Weird Ireland

Author : John Scally
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781785304095

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101 Funny Irish Rugby Moments by John Scally Pdf

Irish rugby's most hilarious and outrageous moments 101 Funny Irish Rugby Moments is a collection of priceless anecdotes from the field, with interviews from Moss Keane, Mick Galwey, Peter Clohessy and plenty more, plus a foreword by the legendary Tony Ward. From Lansdowne Road to Thomond Park, from Connacht to Ulster and Leeside to the Lions, these are some of the most unexpected tales of Irish rugby legends, like when . . . - BRIAN O'DRISCOLL HOSTED A BOND GIRL - PAUL O'CONNELL MET PRINCE WILLIAM - RORY BEST TURNED INTO SLEEPING BEAUTY - AND JAMES LOWE MADE A STRANGE REQUEST OF THE GARDAÍ This book offers a unique glimpse into the funniest moments that have happened on and off the pitch with some of rugby's greatest characters.

Author : Eamonn Jordan,Eric Weitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137585882

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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre and Performance by Eamonn Jordan,Eric Weitz Pdf

This Handbook offers a multiform sweep of theoretical, historical, practical and personal glimpses into a landscape roughly characterised as contemporary Irish theatre and performance. Bringing together a spectrum of voices and sensibilities in each of its four sections — Histories, Close-ups, Interfaces, and Reflections — it casts its gaze back across the past sixty years or so to recall, analyse, and assess the recent legacy of theatre and performance on this island. While offering information, overviews and reflections of current thought across its chapters, this book will serve most handily as food for thought and a springboard for curiosity. Offering something different in its mix of themes and perspectives, so that previously unexamined surfaces might come to light individually and in conjunction with other essays, it is a wide-ranging and indispensable resource in Irish theatre studies.

Author : Mary L. Mulvihill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0684020947

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Ingenious Ireland by Mary L. Mulvihill Pdf

Ingenious Ireland takes readers on a magnificent tour of the country's natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic sites. Richly illustrated and meticulously compiled, Ingenious Ireland introduces readers to the complete history, culture, and landscape of all thirty-two Irish counties. Mary Mulvihill unearths Ireland's treasures and divulges her secrets, such as the oldest fossil footprints in the Northern hemisphere, the advent of railways, the invention of milk of magnesia, and why the shamrock is a sham. Fascinating and comprehensive, Ingenious Ireland unravels the mysteries and marvels of this remarkable country.

Author : Standish O'Grady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UOM:39015066410435

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History of Ireland by Standish O'Grady Pdf

Author : Jack Fennell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789620344

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Rough Beasts by Jack Fennell Pdf

Monsters and other supernatural malefactors disrupt the human world in distinct ways: werewolves and cunning beasts challenge the philosophical distinction between human and animal; demons offer deceptive pacts to prey upon our delusions of mastery over the world; capricious fairies claim dominion over the landscape and exact disproportionate revenge for our intrusions. When a monster appears, human history must halt until it departs. Irish history, meanwhile, has been punctured by dramatic ruptures, such as the Great Famine of 1845 to 1849. Monstrous imagery flourishes in these ruptures, so it is hardly surprising that Irish literature boasts a great many rough beasts and ravenous corpses. In this book, various monsters from Irish literature are considered in different historical contexts, to illustrate the role of horror and monstrosity in Ireland's history and culture. In both English- and Irish-language texts, from the Act of Union to the death of the Celtic Tiger, hordes of night-creatures arise in times of crisis, embodying chaos and absurdity. Building upon the critical framework established in Irish Science Fiction (2014), this study looks at the specific ways in which ghosts, malevolent magicians, shape-shifters, cryptids and the corporeal undead oppose human agency by 'breaking history'.

Author : Catherine O'Flynn
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385668958

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The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn Pdf

A heartbreaking, yet hilarious, novel from the author of the best-selling, prize-winning What Was Lost. The News Where You Are tells the funny, touching story of Frank, a local TV news presenter in England. Beneath his awkwardly corny screen persona, Frank is haunted by disappearances: the mysterious hit-and-run that killed his predecessor Phil Smethway; the demolition of his father's post-war brutalist architecture; and the unmarked passing of those who die alone in the city. Frank struggles to make sense of these absences whilst having to report endless local news stories and trying to cope with his resolutely miserable mother. The result is that rare thing: a page-turning novel that asks the big questions in an accessible way, and is laugh-out-loud funny, genuinely moving and ultimately uplifting.

Author : Christopher Dowd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351767361

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The Irish and the Origins of American Popular Culture by Christopher Dowd Pdf

This book focuses on the intersection between the assimilation of the Irish into American life and the emergence of an American popular culture, which took place at the same historical moment in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this period, the Irish in America underwent a period of radical change. Initially existing as a marginalized, urban-dwelling, immigrant community largely comprised of survivors of the Great Famine and those escaping its aftermath, Irish Americans became an increasingly assimilated group with new social, political, economic, and cultural opportunities open to them. Within just a few generations, Irish-American life transformed so significantly that grandchildren hardly recognized the world in which their grandparents had lived. This pivotal period of transformation for Irish Americans was heavily shaped and influenced by emerging popular culture, and in turn, the Irish-American experience helped shape the foundations of American popular culture in such a way that the effects are still noticeable today. Dowd investigates the primary segments of early American popular culture—circuses, stage shows, professional sports, pulp fiction, celebrity culture, and comic strips—and uncovers the entanglements these segments had with the development of Irish-American identity.

Author : lady Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1SFZ

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Ancient Legends,mystic Charms,and Superstitions of Ireland by lady Jane Francesca Elgee Wilde Pdf

Author : Jane Francesca Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103876533

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Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland by Jane Francesca Wilde Pdf

Author : Lady Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486120768

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Legends, Charms and Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Wilde Pdf

Nowhere in the nineteenth century did interest in folklore and mythology have a more thorough revival than in Ireland. There, in 1887, Lady Francesca Speranza Wilde, Oscar Wilde's mother and a well-known author in her own right, compiled this collection of charming, authentic folk tales. Collected from among the peasantry and retaining their original simplicity, the myths and legends reveal delightfully the Irish people's relationship with a spiritual and invisible world populated by fairies, elves, and evil beings. Included in Lady Wilde's collection, among others, are eerie tales of "The Horned Women," "The Holy Well and the Murderer," and "The Bride's Death-Song," as well as beguiling accounts of superstitions concerning the dead, celebrations and rites, animal legends, and ancient charms. The first book to link Irish folklore with nationalism, Legends illustrates the mythic underpinnings of the Irish character and signals the country's cultural reemergence. It remains, said the Evening Mail, "an important contribution to the literature of Ireland and the world's stock of folklore."

Author : Earl G. Ingersoll,Mary C. Ingersoll
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496812957

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Conversations with Colum McCann by Earl G. Ingersoll,Mary C. Ingersoll Pdf

Conversations with Colum McCann brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a new and unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent the development as well as the continuation of McCann's interests. The number and length of the later conversations attest to his star-power. Let the Great World Spin earned him the National Book Award and promises to become a major motion picture. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, has awed readers with its dynamic yoking of the 1845-1846 visit of Frederick Douglass to Ireland, the 1919 first nonstop transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, and Senator George Mitchell's 1998 efforts to achieve a peace accord in Northern Ireland. An extensive interview by scholar Cecile Maudet is included here, as is an interview by John Cusatis, who wrote Understanding Colum McCann, the first extensive critical analysis of McCann's work. An author who actually enjoys talking about his work, McCann (b. 1965) offers insights into his method of writing, what he hopes to achieve, as well as the challenge of writing each novel to go beyond his accomplishments in the novel before. Readers will note how many of his responses include stories in which he himself is the object of the humor and how often his remarks reveal insights into his character as a man who sees the grittiness of the urban landscape but never loses faith in the strength of ordinary people and their capacity to prevail.

Author : Julie Nash
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754651754

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New Essays on Maria Edgeworth by Julie Nash Pdf

Devoted to the varied writings of the influential novelist, children's author, and educator, this collection combines postcolonial, historical, and gender criticism to offer fresh readings of Edgeworth's novels, stories, letters, and educational texts. The collection will be invaluable to established scholars working in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, women's studies, and children's literature, as well as to students encountering Edgeworth for the first time.

Author : M. Mianowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780230360297

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Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts by M. Mianowski Pdf

Looking at representations of the Irish landscape in contemporary literature and the arts, this volume discusses the economic, political and environmental issues associated with it, questioning the myths behind Ireland's landscape, from the first Greek descriptions to present day post Celtic-Tiger architecture.

Author : David A. J. Seargent
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461430698

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Weird Weather by David A. J. Seargent Pdf

This book is, in a sense, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer book Weird Astronomy (2010). Whereas Weird Astronomy extended over a broad range of purely astronomical topics, the present work concentrates on phenomena closer to home; the atmospheric and "shallow space" events as opposed to deep space events. The line between astronomy and meteorology is blurred - a fact that is discussed in Weird Weather. It is not primarily a book of "wonders" or of the unexplained, although some of the topics covered remain mysteries. It is primarily directed toward those who are fascinated by climate and weather, and who are open-minded when considering Earth's climate, what drives it, and what are the causes of climate change. The author, David A. J. Seargent, presents the facts with a balanced and scientific approach. Weird Weather: Tales of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies is about strange, unusual, and apparently inexplicable observations of the air and sky. Primarily these are in the Earth's atmosphere, but there are corresponding phenomena in the atmospheres of other planets of the Solar System - lightning on Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, whirlwinds and dust storms of Mars, and auroras on Jupiter. Topics include anomalous lights, anomalous sounds, spectacular effects of cloud illumination by the Sun or Moon, lightning phenomena, electrophonic sounds of lightning, aurora and meteors, tornado and whirlwind phenomena on Earth and Mars, usual atmospheric effects, mirages, and the possible astronomical influences on cloud and climate.

Author : Lonely Planet,Fionn Davenport,Catherine Le Nevez,Isabel Albiston
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 765 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781787010246

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Lonely Planet Ireland's Best Trips by Lonely Planet,Fionn Davenport,Catherine Le Nevez,Isabel Albiston Pdf

Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet's Ireland's Best Trips, your up-to-date advice on encountering Ireland by car. Featuring 34 amazing road trips, from 2-day escapes to 2-week adventures, you can explore the brooding loneliness of Connemara and the exquisite peninsulas of the southwest, all with your trusted travel companion.