The Great Irish Politics Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Irish Politics Book write by David McCullagh. This book was released on 2021-10-22. The Great Irish Politics Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The latest book in the Gill Books series of important topics tackled by experts, this engaging guide demystifies political systems, elections, voting, and government, and explores issues including human rights, freedom of speech, and fake news.
Rogues and Redeemers
Rogues and Redeemers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rogues and Redeemers write by Gerard O'Neill. This book was released on 2012. Rogues and Redeemers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the bestselling coauthor of Black Mass, a behind-the-scenes portrait of the Irish power brokers who forged and fractured twentieth-century Boston. Rogues and Redeemers tells the hidden story of Boston politics--the cold-blooded ward bosses, the smoke-filled rooms, the larger-than-life pols who became national figures: Honey Fitz, the crafty stage Irishman and grandfather to a president; the pugilistic Rascal King, Michael Curley; the hectored Kevin White who tried to hold the city together during the busing crisis; and Ray Flynn, the Southie charmer who was truly the last hurrah for Irish-American politics in the city. For almost a century, the Irish dominated Boston politics with their own unique, clannish brand of coercion and shaped its future for good and ill. Former Boston Globe investigative reporter Gerard O'Neill takes the reader through the entire journey from the famine ships arriving in Massachusetts Bay to the wresting of power away from the Brahmins of Beacon Hill to the Title I wars of attrition over housing to the rending of the city over busing to the Boston of today--which somehow through it all became a modern, revitalized city, albeit with a growing divide between the haves and have-nots. Sweeping in its history and intimate in its details, Rogues and Redeemers echoes all the great themes of The Power Broker and Common Ground and should take its place on that esteemed shelf as a classic, definitive epic of a city.
Black '47 and Beyond
Black '47 and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black '47 and Beyond write by Cormac Ó Gráda. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Black '47 and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.
Biting at the Grave
Biting at the Grave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Biting at the Grave write by Padraig O'Malley. This book was released on 1991-10-31. Biting at the Grave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of the British Government and the hopeless combat of the Protestant and Roman Catholic factions in the Northern Ireland struggle explicable, and exposes the politics behind it."--The New York Times Book Review
Great Irish Speeches
Great Irish Speeches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Irish Speeches write by Richard Aldous. This book was released on 2009. Great Irish Speeches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stirring anthology of 50 speeches""eulogies and damnations, new beginnings and last words, threats of war and demands for peace""that have shaped Irish historyFiftyof the most stirring and memorable speeches in Irish history are collected here""from the political oratories of Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins, and Eamon De Valera to emotive addresses by the nation s celebrated poets, writers, and musicians. All of the included speeches have had a remarkable impact on the course of Irish and world history.The oratorical skills of the greatest names in Irish politics and culture are here: Henry Grattan, Daniel O'Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins, W. B. Yeats, Eamon de Valera, John F. Kennedy, and Seamus Heaney, to name but a few. Each speech is preceded by an introduction, which places the address in context and underlines its historical significance, as well as an iconic photograph of the speaker. Presented chronologically, the collection provides tremendous insight into Irish history."
