The Scots in Germany
Author : Ernst Ludwig Fischer
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 1902
Category : France
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Author : Ernst Ludwig Fischer
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Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 1902
Category : France
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Page : 600 pages
File Size : 36,38 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Ireland
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Author : Seumas MacManus
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Page : 762 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Ireland
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Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0307755134
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.
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Page : 734 pages
File Size : 28,55 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Joseph Paul Fuhrmann
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Page : 142 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Monasticism and religious orders
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Author : Hugh Graham
Publisher :
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Education
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Author : Anthony Cogan
Publisher :
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Ireland
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Author : George McCutchan
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : Turtle Bunbury
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0500776563
The compelling story of the great Irish pioneers who left their homeland and in the process profoundly influenced their adoptive countries. From the first voyages of Saint Brendan in the early sixth century, an estimated 10 million people have left the Irish shores for other countries, and today, more than 80 million people worldwide claim Irish descent. In the centuries after the fall of Rome, Irish missionaries carried the word of the Christian God throughout Europe, while soldiers and mariners from across the land ventured overseas in all directions. The advent of the British Empire ignited a slow but extraordinary exodus from Ireland. These "Wild Geese" who opted to live outside of the Protestant state took their chances in the Spanish and French empires, as well as in the fledgling New World. These immigrants played an important role wherever they went: rising to high political and military positions in France and Spain, impacting the foundation of the United States, and fighting in the Civil War that followed it nearly eighty years later. Other Irish would come to the fore in business, science, engineering, and the arts, while some were destined for infamy as mobsters and gunslingers. Historian Turtle Bunbury explores the lives of these men and women, great and otherwise, whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore have played a profound role in world history and have left their indelible mark far beyond Ireland. Throughout The Irish Diaspora, Bunbury takes these overlooked events and characters and weaves them into an entertaining, and often surprising, history of the Irish abroad.