Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry
Title | Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry PDF eBook |
Author | William Carleton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 382 |
Release | 1836 |
Genre | Ireland |
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Title | Irish Fairy and Folk Tales PDF eBook |
Author | William Butler Yeats |
Publisher | |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Contes de fées |
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A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore
Title | A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Booss |
Publisher | Gramercy |
Pages | 776 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Introduce yourself to the noble heroes and magical creatures of Irish mythology. Includes the two definitive works on the subject by the giants of the Irish Renaissance. W.B. Yeates' Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry and Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne.
Stories of the Irish Peasantry
Title | Stories of the Irish Peasantry PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Maria Hall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1850 |
Genre | Ireland |
ISBN |
Views of the Irish Peasantry, 1800-1916
Title | Views of the Irish Peasantry, 1800-1916 PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel J. Casey |
Publisher | Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
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The Graves Are Walking
Title | The Graves Are Walking PDF eBook |
Author | John Kelly |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2012-08-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0805095632 |
“Though the story of the potato famine has been told before, it’s never been as thoroughly reported or as hauntingly told.” —New York Post It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century—it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and The Graves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that Britain’s nation-building policies played in exacerbating the devastation by attempting to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Religious dogma, anti-relief sentiment, and racial and political ideology combined to result in an almost inconceivable disaster of human suffering. This is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of revival. Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine’s causes and consequences. “Magisterial . . . Kelly brings the horror vividly and importantly back to life with his meticulous research and muscular writing. The result is terrifying, edifying and empathetic.” —USA Today
Meeting the Other Crowd
Title | Meeting the Other Crowd PDF eBook |
Author | Eddie Lenihan |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2004-02-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101167335 |
"The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect the world we live in and the forces we cannot see. In these tales of fairy forts, fairy trees, ancient histories, and modern true-life encounters with The Other Crowd, Eddie Lenihan opens our eyes to this invisible world with the passion and bluntness of a seanchai, a true Irish storyteller.