Famine Ghost

Author : Jack O'Keefe
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462010237
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famine Ghost written by Jack O'Keefe and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famine Ghost: Englands Genocide of the Irish,/i> Famine Ghost is a book of historical fiction, the story of the Irish Famine (1845-1850) as seen through the eyes of young Johnjoe Kevane. He and his family are evicted from their cottage in Dingle. Disdaining the option of life in the local workhouse, the Kevanes sail in a coffin ship to Grosse Ile in Canada. Johnjoe keeps a diary of his familys suffering in the dark bowels of the overcrowded ship. When his parents die of ship fevertyphusJohnjoe returns home to exact revenge on the landlord, Major Mahon. OKeefe has delicately balanced history with touching humanity and humor. He has provided readers with a vivid tale, surprising in all the right ways, and an unabashed glimpse into the shocking truth of the Irish Famine. A masterful read cover to cover. --Sara Wolski, literary agent Famine Ghost captures the realities of the 1845-1850 Great Irish Famine and is filled with valuable research on the tragedy. An imaginative and thoughtful author, OKeefe has a real gift for the dialog and pace of language of 19th century Ireland. His vivid portrayal and historical perspective bring the hardships of Irelands troubles to our awareness in the 21st century, like no other book. --Helen Gallagher, Computer Clarity, www.cclarity.com

Author : C J Barker
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1835740685
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungry Ghosts written by C J Barker and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of Vic Woods and Ruth Wolfe, working-class teenagers from Liverpool and London, are profoundly disrupted by the arrival of World War II. Ruth’s journey leads her to aerial photographic interpretation, though her aspirations for advancement are denied, while Vic’s wartime experiences with bomber command haunt him long after the war is over. Their post-war marriage and tumultuous relationship with their son, James, make for a gripping narrative of trauma, conflict and, ultimately, love. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, Hungry Ghosts transports readers into the drama of two pivotal eras in history, exploring the intergenerational impact of war, particularly on the intricate relationships between fathers and sons. Hungry Ghosts is not just a war story; it’s a timeless exploration of family bonds and the indelible scars left by war.

Author : Jack O' Keefe, PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475995814
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survivors of the Irish Great Hunger, 1845?1850 written by Jack O' Keefe, PhD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1801, everything changed for the people of Ireland. Several years after the Act of Union forces Ireland to become the breadbasket for England, blight ravages the potato crops, and the country and its residents begin to starve. As thousands die and more emigrate, greedy landlords wreak havoc on those who remain to work their land. English landlord James Palmerston a man known for using brutality to get his way rides through a sheep meadow on his horse, running down farmer Sean Kavanagh and his innocent young son. After Sean reports the incident to the sheriff, however, Palmerston vows revenge, setting off a chain of events that leads to a questioning of Sean's past, an attempted rape, and a brutal attack on a young female tinker. As the threat of Civil War brews in the distance, a Mercy nun who ministers to the distressed Kavanagh family and many others has no idea that her destiny is about to lead her in another direction. In this historical tale set during an unforgettable time in history, the people of Ireland face one perilous challenge after another, proving their resilience and determination to survive despite seemingly insurmountable odds.

Author : Jasper Becker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungry Ghosts written by Jasper Becker and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the unforgettable story of the century's greatest human rights disaster, in which more people died than in Stalin's purges and the Holocaust put together.

Author : James Elder Cumming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through the Eternal Spirit written by James Elder Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jasper Becker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719554407
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hungry Ghosts written by Jasper Becker and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984 American demographers calculated that at least 30 million people had starved to death in China between 1958 and 1962. This text aims to unravel the story behind these statistics and to describe how Mao Zedong created a man-made famine.

Author : Luke Gibbons
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623617X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyce's Ghosts written by Luke Gibbons and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luke Gibbons, a prominent Irish scholar and Joycean, here offers the first study to make a full and strong argument that Joyce's Irishness is intrinsic to his modernism. It was common in the first generations of Joycean criticism to attribute Joyce's modernism to European exile, and to portray Ireland as a romantic backwater, the source of the nets from which Joyce was trying to escape. Gibbons argues, by contrast, that the pressures of late colonial Ireland, a country at once inside and outside the world system, provided the ferment that gave rise to Joyce's most distinctive literary experiments. Crucially, Gibbons holds that Ireland features not just as "subject matter" or "content," but as "form." Gibbons further argues that Joyce's major achievement was to pioneer an idiom in which narrative is freighted with voices from both inside and outside a culture. Joyce's use of free indirect discourse opens inner life to other voices and shadowy presences produced by a late colonial culture at odds with its own identity. In this sense, Gibbons shows, Joyce's language is haunted by ghosts, by voices testifying to forces--technology, empire, urbanization--off the page. This book is sure to become a landmark study of this enduring and widely read novelist, and advances our understanding of the connections between modernism and the nation.

Author : Dunne, John
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455604944
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Ghost Watcher's Guide to Ireland written by Dunne, John and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Thalassa
Publisher : Bloom Books
ISBN 13 : 9781728280141
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famine written by Laura Thalassa and published by Bloom Books. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They came to earth--Pestilence, War, Famine, Death--four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all. Ana da Silva always assumed she'd die young, but she never expected it to be at the hands of the haunting immortal who spared her life years ago. Famine. But if the horseman remembers her, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she's stabbed and left for dead. Only, she doesn't quite die. If there's one thing Famine is good at, it's cruelty. He can't forget the pain humanity has brought him, and he's ready to bring it back to them tenfold. But when Ana, a ghost from his past, corners him for what he did to her, she and her empty threats captivate him, and he decides to keep her around. In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. But at the end of the day, the two are enemies. Nothing changes that. Not one kind act, not two. And definitely not a few steamy nights. But enemies or reluctant lovers, if they don't stop themselves soon, heaven will.

Author : J. Jeffers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101461
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beckett’s Masculinity written by J. Jeffers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.