Redmond A Life Undone

Author : Chris Dooley
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780717165803

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Redmond – A Life Undone by Chris Dooley Pdf

Dramatic and immersive, Redmond is a provocative reassessment of John Redmond, Home Rule campaigner and one of Ireland's most brilliant political minds.'A vivid portrayal of one of the great political campaigns in Irish history.' Stephen Collins, Political Editor, The Irish TimesRedmond brings to life seven pivotal years in Irish history, when the campaign for Home Rule seized the imagination of a nation and brought Ireland to the brink of a negotiated settlement with Britain. The architect of this campaign was John Redmond, the shrewd and assured leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party.Opening with euphoric scenes on Dublin's O'Connell St when tens of thousands assembled in support of Home Rule, Redmond charts the Irish Party leader's path from power broker in the British parliament in 1910, when Home Rule for Ireland seemed a fait accompli, to public enemy by 1917, when, in the wake of World War I, Irish nationalist politics migrated from the parliamentary chamber to the barricade.Redmond succeeds in weaving a complex portrait of a forgotten hero of Irish politics and the personalities – from Churchill to Carson, de Valera to Lloyd George – who aided and, ultimately, frustrated his life's work.'At last, a biography that recognises the role played by Redmond in the creation of modern Ireland. Chris Dooley brings the man and his times vividly to life in this excellent account. Full of intelligence and sympathy, it is a book that deserves to be read by anyone who wants to understand how our country came into being.'Fergal Keane, BBC'A gripping story which skilfully weaves considerable research and telling details to illuminate the story of Redmond and Home Rule.'David McCullagh, RTÉ

Author : Richard Pine
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527570757

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The Quality of Life by Richard Pine Pdf

These essays represent a selection of 40 years’ commentary on the political dimensions of cultural life. They address the entire spectrum of culture, from theories of international communication to the provision of cultural and leisure facilities at local level. As a former consultant to the Council of Europe, the author has developed a penetrating insight into the decision-making process between local authorities and citizens’ groups, which is discussed in two seminal papers from the 1980s which pioneered the concept of Cultural Democracy. In addition, the book’s close readings of novels and plays by Irish and Greek writers explore the way that all writing and forms of self-expression have a political message and repercussions.

Author : Dermot Meleady
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781785371578

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John Redmond by Dermot Meleady Pdf

Irish nationalist leader John Redmond left no diaries or memoirs, but was a prolific letter-writer. In John Redmond: Selected Letters and Memoranda, 1880–1918, Dermot Meleady skilfully edits Redmond’s correspondence to offer new and first-hand perspectives on key moments in Ireland’s history via the many-faceted postbag of one of its most able political figures. Spanning four decades, these letters to and from key figures such as John Dillon, William O’Brien, David Lloyd George and Herbert Asquith trace Parnell’s downfall, the reunification of the Irish Parliamentary Party, Irish participation in the First World War and the destruction of Redmond’s lifelong dream of Home Rule in the aftermath of the Easter 1916 rebellion. Redmond’s untimely death in 1918, after a wave of shocks and disappointments, marked a sadly premature end to an immense personality as well as the end of an era, but this book brings to life many of the episodes of the vibrant politics of his period. Above all, it gives Redmond back his own voice, allowing him to speak directly to us from a century ago and to correct some of the caricature to which he has sometimes been reduced in the popular memory and academic discourse.

Author : Paul Bew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192873781

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Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics by Paul Bew Pdf

The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul Bew shows, the differences between the two men reflect both Ireland's past and its future. The story of Charles Stewart Parnell, one of the greatest Irish leaders of the nineteenth century and also one of the most renowned figures of the 1880s on the international stage, and John Dillon, the most celebrated, but also the most neglected, of Parnell's lieutenants. As Paul Bew shows, the differences between the two men reflect both Ireland's past and its future. Every time the principle of consent for a united Ireland is discussed today, we can perceive the legacy of both men. Even more profoundly, that legacy can be seen when Irish nationalism tries to transcend a tribalist outlook based on the historic Catholic nation, even when the country is no longer so very Catholic.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781536210064

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Suffragette: The Battle for Equality by David Roberts Pdf

A New York Times best-selling illustrator turns his talents to a lavish history of the women’s suffrage movement in the U.K. and the U.S. just in time for the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment. Imprisonment, hunger strikes, suffrajitsu — the decades-long fight for women’s right to vote was at times a ferocious one. Acclaimed artist David Roberts gives these important, socially transformative times their due in a colorfully illustrated history that includes many of the important faces of the movement in portraiture and scenes that both dignify and enliven. He has created a timely and thoroughly engaging resource in his first turn as nonfiction author-illustrator. Suffragette: The Battle for Equality follows the trajectory of the movement in the U.K. and visits some key figures and moments in the United States as it presents the stories of Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ida B. Wells, Susan B. Anthony, and many more heroic women and men — making it a perfect gift for young readers of today. Dr. Crystal Feimster of Yale’s Department of African American Studies contributes a foreword that speaks to the relationship and differences between the British and American suffrage efforts.

Author : Lindie Naughton
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785370847

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Markievicz by Lindie Naughton Pdf

Countess Constance Markievicz - one of the most remarkable women in Irish history - was a revolutionary, a socialist and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, "Madame," as she was known to thousands of Dubliners, took an active part in the 1916 Rising and was one of the few leaders to escape execution. Instead, she spent an arduous year in an English prison, surrounded by murderers, prostitutes and thieves. Later, during another stretch in prison, she would make history as the first woman elected to the British Houses of Parliament, and momentous event that is due to receive widespread commemoration at the time of its centenary in December 2018. Lindie Naughton's compelling biography sheds light on all facets of Markievicz's life - her privileged upbringing in County Sligo, her adventures as an art student in London and Paris, her marriage to an improbable Polish count, her political education, her several prison terms, and her emergence as one of the pivotal figures in early 20th century Britain and Ireland. Constance Markievicz, a woman with a huge heart, battled all her adult life to establish an Irish republic based on co-operation and equality for all. Her message is as relevant today as it was a century ago.

Author : Ronan McGreevy
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750969017

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Wherever the Firing Line Extends by Ronan McGreevy Pdf

The First World War was the biggest conflict in Irish history. More men served and more men died than in all the wars before or since that the Irish fought in. Often forgotten at home and written out of Irish history, the Irish soldiers and their regiments found themselves more honoured in foreign fields. From the first shot monument in Mons to the plaque to the Royal Irish Lancers who liberated the town on Armistice Day 1918, Ronan McGreevy takes a tour of the Western Front. At a time when Ireland is revisiting its history and its place in the world, McGreevy looks at those places where the Irish made their mark and are remembered in the monuments, cemeteries and landscapes of France and Flanders.

Author : Padraic Coffey
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788493116

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This Day in Irish History by Padraic Coffey Pdf

You may know all about the Easter Rising and the Good Friday Agreement, but did you know that the hypodermic needle was invented in Tallaght? Or that Dublin was the first city in the world to have a woman stockbroker, decades before London or New York? Or that the formula used to create the video game Tomb Raider was sketched on a bridge in Cabra in the nineteenth century? With one entry for every day of the year, this book marks the anniversaries of momentous events in Irish history: in politics, medicine, music, sport and innovation. In this accessible, comprehensive and authoritative book, discover the moments that have helped to shape the national identity of Ireland.

Author : Isabelle Torrance,Donncha O'Rourke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192633446

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Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016 by Isabelle Torrance,Donncha O'Rourke Pdf

This collection addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. The 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists rose up against British imperial forces, became almost instantly mythologized in Irish political memory as a turning point in the nation's history that paved the way for Irish independence. Its centenary has provided a natural point for reflection on Irish politics, and this volume highlights an unexplored element in Irish political discourse, namely its frequent reliance on, reference to, and tensions with classical Greek and Roman models. Topics covered include the reception and rejection of classical culture in Ireland; the politics of Irish language engagement with Greek and Roman models; the intersection of Irish literature with scholarship in Classics and Celtic Studies; the use of classical referents to articulate political inequalities across gender, sexual, and class hierarchies; meditations on the Northern Irish conflict through classical literature; and the political implications of neoclassical material culture in Irish society. As the only country colonized by Britain with a pre-existing indigenous heritage of expertise in classical languages and literature, postcolonial Ireland represents a unique case in the field of classical reception. This book opens a window on a rich and varied dialogue between significant figures in Irish cultural history and the Greek and Roman sources that have inspired them, a dialogue that is firmly rooted in Ireland's historical past and continues to be ever-evolving.

Author : Ken Boyle,Tim Desmond
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781176917

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The Murder of Dr Muldoon by Ken Boyle,Tim Desmond Pdf

A priest and his housekeeper abandon a baby girl on the doorstep of a house near the Black Church in Dublin's north inner city in February 1923. Three local women notice the couple's suspicious behaviour and apprehend them. The two are handed over to the police, charged and sent for trial. A month later, a young doctor is shot dead on the streets of Mohill, Co. Leitrim. The two incidents are connected, but how? In the days following the shooting of Dr Paddy Muldoon, the name of a local priest was linked to the killing and rumours abounded of a connection to the events in Dublin a month earlier and also that an IRA gang had been recruited to carry out the murder. However, despite an investigation at the time, the murder remained unsolved for almost 100 years. Now, newly discovered archive material from a range of sources, including the Muldoon family, has made it possible to piece together the circumstances surrounding the doctor's death, and reveals how far senior figures in the Church, State and IRA were willing to go to cover up a scandal.

Author : Stephen Lucius Gwynn
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547356233

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John Redmond's Last Years by Stephen Lucius Gwynn Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "John Redmond's Last Years" by Stephen Lucius Gwynn. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026871259

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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. With Life, Etc by Sir Walter Scott Pdf

Author : sir Walter Scott (bart.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600087461

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The poetical works of sir Walter Scott. With life. 8 engr. on steel by sir Walter Scott (bart.) Pdf

Author : Chris Dooley
Publisher : Gill Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 0717165825

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Redmond by Chris Dooley Pdf

This work charts the change in nationalist politics over the course of seven pivotal years in Irish history, from 1910 to 1917, providing a new and much-needed perspective on the events beyond the Easter Rising. Written in the present tense, it conveys the immediacy of the political drama of those tumultuous years. It looks especially at John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party and a politician left behind by the tide of history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Books
ISBN : IND:32000000490229

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