Voices From The Grave

Author : Ed Moloney
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781586489335

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Voices from the Grave by Ed Moloney Pdf

The dawning of peace in Northern Ireland has not brought with it much truth about what happened during ‘the long war'. Very few of the paramilitary leaders on either side have ever spoken candidly about their role in that bloody conflict. But here, in a dramatic break with the unwritten laws of paramilitary omertà, two leading figures from opposing sides reveal their involvement in bombings, shootings and killings and speak frankly about how differently their wars came to an end. Brendan Hughes was a legend in the Republican movement. An ‘operator', a gun-runner and mastermind of some of the most savage IRA violence of the Troubles, he was a friend and close ally of Gerry Adams and was by his side during the most brutal years of the conflict. David Ervine was the most substantial political figure to emerge from the world of Loyalist paramilitaries. A former Ulster Volunteer Force bomber and confidante of its long-time leader Gusty Spence, Ervine helped steer Loyalism's gunmen towards peace, persuading the UVF's leaders to target IRA and Sinn Fein activists and push them down the road to a ceasefire. In extensive interviews given to researchers from Boston College on condition that their stories be kept secret until after their deaths, these men spoke with astonishing openness about their turbulent, violent lives. Now their stories have been woven into a vivid narrative which provides compelling insight into a secret world and events long hidden from history. Voices from the Grave is the inaugural publication. of the Boston College IRA/UVF Oral History Project of which Professor Thomas E. Hachey and Dr Robert O'Neill are the General Editors.

Author : Arnaldur Indridason
Publisher : Random House
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407020952

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Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason Pdf

Building work in an expanding Reykjavík uncovers a shallow grave. Years before, this part of the city was all open hills, and Erlendur and his team hope this is a typical Icelandic missing person scenario; perhaps someone once lost in the snow, who has lain peacefully buried for decades. Things are never that simple. Whilst Erlendur struggles to hold together the crumbling fragments of his own family, his case unearths many other tales of family pain. The hills have more than one tragic story to tell: tales of failed relationships and heartbreak; of anger, domestic violence and fear; of family loyalty and family shame. Few people are still alive who can tell the story, but even secrets taken to the grave cannot remain hidden forever... Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger.

Author : Jessica Mann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025986006

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The Voice from the Grave by Jessica Mann Pdf

A woman called Lesley Cameron has left everything she owns to a complete stranger, the psychiatrist Dr Fidelis Berlin - but why? And what did Ms Cameron have to do with Murdo, now a high court judge, who is the son of Fidelis's oldest friend and mentor? Investigating the mysterious legacy, Fidelis finds herself questioning not only Lesley's life and violent death, but also her own emotions as she slowly comes to terms with illness and mortality.

Author : Jeaniene Frost
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061736490

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One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost Pdf

You can run from the grave, but you can't hide . . . Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She's still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind. Being around him awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline kick of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion that consumed them. But a price on her head—wanted: dead or half-alive—means her survival depends on teaming up with Bones. And no matter how hard she tries to keep things professional between them, she'll find that desire lasts forever . . . and that Bones won't let her get away again.

Author : Richard Meyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992-11
Category : History
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJ44J

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Cemeteries Gravemarkers by Richard Meyer Pdf

Cemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large.

Author : Damien Graves
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0545010357

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Voices by Damien Graves Pdf

Kate hears voices in her head that reveals a terrifying future; Justin fears for his life when his sneakers begin chasing him; and, Tim wants an apple from his neighbor's perfect orchard--no matter what the cost.

Author : Chii Ughanze-Onyeagocha
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781453583548

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Barack Obama: Voices from the Grave by Chii Ughanze-Onyeagocha Pdf

"Why is obama chosen for this journey? Why is america chosen for this journey? Author, Chii Ughanze-Onyeagocha opens your mind to the answers to these questions as "HE" UNVEILS THAT AFRICA IS INDEED A LAND OF MYSTERIES."

Author : Fintan O'Toole
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631496547

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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O'Toole Pdf

“[L]ike reading a great tragicomic Irish novel.” —James Wood, The New Yorker “Masterful . . . astonishing.” —Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic "A landmark history . . . Leavened by the brilliance of O'Toole's insights and wit.” —Claire Messud, Harper’s Winner • 2021 An Post Irish Book Award — Nonfiction Book of the Year • from the judges: “The most remarkable Irish nonfiction book I’ve read in the last 10 years”; “[A] book for the ages.” A celebrated Irish writer’s magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. Fintan O’Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish government—in despair, because all the young people were leaving—opened the country to foreign investment and popular culture. So began a decades-long, ongoing experiment with Irish national identity. In We Don’t Know Ourselves, O’Toole, one of the Anglophone world’s most consummate stylists, weaves his own experiences into Irish social, cultural, and economic change, showing how Ireland, in just one lifetime, has gone from a reactionary “backwater” to an almost totally open society—perhaps the most astonishing national transformation in modern history. Born to a working-class family in the Dublin suburbs, O’Toole served as an altar boy and attended a Christian Brothers school, much as his forebears did. He was enthralled by American Westerns suddenly appearing on Irish television, which were not that far from his own experience, given that Ireland’s main export was beef and it was still not unknown for herds of cattle to clatter down Dublin’s streets. Yet the Westerns were a sign of what was to come. O’Toole narrates the once unthinkable collapse of the all-powerful Catholic Church, brought down by scandal and by the activism of ordinary Irish, women in particular. He relates the horrific violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, which led most Irish to reject violent nationalism. In O’Toole’s telling, America became a lodestar, from John F. Kennedy’s 1963 visit, when the soon-to-be martyred American president was welcomed as a native son, to the emergence of the Irish technology sector in the late 1990s, driven by American corporations, which set Ireland on the path toward particular disaster during the 2008 financial crisis. A remarkably compassionate yet exacting observer, O’Toole in coruscating prose captures the peculiar Irish habit of “deliberate unknowing,” which allowed myths of national greatness to persist even as the foundations were crumbling. Forty years in the making, We Don’t Know Ourselves is a landmark work, a memoir and a national history that ultimately reveals how the two modes are entwined for all of us.

Author : Aiye-ko ooto
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780359110582

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Sleight of Hands by Aiye-ko ooto Pdf

The game lovers play, is a sport of muses - like pearl on strings they dance. As magician's sleight of hands, of smokes and mirrors. AiyeKo-ooto follows the illusions,50 poems, compiled in eerie moments. Every fight and kisses to make up. Would you be surprised, if words said in jest are wrongly perceived? The concept of time is judged by both; on a "diverge by the senses". The absence of one; leaves the other "false ideas" of what to do. Yet, emotions which fuel lovers; are drilled from deep murky ponds, of "figment of imagination". Things are fuzzy in their world of fantasy. When circumstances "zigzag-stripes", rattling their notions of unity, you'll be surprised what comes out at seams. The game of lovers is afoot once again! AiyeKo-ooto knits all together, in five thread-needle movements and no thimble. Their mirage, hallucinations, apparitions, appearance, impressions, true and erroneous beliefs. In the Sleight of hands anthology, we ask; are these emotions real or likely to be misinterpreted?

Author : Robert White
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785371158

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Out of the Ashes by Robert White Pdf

Out of the Ashes is the definitive history of the Provisional Irish Republican movement, from its formation at the outset of the modern Troubles up to and after its official disarmament in 2005. Robert White, a prolific observer of IRA and Sinn Féin activities, has amassed an incomparable body of interview material from leading members over a thirty-year period. In this defining study, the interviewees provide extraordinary insights into the complex motivations that provoked their support for armed struggle, their eventual reform, and the mind-set of today’s ‘dissidents’ who refuse to lay down their arms. Those interviewed stem from every stage of the Provisionals’ history, from founding figures such as Seán Mac Stiofáin, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh and Joe Cahill to the new generation that replaced them: Martin McGuinness, Danny Morrison, and Brendan Hughes among others. Out of the Ashes is a pioneering history that breaks new ground in defining how the Provisionals operated, caused worldwide condemnation, and were transformed by constitutional politics.

Author : Jeffrey W Lewis
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781612510972

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The Business of Martyrdom by Jeffrey W Lewis Pdf

The Business of Martyrdom is the only comprehensive history of suicide bombing from its origins in Imperial Russia to the present day. It makes use of a framework from the history and philosophy of technology to explain the diffusion and evolution of suicide bombing over the past several decades. It is primarily a work of synthesis meant to reach a broad audience and endeavors to integrate as much of the recent scholarly literature as possible, including reconciling explanatory mechanisms that seem to be at odds with one another. In addition, this book is able to draw on very recent changes in suicide bombing in the years 2008-2010 that allow it to have a slightly different perspective than earlier studies. For the first time the global number of suicide attacks has declined significantly for three years in a row. This book therefore has the advantage of addressing the phenomenon of suicide bombing as a bounded phenomenon with limits to its growth and diffusion. To this point the impression that suicide bombers are the smartest bombs yet created has been widespread but confined to the area of metaphor. Drawing well-established ideas from the history of technology, The Business of Martyrdom argues that the metaphor should be taken literally. Suicide bombing is a technology that has been invented and re-invented at different times in different areas but always for the same purpose: resolving a mismatch in military capabilities between antagonists by utilizing the available cultural and human resources. Over the past several years, analysts have produced a large number of monographs and articles examining suicide bombing. The best contributions in this new and growing literature have shed considerable light on the complexity of suicide bombing in practice, particularly regarding the structure of the organizations that deploy suicide bombers and the relationships between these organizations and the recruits whom they utilize in their attacks. Nevertheless, nagging inconsistencies and questions remain. These inconsistencies can be explained by examining suicide bombing as a technological system that integrates human beings, cultures, and devices and directs them toward specific ends. Such an analysis requires that neither the individual bombers nor their sponsoring organizations be the basic unit of discussion. Instead, the bombers must be understood as components within a much larger system that has been shaped by a host of social, cultural, and operational constraints throughout its existence. Integrating insights from the historical analysis of other technological systems with the recent literature specifically devoted to suicide bombing therefore allows The Business of Martyrdom to develop a fuller understanding of suicide bombing as a unified yet diverse phenomenon.

Author : William Holmes McGuffey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Elocution
ISBN : NYPL:33433069246316

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McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide by William Holmes McGuffey Pdf

Author : William Holmes McGuffey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Readers
ISBN : NYPL:33433069246308

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McGuffey's Rhetorical Guide, Or, Fifth Reader of the Eclectic Series by William Holmes McGuffey Pdf

Author : William Holmes McGuffey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Readers
ISBN : IND:30000035071509

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...McGuffey's New First[-sixth] Eclectic Reader ... by William Holmes McGuffey Pdf

Author : William Holmes McGuffey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Elocution
ISBN : UOM:39015061869759

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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey Pdf