History of Dublin


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Sir John Gilbert


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Published by Lund Humphries in association with Guildhall Art Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London, Apr. 29-Aug. 29, 2011.




Winston Churchill's Illnesses, 1886–1965


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This in-depth account of the legendary leader’s ailments and their effects is a “tremendously important contribution to Churchillian studies” (Claremont Review of Books). Prominent physicians Allister Vale and John Scadding have written a meticulously researched and definitive account documenting all of Winston Churchill’s major illnesses, from an episode of childhood pneumonia in 1886 until his death in 1965. They have adopted a thorough approach in gaining access to numerous sources of medical information and have cited extensively from the clinical records of the distinguished physicians and surgeons invited to consult on Churchill during his many episodes of illness. These include not only objective clinical data, but also personal reflections by Churchill’s family, friends and political colleagues, resulting in a unique and fascinating study.




The Pope's Maestro


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The story of the friendship between a Jewish-American conductor and Pope John Paul II This book offers the inspirational story of an unlikely friendship and the two men who collaborated in an extraordinary way to begin to help heal centuries-old wounds. For two decades Sir Gilbert Levine and Pope John Paul II collaborated on symbolic acts of reconciliation: a series of internationally broadcast concerts designed to bring together people from all religious backgrounds under the auspices of the Vatican. These concerts broke new ground and demonstrated the Vatican's desire for rapprochement and even atonement in its relationships with Jews around the world. And it resulted in Sir Gilbert recovering his own Jewish faith in a deeper and more meaningful way. Details the extraordinary collaboration between a world-renowned musical maestro and an innovative Pope Shows how music can act as a bridge between people of different faiths A moving, inspirational, and personal story that appeals to music lovers and to people of all faith traditions This is a compelling tale of faith, friendship, and the healing power of music to bring people together.




Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices


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Learn to apply cloud-native patterns and practices to deliver responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven systems with confidence Key Features Understand the architectural patterns involved in cloud-native architectures Minimize risk by evolving your monolithic applications into distributed cloud-native systems Discover best practices for applying cloud-native patterns to your enterprise-level cloud applications Book Description Build systems that leverage the benefits of the cloud and applications faster than ever before with cloud-native development. This book focuses on architectural patterns for building highly scalable cloud-native systems. You will learn how the combination of cloud, reactive principles, devops, and automation enable teams to continuously deliver innovation with confidence. Begin by learning the core concepts that make these systems unique. You will explore foundational patterns that turn your database inside out to achieve massive scalability with cloud-native databases. You will also learn how to continuously deliver production code with confidence by shifting deployment and testing all the way to the left and implementing continuous observability in production. There's more—you will also learn how to strangle your monolith and design an evolving cloud-native system. By the end of the book, you will have the ability to create modern cloud-native systems. What you will learn Enable massive scaling by turning your database inside out Unleash flexibility via event streaming Leverage polyglot persistence and cloud-native databases Embrace modern continuous delivery and testing techniques Minimize risk by evolving your monoliths to cloud-native Apply cloud-native patterns and solve major architectural problems in cloud environment Who this book is for This book is for developers who would like to progress into building cloud-native systems and are keen to learn the patterns involved. Basic knowledge of programming and cloud computing is required.




The Letters of John McGahern


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I am no good at letters. John McGahern, 1963 John McGahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.This volume collects some of the witty, profound and unfailingly brilliant letters that he exchanged with family, friends and literary luminaries - such as Seamus Heaney, Colm Tóibín and Paul Muldoon - over the course of a well-travelled life. It is one of the major contributions to the study of Irish and British literature of the past thirty years, acting not just as a crucial insight into the life and works of a much-revered writer - but also a history of post-war Irish literature and its close ties to British and American literary life. 'One of the greatest writers of our era.' Hilary Mantel 'McGahern brings us that tonic gift of the best fiction, the sense of truth - the sense of transparency that permits us to see imaginary lives more clearly than we see our own.' John Updike




Sir John T. Gilbert


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Sir John T. Gilbert, 1829-1898


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Contains papers from a centenary celebration of the life and work of a librarian of the Royal Irish Academy, best remembered for his History of the City of Dublin published in 1854. Papers cover Gilbert's early life, Gilbert and the Royal Irish Academy, Gilbert and the Public Record Office of Ireland, the Gilbert Library, and Gilbert and Irish historiography. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR