John O' Dreams
Author : L. J. Dickinson
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Poetry, Modern
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Author : L. J. Dickinson
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Poetry, Modern
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 1896
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Author : Katharine Tynan
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 1916
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Author : Julian Sturgis
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 1878
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Author : Patrick Mannion
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 28,3 MB
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 077355405X
Wherever they settled, immigrants from Ireland and their descendants shaped and reshaped their understanding of being Irish in response to circumstances in both the old and new worlds. In A Land of Dreams, Patrick Mannion analyzes and compares the evolution of Irish identity in three communities on the prow of northeastern North America: St John’s, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Portland, Maine, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These three port cities, home to diverse Irish populations in different stages of development and in different national contexts, provide a fascinating setting for a study of intergenerational ethnicity. Mannion traces how Irishness could, at certain points, form the basis of a strong, cohesive identity among Catholics of Irish descent, while at other times it faded into the background. Although there was a consistent, often romantic gaze across the Atlantic to the old land, many of the organizations that helped mediate large-scale public engagement with the affairs of Ireland – especially Irish nationalist associations – spread from further west on the North American mainland. Irish ethnicity did not, therefore, develop in isolation, but rather as a result of a complex interplay of local, regional, national, and transnational networks. This volume shows that despite a growing generational distance, Ireland remained “a land of dreams” for many immigrants and their descendants. They were connected to a transnational Irish diaspora well into the twentieth century.
Author : Kerri Strug
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Gymnasts
ISBN : 9780836237085
Examines the determination and drive throughout her life which led Strug to secure the gold medal for the U.S. women's gymnastics team at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta despite performing her final vault with a badly injured ankle.
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Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,61 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Dreams
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Author : John Ames Mitchell
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Page : 770 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : Steven Duff
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Abolitionists
ISBN : 1553693116
Hunter of Dreams is the story of the so-called Underground Railroad, the escape route to Canada of American slaves in the 1850s and early '60s. The driving force behind Canadian involvement was Dr. Alexander Milton Ross of Belleville, Ontario, an extraordinary character, but one relatively unknown except to historians specializing in his era. Alexander Ross travelled in the Deep South, using his background in ornithology as a pretense at doing research. In reality, he was alerting slaves to the existence of the Underground Railroad and in the process, faced a number of dangerous situations. As well, he was involved on the fringes of John Brown's famous raid on Harpers Ferry. His work brought him to the attention of Abraham Lincoln, who commissioned him as a special agent to monitor the Confederate activities in Canada during the Civil War. Ross's work, declared Lincoln, shortened the Civil War by the better part of a year. Hunter of Dreamsreveals the story of the relatively unknown Alexander Ross, based on his own memoirs and contemporary magazine and newspaper articles; it is cast as a novel, told through James Ramsay, an imaginary friend of Dr. Ross's.
Author : Jane Rawson
Publisher : Brio Books Pty Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1922598615
In 1930s Adelaide, four women turn to witchcraft to undermine a new authoritarian government determined to enforce their marriage and virtual enslavement. In the 1930s in Adelaide, sisters Margaret and Esther Beasley and their friend Phyllis O’Donnell are learning to be witches. Their guide is Audrey Macquarie, a glamorous, Communist schoolmate who was taught the art of changing dreams by her suffragette great-aunt, Delia Maddingley. This subtle magic, known only to spinsters, has been passed from aunt to niece for generations. Now this group of young women are using it to power their own small revolution, undermining a system that wants them married, uneducated and at home.