The Donnellys Powder Keg

Author : John Little
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773058452
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Donnellys: Powder Keg written by John Little and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A violent family living in violent times. In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own. The children are raised in an incredibly violent community and cultivate a devoted loyalty to their mother and siblings, which often leads to problems with the law and those outside of the family. The tensions between the family and their community escalate as the family’s enemies begin to multiply. The brothers go into business running a stagecoach line and repay all acts of violence perpetrated against them, which only worsens the situation. Refusing to take a backwards step, the Donnellys stand alone against a growing power base that includes wealthy business interests in the town of Lucan, the local diocese of the Roman Catholic Church, law authorities and a number of their neighbours.

Author : Thomas P. Kelley
Publisher : Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9781895565249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Donnellys written by Thomas P. Kelley and published by Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terrible Donnelly feud, by far the most notorious and violent in the history of Canada, began in the spring of 1847 only a few hours after James Donnelly, an Irish immigrant, first arrived in the town of Lucan, Ontario. The feud lasted nearly 33 years and was marked by murders, gang wars, highway robbery, mass arson, derailed trains, mutilations, and barbarisms paralleling the Dark Ages.

Author : RAY FAZAKAS
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1466913002
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Donnellys written by RAY FAZAKAS and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The massacre of the Donnellys by their fellow church members has fascinated the public in the English-speaking world for well over a hundred years. Contained in this book are intriguing new photographs never before published and significant new information, which will pique the interest even of those who have been familiar for years with this bit of North American folk history with Irish roots.

Author : Roy Bongartz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powder Keg on the Brandywine written by Roy Bongartz and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Keith Ross Leckie
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
ISBN 13 : 1771622407
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cursed! Blood of the Donnellys written by Keith Ross Leckie and published by Douglas & McIntyre. This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the feuds and famine of Tipperary, Ireland in 1845, Jim Donnelly and Johannah McGee fall passionately in love. She is the beautiful daughter of an affluent estate manager, he the rebellious son of dispossessed peasants. With her father’s men in pursuit and a sizable price on Jim’s head, they board a ship set for Canada to start a new life and put the troubles of the old country behind them. Thousands of miles away in rural Ontario, they find the feuds and vendettas of Ireland are very much alive. Jim must make a place for his young family not just with his back, but with his fists. Fifteen years later, the Donnelly family have become one of the most powerful in Lucan Township, loved by some and hated by others. Jim and Johannah’s sons are notorious as both fighters and lovers and torment the townspeople, swinging shillelaghs, burning barns and seducing daughters. But certain citizens of Lucan have had enough. At midnight on February 3, 1880, a mob of thirty armed men in women’s clothing and carnival masks ride out for the Donnelly farm. Sustained by whisky and the blessings of the local priest, their goal is to wipe the Donnelly family from the face of the earth. Yet there is an eye witness and during the trial that follows, it becomes clear that in small town Ontario of the late 1800s, order is valued above truth. Eventful and conveyed with cinematic detail, Cursed! Blood of the Donnellys is an engaging and historically enlightening read.

Author : W. Montgomery
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 587090790X
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Montgomery manuscripts written by W. Montgomery and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1869 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Montgomery manuscripts. containing accounts of the colonization of the Ardes, in the county of Down, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James. Memoirs of the first, second, and third Viscounts Montgomery, and Captain George Montgomery: also, a description

Author : Ray Fazakas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781466971103
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Donnelly Album written by Ray Fazakas and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Donnelly Album By now everyone in Canada knows at least one version of the brutal slaying of members of the Donnelly family on the night of February 3, 1880. The Donnelly Album tells in compelling detail the story of the Donnellys-James and Johannah and their seven sons and one daughter. Arriving in Canada from Tipperary, Ireland, in the 1840s, the family settled in the boisterous Irish pioneer community in Biddulph Township near London, Ontario. For the next thirty years, their activities gained wide notoriety in the surrounding district. The father was once convicted of murder but escaped the gallows. The sons grew up to be handsome, reckless, enterprising in business, and dangerous in combat. Largely because of their presence, Lucan, the village nearest their farm home, became known as the widest town in Canada. What is it about the Donnellys that have fascinated so many people for many years? Were they really as wicked as their enemies have portrayed them? Why was no one ever convicted of the murders? What happened to the surviving Donnellys? Why do local people today still fell so strongly, both pro and con, about the family? After fifteen years of exhaustive research, Ray Fazakas has produced the definitive account of the famous feud and its tragic consequences. He has also collected an astonishing treasure trove of old photographs, contemporary drawings, maps, and documents of the Donnellys, their murderers, and the sites and people involved in the events. This unique combination of narrative and illustration recreates not just an epic tragedy but an entire segment of Canadian frontier life. Ray Fazakas is a well-known Hamilton lawyer.

Author : James Reaney
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550028324
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Donnellys written by James Reaney and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, these three plays explore the saga of a secret society and massacre that stunned the Canadian public in 1880.-Based on a true story, these three plays explore the saga of a secret society and massacre that stunned the Canadian public in 1880.

Author : Dorothy F. Shaw
Publisher : Red Queen Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defensive Heart - The Donnellys book 2 written by Dorothy F. Shaw and published by Red Queen Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uptown girl, tattooed bad boy. Think you know which one is wild? You’d be wrong. THE DONNELLYS, BOOK 2 Greenwich Village is home to successful artist Jimmy Donnelly, and the world is his playground. A broken heart in college left him with zero interest in being tied down. But when he meets a sexy, quick-witted Manhattan attorney, he reconsiders his bad boy ways. Sonja Martin’s life is filled with work, an ex-husband who refuses to stay gone, and a teenage daughter who won’t follow the rules. Jimmy, with his myriad of tattoos and piercings, looks more like one of her clients than a potential lover. But when every argument between them feels more like foreplay, she can’t seem to stay out of his bed. The heat burns through whatever defenses Sonja thought she had. And Jimmy finds his every fantasy fulfilled—and exceeded—by a woman whose fire burns as bright as her fiercely guarded vulnerability. But his case for breaking her out of her self-imposed mold might just be dismissed. And he’ll lose the best thing he’s ever found. Warning: This book might piss you off. But if I’ve done my job, while you’re busy being pissed off, you’ll also fall in love with the hero and the heroine. May contain: A pompous, misogynistic ex-husband. A rebellious teenager. A ton of sex. Adventurous sex. Make-up sex. Desperate-OMG-GET-YOUR-CLOTHES-OFF sex… Did I mention there’s a lot of sex?

Author : Bayard Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: