epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Bryce Evans [Evans, Bryce]

Budgetary Policy Aiken’s first budget as Minister for Finance in early May 1946 was generally considered to be a ‘good news’ budget. Press reaction was almost universally positive. The Irish ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-03 | Author:Tim Fanning [Fanning, Tim]

10 Knights and Bishops The Knights of Saint Columbanus had a quasi-mythical aura in 1950s’ Ireland. Membership of the secretive lay Catholic order was deemed by the Catholic middle classes ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Ruth Marshall

References: Maggie Malone: SFS (1937-38) Maggie Malone, Quin, County Clare, Ballycar, p.216. The Fairies Dance in Glandree: SFS (1937-38) Maire ni Maoloney, Glandree, Tulla. Drumcharley NS, p.176. The Taking of ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-05 | Author:Doreen McBride

‘I knew I was stressed,’ he muttered, ‘but I didn’t realise I was going stark, staring bonkers. Toes can’t talk to you! Perhaps being High King of the whole of ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-28 | Author:Madeline McCully [McCully, Madeline]

22 THE LEGEND OF DANNY BOY Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen and down the mountainside The summer’s gone and all the roses ...

epub |eng | | Author:Larry Kirwan

“Raise money?” My stomach did a flip. I had never asked for a penny in my life. Even back in Wexford as a child, I had worked summers, bought my ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Joe McGowan [McGowan, Joe]

Originally, harvest celebrations were held here to celebrate the pagan goddess Áine; they have continued to recent times as a Christian festival. Here then we have this most remarkable well, ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-07 | Author:Michael Twomey

Martial Law The attack at Bandon was not the only news received by Boyle that attempts to overrun his plantations and towns were being carried out. He received a letter ...

epub |eng | 2021-08-22 | Author:David Blake Knox

Patrick Breen from County Wexford. Taken prisoner in 1941 when his ship, the Athelfoam, was attacked in the North Atlantic by the German battleship Scharnhorst, Breen was the first Irish ...

epub |eng | 1975-01-15 | Author:D. K. Broster [Broster, D. K.]

And even as Ardroy cautiously lifted the latch of the stable door at Dalmally, away in the little rebuilt barracks near Inversnaid, on Loch Lomond, Captain Craven of Beauclerk’s regiment ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Henry O'Brien [O'Brien, Henry]

* * * CHAPTER XXI. I have stated that it was from the Pish-de-danaans or Yavana philosophers of Egypt that Moses had learned the allegories of the Deluge and of ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-19 | Author:Leanne McCormick [McCormick, Leanne]

Churches and VD The association of religion with VD legislation and the importance of the Churches in determining attitudes was more important in Ireland, both North and South, than in ...

pdf | | | Author:Brian Drohan

epub |eng | | Author:Francis Barnard

A DESCRIPTION OF FITZ-ALDELM. .................. GIRALD. CAMBR. EXPUG. HIBENI. LIB. II. CAP. XVI. THIS FITZ-ALDELM WAS A STOUT man, yet neither in height nor build much above the ordinary size. ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-07-15 | Author:Caroline Kennedy-Pipe [Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline]

In Cyprus the British had had experience of dealing with insurgents who had operated in a similar fashion. For example, George Grivas, leader of the EOKA [Ethniki Organosis Kyprion Agonistan] ...