Irish Rebel

Irish Rebel
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Publisher : St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781250775429
ISBN-13 : 1250775426
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Irish Rebel by : Nora Roberts

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts concludes her Irish Hearts Trilogy with the story of a couple bound by business but fated to fall in love in Irish Rebel. The Royal Meadows farm in Maryland has been in Keeley Grant’s family for generations. Their thoroughbred horses are the pride of the Grant legacy, but to Keeley they’re majestic animals that she cares for and loves. Nothing brings her more joy than sharing her affection and teaching children to ride. But Brian Donnelly, the new horse trainer fresh from Ireland, thinks Keeley is nothing more than a pampered princess more accustomed to side saddle strutting than farm work. Until he witnesses firsthand her wild heart that resembles his own rebellious nature and brings them together in unexpected passion.

Irish Rebel

Irish Rebel
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Publisher : Merrion Press
Total Pages : 406
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ISBN-10 : 9781785370410
ISBN-13 : 1785370413
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Irish Rebel by : Terry Golway

Described by Padraig Pearse as the “greatest of the Fenians”, John Devoy was born before the Famine and lived to see the Irish tricolour flying from Dublin Castle. The descendent of a rebel family, he was an avowed Fenian who went into exile in New York in 1871. Over the next half-century he was the most-prominent leader of the Irish-American nationalist movement. Every Irish leader from Parnell to Pearse sought his counsel. He organised a dramatic rescue of Fenian prisoners from Australia, rallied Irish America behind the Land War, served as a middle man between the Easter rebels and the German government, and helped move Irish-American opinion in favour of the Treaty. When he died in 1928, Devoy was accorded a state funeral and a hero’s burial in Ireland. This new revised edition of the acclaimed biography of this overlooked architect of the Irish independence movement is also the story of Ireland, and of Irish-America, from the Famine to Freedom, examining the extraordinary cloak-and-dagger planning of the Easter Rising and the critical role of America in its outcome. “The Devoy story, in Terry Golway’s hands, combines wide scholarship and adventure: it reads like a novel. Get a comfortable chair when you read this book: you won’t be able to put it down.” – Frank McCourt “Terry Golway tells the story of this exceptional man with affection and deft narrative sense…this book will charm and enlighten readers.” – Thomas Keneally

Vermont's Irish Rebel

Vermont's Irish Rebel
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 591
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ISBN-10 : 0982633009
ISBN-13 : 9780982633007
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Vermont's Irish Rebel by : William L. McKone

Biography of John Lonergan (1837-1902), Irish nationalist and American Civil War hero.

Sounding Dissent

Sounding Dissent
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780472131945
ISBN-13 : 047213194X
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Sounding Dissent by : Stephen Millar

The signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, marked the beginning of a new era of peace and stability in Northern Ireland. As the public has overwhelmingly rejected a return to the violence of the Troubles (1968–1998), loyalist and republican groups have sought other outlets to continue their struggle. Music has long been used to celebrate cultural identity in the North of Ireland: from street parades to football chants, and from folk festivals to YouTube videos, music facilitates the continuation of pre-Agreement identity narratives in a “post-conflict” era. Sounding Dissent draws on original in-depth interviews with Irish republican musicians, contemporary audiences, and former paramilitaries, as well as diverse historical and archival material, including songbooks, prison records, and newspaper articles, to understand the history of political violence in Ireland. The book examines the hagiographic potential of rebel songs to memorialize a pantheon of republican martyrs, and demonstrates how musical performance and political song not only articulate experiences and memories of oppression and violence, but play a central role in the reproduction of conflict and exclusion in times of peace.

Kevin Barry

Kevin Barry
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Publisher : Merrion Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781785373510
ISBN-13 : 178537351X
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Kevin Barry by : Eunan O'Halpin

On 1 November 1920, eighteen-year-old UCD medical student Kevin Barry was hanged in Dublin’s Mountjoy Jail for his role in a bungled IRA operation in which three British soldiers were killed. To this day, he remains a vibrant and celebrated icon of patriotic, idealistic death, his name synonymous with youthful republican sacrifice. His life was short, but Kevin was more than a hapless teen swept away in the revolutionary maelstrom of the time. Here, Professor Eunan O’Halpin, a grand-nephew of Barry, accesses exclusive family records and other archives to explore Kevin’s republicanism and the endurance of his memory, one hundred years on from his untimely death. Kevin’s humorous letters show a rounded, irreverent and humane schoolboy and young man, while British records confirm his laconic heroism as he bravely awaited his inevitable execution. From his unique vantage point, O’Halpin also considers Barry’s death in parallel with those other Irishmen who died for the republican cause within days of his own, how his background challenged assumptions about those who fought for Irish independence, and the lasting legacy of having ‘a martyr in the family’.

Rebel Hearts

Rebel Hearts
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : 9781250088734
ISBN-13 : 1250088739
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Rebel Hearts by : Kevin Toolis

For ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle against the British State. His journeys took him from the back kitchens of Belfast, where men joked while making two-thousand-pound bombs, to prisons for interviews with men serving life sentences, and to the graveyards where mourners weep. Each chapter explores a world where history, faith, and human savagery determine life and death. At once moving and harrowing,Rebel Hearts is the most authoritative and insightful book ever written on the IRA.

The 1916 Irish Rebellion

The 1916 Irish Rebellion
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0268036144
ISBN-13 : 9780268036140
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The 1916 Irish Rebellion by : Bríona Nic Dhiarmada

This lavishly illustrated book presents an informed history of the Easter Rising, one of the most significant political episodes in 20th century Irish history.

Captain Rock

Captain Rock
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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages : 527
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ISBN-10 : 9780299233136
ISBN-13 : 0299233138
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Captain Rock by : James S. Donnelly, Jr

Named for its mythical leader “Captain Rock,” avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821–24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the conflict and a broad exploration of Irish rural society after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Originating in west Limerick, the Rockite movement spread quickly under the impact of a prolonged economic depression. Before long the insurgency embraced many of the better-off farmers. The intensity of the Rockites’ grievances, the frequency of their resort to sensational violence, and their appeal on such key issues as rents and tithes presented a nightmarish challenge to Dublin Castle—prompting in turn a major reorganization of the police, a purging of the local magistracy, the introduction of large military reinforcements, and a determined campaign of judicial repression. A great upsurge in sectarianism and millenarianism, Donnelly shows, added fuel to the conflagration. Inspired by prophecies of doom for the Anglo-Irish Protestants who ruled the country, the overwhelmingly Catholic Rockites strove to hasten the demise of the landed elite they viewed as oppressors. Drawing on a wealth of sources—including reports from policemen, military officers, magistrates, and landowners as well as from newspapers, pamphlets, parliamentary inquiries, depositions, rebel proclamations, and threatening missives sent by Rockites to their enemies—Captain Rock offers a detailed anatomy of a dangerous, widespread insurgency whose distinctive political contours will force historians to expand their notions of how agrarian militancy influenced Irish nationalism in the years before the Great Famine of 1845–51.

An Irish Rebel in New Spain

An Irish Rebel in New Spain
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Publisher : Penn State Press
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9780271091990
ISBN-13 : 0271091991
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis An Irish Rebel in New Spain by : Andrea Martínez Baracs

An Irish Rebel in New Spain recounts the story of the so-called Irish Zorro, who, in 1659, was burned at the stake for conspiring against the empire to make himself king of Mexico, restore the privileges of the Indigenous people, end the persecution of the Jews, and free the African slaves. William Lamport was an Irish rebel, a soldier, a poet, and a thinker. His Catholic family lost their land and their religious freedom after the English conquest of Ireland. In 1640, Lamport emigrated to New Spain, where he witnessed the abuses of the colonial system and later ran afoul of the Mexican Inquisition. Imprisoned in 1642, Lamport argued his own defense as well as that of the Jews who were in prison with him. Along with a concise biography, this volume provides an anthology of Lamport’s most representative writings: his detailed project for a Spanish-supported Irish insurrection; a manifesto and plan for a Mexican uprising against Spain; his self-defense, which he nailed to the doors of the cathedral when he managed to momentarily escape from prison; a selection of his poetry; and the court documents about the accusation that led him to the pyre. This concise, compelling, and original reflection on the systems of (in)justice in seventeenth-century Mexico is designed for classes on early modern Spain, colonial Latin America, and the Inquisition. Those with an affinity for Irish history will also enjoy learning about the colorful life of William Lamport.

Recollections of an Irish Rebel

Recollections of an Irish Rebel
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 530
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015007026894
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Recollections of an Irish Rebel by : John Devoy