Author: Patricia Byrne
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 184889953X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
At Valley House on Achill Island in 1894, an English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home burnt. James Lynchehaun, her former land agent, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped twice and won a groundbreaking case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. . A Franciscan monk in Achill, Brother Paul Carney, who had befriended and assisted Lynchehaun, wrote up the fugitive's story, and Lynchehaun became a folk hero. John Millington Synge visited Mayo in 1904/1905 and decided to locate The Playboy of the Western World in north Mayo. Lynchehaun was one of Synge's inspirations for constructing the character of Christy Mahon. The crime, the trial and escapes, and the island tensions are unravelled in a gripping account.
The Veiled Woman of Achill
Author: Patricia Byrne
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 184889953X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
At Valley House on Achill Island in 1894, an English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home burnt. James Lynchehaun, her former land agent, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped twice and won a groundbreaking case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. . A Franciscan monk in Achill, Brother Paul Carney, who had befriended and assisted Lynchehaun, wrote up the fugitive's story, and Lynchehaun became a folk hero. John Millington Synge visited Mayo in 1904/1905 and decided to locate The Playboy of the Western World in north Mayo. Lynchehaun was one of Synge's inspirations for constructing the character of Christy Mahon. The crime, the trial and escapes, and the island tensions are unravelled in a gripping account.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 184889953X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
At Valley House on Achill Island in 1894, an English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home burnt. James Lynchehaun, her former land agent, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped twice and won a groundbreaking case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. . A Franciscan monk in Achill, Brother Paul Carney, who had befriended and assisted Lynchehaun, wrote up the fugitive's story, and Lynchehaun became a folk hero. John Millington Synge visited Mayo in 1904/1905 and decided to locate The Playboy of the Western World in north Mayo. Lynchehaun was one of Synge's inspirations for constructing the character of Christy Mahon. The crime, the trial and escapes, and the island tensions are unravelled in a gripping account.
Light Railways
Author: John Charles Mackay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads, Local and light
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads, Local and light
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Final Journey
Author: Nicolas Wheatley
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750996358
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published, Nicolas Wheatley's work details how the mainline railways carried out this important yet often hidden work from the Victorian age to the 1980s, as well as how ceremonial funeral transport continues on heritage railways today. From royalty, aristocrats and other VIPs (including Sir Winston Churchill and the Unknown Warrior) to victims of accidents and ordinary people, Final Journey explores the way in which these people travelled for the last time by train before being laid to rest.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750996358
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published, Nicolas Wheatley's work details how the mainline railways carried out this important yet often hidden work from the Victorian age to the 1980s, as well as how ceremonial funeral transport continues on heritage railways today. From royalty, aristocrats and other VIPs (including Sir Winston Churchill and the Unknown Warrior) to victims of accidents and ordinary people, Final Journey explores the way in which these people travelled for the last time by train before being laid to rest.
Light Railways for the United Kingdom, India, and the Colonies
Author: John Charles Mackay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Achillbeg
Author: Jonathan Beaumont
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780853616313
Category : Achillbeg (Ireland).
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780853616313
Category : Achillbeg (Ireland).
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association [English Edition]
Author: International Railway Congress Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2068
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2068
Book Description
Bulletin of the International Railway Association
Author: International Railway Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 2046
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 2046
Book Description
Railway Times
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Bulletin of the International Railway Congress Association
Author: International Railway Congress Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 2294
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 2294
Book Description
Proceedings
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description