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Free Download Eileen Kearney, Charlotte Headrick, "Irish Women Dramatists: 1908-2001 (Irish Studies)"
English | 2014 | pages: 360 | ISBN: 0815633750 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Irish women dramatists have long faced an uphill challenge in getting the recognition and audience of their male counterparts. There are more female playwrights now than ever before, but they are often ignored by mainstream theatres. Kearney and Headrick strive to shift the spotlight with Irish Women Dramatists. The plays collected in this volume represent a cross-section of the excellent dramatic output of Irish women writing in the twentieth century. In addition to the scripts and biographical introductions, the anthology includes a detailed, critical, annotated essay addressing the development of the Irish theatre throughout this time period, and the place women have artistically carved out for themselves in a traditionally male-dominated theatre industry and dramatic canon. One of the few collections of plays by Irish women, this volume contextualizes the political and sociological climate in which these playwrights developed. As theatre practitioners-actors and directors-as well as scholars, Kearney and Headrick have devoted years of research to discovering and rediscovering the contributions these women have made-and continue to make-in the Irish and world theatre scenes.

Free Download War and an Irish Town by Eamonn McCann, Audible Studios
English | 2018 | ISBN: B07KMBFD4N | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 128 Kbps / 10 hours and 57 minutes | 303 Mb
McCann’s account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto – first published in 1974 – quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the center of events in Derry which first brought Northern Ireland to world attention. He witnessed the gradual transformation of the civil rights movement from a mild campaign for "British Democracy" to an all-out military assault on the British state.
This book describes the people involved in the war, gives an account of the springs of the "Catholic" opposition, tells what their world was like and how their background affected the daily conduct of events. McCann gets beyond the rhetoric of the organized groups to the real people involved – people who are not so different from those in any other British town.

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Free Download The Story We Carry in Our Bones: Irish History for Americans (Audiobook)
English | September 14, 2021 | ASIN: B09F6Y6BY7 | M4B@128 kbps | 8h 50m | 482 MB
Author and Narrator: Juilene Osborne-McKnight
More than 40 million people consider themselves Irish American, and yet most of them do not truly understand the rich cultural history of their ancestors. From prehistoric times to the emigration of the Irish to Amerikay, this broad, yet comprehensive, history gives a general overview of the deep history of Irish Americans.
The book includes such interesting topics as the four cycles of Irish storytelling, ancient Celtic legends of shape-shifting and Fair Folk, the six Gaelic languages and their relation to one another, the Gallic Wars with Julius Caesar, the Anglo-Norman invasion, the sacred ceremonies and religious beliefs of the Druids, the real story of St. Patrick, the Great Famine brought on by British involvement, the mass exodus of Irish to America, and the struggle for Irish Americans to rebuild their lives upon new soil, in an unwelcome land.

Free Download The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World by Thomas Keneally, John McDonough, Recorded Books
English | 2011 | ISBN: B005BPUAJU | Format: MP3 / Bitrate: Variable / 35 hours and 50 minutes | 985 Mb
Thomas Keneally, the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler’s List, is universally praised for crafting smooth narratives from authentic historical events. With The Great Shame, he turns his insightful eye toward the Irish struggle through the 19h century. In sharp contrast to much of Europe, Ireland was a terrible place to be during the 1800s. Many of the nation’s finest people set sail for America and Canada. Others were forcibly exiled to Australia for committing crimes as minor as shoplifting. And approximately one million perished when a widespread potato fungus fueled a devastating famine. But the Irish survived-on their homeland and spanning the globe-making profound contributions to the world. Epic in scope, this account captures the humanity of these events and ultimately emerges as a message of hope and glory. Keneally, an Australian with Irish bloodties, powerfully examines many shattered lives-including those of his own relatives. Narrator John McDonough brings a spirit to this extraordinary book that will not soon be forgotten.

Free Download Utter Disloyalist: Tadhg Barry and the Irish Revolution by Donal Ó Drisceoil
English | October 29th, 2021 | ISBN: 178117797X | 288 pages | True EPUB | 1.49 MB
Tadhg Barry was the last high-profile victim of the crown forces during the Irish War of Independence. A veteran republican, trade unionist, journalist, poet, GAA official and alderman on Cork Corporation, he was shot dead in Ballykinlar internment camp on 15 November 1921.

Free Download The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money by Jennifer O’Leary
English | October 2nd, 2023 | ISBN: 1785374613 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 2.95 MB
For almost two decades, Father Patrick Ryan evaded intelligence agencies across Europe. The subject of two unsuccessful extradition requests, he was, for a time, one of the most wanted men in Britain.

Free Download Patrick Bixby, "Nietzsche and Irish modernism"
English | ISBN: 1526163217 | 2022 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Nietzsche and Irish Modernism demonstrates how the ideas of the controversial German philosopher played a crucial role in the emergence and evolution of a distinctly Irish brand of modernist culture. Making an essential new contribution to the history of modernism, the book traces the circulation of these ideas through the writings of George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, and James Joyce, as well as through minor works of literature, magazine articles, newspaper debates, public lectures, and private correspondence. These materials reveal a response to Nietzsche that created abiding tensions between Irish cultural production and reigning religious and nationalist orthodoxies, during an anxious period of Home Rule agitation, world war, revolution, civil war, and state building. With its wealth of detail, the book greatly enriches our understanding of modernist culture as a site of convergence between art and politics, indigenous concerns and foreign perspectives.

Free Download Sarah Künzler, "Memory and Remembering in Early Irish Literature: Beyond the Backward Look "
English | ISBN: 311079909X | 2023 | 370 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 3 MB
Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What attitudes to remembering and forgetting are expressed in secular early Irish texts? How do the texts conceptualise the past and what does this conceptualisation tell us about the present and future? Who mediates and validates different versions of the past and how is future remembrance guaranteed? This study approaches such questions through close readings of individual texts. It centres on three major aspects of medieval Irish memory culture: places and landscapes, the provision of information about the past by miraculously old eye-witnesses, and the personal, social and cultural impact of forgetting. The discussions shed light on the relationship between memory and forgetting and explore the connections between the past, present and future. This shows the fascinating spatio-temporal identity constructions in medieval Ireland and links the Irish texts to the broader European world. The monograph makes this rich literary sources available to an interdisciplinary audience and is of interest to both a general medievalist audience and those working in Cultural Memory Studies.

Free Download Philip Smith, "Irish Fairy Tales"
English | 1993 | ISBN: 0486275728 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 2.8 mb
The age-old charm of Irish folklore gives special sparkle to this collection of eight tongue-in-cheek tales. Wicked old hags, clever leprechauns, courageous tailors, evil giants, and other characters come to life in such fanciful yarns as "Hudden and Dudden and Donald O’Neary," "Conal and Donal and Taig," "The Old Hag’s Long Leather Bag," "The Field of Boliauns," "The Sprightly Tailor," "The Giant’s Stairs," "The Bee, the Harp, the Mouse, and the Bum-Clock," and "The Black Horse." Reset in large, easy-to-read type, with six illustrations, these beloved stories from the Emerald Isle will delight readers of any age with their warmth, whimsy, and sly humor.

Free Download Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers & Everyday Heroes by Leon Diop
English | October 1st, 2023 | ISBN: 1915071232 | 264 pages | True EPUB | 3.97 MB
A landmark publication in Irish history; this is a celebration of Black Irish identity.