John Redmond
John Redmond

Author: Dermot Meleady

Publisher: Merrion Press

Published: 2018-02-05

Total Pages: 857

ISBN-13: 1908928409

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Dermot Meleady's authoritative second part of his full-length biography of John Redmond, the first to be published in 80 years, begins in 1901 shortly after his election as chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Westminster Parliament, and ends with his death in 1918. The book details Redmond's reconstruction of the Party following its reunification after the destructive decade-long Parnell split, and his refashioning of it as a political weapon for winning Irish Home Rule. It follows his role in successfully passing the Conservatives 1903 Land Purchase Act which greatly accelerated the transfer of land ownership from Irish landlords to Irish farmers. His successes and failures in the years of the 1906 10 Liberal Government are also fully documented, but when the Liberals move in 1911 to remove the House of Lords veto, the stage is set for the passage of the third Home Rule Bill, the paramount goal of Redmond s endeavours. The events of the following turbulent five years the increasingly militant resistance of Ulster Unionism to Home Rule, the outbreak of the Great War and the unforeseen Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916 as much a blow against Home Rule as against British rule cast him down from triumphant prime-minister-in waiting to the status of Ireland s lost leader. Through exhaustive research in Redmond's personal papers, Dermot Meleady has produced the definitive story of one of the most tragic figures in twentieth-century Irish political history.

Irish Novels 1890-1940
Irish Novels 1890-1940

Author: John Wilson Foster

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2008-02-21

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 0191528390

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Studies of Irish fiction are still scanty in contrast to studies of Irish poetry and drama. Attempting to fill a large critical vacancy, Irish Novels 1890-1940 is a comprehensive survey of popular and minor fiction (mainly novels) published between 1890 and 1922, a crucial period in Irish cultural and political history. Since the bulk of these sixty-odd writers have never been written about, certainly beyond brief mentions, the book opens up for further exploration a literary landscape, hitherto neglected, perhaps even unsuspected. This new landscape should alter the familiar perspectives on Irish literature of the period, first of all by adding genre fiction (science fiction, detective novels, ghost stories, New Woman fiction, and Great War novels) to the Irish syllabus, secondly by demonstrating the immense contribution of women writers to popular and mainstream Irish fiction. Among the popular and prolific female writers discussed are Mrs J.H. Riddell, B.M. Croker, M.E. Francis, Sarah Grand, Katharine Tynan, Ella MacMahon, Katherine Cecil Thurston, W.M. Letts, and Hannah Lynch. Indeed, a critical inference of the survey is that if there is a discernible tradition of the Irish novel, it is largely a female tradition. A substantial postscript surveys novels by Irish women between 1922 and1940 and relates them to the work of their female antecedents. This ground-breaking survey should also alter the familiar perspectives on the Ireland of 1890-1922. Many of the popular works were problem-novels and hence throw light on contemporary thinking and debate on the 'Irish Question'. After the Irish Literary Revival and creation of the Free State, much popular and mainstream fiction became a lost archive, neglected evidence, indeed, of a lost Ireland.

The Irish Language and Irish Intermediate Education (Classic Reprint)
The Irish Language and Irish Intermediate Education (Classic Reprint)

Author: Connradh Na Gaedhilge

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780331012842

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Excerpt from The Irish Language and Irish Intermediate Education Everything Is given, for and against. Nothing has been with. Held The League believes that it has everything to gain and nothing to lose by the most exhaustive discussion, by going forth into the full light of day, and by allowing all sides to be heard as thor oughly as possible. Professor Mahaffy and Dr. Atkinson will not be denied a hearing any more than the President of the Gaelic League. The present pamphlet contains all the matter, bearing upon the Irish language, to be found in Answers to Queries. Other pam phlets containing Oral Evidence, Memoranda, Letters, etc., will be published in due course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times
The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times

Author: Richard Robert Madden

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 9781331379461

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Excerpt from The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times: With Several Additional Memoirs, and Authentic Documents, Heretofore Unpublished; The Whole Matter Newly Arranged and Revised Introductory Notice; Notes, illustrative of the origin and early career of Thomas Addis Emmet, by Thomas Emmet - communicated to R. R. M. by Robert Emmet, Esq., of New York; Folk-lore of the Emmets - Notice of the origin of this family, and of several members of it - Of Dr. Robert Emmet, of Christopher Temple Emmet - Notice of the Historical Society and its leading members - Notice of Miss Maryanne Emmet, subsequently Mrs. Holmes - Lines by her daughter, Mrs. Cunningham; Early history of T. A. Emmet - His career in the University of Edinburgh as a student of medicine - His intimacy with Sir James Mackintosh, Dugald Stewart, &c. - His career in the Inns of Court as a law student, and at the Irish Bar, in 1792-3-4-5-6-7 - His connexion with remarkable proceedings in the case of J. N. Tandy against the Earl of Westmoreland; The first Society of United Irishmen - Their views and objects, Reform and Emancipation - Connexion of T. A. Emmet with the Society of United Irishmen - A member of the Directory - His relations with T. W. Tone - The garden scene at Rathfarnham - Notice of John Keogh - Arrest of the members of the Provincial Committee at Bond's, the 12th of March, 1798 - Imprisonment - Noble conduct of Mrs. Emmet - Proceedings in the Irish parliament in relation to the state prisoners - Plunket's ungenerous conduct on that occasion to the friend of his youth and his fellow-student at the University, T. A. Emmet About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

An Historical Account of the Macdonnells of Antrim
An Historical Account of the Macdonnells of Antrim

Author: George Hill

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 9781331429708

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Excerpt from An Historical Account of the Macdonnells of Antrim: Including Notices of Some Other Septs, Irish and Scottish Our best genealogists, Mac Firbis and O'Flaherty, represent the Macdonnells (1) as descended from an Irish prince, named Colla, and surnamed Uaish, or the 'Noble, ' the eldest of three distinguished brothers, who lived in the earlier part of the fourth century. These brothers were the sons of Eochaidh Doimhlein, brother of the king, and Aileach, daughter of Ubdaire, king of Alba. The coming of this Scottish princess to Ireland, and her subsequent residence in the palace of Aileach, so called after her name, are celebrated in a very ancient Irish poem. The poet describes the princess as "a mild, true woman, modest, blooming, till the love of the Gael disturbed her, and she passed with him from the midst of Chind-Tiri (Cantire) to the land of Uladh." Her palace of Aileach, in the present county of Donegal, became the residence of the Northern Ui Neill princes, and continued to be occupied as such almost to the time of the English invasion. (2) The names of her warlike and ambitious sons were Cairell, Muredhach, and Aedh, although they are more familiarly known in history as the three Collas. (3) Assisted by their kinsmen and allies on the opposite shores of the North Channel, (4) they were able to form a powerful political combination, which, in the year 327, placed the eldest brother, Colla Uaish, on the throne of Ireland. He only held this position, however, for the space of four years, when he was compelled to give way before the claims of a more powerful cousin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language (Classic Reprint)
A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language (Classic Reprint)

Author: Paul O'Brien

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-01-19

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780365241751

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Excerpt from A Practical Grammar of the Irish Language To rest 1t on the basis of Grammar, and thereby facilitate the acquisition of it to learners, I have undertaken the present work' How far I have sue-2 ceeded, those who are sk1lled in the language will be the best judges. I have used my best endeavours to render the book. As complete as possible; it contains a scale of the vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs, collated with corresponding English sounds, and the various powers of the consonants are pointed out, to render their pronunciation more easy to the learner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.