This Day In Irish History
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Author | : Padraic Coffey |
Publisher | : The O'Brien Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2021-09-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788493117 |
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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 | : Thomas Cahill |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2010-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307755134 |
Download How the Irish Saved Civilization Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
Author | : Theodore William Moody |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 9781856357555 |
Download The Course of Irish History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The classic general history of Ireland covering the economic, social and political development of Ireland from the prehistoric times to the present. This new updated edition brings us up to 2011.
Author | : Colin Murphy |
Publisher | : Feckin' Collection |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Ireland |
ISBN | : 9781847170699 |
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Forget the boring stuff you learned in school. Here's the REAL skinny on Irish history.
Author | : Mark Williams |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1843835738 |
Download Constructing the Past Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Discusses the reactions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers of Irish history to the unprecedented turbulence of the age.
Author | : D. George Boyce |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2006-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134807627 |
Download The Making of Modern Irish History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume brings together distinguished historians of Ireland, each of whom tackles a key question, issue or event in Irish history since the eighteenth century and: * examines its historiography * assesses the context of new interpretations * considers the strengths and weaknesses of revisionist ideas * offers their own interpretation. Topics covered are not only of historical interest but, in the context of recent revisionist debates, of contemporary political significance. These original contributions take account of new evidence and perspectives, as well as up-to-date historical methodology. Their combination of synthesis and analysis represent a valuable guide to the present state of the writing of modern Irish history.
Author | : John Gibney |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299289532 |
Download The Shadow of a Year Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In October 1641 a rebellion broke out in Ireland. Dispossessed Irish Catholics rose up against British Protestant settlers whom they held responsible for their plight. This uprising, the first significant sectarian rebellion in Irish history, gave rise to a decade of war that would culminate in the brutal re-conquest of Ireland by Oliver Cromwell. It also set in motion one of the most enduring and acrimonious debates in Irish history. Was the 1641 rebellion a justified response to dispossession and repression? Or was it an unprovoked attempt at sectarian genocide? John Gibney comprehensively examines three centuries of this debate. The struggle to establish and interpret the facts of the past was also a struggle over the present: if Protestants had been slaughtered by vicious Catholics, this provided an ideal justification for maintaining Protestant privilege. If, on the other hand, Protestant propaganda had inflated a few deaths into a vast and brutal “massacre,” this justification was groundless. Gibney shows how politicians, historians, and polemicists have represented (and misrepresented) 1641 over the centuries, making a sectarian understanding of Irish history the dominant paradigm in the consciousness of the Irish Protestant and Catholic communities alike.
Author | : Peter Berresford Ellis |
Publisher | : Wiley (TP) |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download Eyewitness to Irish History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
At the same time, you'll find vivid portraits of everyday life in Ireland throughout the centuries as chronicled in everything from St. Patrick's confessions to heartrending accounts of the famine of 1848 to the letters, diaries, and memoirs of a vast and multifarious array of authors."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : James S. Donnelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780028659022 |
Download Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
'The Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture' spans prehistoric times to the present, and treats both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in detail. Entries represent an inclusive, cross-disciplinary approach, written by specialists in history,
Author | : Louis Da Paor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Calendars |
ISBN | : 9781580081023 |
Download An Illuminated Celtic Book of Days Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book of days features the illuminated poetry and prose of the Celts. Each new month brings another ancient Celtic symbol, with an explanation of its importance for the days to come.