Historical Irish Oddities

Author : Allen Foster
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717168506
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foster’s Historical Irish Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange, zany and at times downright baffling, Foster’s Historical Irish Oddities is a quirky compendium of true stories from all over Ireland. It is essential reading for anyone who loves to entertain friends and family with a good yarn or who needs further proof that Ireland is indeed a country with a unique cast of characters. From the Lismore man who rode to Fermoy in a tub pulled by a pig, a badger, two cats, a goose and a hedgehog to the tornado that ripped through Limerick in 1851, this is the perfect book for anyone with an interest in Irish history and a taste for the absurd. Foster’s stories may not be found in the history books but they certainly provide an entertaining and addictive read!

Author : Allen Foster
Publisher : Gateway Books
ISBN 13 : 9780717184729
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Irish Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by Gateway Books. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium of stories from all over the country illustrates how bizarre and wonderful events and people have entertained us throughout history. From the Lismore man who rode to Fermoy in a tub pulled by a pig, a badger, two cats, a goose and a hedgehog, to the fortune discovered in a Belfast piano once owned by destitute sisters, and the Cashel man who insisted on being evicted while lying in his coffin, this is the perfect gift book for anyone with an interest in Irish history and a taste for the absurd.

Author : Allen Foster
Publisher : New Island Books
ISBN 13 : 9781905494408
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foster's Irish Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by New Island Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This addictive, fascinating and humorous little book is an indispensable collection of Irish trivia, history, uncommon knowledge and vital irrelevances. It is presented in a handsome volume, with line drawings, making it the ideal gift for St Patrick's Day.

Author : Allen Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905494767
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foster's Even Odder Irish Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307755134
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Irish Saved Civilization written by Thomas Cahill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.

Author : Allen Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848407435
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foster's Book of Irish Murder written by Allen Foster and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, Allen Foster returns with the gruesome tales of some of Ireland's most infamous and lesser-known murders in history - a murder miscellany, you might say.

Author : Allen Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719817540
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foster's Welsh Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for trivia lovers and those interested in the more esoteric aspects of life in Wales, Foster’s Welsh Oddities is a wonderful collection of Wales’ quirkiest characters, most extraordinary facts and strangest coincidences. Discover the lucky, unlucky, strange, silly, downright weird, wonderful and funny events that make up Allen Foster’s entertaining contribution to the social history of Wales.Find out about such curiosities as:• the Welsh beach that whistles• the ferocious bull that once stopped a train• one of the strangest wills ever admitted to probate• the pioneer Welsh explorer who laid the foundations for the first overland expedition of America • how a young Welshwoman single-handedly captured a dozen French soldiers and helped to foil an invasion.

Author : Daibhi O Croinin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317192702
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 written by Daibhi O Croinin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement. Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the extraordinary flowering of Irish culture in the period. Other major themes are Ireland's relations with Britain and continental Europe, the beginnings of Irish feudalism, and the impact of the Viking and Norman invaders. The expanded second edition has been fully updated to take into account the most recent research in the history of Ireland in the early middle ages, including Ireland’s relations with the Later Roman Empire, advances and discoveries in archaeology, and Church Reform in the 11th and 12th centuries. A new opening chapter on early Irish primary sources introduces students to the key written sources that inform our picture of early medieval Ireland, including annals, genealogies and laws. The social, political, religious, legal and institutional background provides the context against which Dáibhí Ó Cróinín describes Ireland’s transformation from a tribal society to a feudal state. It is essential reading for student and specialist alike.

Author : Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concise History of Ireland ... written by Patrick Weston Joyce and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manchán Magan
Publisher : Bonnier Books UK
ISBN 13 : 1804184047
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thirty-Two Words for Field written by Manchán Magan and published by Bonnier Books UK. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller. Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German, and branches spanning the world, from Australia and India to North America. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprung, found in words like bog, loch, cairn and crag. Today, this heritage can be found nowhere more powerfully than in modern-day Gaelic. In Thirty-Two Words for Field Manchán Magan explores the enchantment, sublime beauty and sheer oddness of a 3000-year-old lexicon. Imbuing the natural world with meaning and magic, it evokes a time-honoured way of life, from its 32 separate words for a field, to terms like loisideach (a place with a lot of kneading troughs), bróis (whiskey for a horseman at a wedding), and iarmhaireacht (the loneliness you feel when you are the only person awake at cockcrow). Told through stories collected from Magan's own life and travels, Thirty-Two Words for Field is an enthralling celebration of Irish words, and a testament to the indelible relationship between landscape, culture and language.