MacBride's Brigade
Author: Donal P. McCracken
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the story of 500 Irish-American men and Irish men who fought the British in the Anglo-Boer war.
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MacBride's Wars
Author: Dermod Judge
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 191355127X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat Major John MacBride learns when leading the Irish Brigade in the Second Anglo-Boer War against the British Empire isn’t much help when fighting his estranged wife in the French courts.
Secret Court Martial Records
Author: Brian Barton
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2010-03-23
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 0750959053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the suppression of the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, the British Army court-martialled almost 200 prisoners. Around ninety of them received death sentences, but the death penalty was confirmed only for the fifteen men considered to be the leaders. All fifteen were executed. Until 1999, official British records of these fifteen trials were kept a close secret, and in 2001 further material was released, including the trial of Countess Markievicz and important evidence about the shoot to kill tactics used by the British Army. These records, the subject of heated speculation and propaganda for over eighty years, are clearly presented in this important new edition of From Behind a Closed Door, containing previously unpublished material from archive sources, such as the Bureau of Military History witness statements. The complete transcripts are all revealed, together with fascinating photographs of the Rising, the fifteen leaders and the key British players. Brian Barton incisive commentary explains the context of the trials and the motivations of the leaders, providing an invaluable insight into what went on behind closed doors at a defining moment in Irish history.
Forgotten Protest
Author: Donal P. McCracken
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781903688182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMcCracken (history and humanities, U. of Durban-Westville, South Africa) illuminates the contact between Ireland and South Africa in the age of high imperialism, and the interest aroused in Ireland by developments in South Africa and their effects on Irish politics of the time. The first edition was
John MacBride
Author: Donal Fallon
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Published: 2015-10-12
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1847178049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMajor John MacBride, who was Born in Westport, County Mayo in 1868, was a household name in Ireland when many of the leaders of the Easter Rising were still relatively unknown figures. As part of the 'Irish Brigade', a band of nationalists fighting against the British in the Second Boer War, MacBride's name featured in stories in the Freeman's Journal and Arthur Griffith's United Irishman. The Major went on to travel across the United States, lecturing audiences on the blow struck against the British Empire in South Africa. His marriage to Maud Gonne, described as 'Ireland's Joan of Arc', led to further notoriety. Their subsequent bitter separation involved some of the most senior figures in Irish nationalism. MacBride was dismissed by William Butler Yeats as a 'drunken, vainglorious lout; Donal Fallon attempts to unravel the complexities of the man and his life and what led him to fight in Jacob's factory in 1916. John MacBride was executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 5 May 1916, two days before his forty-eighth birthday.
Seán MacBride
Author: Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1846316588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of Ireland's most abidingly controversial political figures, Seán MacBride (1904-88) was a youthful participant in the Irish Revolution and an active member of the Irish Republican Army, rising through the ranks to occupy a leadership position for fifteen years. Seán MacBride is the first book to focus exclusively on MacBride's republican activities, on which his controversial reputation in Irish and British political circles rests. With extensive use of recently released archival material, including Department of Justice records and Bureau of Military History witness statements, this book combines a biographical focus with wider assessments of the important themes, including the persistence of republican opposition to the state after the Civil War and Ireland's ambiguous experience of World War II.
McBride Mast Families
Author: John Eacott
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-08-19
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0987822756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book includes the descendents of Thomas Clarke McBride and Mary Elizabeth Mast. It more importantly gives the history of their ancestors from the earliest colonial times until the mid 1800's with both original research and existing material. Anyone interested in McBride, Mast, Farthing, Baird, Smith, Wilson, Green, Eggers, Harmon families with connection to the Watauga County area of North Carolina will be interested in this book. With today's interest in DNA and family trees this book may provide answers to who we are, where we came from, and why.
Securing Africa
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-30
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1136662588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica has been and currently is the site of numerous conflicts and crises. Authors previously wrote of these as specifically African problems or the problems of Europeans in Africa, but newer scholarship on other aspects of Africa has come to stress the interconnectness of Africa and the wider world. Still, it has often been limited to studies of isolated instances within African countries, with little-to-no connection to greater patterns of international power and violence. This volume explores the historical and present local and international dimensions of the myriad security crises in Africa, from the role of international relations during liberation to multination efforts against piracy.
The Boer War
Author: John Gooch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-23
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 113527181X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collections of essays by leading British and South African scholars, looking at the Boer War, focuses on three aspects: how the British Military functioned; the role of the Boers, Afrikaners and Zulus; and the media presentation of the war to the public.
The Boer War
Author: Denis Judd
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2013-03-15
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 0857733168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military and unexpectedly exposed the corrupt underside of imperialism in the establishment of the first concentration camps, the shooting of Boer prisoners-of-war and the embezzlement of military supplies by British officers. This acclaimed book provides a complete history of the Boer War - from the first signs of unrest to the eventual peace. In the process, it debunks several of the myths which have grown up around the conflict and explores the deadly legacy it left for southern Africa.
