The Black Book of Limerick
Author: James MacCaffrey
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 134
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Author: James MacCaffrey
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Wade
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Published: 1823
Total Pages: 436
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Published: 1823
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John E. Morrison.
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2020-09-29
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1525577018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrowing up poor in mid-century Limerick is a nightmare of eviction, food deprivation, flea-bites, and never enough heat. An orange at Christmas is a massive treat. And yet Seanie Morrisey, despite having to beg, scavenge, and steal to help his overwhelmed single mother and his eternally-hungry younger siblings, somehow manages to live a joyful little boy’s life. He loves fishing for eels in the River Shannon; the pennies he gets at his First Communion; his warm, extended family; the times his mother manages to earn enough to bring home fish and chips; and the giddy freedom of running wild with his little gang of friends. When Seanie is thirteen years old, he makes a mistake that gets him sent to an industrial school run by Catholic Brothers...and his life takes a dark and horrific turn. Recounted in a uniquely expressive voice resonant with the lilting musicality of its roots in Limerick, The Black Suitcase captures the joy and horror of an Irish boyhood thwarted and ruined by a cruel and twisted system. Supported by chilling historical documents, it makes the unimaginable personal and painfully real.
Author: Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0691217920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.
Author: Maurice Lenihan
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 822
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 524
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndex of archaeological papers published in 1891, under the direction of the Congress of Archaeological Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries.
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 608
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. H. MacInerny
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 650
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Archeological Society of Ireland
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-02-17
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 3752569875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1867.