Traveller S History Of Ireland

Author : Peter Neville
Publisher : Interlink Publishing Group
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004105336

Get Book

A Traveller's History of Ireland by Peter Neville Pdf

The Traveller's History series is designed for travellers who want more historical background on the country they are visiting than can be found in a tour guide. Each volume offers a complete and authoritative history of the country from the earliest times up to the present day. A Gazetteer cross-referenced to the main text pinpoints the historical importance of signs and towns. Illustrated with maps and line drawings, this literate and lively series makes ideal before-you-go reading, and is just as handy tucked into suitcase or backpack. Each volume includes: -- Historical Maps -- Line Drawings -- A-Z Gazetteer -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Chronology of Major Events -- List of Monarchs and Heads of State.

Author : Peter Neville
Publisher : Cassell
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : 0304362433

Get Book

A Traveller's History of Ireland by Peter Neville Pdf

'This book will be appreciated by visitors who want more historical background than ordinary series guidebooks supply...Highly recommended...' LIBRARY JOURNAL 'For independent, inquisitive travellers traversing the green roads of Ireland, there is no better guide than A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF IRELAND.' SMALL PRESS Constantly in the news, there are few countries where the background history is so vital to an understanding of its people and culture. A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF IRELAND not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the nation's development right up to the present day but also provides an invaluable introduction to this land of poets, saints, eloquent politicians, illustrious soldiers and inspiring rebels. Political, social and industrial history and economics are also well covered. The book includes a comprehensive description of modern Ireland, both North and South, and of its two separate Catholic Nationalist and Protestant Unionist traditions. There is a Historical Gazetteer cross referenced to the main text and particular attention is paid to the classic historical sites, which feature on any visitor's itinerary.

Author : Peter Neville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 1905214693

Get Book

Traveller's History of Ireland by Peter Neville Pdf

A splendid guidebook to Irelandís spectacular antiquitiesóits passage tombs, ring forts, castles, Neolithic settlements, and monastic sites. With its witty and erudite explorations of Irish mythology, history, literature, archaeology, and architecture, this travel book makes for an excellent companion on a journey to Ireland that is also a journey back in time. Along with fascinating overviews of prehistoric, Celtic, early Christian, and early medieval times, Meagher gives the traveler concrete help in finding the most stunning sites that preserve and breathe that history today (some are surprisingly unknown). After the dayís exploring is done, readers can consult the same volume to find where to stay and eatÖ or entertaining bed-time reading in Meagherís lore about these ancient sites. In Ancient Ireland, Meagher brings both his passionate scholarship and knowledge of the country and its history to a guide that is at once personal, humorous, engaging, scholarly, and still minutely practical.

Author : Christopher J. Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1846821312

Get Book

Travellers' Accounts as Source-material for Irish Historians by Christopher J. Woods Pdf

"This book is intended as an aid to Irish historians on the use of traveller's accounts as source-material. It consists of a discursive introduction, annotations of over 200 accounts from the years 1635-1948, a select bibliography and indexes of travellers and places. The annotations consist of the usual bibliographical details, identification of the traveller, the purpose and period of his or her travel, the exact itinerary followed, his or her mode of transport, the traveller's observations, and persons encountered. Whereas those who have published on Irish travel writing in recent years have generally seen it as another literary genre suitable for development of concepts of literary scholarship (image, identity, influences, etc.). C. J. Woods sees travel narratives as an important primary source of information - on transport, landscape, the economy, society, religion etc. This guide is invaluable to Irish local historians as a means of identifying those accounts that refer to the dark places in which they are interested." --Book Jacket.

Author : Sharon Bohn Gmelch,George Gmelch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253014610

Get Book

Irish Travellers by Sharon Bohn Gmelch,George Gmelch Pdf

Anthropologists George and Sharon Gmelch have been studying the quasi-nomadic people known as Travellers since their fieldwork in the early 1970s, when they lived among Travellers and went on the road in their own horse-drawn wagon. In 2011 they returned to seek out families they had known decades before—shadowed by a film crew and taking with them hundreds of old photographs showing the Travellers' former way of life. Many of these images are included in this book, alongside more recent photos and compelling personal narratives that reveal how Traveller lives have changed now that they have left nomadism behind.

Author : Jane Leslie Helleiner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802086284

Get Book

Irish Travellers by Jane Leslie Helleiner Pdf

Helleiner's study documents anti-Traveller racism in Ireland and explores the ongoing realities of Traveller life as well as the production and reproduction of contemporary Traveller collective identity and culture.

Author : Mícheál Ó hAodha
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0719083044

Get Book

Insubordinate Irish by Mícheál Ó hAodha Pdf

This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travelers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Ireland's collective imagination. A particular focus of the book is on the exploration of the Traveler as "Other," an "Other" who is perceived as both inside and outside Ireland's collective ideation. Frequently constructed as a group whose cultural tenets are in a dichotomous opposition to that of the "settled" community, this book demonstrates the ambivalence and complexity of the Irish Traveler "Other" in the context of a European postcolonial country. Not only has the construction and representation of Travelers always been less stable and "fixed" than previously supposed, these images have been acted upon and changed by both the Traveler and non-Traveler communities as the situation has demanded. Drawing primarily on little-explored Irish language sources, this volume demonstrates the fluidity of what is often assumed as reified or "fixed." As evidenced in Irish-language cultural sources the image of the Traveler is inextricably linked with the very concept of Irish identity itself. They are simultaneously the same and "Other" and frequently function as exemplars of the hegemony of native Irish culture as set against colonial traditions. This book is an important addition to the Irish Studies canon, in particular as relating to those exciting and unexplored terrains hitherto deemed "marginal" - Traveler Studies, Romani Studies, and Diaspora/Migration Studies to name but a few.

Author : Jim Mac Laughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000056856077

Get Book

Travellers and Ireland by Jim Mac Laughlin Pdf

Author : Mary Burke
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199566464

Get Book

'Tinkers' by Mary Burke Pdf

Irish playwright J.M. Synge created influential but misunderstood representations of travellers or 'tinkers'. This work traces the history of the 'tinker' back to medieval Irish historiography and English Renaissance literature and forward to contemporary US screen depictions.

Author : Mike Carroll
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1721882545

Get Book

Irish Travellers by Mike Carroll Pdf

This book contains historical accounts of the Irish American Travellers as seen through their eyes and the eyes of their ancestors. It is a glimpse into a people that have isolated themselves from conventional America. It uses facts and reality to discredit lies and propaganda. If you are ready for the truth, open your mind, and turn the page.

Author : Ciara Breathnach,Aoife Breathnach
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89094636651

Get Book

Portraying Irish Travellers by Ciara Breathnach,Aoife Breathnach Pdf

This edited volume offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the history of Irish Travellers. Scholars from anthropology, history, literary studies and socio-linguistics explore the methodological problems that arise when a marginalised minority is portrayed by an established and powerful majority population. Each chapter addresses how different sources illuminate settled and Traveller history alike. With new research and perspectives from a number of disciplines, Irish Travellers: Histories and Representations is a welcome consideration of a neglected aspect of Irish society; the relationship between Irish Travellers and the majority, settled population. Although Irish Travellers are a conspicuous minority in contemporary Irish society, their past existence is often ignored. The contributors to this volume demonstrate a range of sources and approaches that prove Travellers deserve a place in the narrative of Ireland. This book will appeal to scholars interested in majority-minority relations generally, and the example of Ireland in particular.

Author : May McCann,Séamas Ó Síocháin,Joseph Ruane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000039081132

Get Book

Irish Travellers by May McCann,Séamas Ó Síocháin,Joseph Ruane Pdf

This book addresses the culture, history, ethnicity, language and nomadism of the Irish Travellers, who may be compared to the Gypsies of other nations.

Author : Cary Meehan
Publisher : Gothic Image Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0906362431

Get Book

The Traveller's Guide to Sacred Ireland by Cary Meehan Pdf

This amazing book is well-researched, with years of research of historical and archaeological detail, legends and folklore, and current information on earth energies for each site. Before the author's rediscoveries, most of the vast number of ancient sites were unknown or almost forgotten except by locals.

Author : Jim Mac Laughlin
Publisher : ISBS
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Irish Travellers (Nomadic people)
ISBN : 1859180906

Get Book

Travellers and Ireland by Jim Mac Laughlin Pdf

Author : Alen MacWeeney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000061016200

Get Book

Irish Travellers, Tinkers No More by Alen MacWeeney Pdf

The slow passing of an itinerant culture in Ireland