Author: George N. Christy
Publisher:
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Category : Minstrel shows
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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George Christy's Essence of Old Kentucky
Author: George N. Christy
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Category : Minstrel shows
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Publisher:
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Category : Minstrel shows
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Wasters
Author: Nick Webb
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965223
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
During the years when all seemed well with the Irish economy, a scandal bloomed in front of our faces but went mostly unnoticed: the scandal of public waste. Vast overspending on infrastructure (including a number of white elephants), extravagant use of overpriced consultants, the creation of dozens of quangos whose primary purpose seemed to be jobs for the boys, the culture of junketry that took hold in the semi-state sector and the Oireachtas - these and other dubious practices flourished during the years when the state's coffers were overflowing. The insiders benefited; the rest of us got ripped off. Now, as the state scrambles to bail out the banks and to bring order to the shattered public finances by taking money out of the pockets of ordinary working people, Shane Ross and Nick Webb tell the story of the wasters: the people who perfected and benefited from the culture of cronyism and waste. Thanks in large part to Ross and Webb's journalism in the Sunday Independent exposing scandals in FAS and CIE, we already know part of this story. In Wasters, the authors show how wide and how deep the rot runs, and they show that every scandal has one thing in common: insiders profiting at the expense of ordinary people.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141965223
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
During the years when all seemed well with the Irish economy, a scandal bloomed in front of our faces but went mostly unnoticed: the scandal of public waste. Vast overspending on infrastructure (including a number of white elephants), extravagant use of overpriced consultants, the creation of dozens of quangos whose primary purpose seemed to be jobs for the boys, the culture of junketry that took hold in the semi-state sector and the Oireachtas - these and other dubious practices flourished during the years when the state's coffers were overflowing. The insiders benefited; the rest of us got ripped off. Now, as the state scrambles to bail out the banks and to bring order to the shattered public finances by taking money out of the pockets of ordinary working people, Shane Ross and Nick Webb tell the story of the wasters: the people who perfected and benefited from the culture of cronyism and waste. Thanks in large part to Ross and Webb's journalism in the Sunday Independent exposing scandals in FAS and CIE, we already know part of this story. In Wasters, the authors show how wide and how deep the rot runs, and they show that every scandal has one thing in common: insiders profiting at the expense of ordinary people.
United States Official Postal Guide
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
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The Stone Ship
Author: Dunstan Massey
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725248697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
As a poetic drama, The Stone Ship transports readers on a lifetime's voyage of discovery. Jerome, an amnesiac, wonders how he became a monastic porter at Cloistergarth. His search for the lost years becomes a deep well from which all the fragments of his past emerge; the demonized adolescent rescued by the ghost of his admonitory mother; the pius twelve-year-old who relives the passion play with his siblings; and the boy of eight who declares, "Wasn't no ghost came back! Don't know where he is, but my dad isn't dead." And who is the youth of twenty-three, pursuing priestly studies, but badgered by peers, visits the brawling town Magdalene? While Eli, the extortionist, lays his blackmail trap for the youth. The Sabat nightmare ensues. Whether real or hallucinatory, it delivers at the climax a blow to the stricken conscience of the youth, and a blinding lucidity of recall to the monk. Later, the boy attempts suicide but is caught in the fisherman's nets. Sent off to the Confessor, he is absolved, and the inevitable Lethean river descends. Upon his embarkation, Jerome knows the immense joy of going home as a son to his Father's good pleasure.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1725248697
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
As a poetic drama, The Stone Ship transports readers on a lifetime's voyage of discovery. Jerome, an amnesiac, wonders how he became a monastic porter at Cloistergarth. His search for the lost years becomes a deep well from which all the fragments of his past emerge; the demonized adolescent rescued by the ghost of his admonitory mother; the pius twelve-year-old who relives the passion play with his siblings; and the boy of eight who declares, "Wasn't no ghost came back! Don't know where he is, but my dad isn't dead." And who is the youth of twenty-three, pursuing priestly studies, but badgered by peers, visits the brawling town Magdalene? While Eli, the extortionist, lays his blackmail trap for the youth. The Sabat nightmare ensues. Whether real or hallucinatory, it delivers at the climax a blow to the stricken conscience of the youth, and a blinding lucidity of recall to the monk. Later, the boy attempts suicide but is caught in the fisherman's nets. Sent off to the Confessor, he is absolved, and the inevitable Lethean river descends. Upon his embarkation, Jerome knows the immense joy of going home as a son to his Father's good pleasure.
United States Official Postal Guide ...
Author: United States. Post Office Department
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Missouri Roadsides
Author: Bill Earngey
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826210210
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A collection of the linguist's articles on English in Science and Technology (EST) written between 1978 and 1994 and published in different countries. The primary areas of her research are represented here: lexicology and phraseology, text linguistics, stylistics, and diachronic LSP studies. Emphasizing an integrated approach to genre analysis, the articles are unique for the extensive text corpora and the resulting genre profiles. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826210210
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A collection of the linguist's articles on English in Science and Technology (EST) written between 1978 and 1994 and published in different countries. The primary areas of her research are represented here: lexicology and phraseology, text linguistics, stylistics, and diachronic LSP studies. Emphasizing an integrated approach to genre analysis, the articles are unique for the extensive text corpora and the resulting genre profiles. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Falls Memories
Author: Gerry Adams
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart
ISBN: 1461733421
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Adams has written a lovely volume that is valuable not only for its content and vision but for the glimpse it offers into what makes him—politician and revolutionary—tick.—Kirkus ReviewsR
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart
ISBN: 1461733421
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Adams has written a lovely volume that is valuable not only for its content and vision but for the glimpse it offers into what makes him—politician and revolutionary—tick.—Kirkus ReviewsR
The Dublin and London magazine
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Burma Gazetteer
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Poor Paddy's Cabin; Or, Slavery in Ireland
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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