Old Achill Island
Author : Hugh Oram
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Achill Island (Ireland)
ISBN : 9781840335965
Author : Hugh Oram
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Achill Island (Ireland)
ISBN : 9781840335965
Author : Mary J. Murphy
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 36,47 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Achill Island (Ireland)
ISBN : 9780956074935
Author : Theresa McDonald
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Patricia Byrne
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2012-04-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 184889953X
At Valley House on Achill Island in 1894, an English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home burnt. James Lynchehaun, her former land agent, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped twice and won a groundbreaking case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. . A Franciscan monk in Achill, Brother Paul Carney, who had befriended and assisted Lynchehaun, wrote up the fugitive's story, and Lynchehaun became a folk hero. John Millington Synge visited Mayo in 1904/1905 and decided to locate The Playboy of the Western World in north Mayo. Lynchehaun was one of Synge's inspirations for constructing the character of Christy Mahon. The crime, the trial and escapes, and the island tensions are unravelled in a gripping account.
Author : Jonathan Beaumont
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Achillbeg (Ireland).
ISBN : 9780853616313
Author : John F. Deane
Publisher : Currach Books
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781782188995
This special publication presents an in-depth awareness of Achill Ireland in Ireland, combining poems and paintings from two acknowledged masters in their individual arts.
Author : Martina Murphy
Publisher : Constable
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780349134963
Author : Victor Kennedy
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2017-08-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781546718802
'When I was close to Kathleen I felt I was near a Saint' Bro Conway.This quote comes from Christian Brother Anselm Conway who came to know orphaned Kathleen Kilbane in a TB sanatorium in Ballinrobe, Co Mayo in 1940's Ireland.Bro Conway wrote a remarkable account of the last fifteen months of her life which is published as 'No More Tears in My Eyes'. He records Kathleen's inspiring faith and kindness to others regardless of her own personal suffering. This account continues to touch the hearts of many today.This new book contains the findings of research into the lives of both Kathleen and Bro Conway. Research that has uncovered Kathleen's real birth date and includes Kathleen's moving obituary written by Bro Conway, a forerunner to his later account. An in-depth and uplifting biography of Bro Conway is included. The book also reveals accounts of how Kathleen continues to influence people's lives today. This includes healings and other manifestations of alleged miraculous events attributed to Kathleen's intercession.
Author : Kevin Toolis
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0306921456
An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death Death is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice. Each day, along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio runs a daily roll call of the recently departed. The islanders go in great numbers, young and old alike, to be with their dead. They keep vigil with the corpse and the bereaved company through the long hours of the night. They dig the grave with their own hands and carry the coffin on their own shoulders. The islanders cherish the dead--and amid the sorrow, they celebrate life, too. In My Father's Wake, acclaimed author and award-winning filmmaker Kevin Toolis unforgettably describes his own father's wake and explores the wider history and significance of this ancient and eternal Irish ritual. Perhaps we, too, can all find a better way to deal with our mortality -- by living and loving as the Irish do.
Author : John Breslin
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1785374133