John Macbride

Author : Donal Fallon
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847178049
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John MacBride written by Donal Fallon and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major John MacBride, who was Born in Westport, County Mayo in 1868, was a household name in Ireland when many of the leaders of the Easter Rising were still relatively unknown figures. As part of the 'Irish Brigade', a band of nationalists fighting against the British in the Second Boer War, MacBride's name featured in stories in the Freeman's Journal and Arthur Griffith's United Irishman. The Major went on to travel across the United States, lecturing audiences on the blow struck against the British Empire in South Africa. His marriage to Maud Gonne, described as 'Ireland's Joan of Arc', led to further notoriety. Their subsequent bitter separation involved some of the most senior figures in Irish nationalism. MacBride was dismissed by William Butler Yeats as a 'drunken, vainglorious lout; Donal Fallon attempts to unravel the complexities of the man and his life and what led him to fight in Jacob's factory in 1916. John MacBride was executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 5 May 1916, two days before his forty-eighth birthday.

Author : Anna MacBride White
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815603023
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 written by Anna MacBride White and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This correspondence, which began when Gonne was 22 and Yeats was 23 and ended with his death, includes 373 of her letters but only 30 of his, since most of his were destroyed in the Irish Civil War. They are edited with complete notes identifying people and incidents likely to be unfamiliar to current readers. The introduction and connecting material provide biographical information and explain the circumstances in which the letters were written.

Author : Elizabeth Keane
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 071716747X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seán MacBride, A Life written by Elizabeth Keane and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional man, an extraordinary career – a life of Seán MacBride, Ireland's most distinguished statesman Sean MacBride (1904–1988) was at different times the Chief of Staff of the IRA, a top criminal lawyer, leader of Clann na Poblachta, Irish Foreign Minister, UN Commissioner, and a founding member of Amnesty International. He is the only person to have won both the Nobel Peace Prize (1974) and the Lenin Peace Prize (1977). Seán MacBride, A Life, by accomplished historian Elizabeth Keane, is the first complete biography of this multifaceted, complex and internationally renowned Irish politician. From revolutionary terrorist to conservative constitutional politician to liberal elder statesman and international humanitarian, Seán MacBride uncovers the political and personal story of one of twentieth-century Ireland's most controversial figures. Seán MacBride begins with MacBride's birth in Paris in 1904. With icons of the nationalist movement in Ireland for parents, MacBride's future as a politician was fated: his father John MacBride was a Boer War hero executed for his role in the Easter Rising of 1916; his mother Maud Gonne was an outspoken revolutionary and the lost love and muse of Ireland's most famous poet W.B. Yeats. Seán MacBride then looks at MacBride's membership of the IRA, which he joined as teenager. He fought in both the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. Seán MacBride charts his rapid rise through the ranks, looking at how he became the Director of Intelligence and later Chief of Staff of the IRA before relinquishing his position and becoming a top criminal barrister. MacBride entered Dáil Éireann for the first time in 1947 as the leader of Clann na Poblachta, and formed the first coalition government in Irish history in 1948. Appointed Minister for External Affairs (Foreign Minister), Seán MacBride considers MacBride's tenure in office, which included overseeing the acceptance of the European Convention on Human Rights, the rejection of NATO and Ireland's exit from the Commonwealth. His refusal to support fellow Clann na Poblachta TD Noël Browne's Mother-and-Child Scheme in the face of the opposition of the Catholic bishops led to the collapse of the coalition. MacBride lost his seat in the 1957 election, retired officially from Irish party politics and entered the third phase of his life: international statesman and human rights activist. Seán MacBride looks at the pivotal role MacBride played in European and international politics and human rights over the course of his later years, including founding Amnesty International, opposing apartheid in South Africa and agitating against nuclear armament. Few Irish politicians have had such an impact domestically and internationally. From MacBride's violent IRA beginnings to his later advocacy of peace in politics, Seán MacBride, A Life captures the twists and turns of a fascinating career. A figure of national and international importance, one of the most distinguished Irish people of the twentieth century, he has found a biographer of authority and assurance in Elizabeth Keane, whose survey of his life and times is astute, insightful and convincing. Praise for Elizabeth Keane: 'A singular voice in Irish history' The Sunday Business Post Seán MacBride, A Life: Table of Contents Preface - Man of Destiny - A Sort of Homecoming - From Chief-of-Staff to Chief Counsel - Fighting Your Battles - The Harp Without the Crown - Rattling the Sabre - Coming out of the Cave - Catholic First, Irishman Second - A Statesman of International Status - Never Lost His Fenian FateConclusion

Author : Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1846316588
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seán MacBride written by Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Ireland's most abidingly controversial political figures, Seán MacBride (1904-88) was a youthful participant in the Irish Revolution and an active member of the Irish Republican Army, rising through the ranks to occupy a leadership position for fifteen years. Seán MacBride is the first book to focus exclusively on MacBride's republican activities, on which his controversial reputation in Irish and British political circles rests. With extensive use of recently released archival material, including Department of Justice records and Bureau of Military History witness statements, this book combines a biographical focus with wider assessments of the important themes, including the persistence of republican opposition to the state after the Civil War and Ireland's ambiguous experience of World War II.

Author : John MacBride
Publisher : Westport Publishers Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780952444763
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boer War to Easter Rising written by John MacBride and published by Westport Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donal P. McCracken
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9781903688182
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Protest written by Donal P. McCracken and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCracken (history and humanities, U. of Durban-Westville, South Africa) illuminates the contact between Ireland and South Africa in the age of high imperialism, and the interest aroused in Ireland by developments in South Africa and their effects on Irish politics of the time. The first edition was

Author : Dermod Judge
Publisher : Book Guild Publishing
ISBN 13 : 191355127X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MacBride's Wars written by Dermod Judge and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Major John MacBride learns when leading the Irish Brigade in the Second Anglo-Boer War against the British Empire isn’t much help when fighting his estranged wife in the French courts.

Author : Donal P. McCracken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book MacBride's Brigade written by Donal P. McCracken and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of 500 Irish-American men and Irish men who fought the British in the Anglo-Boer war.

Author : Great Britain. Patent Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
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Download or read book Alphabetical Index of Patentees of Inventions written by Great Britain. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: