Author: Alan Warner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780862811105
Category : Northern Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
On Foot in Ulster
Author: Alan Warner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780862811105
Category : Northern Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780862811105
Category : Northern Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Beyond Belfast
Author: Will Ferguson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735238170
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Offbeat, charming, and filled with humour and insight, Beyond Belfast is the story of one man’s misguided attempt at walking the Ulster Way, “the longest waymarked trail in the British Isles.” It’s a journey that takes Will Ferguson through the small towns and half-forgotten villages of Northern Ireland, along rugged coastlines and across barren moorland heights, past crumbling castles and patchwork farms. From IRA pubs to Protestant marches, from bandits and bad weather to banshees and blood sausage, he wades into the thick of things, providing an affectionate and heartfelt look at one of the most misunderstood corners of the world. As the grandson of a Belfast orphan, Will also peels back the myths and realities of his own family history—a mysterious photograph, rumours of a lost inheritance. The truth, when it comes, is both surprising and funny …
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735238170
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Offbeat, charming, and filled with humour and insight, Beyond Belfast is the story of one man’s misguided attempt at walking the Ulster Way, “the longest waymarked trail in the British Isles.” It’s a journey that takes Will Ferguson through the small towns and half-forgotten villages of Northern Ireland, along rugged coastlines and across barren moorland heights, past crumbling castles and patchwork farms. From IRA pubs to Protestant marches, from bandits and bad weather to banshees and blood sausage, he wades into the thick of things, providing an affectionate and heartfelt look at one of the most misunderstood corners of the world. As the grandson of a Belfast orphan, Will also peels back the myths and realities of his own family history—a mysterious photograph, rumours of a lost inheritance. The truth, when it comes, is both surprising and funny …
An Information Guide to Walking
Author: Northern Ireland. Tourist Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
National Geographic Traveler: Ireland 5th Edition
Author: Christopher Somerville
Publisher: National Geographic Traveler
ISBN: 8854415138
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"Museums, walks, history, Celtic festivals, castles, pubs, poets, restaurants, abbeys, scenic drives"--Cover.
Publisher: National Geographic Traveler
ISBN: 8854415138
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
"Museums, walks, history, Celtic festivals, castles, pubs, poets, restaurants, abbeys, scenic drives"--Cover.
Ulster Journal of Archaeology
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Story of Ireland
Author: Emily Lawless
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465607641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
"It seems to be certain," says the Abbé McGeoghehan, "that Ireland continued uninhabited from the Creation to the Deluge." With this assurance to help us on our onward way I may venture to supplement it by saying that little is known about the first, or even about the second, third, and fourth succession of settlers in Ireland. At what precise period what is known as the Scoto-Celtic branch of the great Aryan stock broke away from its parent tree, by what route its migrants travelled, in what degree of consanguinity it stood to the equally Celtic race or races of Britain, what sort of people inhabited Ireland previous to the first Aryan invasion--all this is in the last degree uncertain, though that it was inhabited by some race or races outside the limits of that greatest of human groups seems from ethnological evidence to be perfectly clear. When first it dawns upon us through that thick darkness which hangs about the birth of all countries--whatever their destiny--it was a densely wooded and scantily peopled island "lying a-loose," as old Campion, the Elizabethan historian, tells us, "upon the West Ocean," though his further assertion that "in shape it resembleth an egg, plain on the sides, and not reaching forth to the sea in nooks and elbows of Land as Brittaine doeth"--cannot be said to be quite geographically accurate--the last part of the description referring evidently to the east coast, the only one with which, like most of his countrymen, he was at that time familiar. Geographically, then, and topographically it was no doubt in much the same state as the greater part of it remained up to the middle or end of the sixteenth century, a wild, tangled, roadless land, that is to say, shaggy with forests, abounding in streams, abounding, too, in lakes--far more, doubtless, than at present, drainage and other causes having greatly reduced their number--with rivers bearing the never-failing tribute of the skies to the sea, yet not so thoroughly as to hinder enormous districts from remaining in a swamped and saturated condition, given up to the bogs, which even at the present time are said to cover nearly one-sixth of its surface.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465607641
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
"It seems to be certain," says the Abbé McGeoghehan, "that Ireland continued uninhabited from the Creation to the Deluge." With this assurance to help us on our onward way I may venture to supplement it by saying that little is known about the first, or even about the second, third, and fourth succession of settlers in Ireland. At what precise period what is known as the Scoto-Celtic branch of the great Aryan stock broke away from its parent tree, by what route its migrants travelled, in what degree of consanguinity it stood to the equally Celtic race or races of Britain, what sort of people inhabited Ireland previous to the first Aryan invasion--all this is in the last degree uncertain, though that it was inhabited by some race or races outside the limits of that greatest of human groups seems from ethnological evidence to be perfectly clear. When first it dawns upon us through that thick darkness which hangs about the birth of all countries--whatever their destiny--it was a densely wooded and scantily peopled island "lying a-loose," as old Campion, the Elizabethan historian, tells us, "upon the West Ocean," though his further assertion that "in shape it resembleth an egg, plain on the sides, and not reaching forth to the sea in nooks and elbows of Land as Brittaine doeth"--cannot be said to be quite geographically accurate--the last part of the description referring evidently to the east coast, the only one with which, like most of his countrymen, he was at that time familiar. Geographically, then, and topographically it was no doubt in much the same state as the greater part of it remained up to the middle or end of the sixteenth century, a wild, tangled, roadless land, that is to say, shaggy with forests, abounding in streams, abounding, too, in lakes--far more, doubtless, than at present, drainage and other causes having greatly reduced their number--with rivers bearing the never-failing tribute of the skies to the sea, yet not so thoroughly as to hinder enormous districts from remaining in a swamped and saturated condition, given up to the bogs, which even at the present time are said to cover nearly one-sixth of its surface.
Walking the Ulster Way
Author: Alan Warner
Publisher: Appletree Press (IE)
ISBN: 9780862812270
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher: Appletree Press (IE)
ISBN: 9780862812270
Category : Hiking
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Walking with the Ulster Division
Author: Jonnie Armstrong
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957377301
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957377301
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Edmund Curtis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113629869X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
First published in 1923, this formative history of Ireland is an extensive study of the period from 1086 – 1513. Beginning with the O’Brien High Kinship, Edmund Curtis takes us through the Anglo-Norman conquest and its sequel, ending with the death of Gerald ‘the Great Earl’ of Kildare in 1513, a date when the second English conquest of Ireland (the ‘Tudor Reconquest’) became imminent. This is a reissue of a definitive landmark study of Irish history by one of greatest Irish historians of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113629869X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
First published in 1923, this formative history of Ireland is an extensive study of the period from 1086 – 1513. Beginning with the O’Brien High Kinship, Edmund Curtis takes us through the Anglo-Norman conquest and its sequel, ending with the death of Gerald ‘the Great Earl’ of Kildare in 1513, a date when the second English conquest of Ireland (the ‘Tudor Reconquest’) became imminent. This is a reissue of a definitive landmark study of Irish history by one of greatest Irish historians of the twentieth century.
Beyond Belfast
Author: Will Ferguson
Publisher: Viking
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"Offbeat and charming, and filled with humour, insight, and a wide array of eccentric characters, Beyond Belfast tells the story of one man's misguided attempt at walking the entire Ulster Way: a 560-mile path that circles Northern Ireland, from the city walls of Derry to the moorland heights of the Sperrins, from the green glens of Antrim to the Mountains of Mourne. Along the way, Will Ferguson, grandson of a Belfast orphan, uncovers his own hidden family history. There are clues about a lost inheritance, a mysterious photograph, rumours of a vast estate: the truth when it comes is both surprising and funny ..."--Publisher's website.
Publisher: Viking
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"Offbeat and charming, and filled with humour, insight, and a wide array of eccentric characters, Beyond Belfast tells the story of one man's misguided attempt at walking the entire Ulster Way: a 560-mile path that circles Northern Ireland, from the city walls of Derry to the moorland heights of the Sperrins, from the green glens of Antrim to the Mountains of Mourne. Along the way, Will Ferguson, grandson of a Belfast orphan, uncovers his own hidden family history. There are clues about a lost inheritance, a mysterious photograph, rumours of a vast estate: the truth when it comes is both surprising and funny ..."--Publisher's website.