Four Sisters The History Of Ringsend Irishtown Sandymount And Merrion

Author : Kurt Kullmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750985369

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Four Sisters: The History of Ringsend, Irishtown, Sandymount and Merrion by Kurt Kullmann Pdf

This book traces the development of the four coastal villages – often referred to as ' the Four Sisters' – that make up the eastern part Dublin 4 from their foundation to the present day. Richly illustrated with modern and historic images, this work looks at the social, political, religious and economic history of Ringsend, Irishtown, Sandymount and Merrion, recalling the significant events, vanished industries and local characters.

Author : Kurt Kullmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750985369

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Four Sisters by Kurt Kullmann Pdf

This book traces the development of the four coastal villages – often referred to as ‘the Four Sisters’ – that make up the eastern part Dublin 4 from their foundation to the present day. Richly illustrated with modern and historic images, this work looks at the social, political, religious and economic history of Ringsend, Irishtown, Sandymount and Merrion, recalling the significant events, vanished industries and local characters.

Author : Beatrice Doran
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750996402

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From the Grand Canal to the Dodder by Beatrice Doran Pdf

The Dublin suburbs situated between the Grand Canal and the River Dodder consist of distinct neighbourhoods, each with their own character and style. It is an area that was, and continues to be, home to poets, writers, artists, politicians and academics, all of whom, in their own way, contributed to Irish life. Those featured include: Jack B. Yeats, artist; Mother Mary Aikenhead, Founder of the Religious Order; Brendan Behan, writer and dramatist; Mary Lady Heath, aviator and international athlete; Sophie Bryant, mathematician, educationist and suffragette; James Franklin Fuller, architect and Seamus Heaney, poet. In this book, Dr Beatrice M. Doran tells of the lives of some of the most fascinating people who once lived on the leafy roads and avenues of this interesting area of the city.

Author : Kurt Kullmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750981576

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The Little Book of Sandymount by Kurt Kullmann Pdf

The Little Book of Sandymount is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about one of Dublin's most important suburbs. Here you will find out about Sandymount's streets and buildings, its schools and industries, its proud sporting heritage, and its famous (and occasionally infamous) men and women. Through main thoroughfares and twisting back streets, this book takes the reader on a journey through Sandymount and its vibrant past. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage and the secrets of this south Dublin suburb.

Author : Kurt Kullmann
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750988568

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The First Irish Railway by Kurt Kullmann Pdf

The first Irish railway ran from Westland Row, in the centre of Dublin, to Kingstown, then a seaside resort on the coast south of the city. This historic line is now the DART line, Kingstown has become Dún Laoghaire and the world has changed around it. In this work, historian and author Kurt Kullmann recreates this era and takes us on a scenic journey through Ireland's past.

Author : Maurice Fells
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750990257

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The Little Book of Somerset by Maurice Fells Pdf

Did you know? The town of Wincanton is twinned with a place that does not exist. William Gibbs of Tyntesfield House made his fortune by importing bird droppings from Peru. A song by 'Scrumpy and Western' singer Adge Cutler was banned by the BBC for being too raunchy. Nine villages in Somerset are known as the 'Thankful Villages'. From seaside to countryside and villages to towns, Somerset is a county where it's difficult to separate history and mystery. This fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and trivia reveals all sorts of answers to questions you might have wondered about – and some you didn't. The facts, stats and anecdotes will surprise even those familiar with this beautiful and historic county.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : History, Modern
ISBN : UGA:32108000755911

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1851-1875 by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806448

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ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series) by James Joyce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.

Author : John D'Alton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Drogheda (Ireland)
ISBN : NYPL:33433071382257

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The History of Drogheda by John D'Alton Pdf

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180948364

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Dubliners by James Joyce Pdf

»He single-handedly killed the 19th century.« T. S. Eliot »James Joyce revolutionized 20th-century literature.« Time Magazine With Dubliners [1914], James Joyce aimed to cast his hometown, the experiences of his upbringing, in an unforgiving light. Considering how people, especially men, are portrayed here, it's no wonder that it took many years of constant rejections before Dubliners was finally published, in the fateful year of 1914 for Europe. The language in which all events are depicted is so vivid, incessantly so close to the very heart of the events, that James Joyce's first prose work has become one of the immortal classics. JAMES JOYCE [1882-1941], Irish author, is a key figure in modernist literature with works such as Dubliners [1914], A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [1916], and Ulysses [1922].

Author : Beatrice Doran
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750955799

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Donnybrook by Beatrice Doran Pdf

Donnybrook is one of the most iconic areas of South Dublin, a prosperous and peaceful suburb that is well-known as the being the heartland of Leinster Rugby. It derived its name, however, from the violence and carousing that were a regular feature of the area in the 1800s, and this book tells the story of the development and the journey from these inauspicious beginnings to its current form through a series of rare and beautifully produced photographs.

Author : Dominic Price
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788410373

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We Bled Together by Dominic Price Pdf

There is no crime in detecting and destroying in wartime the spy and informer...I have paid them back in their own coin. - Michael CollinsMichael Collins' development of a formidable intelligence network transformed, for the first time in history, the military fortunes of the Irish against the British. The Dublin Brigade of the IRA was pivotal to this defining strategy. In 1919, Collins formed members of the brigade into two Special Duties Units. They eventually joined to form his 'Squad' of assassins tasked with immobilising British intelligence. Eyewitness testimonies and war diaries lend immediacy and insight to this thrilling account of the daring espionage and killings carried out by both sides on Dublin's streets. Dominic Price reveals how the IRA developed Improvised Explosive Devices, and experimented with chemical weapons in the form of poison gas and infecting water supplies.When the Civil War erupted, the devotion of a significant cohort of the Dublin Brigade to Collins, forged during the darkest of days, was unbreakable. Many of them, identified here for the first time, formed the backbone of the Free State in key intelligence and military roles. While not shying away from the revulsions of the Civil War, neither does Price abandon the brigade's story at its conclusion. As well as revealing the disenchantment of some, who took part in the 1924 army mutiny, he exposes the personal horrors that awaited in peacetime, when psychological trauma was common. This is the stirring and poignant story of the human endeavour and suffering at the core of the Dublin Brigade's fight for Irish freedom.

Author : Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781173862

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Truce: by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc Pdf

On 8 July 1921 a Truce between the IRA and British forces in Ireland was announced, to begin three days later. However, in those three days at least sixty people from both sides of the conflict were killed. In 'Truce', Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc goes back to the facts to reveal what actually happened in those three bloody days, and why. •What sparked Belfast's 'Bloody Sunday' in 1921, the worst bout of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland's troubled history? • Why were four unarmed British soldiers kidnapped and killed by the IRA in Cork just hours before the ceasefire began? •Who murdered Margaret Keogh, a young Dublin rebel, in cold blood on her own doorstep? •Were the last spies shot by the IRA really working for British intelligence or just the victims of anti-Protestant bigotry? This book answers these questions for the first time and separates fact from fiction to find out what really happened in the final battles between the IRA and the British forces.

Author : Richard J. O'Duffy
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1915-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Historic graves in Glasnevin cemetery by Richard J. O'Duffy Pdf

Author : Patrick Abercrombie,Sydney A Kelly,Arthur J Kelly
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343005964

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Dublin of the Future by Patrick Abercrombie,Sydney A Kelly,Arthur J Kelly Pdf

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