The Queen V Patrick O Donnell

Author : Seán Ó. Cuirreáin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1846829941

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The Queen V Patrick O'Donnell by Seán Ó. Cuirreáin Pdf

Patrick O'Donnell achieved the status of a national hero when he killed Ireland's most infamous informer James Carey on board a steamship off the coast of South Africa in 1883. Why did the quiet-spoken labourer from the Donegal Gaeltacht shoot the leading Fenian in the Phoenix Park murders? And why did the President of the United States of America and the French writer Victor Hugo plead that Patrick O'Donnell not be hanged for his crime? Drawing extensively on court transcripts, official records from archives in Ireland, Britain, South Africa and America and many other sources, The Queen -v- Patrick O'Donnell reveals for the first time the full story behind one of the most compelling murder stories in Irish history, a thrilling tale of violence, courtroom drama, romance and political intrigue. Containing evidence from British Home Office files kept secret for 100 years, this account reveals shocking new information about the fate of Patrick O'Donnell.

Author : George Meredith
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041945597

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Celt and Saxon by George Meredith Pdf

" Set in the beautiful landscape of Ireland with colourful and flowery language the author has presented a charming tale of love and romance. The characters are drawn with great precision and the culture and traditions of Ireland and Wales is reflected in these pages..."

Author : Julie Kavanagh
Publisher : Grove Atlantic
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780802149381

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The Irish Assassins by Julie Kavanagh Pdf

A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the “compulsively readable” writer (The Guardian). One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially made surgeon’s blades. They put an end to the new spirit of goodwill that had been burgeoning between British Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland’s leader Charles Stewart Parnell as the men forged a secret pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland—with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone’s protégé, to play an instrumental role in helping to do so. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes, and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair that caused Parnell’s downfall; to Queen Victoria’s prurient obsession with the assassinations; to the investigation spearheaded by Superintendent John Mallon, also known as the “Irish Sherlock Holmes,” culminating in the eventual betrayal and clandestine escape of leading Invincible James Carey and his murder on the high seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an Empire. Praise for Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev: The Life “Easily the best biography of the year.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “The definitive biography of ballet’s greatest star whose ego was as supersized as his talent.” —Tina Brown, award-winning journalist and author

Author : William Henry
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781856358460

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Coffin Ship by William Henry Pdf

The tragic tale of the sinking of the famine ship, the St. John in Massachusetts Bay in 1849. The Great Irish Famine drove huge numbers of Irish men and women to leave the island and pursue their survival in foreign lands. In 1847, some 200,000 people sailed for Boston alone. Of this massive group, 2,000 never made it to their destination, killed by disease and hunger during the voyages, their remains consigned to a watery grave. The sinking of the brig St. John off the coast of Massachusetts in October 1849, was only one of many tragic events to occur during this mass exodus. The ship had sailed from Galway, loaded with passengers so desperate to escape the effects of famine that some had walked from as far afield as Clare to reach the ship. The passengers on the St. John made it to within sight of the New World before their ship went down and they were abandoned by their captain, who denied that there had been any survivors when he and some of his crew made it ashore. For those who died in the seas off Massachusetts, there was nothing to mark their last resting place; no name, no memory of them ever having existed, just another statistic in a terrible tragedy.

Author : Patrick Radden Keefe
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780385543378

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Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be an FX limited series streaming on HULU • From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. "Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book—as finely paced as a novel—Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga." —New York Times Book Review Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence seared not only people like the McConville children, but also I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.

Author : Robert N. Munsch
Publisher : Willowdale, Ont. : Annick Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1550370715

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Giant, Or, Waiting for the Thursday Boat by Robert N. Munsch Pdf

The largest giant in all of Ireland gets mad at St. Patrick.

Author : Tony DiTerlizzi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781471104947

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The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi Pdf

Eva Nine was raised by the robot Muthr. But when a marauder destroys the underground sanctuary she called home, twelve-year-old Eva is forced to flee aboveground. Eva Nine is searching for anyone else like her. She knows that other humans exist because of a very special item she treasures ~ a scrap of cardboard on which is depicted a young girl, an adult, and a robot along with the strange word "WondLa". Tony DiTerlizzi honours traditional children's literature in this totally original space age adventure: one that is as complex as an alien planet, but as simple as a child's wish for a place to belong.

Author : Jim Herlihy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1846829607

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The Black & Tans, 1920-1921: A Short History and Biographical Dictionary by Jim Herlihy Pdf

From 6 January 1920 recruiting to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) was extended outside of Ireland to candidates with military experience to supplement the native Irish force, then depleted by massive resignations, suffering IRA attacks and widespread social exclusions. This new force was called the RIC Special Reserve. By July 1921 a total of 7,683 candidates recruited in Britain (381 Irish-born) had arrived in Ireland. From 3 September 1920 a second and separate group of 2,189 'Temporary Constables' (312 Irish-born) were recruited and attached to the newly-opened headquarters of the motorised division of the RIC at Gormanston Camp in Co. Meath. A third group known as the Veterans & Drivers Division attached to Gormanston Camp comprising of 1,069 (190 Irish-born) were recruited. Due to huge volume of recruits being immediately required and arriving in Ireland at such short notice, there was a shortage of complete regular 'rifle-green' RIC uniforms being available, they were fitted initially with ill-fitting khaki trousers and green tunics and vice-versa and collectively by March 1920 gained the title 'Black & Tans.' Even though the uniform situation was sorted by December 1920,

Author : Liam Mathuna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0901510769

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Eigse, 40 by Liam Mathuna Pdf

Eigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Many hitherto unpublished texts in prose and verse ranging from Old Irish down to the modern language and including items from oral narration have appeared in its pages. It regularly includes important contributions on grammar, lexicography, palaeography, metrics, and the history of the Irish language, as well as on a wide variety of Irish literary topics. There is a special emphasis on all aspects of the study of the language and literature of Modern Irish.

Author : Michael Patterson O'Donnell
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0766828662

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Health Promotion in the Workplace by Michael Patterson O'Donnell Pdf

Health Promotion in the Workplace is an ideal reference for managers and consultants involved in the developing and implementation of health promotion programs. Written from a scholarly perspective reflecting the full knowledge of science in the field, this comprehensive text recognizes the constraints of practical application facing businesses today. Topics covered include the importance of health promotion programs; the process of designing, managing and evaluating programs; the positive effects such programs can have on employees and the workplace; the physical and emotional services these programs can offer; and major issues, such as factors affecting older workers and retirees and the emerging global perspective, impacting the health promotion field. · Financial analysis of health promotion programs provide necessary justification needed to secure funding · Chapters provide review of subject area, a discussion and critique of the supporting research and guidelines on how to implement the research into practice · Includes in depth guidelines for evaluating health promotion programs · Also ideal text for students in undergraduate and graduate level health promotion programs

Author : Donald E. Pease
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822314924

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National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives by Donald E. Pease Pdf

National narratives create imaginary relations within imagined communities called national peoples. But in the American narrative, alongside the nexus of belonging established for the national community, the national narrative has represented other peoples (women, blacks, "foreigners", the homeless) from whom the property of nationness has been removed altogether and upon whose differences from them the national people depended for the construction of their norms. Dismantling this opposition has become the task of post-national (Post-Americanist) narratives, bent on changing the assumptions that found the "national identity." This volume, originally published as a special issue of bounrary 2, focuses on the process of assembling and dismantling the American national narrative(s), sketching its inception and demolition. The contributors examine various cultural, political, and historical sources--colonial literature, mass movements, epidemics of disease, mass spectacle, transnational corporations, super-weapons, popular magazines, literary texts--out of which this narrative was constructed, and propose different understandings of nationality and identity following in its wake. Contributors. Jonathan Arac, Lauren Berlant, Robert J. Corber, Elizabeth Freeman, Kathryn V. Lingberg, Jack Matthews, Alan Nadel, Patrick O'Donnell, Daniel O'Hara, Donald E. Pease, Ross Posnock, John Carlos Rowe, Rob Wilson

Author : James Quinn,Patrick Maume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Politicians
ISBN : 1908996854

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Ulster Political Lives, 1886-1921 by James Quinn,Patrick Maume Pdf

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Biographies -- List of abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index

Author : George E. Hopkins
Publisher : Nicholson
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Air pilots
ISBN : 0960970819

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Flying the Line by George E. Hopkins Pdf

Author : Arthur J. Hope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105030857812

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Notre Dame, One Hundred Years by Arthur J. Hope Pdf

Author : Albert Borowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : True Crime
ISBN : UOM:39015005370179

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The Woman who Murdered Black Satin by Albert Borowitz Pdf