of an all-Ireland economy. The book cuts through the rhetoric that characterizes so much discussion about the Northern Ireland economy and provides a hard-headed appraisal of not only its structure and performance, but also the economic feasibility of Irish unity.

Author : Tina O'Toole
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137349132

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The Irish New Woman by Tina O'Toole Pdf

The Irish New Woman explores the textual and ideological connections between feminist, nationalist and anti-imperialist writing and political activism at the fin de siècle . This is the first study which foregrounds the Irish and New Woman contexts, effecting a paradigm shift in the critical reception of fin de siècle writers and their work.

Author : Sarah A. Lappin
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568988680

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Full Irish by Sarah A. Lappin Pdf

From Georgian cities to modernist masterpieces, architecture in Ireland has a long history of excellence. The last fifteen years, however, witnessed more social, economic, and cultural change than any previous period on the island, leaving a dramatic mark on the country's architecture. A new commitment to design quality by developers and a series of government-sponsored competitions to design new civic buildings enabled Ireland to become for the first time a net importer of architectural talent. These architects, from disparate cultures and design backgrounds, filled Ireland's landscape with modern architectural masterworks, from small private homes to large community centers. In Full Irish author Sarah A. Lappin examines the nature of twenty-first-century Irish architectural identity as it develops its own progressive, contemporary idiom. Illustrated with color photographs and drawings, Full Irish includes more than seventy projects from Ireland's leading firms as well as its up-and-coming designers: Boyd Cody, Alan Jones, de Blacam and Meagher, Bucholz McEvoy, de Paor Architects, FKL Architects, Dominic Stevens, Grafton Architects, Henchion+Reuter, Hackett Hall McKnight, Heneghan.Peng, McCullough Mulvin, Hassett + Ducatez, MacGabhann Architects, O'Donnell + Tuomey, and ODOS Architects.