Author: Mark Williams
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A novel study of the political, religious, and cultural worlds of the principal Irish figures at the exiled court of Charles II
The King's Irishmen
Author: Mark Williams
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A novel study of the political, religious, and cultural worlds of the principal Irish figures at the exiled court of Charles II
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839253
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A novel study of the political, religious, and cultural worlds of the principal Irish figures at the exiled court of Charles II
The Old English in Ireland, 1625-42
Author: Aidan Clarke
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Publisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf
Author: Sean Duffy
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717157768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland forever. More recent interpretations of the Battle of Clontarf have played down the role of the Vikings and portrayed it as merely the final act in a rebellion against Brian, the king of Munster, by his enemies in Leinster and Dublin. This book proposes a far-reaching reassessment of Brian Boru and Clontarf. By examining Brian's family history and tracing his career from its earliest days, it uncovers the origins of Brian's greatness and explains precisely how he changed Irish political life forever. Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf offers a new interpretation of the role of the Vikings in Irish affairs and explains how Brian emerged from obscurity to attain the high-kingship of Ireland because of his exploitation of the Viking presence. And it concludes that Clontarf was deemed a triumph, despite Brian's death, because of what he averted – a major new Viking offensive in Ireland – on that fateful day.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717157768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland forever. More recent interpretations of the Battle of Clontarf have played down the role of the Vikings and portrayed it as merely the final act in a rebellion against Brian, the king of Munster, by his enemies in Leinster and Dublin. This book proposes a far-reaching reassessment of Brian Boru and Clontarf. By examining Brian's family history and tracing his career from its earliest days, it uncovers the origins of Brian's greatness and explains precisely how he changed Irish political life forever. Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf offers a new interpretation of the role of the Vikings in Irish affairs and explains how Brian emerged from obscurity to attain the high-kingship of Ireland because of his exploitation of the Viking presence. And it concludes that Clontarf was deemed a triumph, despite Brian's death, because of what he averted – a major new Viking offensive in Ireland – on that fateful day.
A Short History of the Irish People
Author: Alexander George Richey
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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The Reformed Church of Ireland (1537-1886)
Author: John Thomas Ball
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Rogues and Redeemers
Author: Gerard O'Neill
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 0307405362
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses, the smoke-filled rooms, the larger-than-life pols who became national figures: Honey Fitz, the crafty stage Irishman and grandfather to a president; the pugilistic Rascal King, Michael Curley; the hectored Kevin White who tried to hold the city together during the busing crisis; and Ray Flynn, the Southie charmer who was truly the last hurrah for Irish-American politics in the city. For almost a century, the Irish dominated Boston politics with their own unique, clannish brand of coercion and shaped its future for good and ill. Former Boston Globe investigative reporter Gerard O'Neill takes the reader through the entire journey from the famine ships arriving in Massachusetts Bay to the wresting of power away from the Brahmins of Beacon Hill to the Title I wars of attrition over housing to the rending of the city over busing to the Boston of today--which somehow through it all became a modern, revitalized city, albeit with a growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Sweeping in its history and intimate in its details, Rogues and Redeemers echoes all the great themes of The Power Broker and Common Ground and should take its place on that esteemed shelf as a classic, definitive epic of a city.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 0307405362
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses, the smoke-filled rooms, the larger-than-life pols who became national figures: Honey Fitz, the crafty stage Irishman and grandfather to a president; the pugilistic Rascal King, Michael Curley; the hectored Kevin White who tried to hold the city together during the busing crisis; and Ray Flynn, the Southie charmer who was truly the last hurrah for Irish-American politics in the city. For almost a century, the Irish dominated Boston politics with their own unique, clannish brand of coercion and shaped its future for good and ill. Former Boston Globe investigative reporter Gerard O'Neill takes the reader through the entire journey from the famine ships arriving in Massachusetts Bay to the wresting of power away from the Brahmins of Beacon Hill to the Title I wars of attrition over housing to the rending of the city over busing to the Boston of today--which somehow through it all became a modern, revitalized city, albeit with a growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Sweeping in its history and intimate in its details, Rogues and Redeemers echoes all the great themes of The Power Broker and Common Ground and should take its place on that esteemed shelf as a classic, definitive epic of a city.
Lectures on the History of Ireland: From A. D. 1534 to the date of the plantation of Ulster
Author: Alexander George Richey
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Calendar of Documents, Relating to Ireland
Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Calendar of Documents, Relating to Ireland: 1171-1251
Author: Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
The History of the VIII King's Royal Irish Hussars, 1693-[1958]
Author: Robert Henry Murray
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description