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A horror/military scifi-themed collection of short stories, centred around an unsanctioned dwarven laboratory off the coast of Ireland and two teenagers coming to terms with being experimented upon. Updated with new artwork.
Author : Philip Rowlands
Publisher : Philip Rowlands
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A horror/military scifi-themed collection of short stories, centred around an unsanctioned dwarven laboratory off the coast of Ireland and two teenagers coming to terms with being experimented upon. Updated with new artwork.
Author : Philip Rowlands
Publisher : Philip Rowlands
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2023-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Ever since the Dwarven Homelands in Connacht were sealed off in the mid 19th Century, the Fomorians or orcs who appeared in their absence have been seen as lumbering, witless monsters. Now, six Fomorians from different backgrounds give their viewpoints on it. Some were born as Fomorians. Others were not. ------------ Original published as blog posts on my own site.
Author : David Walsh
Publisher : Pesda Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780953195695
A wealth of information on the wildlife, stories and history of the islands.For those wishing to visit in small boats or kayaks there are details of:? Landings? Camping? Drinking water? Tidal informationOileain is a detailed guide to almost every Irish offshore island. The guide is comprehensive, describing over 300 islands, big and small, far out to sea and close in by the shore, inhabited and uninhabited. Oileain tells it as it is, rock by rock, good and bad, pleasant and otherwise. It concentrates on landings and access generally, then adds information on camping, drinking water, tides, history, climbing, birds, whales, dolphins, legends or anything else of interest.Oileain will, I hope, appeal to all who go to sea in small boats, divers and yachtsmen as well as kayakers. The sheer level of detail contained in Oileain must surely throw new light on places they thought they knew well. It is not a book about kayaking. It so happens that a practical way of getting to islands is by kayak, and that is how the author gets about. Scuba divers and RIBs get in close too. Yachtsmen get about better than most, and they too enjoy exploring intensively from a dinghy. With the increasing availability of ferries, boatless people will also enjoy Oileain. Offshore islands are the last wilderness in Ireland. Hillwaking is now so popular that there are few untrampled mainland hills. Ninety per cent of offshore islands are uninhabited outside of the first fortnight in August, and eighty per cent even then. You won't meet many other people, if any at all, out beyond an Irish surf line. It is a time of change though, and holiday homes are very much the coming thing in some offshore areas. Sea going will never stop being a great adventure. Therefore, offshore islands are still the preserve of the very few. Now is a golden era for exploration.
Author : Thomas Crofton Croker
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release : 1828
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Author : Brendan Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108625258
The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in The Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are leading experts in their fields, and present their original interpretations in a fresh and accessible manner. New perspectives are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and economic activity that prevailed on the island in these centuries. At each turn the question is asked: to what extent were these developments unique to Ireland? The openness of Ireland to outside influences, and its capacity to influence the world beyond its shores, are recurring themes. Underpinning the book is a comparative, outward-looking approach that sees Ireland as an integral but exceptional component of medieval Christian Europe.
Author : Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 12,51 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Heraldry
ISBN :
Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0141889721
The second volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe'. Again combining his polymathic knowledge of Connemara's natural history, human history, folklore and topography with his own unsurpassable artistry as a writer, Tim Robinson has produced another classic. A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands in 1972. His books include the celebrated two-volume Stones of Aran. Since 1984 he has lived in Roundstone, Connemara. 'The Proust & Ruskin of modern place-writing, deep-mapper of Irish landscapes, visionary thinker, and human of exceptional intellectual generosity & kindness. He was an immense inspiration to & encourager of me & my work' Robert Macfarlane 'A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the sacred mood of places' Colm Tóibín, Irish Times 'One of the greatest writers of lands ... No one has disentangled the tales the stones of Ireland have to tell so deftly and retold them so beautifully' Fintan O'Toole
Author : G. Foster
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137425683
The Irish Civil War and Society sheds new light on the social currents shaping the Irish Civil War, from the 'politics of respectability' behind animosities and discourses; to the intersection of social conflicts with political violence; to the social dimensions of the war's messy aftermath.
Author : John D'Alton
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017685022
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Page : 812 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 1804
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