Irish History Of Civilization Volume 1

Author : Don Akenson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077357283X
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish History of Civilization, Volume 1 written by Don Akenson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-02-11 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sprawling chronicle of civilization through Irish eyes, Akenson takes us from St Patrick to Woodie Guthrie, from Constantine to John F. Kennedy, from India to the Australian outback. In two volumes of masterful storytelling he creates ironic, playful, and acerbic historical miniatures - a quixotic series of reconstructions woven into a helix in which the same historical figures reappear in radically different contexts as their narratives intersect with the larger picture.

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 : Donald H. Akenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862078048
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Irish History of Civilization written by Donald H. Akenson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part one of a two-volume comprehensive history - less a history of Ireland, more a history of civilization in an Irish kind of way

Author : Donald Harman Akenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773528918
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Irish History of Civilization written by Donald Harman Akenson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Conor Mac Dari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Wisdom Preserved in Bible and Pyramids written by Conor Mac Dari and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Neville
Publisher : Cassell
ISBN 13 : 9780304362431
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Traveller's History of Ireland written by Peter Neville and published by Cassell. This book was released on 2002 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book will be appreciated by visitors who want more historical background than ordinary series guidebooks supply...Highly recommended...' LIBRARY JOURNAL 'For independent, inquisitive travellers traversing the green roads of Ireland, there is no better guide than A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF IRELAND.' SMALL PRESS Constantly in the news, there are few countries where the background history is so vital to an understanding of its people and culture. A TRAVELLER'S HISTORY OF IRELAND not only offers the reader a chronological outline of the nation's development right up to the present day but also provides an invaluable introduction to this land of poets, saints, eloquent politicians, illustrious soldiers and inspiring rebels. Political, social and industrial history and economics are also well covered. The book includes a comprehensive description of modern Ireland, both North and South, and of its two separate Catholic Nationalist and Protestant Unionist traditions. There is a Historical Gazetteer cross referenced to the main text and particular attention is paid to the classic historical sites, which feature on any visitor's itinerary.

Author : Henry Thomas Buckle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Civilization in England written by Henry Thomas Buckle and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carmel McCaffrey
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461655692
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Ancient Ireland written by Carmel McCaffrey and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2003-06-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age to 1167 A.D., when a Norman invasion brought the country under control of the English crown for the first time. So much of what people today accept as ancient Irish history—Celtic invaders from Europe turning Ireland into a Celtic nation; St. Patrick driving the snakes from Ireland and converting its people to Christianity—is myth and legend with little basis in reality. The truth is more interesting. The Irish, as the authors show, are not even Celtic in an archaeological sense. And there were plenty of bishops in Ireland before a British missionary called Patrick arrived. But In Search of Ancient Ireland is not simply the story of events from long ago. Across Ireland today are festivals, places, and folk customs that provide a tangible link to events thousands of years past. The authors visit and describe many of these places and festivals, talking to a wide variety of historians, scholars, poets, and storytellers in the very settings where history happened. Thus the book is also a journey on the ground to uncover ten thousand years of Irish identity. In Search of Ancient Ireland is the official companion to the three-part PBS documentary series. With 14 black-and-white photos, 6 b&w illustrations, and 1 map.

Author : Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Ancient Irish Civilization written by Patrick Weston Joyce and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Don Akenson
Publisher : Irish History of Civilization
ISBN 13 : 9780773535480
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Irish History of Civilization written by Don Akenson and published by Irish History of Civilization. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grace of fiction combined with the power of history