Author: Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312295110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot, but his vision and legacy lived on. Tim Pat Coogan's biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigor and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. This is the classic biography of the man who created modern Ireland.
Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland
Author: Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312295110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot, but his vision and legacy lived on. Tim Pat Coogan's biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigor and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. This is the classic biography of the man who created modern Ireland.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312295110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot, but his vision and legacy lived on. Tim Pat Coogan's biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigor and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. This is the classic biography of the man who created modern Ireland.
England and Ireland
Author: John Benjamin Firth
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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The Bulwark, Or, Reformation Journal
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Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Category : Anti-Catholicism
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Ireland Under English Rule
Author: Thomas Addis Emmet
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Home Government for Ireland
Author: Isaac Butt
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Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Banner of Israel
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Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Languages : en
Pages : 658
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James Connolly
Author: Seán Cronin
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476639973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Revolutionary, unionist and socialist James Connolly is best known for his part in organizing the bloody Easter Rising of 1916. Yet the Rising was just one defining event in a career devoted to peaceful activism for Irish independence, social justice for the working class, and the rights of women. This biography traces the political life of an unassuming advocate for nonviolent social change at the ballot box, who later helped lead a violent insurrection to establish an Irish Republic and was executed by a British firing squad.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476639973
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Revolutionary, unionist and socialist James Connolly is best known for his part in organizing the bloody Easter Rising of 1916. Yet the Rising was just one defining event in a career devoted to peaceful activism for Irish independence, social justice for the working class, and the rights of women. This biography traces the political life of an unassuming advocate for nonviolent social change at the ballot box, who later helped lead a violent insurrection to establish an Irish Republic and was executed by a British firing squad.
Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898
Author: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
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Category : Fenians
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : Fenians
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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The Measure Of Days
Author: Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 0748133178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
1916. England is at war, and the Morland family is in the thick of it, with two men already in France and three more soon to go. Tragedy strikes Morland Place when Jessie's husband Ned is reported missing on the Western Front. His father launches a desperate bid to find him, but the family fear the worst. Jessie, in mourning and frustrated by her job as an auxiliary nurse, goes to London to work in a military hospital. There she is reunited with her old friend Oliver, posted to the capital under the RAMC. Also in London is Violet, whose affair with the brilliant artist Octavian Laidislaw is about to erupt in scandal . . . The Measure of Days paints a portrait of a family, and a nation, at war, at a pivotal point in history. With the onset of conscription, no one is left unaffected. Every man must hold himself in readiness; and every woman knows that when she says goodbye, it might be for the last time.
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 0748133178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
1916. England is at war, and the Morland family is in the thick of it, with two men already in France and three more soon to go. Tragedy strikes Morland Place when Jessie's husband Ned is reported missing on the Western Front. His father launches a desperate bid to find him, but the family fear the worst. Jessie, in mourning and frustrated by her job as an auxiliary nurse, goes to London to work in a military hospital. There she is reunited with her old friend Oliver, posted to the capital under the RAMC. Also in London is Violet, whose affair with the brilliant artist Octavian Laidislaw is about to erupt in scandal . . . The Measure of Days paints a portrait of a family, and a nation, at war, at a pivotal point in history. With the onset of conscription, no one is left unaffected. Every man must hold himself in readiness; and every woman knows that when she says goodbye, it might be for the last time.