The Tory Islanders
Author : Robin Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 1978-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521218702
Author : Robin Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 1978-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780521218702
Author : Dorothy Harrison Therman
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A collection of transcripts of conversations with the elderly inhabitants of Tory Island. Personal reminiscences and stories featuring topics such as fairies, death, wakes and ghosts, childbirth and midwifery provide insight into the sparsely populated island's folklore and cultural history.
Author : Lillis Ó Laoire
Publisher : Europea: Ethnomusicologies and
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Individual desire and overcoming the rigors of social scrutiny are important factors in the development of an active public performer. In a special study of one song, Lillis O Laoire shows how the song itself emerges as a mediator of dilemmas and tensions of island life. In a meticulous exposition of the links between music, text, and performance, the vicissitudes of island life are revealed, while these tensions are alleviated by singing humorous ribald items to provide a deliberate contrast.
Author : Wallace Clark
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781900935319
Author : Brigid P. Gallagher
Publisher :
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780993592362
Long time sufferer of fibromyalgia, Brigid Gallagher set out on a journey between Egypt, India, Rome, Lourdes, Carcassonne and Bali. In this beautiful travel writing memoir on healing, spirituality and alternative medicine, Brigid shares her travel memories and the importance of slowing down. If you enjoyed Eat, Pray, Love, you will enjoy this.
Author : Audrey Magee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374606536
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE “Luminous.” —Jonathan Myerson, The Guardian “Vivid, thought-provoking.” —Malcolm Forbes, Star Tribune In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers, despite what it may cost the islanders. It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by currach, though boats with engines are available and he doesn’t much like the sea. He wants the authentic experience, to be changed by this place, to let its quiet and light fill him, give him room to create. He doesn’t know that a Frenchman follows close behind. Jean-Pierre Masson has visited the island for many years, studying the language of those who make it their home. He is fiercely protective of their isolation, deems it essential to exploring his theories of language preservation and identity. But the people who live on this rock—three miles long and half a mile wide—have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken, and what ought to be given in return. Over the summer, each of them—from great-grandmother Bean Uí Fhloinn, to widowed Mairéad, to fifteen-year-old James, who is determined to avoid the life of a fisherman—will wrestle with their values and desires. Meanwhile, all over Ireland, violence is erupting. And there is blame enough to go around. An expertly woven portrait of character and place, a stirring investigation into yearning to find one’s way, and an unflinchingly political critique of the long, seething cost of imperialism, Audrey Magee’s The Colony is a novel that transports, that celebrates beauty and connection, and that reckons with the inevitable ruptures of independence.
Author : Lorie O'Clare
Publisher : Aphrodisia
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 2009-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0758249500
Author : Tom Sigafoos
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2020-12-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781716325298
County Donegal, Ireland. 1884. Your island home is threatened with evictions. What would you be willing to do to stop them?
Author : Jennifer R. Nolan
Publisher : Ocean Education Publishing
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Environmentalism
ISBN : 9780615407210
Plato the pig shares a message about environmental responsibility.
Author : David Tory
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1632993325
Seduction. Spies. Sodomy. Starvation. Severe cold. Indian Attacks. A plague of sickness and death. And a love story, too. Isaac Stanfield is a young man with a thirst for adventure. He leaves his home to become a sailor on a merchantman, the Sweet Rose, and through ingenuity and sheer luck, finds himself in the middle of the drama and explorations that precede the departure of the Mayflower for New England in 1620. Exploration is Isaac’s coming-of-age story, capturing the turbulence of the times through his observations and experiences. Suspenseful, poignant, and expertly researched, David Tory’s novel brings to life an engaging cultural history of English seafaring exploration and intrigue in the early 17th century.