In The Tracks Of The West Clare Railway

Author : Edmund Lenihan
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856355799
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Tracks of the West Clare Railway written by Edmund Lenihan and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains are unlikely to ever again run between Ennis and Kilkee. For what was a railway is now a disjointed succession of pieces linking not just places but in a way two worlds: one unhurried and traditional, the other brash, frenzied and modern. This work paints a picture of a time when the railway breathed life into West Clare.

Author : Edmund Lenihan
Publisher : Irish Amer Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780853429098
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Tracks of West Clare Railway written by Edmund Lenihan and published by Irish Amer Book Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating historical and geographical account of part of County Clare.

Author : Joe Taylor
Publisher : Midland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781857801224
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Clare Railway written by Joe Taylor and published by Midland Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199380090
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flowing Tides written by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its isolation on the western edge of Europe, Ireland occupies vast amounts of space on the music maps of the world. Although deeply rooted in time and place, Irish songs, dances and instrumental traditions have a history of global travel that span the centuries. Whether carried by exiles, or distributed by commercial networks, Irish traditional music is one of the most popular World Music genres, while Clare, on Ireland's Atlantic seaboard, enjoys unrivaled status as a "Home of the Music," a mecca for tourists and aficionados eager to enjoy the authentic sounds of Ireland. For the first time, this remarkable soundscape is explored by an insider-a fourth generation Clare concertina player, uilleann piper and an internationally recognized authority on Irish traditional music. Entrusted with the testimonies, tune lore, and historic field recordings of Clare performers, Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin reveals why this ancient place is a site of musical pilgrimage and how it absorbed the impact of global cultural flows for centuries. These flows brought musical change inwards, while simultaneously facilitating outflows of musical change to the world beyond - in more recent times, through the music of Clare stars like Martin Hayes and the Kilfenora Céilí Band. Placing the testimony of music and music makers at the center of Irish cultural history and working from a palette of disciplines, Flowing Tides explores an Irish soundscape undergoing radical change in the period from the Napoleonic Wars to the Great Famine, from the birth of the nation state to the meteoric rise-and fall-of the Celtic Tiger. It is essential reading for all interested in Irish/Celtic music and culture.

Author : Patrick M. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781871980165
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The West Clare Railway written by Patrick M. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rosita Boland
Publisher : Gemma
ISBN 13 : 1934848999
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Secret Map of Ireland written by Rosita Boland and published by Gemma. This book was released on 2010-04-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the award-winning Irish Times' journalist Rosita Boland was a schoolgirl she had--in common with all Irish children--amap of Ireland. Iconic in its pinks, greens and yellows, the Educational Company map was a staple of the Irish schoolhouse. As the author matured and changed, so did the unique country she grew to know first-hand. With deep affection and curiosity, she followed her very own map from those by-gone schooldays to take the reader on a tour of Irelnad, a tour like no other

Author : Joe Riley
Publisher : RavensYard Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781928928133
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Kilrush written by Joe Riley and published by RavensYard Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ghosts of Kilrush" is the heartfelt memoir of a young English boy, abandoned by his father in small town in western Ireland, who was raised as a beloved son by an Irish family who treated him as their own. Riley takes a look back as he affectionately recalls the many colorful characters who influenced his childhood.

Author : Colin Boocock
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526749246
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oliver Bulleid's Locomotives written by Colin Boocock and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the man who served as Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Southern Railway and the many locomotives he developed. Oliver Bulleid’s locomotives guides the reader in the quest to understand what motivated Mr Bulleid in his work as a senior engineer and manager, and tries, with as little bias as is reasonable, to make sense of some of the more controversial aspects of his activities. For example, why did OVB not pursue the ideal of a 2-8-2 for the Southern Railway? How did the ‘Leader’ project go so much out of control? What role did Bulleid play in the massive dieselization program in Ireland when he was CME there? How did the 0-6-6-0T turf-burning steam locomotive fit in with Ireland’s traction policy, or did it? And why did ninety of his steam locomotives and ninety-four of ‘his’ diesels have to be rebuilt to make them either more economical or more reliable? These are fundamental questions to which the book provides the reader with answers based on the author’s experiences or on those of people who knew Bulleid. OVB’s undoubted successes are illustrated in words and photographs, too, to provide a hopefully balanced picture of one of Britain’s more exciting railway engineers. “This book is a well written overview of the Bulleid era, by a competent engineer who can express himself in layman’s terms.” —Martin Shill, Industrial Railway Society “The book deserves a place on the bookshelf of every student of locomotives, especially Bulleid's By current standards, it is good value, and it was a pleasure to examine it.” —The Railway Observer

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ottley's Bibliography of British Railway History. Second Supplement 12957-19605 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Jordan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1804549797
Total Pages : 265 pages
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Download or read book The Well of Saint Nobody written by Neil Jordan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had met her three times and three times forgotten all about her... William Barrow finds himself in lonely retirement in West Cork. Once an internationally renowned pianist, a terrible skin disease has attacked his hands and made it impossible for him to perform. All he can play, haltingly, is Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand. Tara is a piano teacher with barely enough pupils to pay the month's rent. In the local café, the elegant writing of a job advertisement catches her eye: 'Wanted. Housekeeper.' She begins to work in William's house, keeping to herself the knowledge that they have met three times before – encounters that have changed her life, to which he is oblivious. When William stumbles upon a well in the back garden, Tara finds herself longing for revenge. She spins tales of a mythical saint, of the healing powers of the water and of the moss that surrounds it. But as the moss begins to heal William's troubled hands, the lines between legend and reality begin to blur, and past and present collide in unexpected ways. Gripping and lyrical, The Well of Saint Nobody is a story of love, secrets and the elusive possibility of second chances.