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Danny Boy : The Beloved Irish Balladby Malachy McCourt. Malachy McCourt's latest tome deserves recognition as one of the finest books written by himself or his brother Frank. It is an intriguing, occasionally fascinating, popular history on the origins and subsequent popularity of the Irish ballad "Danny Boy". |
1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish-American Historyby Edward T. O'Donnell.Virtually every chapter of American history has been shaped by the millions of immigrants who have arrived on these shores over the centuries. And none more so than the Irish. As historian Edward T. O’Donnell documents in 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History, Irish immigrants have played a central role in the defining the American character and identity. For more than four hundred years the Irish have fled British oppression, religious persecution, and during the famine years in the 1840s, mass starvation to begin a new life in America. Here, while enduring poverty and discrimination, the Irish released their long-suppressed talents as entrepreneurs, leaders, scholars, soldiers, builders, athletes, writers, and artists. |
Wars of the Irish Kings : A Thousand Years of Struggle from the Age of Myth Through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
by David W. McCullough (Editor),
For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its monasteries and its wars. The artistic flourishing of the monasteries has received a good deal of attention, but the violent and varied wars have in recent years gone unremembered. In Wars of the Irish Kings, David Willis McCullough has turned back to the earliest accounts of these struggles to present a rich tapestry of Ireland's fight for its identity.
Beginning with the legends of ancient wars and warriors, moving through a time when history and storytelling were not separate crafts, into a time when history was as much propaganda as fact, Wars of the Irish Kings tells of tribal battles, foreign invasions, Viking raids, family feuds, wars between rival Irish kingdoms, and wars of rebellion against the English.
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For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes by Terry Golway. For the Cause of Liberty is the story of Irish nationalism, from the legendary king Brian Boru, who united the chieftains of Ireland to drive out the Vikings, to the still-unresolved conflict in Northern Ireland. In a fast-paced narrative, Terry Golway tells a thousand years of Irish history, brilliantly describing the achievements of the patriots who kept alive the dream of Irish freedom until they finally succeeded. |
The Great Shame : And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World by Thomas Keneally. The Booker Prize-winning Schindler's List (on which Steven Spielberg based his Oscar-winning film) demonstrated that Thomas Keneally could make history as compelling as any novel. His latest book, The Great Shame, expands upon the achievement of his earlier fiction. This is more than just the story of the Keneally family tree, transported from Ireland to Australia in the 19th-century. It is the story of how Irish men and women came to be dispersed all over the world, and what they made of their lives in their new homes. It is the epic history of a whole people. |
Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn. Bard is the sweeping historical tale of the coming of the Irish to Ireland, and of the men and women who made the Emerald Isle their
own. Morgan Llywelyn is the internationally bestselling author of
The Lion of Ireland and The Elementals.
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
by Thomas Cahill.
This narrative tells the story of how Europe evolved from the
classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, this
transition could not have taken place. Irish monks and scribes
maintained records of Western civilization and brought their uniquely
Irish world-view to the task.
The "entirely engaging" (New York Times), "fascinating" (Booklist),
"engrossing" (Los Angeles Times), and nationally bestselling
chronicle of the pivotal role the Irish played in preserving and
transmitting the classical literature of both Greece and Rome.
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The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America by Edward Laxton.
Between 1846 and 1851, more than one million potato famine emigrants, among them the child Henry Ford and Patrick Kennedy, great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy.sailed from Ireland to America in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships and made new lives for themselves. Now, 150 years later, here is their story. Includes superb color paintings by Rodney Charman, facsimile passenger lists, and other memorabilia. 20 color and b&w illus.
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The Course of Irish History
by F.X. Martin (Editor), T. W. Moody.
Much Irish history is written as a matter of heroes and leaders, of great personalities and sweeping events. T. W. Moody and F. X. Martin's collection of essays by leading historians offers all those things, but it takes the land itself as its starting point. Ireland, they write, has always been poor because of its ungiving soil; always isolated because of its ring of imposing mountains and steep hills--but always open to invasion from the east across the calm, narrow Irish Sea, because of which, they write, "our present-day laws and institutions have their origins in England." While taking a long view of events, they manage to compress thousands of years of history into this fact-filled, highly readable book.
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