Drag The Man Down

Author : Kevin C. Kearns
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717164714

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Dublin Pub Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin's Traditional Irish Pubs by Kevin C. Kearns Pdf

Dublin is renowned for its amazing profusion of pubs and for its exuberant pub culture. In Dublin Pub Life and Lore, Professor Kevin Kearns examines the history of this phenomenon by speaking to old publicans, barmen and regular customers, relating the story of Dublin pubs and their patrons in an engaging and entertaining fashion. Traditionally in Ireland, the public house or 'pub' was the centre of a community's social life and a social institution ranking second in importance only to the parish church. Pubs ranged from dusky watering holes frequented by labourers, dockers and shawlies to elegant Victorian gin palaces where the gentry and literati gathered. Along the Dublin quays there were dives filled with scoundrels, prostitutes and misfits of every sort. Following the success of his bestselling classic Dublin Tenement Life, Kevin Kearns has researched and created a wonderful oral historical chronicle of Dublin's pub life. Based on conversations with old publicans, pub 'regulars' and long-serving barmen, Dublin Pub Life and Lore captures the folklore, customs, characters and wit of the traditional Dublin public house. Dublin Pub Life and Lore: Table of Contents Introduction - History and Evolution of Dublin Public Houses Origins and Uses of Alcohol A City of Taverns and Alehouses Dublin's Colourful Public Houses Drinking Customs of the Social Classes Disreputable Drinking Dens Proud and Prosperous Publicans Dublin Temperance Movement Government Inquiry into Intemperance and the Role of Public Houses Oral History and Pub Lore - Dublin Pub Culture and Social Life The Pub as a Living Social Institution The Publican's Role and Status Pub Regulars and Their Local Porters, Apprentices and Barmen Pubs as IRA Meeting Places Women on the "Holy Ground" The Pintman and His Pint Pub Customs and Traditions Pub Entertainment Singing Pubs Literary Pubs Notable Pub Characters Eccentric Publicans and Notorious Pubs Underworld of Shebeens, Kips and Speakeasies Famous Barmen's Strikes Transformation and Desecration of Venerable Pubs - Oral Testimony of Publicans and Barmen - Oral Testimony of Pub Regulars and Observers

Author : Rudolf Steiner
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0880100079

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Michaelmas and the Soul Forces of Man by Rudolf Steiner Pdf

4 lectures, Vienna, September 27-October 1, 1923 (from CW 223) Steiner shows the need to "expand the horizon of life into the breadth of the world" in order to overcome today's hermit-like existence. He shows that the path to becoming true citizens of the cosmos is through the forces of the Archangel Michael, who is always present and prepared to help us. Synopses: September 27 -- How shall man, the earth citizen, once more become a citizen of the cosmos? The expansion of life's horizon into cosmic reaches. Philosophic aspects and impulses determining the human being in the picture of Michael's Conflict with the Dragon. September 28 -- Present-day man as a world hermit. The way back to spirit through the Michael force. Enchantment and liberation of the elemental beings. Man's responsibility to the cosmos. What is demanded of us is a profound faith in the spirit that will make us into instruments of the divine-spiritual forces. Experiencing spirit through pure thought leads to inspiration. September 30 -- Prerequisites of the inauguration of an autumn festival: penetrating extra-terrestrial, cosmic contexts; experiencing the course of the seasons. The Druidic and the Mithras Mysteries; the sun circles and cromlechs. Observation of the sun yielded knowledge of the connection between heaven and earth. The language of the heavens was deciphered and the cult gave directions regulating practical and social life, thereby becoming a sort of divine service -- the image of the Bull in the Mithras cult, and the schooling of the neophyte's capacity for sensitive perception: the heart as a sense organ was raised to a certain degree of consciousness. Through the heart organization the course of nature was perceived within man, and through the heart science the spirit of the sun's annual passage through the zodiac was studied. In this way men read in the heavens what was to be done on earth -- Concerning the cosmic-historical evolution of the planetary system. October 1 -- We need realistic thinking in place of mere methods of calculation. The far-reaching social significance of a Michael Festival. Earth spirit and human spirit. The cosmic breathing process. Nature-consciousness, self-consciousness, and spirit-consciousness. This volume is a translation of the final four of the nine lectures in Der Jahreskreislauf als Atmungsvorgang der Erde und die vief grossen Festeszeiten.

Author : National Eclectic Medical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015076664989

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Transactions by National Eclectic Medical Association Pdf

Author : W. Paul Anderson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 1886 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307368317

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Hunger's Brides by W. Paul Anderson Pdf

An epic novel of genius and obsession — apocalyptic, lyrical and erotically charged. Spanning three centuries and two cultures, Hunger’s Brides brings to vivid life the greatest Spanish poet of her time, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, and plumbs a mystery that has intrigued writers as diverse as Robert Graves, Diane Ackerman, Eduardo Galeano and Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Why did a writer of such gifts silence herself? At the time of her death in 1695, Juana Inés de la Cruz was arguably the greatest writer working in any European tongue, yet she had never set foot in Europe. Instead she was born among the descendants of the Aztec empire, in the shadow of the mountain pass Cortés and his troops descended on their advance to Montezuma’s capital. A child prodigy from a barbarous wilderness, her beauty and wit provoked a sensation at the viceregal court in Mexico City. But at the age of nineteen, still a favourite of the court, Juana entered a convent, and from that point her life unfolded between the mystery of her sudden flight from palace to cloister, and the enigma of her final vow of silence, signed in blood. After a quarter-century of graceful, often sensuous poetry, plays and theological argument, Sor Juana chose silence, which she maintained until she died of plague at the age of forty-five. Drawing on chronicles of the conquest and histories of the Inquisition, myth cycles and archeological studies, ancient poetry and early Spanish accounts of blood sacrifice, Hunger’s Brides is a mammoth work of inspired historical fiction framed in a contemporary mystery. In the dead of a Calgary winter night, a man escapes from an apartment in which a young woman lies bleeding — in his arms he clutches a box he has found on her table addressed to him. He is Donald Gregory, a once-respected, now-disgraced, academic. She is Beulah Limosneros, one of his students, and for a brief time his lover. Brilliant, erratic, voracious, she had disappeared two years earlier in Mexico, following the thread of her growing obsession with Sor Juana. Over the ensuing days and weeks, as a police investigation closes in around him, Gregory pieces together the contents of the box she has left him: a poetic journal of her travel in Mexico, diaries, research notes, unposted letters, and a strange manuscript — part biography, part novel — on Sor Juana. Hunger’s Brides is a dramatic unveiling of three intimate journeys: a man’s forced march to self-knowledge, a great poet’s withdrawal from the world, and a profane mystic’s pilgrimage into modern Mexico, in which the bones of the past constantly poke through a present built on the ruins of the vanquished. Excerpt from Hunger’s Brides “From the moment I was first illuminated by the light of reason, my inclination toward letters has been so vehement that not even the admonitions of others . . . nor my own meditations have been sufficient to cause me to forswear this natural impulse that God placed in me . . . that inclination exploded in me like gunpowder. . . .” —Sor Juana, in a letter of self-defence written to a bishop in 1691, just before she took a vow of silence

Author : Sabrina deSouza
Publisher : Houkura
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780645378665

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The Tcholla by Sabrina deSouza Pdf

David, Mary and Jenny start to wonder about Danika, Finn and Robb, unaware that their friends disappeared near the burned remains of Marjory House. After a single day on Houkura, Finn, Danika and Robb discover a world of magic and unheard of mystical creatures.Their confrontation with the dark mage Boltza made them realise that it was more important to bring Boltza to justice for Arcken and Gryff than to try to find a way back to Earth. But before they can seek help from the Ryder People, Gredat succumbs to the Catarbie illness, and the Lousham make a sudden appearance, at Finn's expense. Without prior experience dealing with evil magic wielders, the group realises that their only chance of defeating the dark mage lies with the help of the Tcholla. Elsewhere on Houkura, Tarheen believes he killed his parents. Enduring various forms of torture from an unknown sadistic dark mage, he is unaware that Krysta and Zoltan have survived and are tracking him.

Author : P. Austin Nuttall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : English language
ISBN : UCAL:B4091246

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Nuttall's Standard Dictionary of the English Language by P. Austin Nuttall Pdf

Author : Tina Leonard,Cathy McDavid,Marie Ferrarella,Pamela Britton
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460325056

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Harlequin American Romance November 2013 Bundle by Tina Leonard,Cathy McDavid,Marie Ferrarella,Pamela Britton Pdf

Harlequin American Romance brings you four new all-American romances for one great price, available now for a limited time only from November 1 to November 30! This Harlequin American Romance bundle includes A Callahan Christmas Miracle by USA TODAY bestselling author Tina Leonard, His Christmas Sweetheart by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Cathy McDavid, A Small Town Thanksgiving by USA TODAY bestselling author Marie Ferrarella and A Cowboy's Christmas Wedding by Pamela Britton. If you love small towns and cowboys, watch out for 4 new Harlequin American Romance titles every month! Romance the all-American way!

Author : Gregory Payette
Publisher : 8 Flags Publishing, Inc.
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781734974935

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Drag the Man Down by Gregory Payette Pdf

When the drinks are flowing and the money’s good, crime is one temptation George Sisco finds hard to resist... After three years behind bars in a Rhode Island state prison, all George wants is to live a somewhat normal life. Maybe he'll meet a nice girl...open the restaurant he always talked about in the yard. But after a couple of beers and a half bottle of bourbon, George heads out in the middle of the night and breaks into a local boxer’s home. He walks out six minutes later with a championship belt and a box full of cash he found bolted to the bottom of the bed. When he meets Sam, a pretty waitress working her way through school at the diner, George promises himself he's done with crime...and the only life he's known will be a thing of the past. If it were only so easy… The floodgates open when George runs into some old friends. Violence and double-crossing follow when a simple plan goes a little too far. And every move they make drags them deeper into a hole they can't seem to escape. With the cops on their tail, it’ll take everything George has to find a way out of a bad situation that only gets worse... But what if one more crime's the answer?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : MINN:319510012204722

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Airman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : WISC:89067542928

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Beloit College Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas F. Torrance
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567043215

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Divine and Contingent Order by Thomas F. Torrance Pdf

This book examines the implications of the Judaeo-Christian claim for our understanding of the universe that it is contingent: freely created by God out of nothing, and having an existence, freedom, and rtional order of its own while still dependent on him. Professor Torrance argues that this claim made possible the development of western empirical science, but that Newtonian physics obscured the connection between the rational order of nature and the Christian doctrine of creation. He shows how modern relativity and quantum theories have once againd rawn attention to the significance of contingence, and imply that the universe is found to be consistently rational only if it is dependent on a creative rationality beyond it. He considers finally the disorderly elements in the universe, both physical and moral, and argues that the doctrine of incarnation as well as of creation is necessary to deal with the intellectual problems which they raise.

Author : Hilton Hotema
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996-09
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 0787304565

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The Mysterious Sphinx by Hilton Hotema Pdf

The chances are that we are only using about 1% of the power of our brain. Just imagine the amazing results if we could unlock just a fraction of the power of the remaining 99%.

Author : Francis Ripley
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0852446780

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This Is the Faith by Francis Ripley Pdf

Long been established as a classic introduction to the faith and teaching of the Catholic Church, this reprinted volume is based on a series of twice-weekly talks given many times for non-Catholics under the auspices of the Legion of Mary. (Catholic)

Author : John Macgregor (M.A., Barrister-at-Law.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000582703

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The Rob Roy on the Jordan, Nile, Red Sea, and Gennesareth etc. A canoe cruise in Palestine and Egypt and the waters of the Damascus by John Macgregor (M.A., Barrister-at-Law.) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Religion
ISBN : PSU:000066652489

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New Princeton Review by Anonim Pdf