Stories From Tory Island

Author : Dorothy Harrison Therman
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories from Tory Island written by Dorothy Harrison Therman and published by Roberts Rinehart Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of transcripts of conversations with the elderly inhabitants of Tory Island. Personal reminiscences and stories featuring topics such as fairies, death, wakes and ghosts, childbirth and midwifery provide insight into the sparsely populated island's folklore and cultural history.

Author : Random House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099809517
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories from Tory Island written by Random House and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Hunter
Publisher : Colin Smythe
ISBN 13 : 9780861404568
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Waves of Tory written by Jim Hunter and published by Colin Smythe. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where everything seems tame and familiar, islands promise wildness and difference. Tory Island, the most remote and exposed of all the inhabited Irish islands, is no exception to this rule. The great seas ranging in from the Atlantic and the strong currents sweeping along its southern coast have isolated the island thus helping in the retention of a way of life that has long since disappeared on the mainland and the survival of Irish as the spoken language. The Waves of Tory tells the story of this small community in terms of their attachment to the land, their reverence for and awe of the sea, and their well-preserved egalitarian society, where dancers, musicians, storytellers and painters take pride of place. The text, in English and Irish, is interlaced with legends and tales of the supernatural, and illustrated with accounts of island customs and beliefs. The Tory islanders are a people whose roots go back to prehistoric times; typical is the King of Tory, Patsy Dan Rodgers, whose office is pre-Christian in origin. Links with the past are everywhere in evidence from the Iron Age fort, home to Balor of the Evil Eye, to the impressive remains of the early Celtic Church of St Colmcille. Superimposed on this pattern are the clustered settlements and vast open fields of the ancient Rundale farming system and the piers, boat rests, and kelp-pits, the products of man's more recent activities on the sea and the shore. These survivals from the past strike deep resonances with those in search of the "real" Ireland.

Author : Robin Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521218702
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tory Islanders written by Robin Fox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1978-12-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lillis Ó Laoire
Publisher : Europea: Ethnomusicologies and
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On a Rock in the Middle of the Ocean written by Lillis Ó Laoire and published by Europea: Ethnomusicologies and. This book was released on 2005 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Individual desire and overcoming the rigors of social scrutiny are important factors in the development of an active public performer. In a special study of one song, Lillis O Laoire shows how the song itself emerges as a mediator of dilemmas and tensions of island life. In a meticulous exposition of the links between music, text, and performance, the vicissitudes of island life are revealed, while these tensions are alleviated by singing humorous ribald items to provide a deliberate contrast.

Author : Saskia Levy-Rodgers
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book S'Tory Book written by Saskia Levy-Rodgers and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S'Tory Book is a collection of folklore and legends from Tory Island, Donegal. This little book is by no means exhaustive; it is not an encyclopedia or a dictionary. It is simply a collection of memories from islanders, thoughts, ideas, and hopes put together for Shona, Sean, and Aaron, their friends, and all their potential friends in Ireland and elsewhere. I hope that you'll find many unanswered questions in this book and that you'll seek out the answers. I also hope that you'll be fascinated by your own folklore and traditions, that you'll take a great interest in researching these stories, and that you'll come to understand their wisdom and secrets. I hope you enjoy it, and if you have never visited Tory, I hope you might feel like visiting one day. If you do, please remember to take your litter with you, be nice and courteous, and be very careful with the big seal.

Author : Wallace Clark
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9781900935319
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Donegal Islands written by Wallace Clark and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2003 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Sigafoos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781716325298
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cursing Stone written by Tom Sigafoos and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: County Donegal, Ireland. 1884. Your island home is threatened with evictions. What would you be willing to do to stop them?

Author : Tory Bilski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643131613
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Horses of the Summer Sun written by Tory Bilski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wondrous story of adventure and friendship featuring a group of women who ride Icelandic horses. "Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virgina Woolf Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern Iceland, near the Greenland Sea. They escape their ordinary lives to live an extraordinary one at a horse farm perched at the edge of the world. If only for a short while. When they first came to Thingeyar, these women were strangers to one another. The only thing they had in common was their passion for Icelandic horses. However, over the years, their relationships with each other deepens, growing older together and keeping each other young. Combining the self-discovery of Eat, Pray, Love, the sense of place of Under the Tuscan Sun, and the danger of Wild, Wild Horses of the Summer Sun revels in Tory's quest for the "wild" inside her. These women leave behind the usual troubles at home: illnesses, aging parents, troubled teenagers, financial worries and embrace their desire for adventure. Buoyed by their friendships with each other and their growing attachments and bonds with the otherworldly horses they ride, the warmth of Thingeyrar's midnight sun carries these women through the rest of the year's trials and travails. Filled with adventure and fresh humor, as well as an incredible portrait of Iceland and its remarkable equines, Wild Horses of the Summer Sun will enthrall and delight not just horse lovers, but those of us who yearn for a little more wild in everyday life.

Author : Brigid P. Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993592362
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watching the Daisies written by Brigid P. Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long time sufferer of fibromyalgia, Brigid Gallagher set out on a journey between Egypt, India, Rome, Lourdes, Carcassonne and Bali. In this beautiful travel writing memoir on healing, spirituality and alternative medicine, Brigid shares her travel memories and the importance of slowing down. If you enjoyed Eat, Pray, Love, you will enjoy this.