The Knights Templar on Trial
The Knights Templar on Trial

Author: Helen J Nicholson

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-08-26

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0752469835

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The trial of the Templars in the British Isles (1308-1311) is a largely unexplored area of history. Unlike the trial in France, where the Templars were tortured into confessing to unspeakable activities, in the British Isles there were no burnings and only three confessions after torture. Several Templars went missing, most of whom later reappeared. Outsiders told stories of abominable Templar rituals, secret meetings and murders at the dead of night, but all these tales turned out to be rumour. This book is based on extensive research into the records of the trial of trial of the Templars and other unpublished medieval documents recording their arrest, imprisonment and trial, and the surveys of their property. It traces the course of this, the first heresy of trial in the British Isles, from the arrests in January 1308 to the dissolution of the Order, and shows how, by judicious selection of material, the inquisitors made the scanty evidence against the Templars appear convincing. The book includes a list of all the Templars in the British Isles at the time of the arrests, and a gazetteer of the Templars' major properties in the British Isles.

Lyster Pioneers of Lower Canada and the West
Lyster Pioneers of Lower Canada and the West

Author: Eswyn Ellinor-Lyster

Publisher: Qualicum Beach, B.C. : E. Ellinor-Lyster

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Philip Lyster (1792-1851)--son of Philip Lyster and Mary Hamilton-- married Mary Sixsmith about 1818, and immigrated from Ireland to Melbourne, Quebec. Descendants and relatives lived in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and elsewhere. Some descendants and relatives immigrated to the United States, living in Pennsylvania, California and elsewhere. Includes much ancestry and family history in Ireland, with some in England.

A Nation and not a Rabble
A Nation and not a Rabble

Author: Diarmaid Ferriter

Publisher: Profile Books

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 1847658822

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Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-1923 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in response, the Irish Volunteers, who would later evolve into the IRA. World War One, the rise of Sinn Féin, intense Ulster unionism and conflict with Britain culminated in the Irish war of Independence, which ended with a compromise Treaty with Britain and then the enmities and drama of the Irish Civil War. Drawing on an abundance of newly released archival material, witness statements and testimony from the ordinary Irish people who lived and fought through extraordinary times, A Nation and not a Rabble explores these revolutions. Diarmaid Ferriter highlights the gulf between rhetoric and reality in politics and violence, the role of women, the battle for material survival, the impact of key Irish unionist and republican leaders, as well as conflicts over health, land, religion, law and order, and welfare.

The Stuart Restoration and the English in Ireland
The Stuart Restoration and the English in Ireland

Author: Danielle McCormack

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1783271140

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Crossing boundaries of political, intellectual and cultural history, this study highlights the complexity of political culture in Restoration Ireland. This book focuses on how historical memory and political discourse affected land settlement and political processes in early Restoration Ireland. The period 1660-1667 was one of insecurity for the Protestant plantation in Ireland, as Catholic spokesmen undermined the Protestant status quo. The Stuart Restoration and the English in Ireland draws out the dynamism of the rhetorical, moral and legal challenges that Catholics made to Protestant power inIreland and examines the Protestant responses and the rise of a Protestant identity inextricably linked with the possession of power. This identity was expressed as that of the 'English in Ireland', a belligerent self-denominationwhich did little to accommodate the king or the importance of monarchy to the Protestant position in the country. Crossing boundaries of political, intellectual and cultural history, the book highlights the complexity of political culture in Restoration Ireland, which was defined by the intersection of political language, ideas, historical understandings and economic imperatives. DANIELLE McCORMACK is Assistant Professor at the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.

Colonists in Bondage
Colonists in Bondage

Author: Abbott Emerson Smith

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2014-01-01

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 0807839671

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This is the story of the colonists of the kitchens, the stables, the fields, the shops, and those who came to America as indentured servants, men and women who sold" themselves to masters for a period of time in order to pay passage from an old world to a new and freer one. Their leaven has gone into the fiber of American society." Originally published in 1947. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.