Author : Tony Murray
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1846318319
Examines the specific role that the metropolis plays in literary portrayals of Irish migrant experience as an arena for the performance of Irishness, as a catalyst in the transformations of Irishness and as an intrinsic component of second generation Irish identities.
Author : Arthur James Wells
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Page : 1768 pages
File Size : 15,8 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Bibliography, National
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Author : Donall MacAmhlaigh
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2003-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1848899661
DIrish construction workers in post-war Britain are celebrated in song and story. Donall MacAmhlaigh kept a diary as he worked the sites, danced in the Irish halls, drank in Irish pubs and lived the life of the roving Irish navvy. Work was hard, dirty and dangerous, followed by pints in the Admiral Rodney, the Shamrock, the Cattle Market Tavern and others. Living conditions were basic at best. This vivid picture of an Irish navvy's life in England in the 1950s mirrors that of an entire generation who left Ireland without education or hope. Days without food or work, the hardships of work camps, lonesome partings after trips home, periods of intense isolation and bitter reflection were all part of the experience. • Also available: Hard Road to Klondike.
Author : Richard Aldous
Publisher : Quercus Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
Great Irish Documents presents the most momentous and stirring documents in the history of Ireland. From St Patrick's confession, via the harrowing reports of the Famine Relief Commission, the dramatic Proclamation of the Republic and the controversial 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty, to the road to peace and the Good Friday agreement, here is a unique overview of over 1500 years of Irish history.The transcript of each document is preceded by an introduction, written by Professor Richard Aldous, that places the text in its historical context and explains its significance, as well as by iconic images of the documents and their creators. Presented chronologically, this anthology provides a remarkable insight into the story of Ireland.
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Transportation
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Page : 666 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic journals
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Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 20,57 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Bibliography, National
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 1975
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Author : Donald H. Akenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415689805
This volume focuses on the creation, structure and evolution of the Irish national system of education. It illustrates how the system was shaped by the religious, social and political realities of nineteenth century Ireland and discusses the effects that the system had upon the Irish nation: namely that it was the chief means by which the country was transformed from one in which illiteracy predominated to one in which most people, even the poorest, could read and write.
Author : Anne Enright
Publisher : Random House
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1409020940
'What is a really good novel like? This for a start' The Times When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was twelve years old. She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different. Anne Enright's astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the real Maria and the girl in the picture. Stepping through the mirror to tell the story of the two women, both haunted by their missing selves, What Are You Like? is an exquisitely written disquisition on families and identity. Threading together the lives of two young women, it confirms Anne Enright as not only the most original Irish writer of her generation, but also as one of the finest, funniest, and most affecting.
