Tag: Irish

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.

Free Download Cornelius G. Buttimer, "Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Houghton Library, Harvard University"
English | ISBN: 0268201013 | 2022 | 864 pages | EPUB | 818 KB

Free Download The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest Who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CHT59CF6 | 2023 | 10 hours and 35 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 302 MB
Author: Jennifer O’Leary
Narrator: Jennifer O’Leary
Today, Tipperary-born priest Patrick Ryan cuts a modest but strong figure, to the layperson. A man of God who has been entrusted with the confessions of hundreds of earnest parishioners. But in fact his story is dark, dramatic, and pivotal to Irish history, on both sides of the border. In The Padre, award-winning investigative journalist Jennifer O’Leary exposes the paramilitary exploits of notorious former Catholic priest and active IRA supporter Patrick Ryan-exposing details which have, outside of his very guarded circles, been unknown until now. Drawing on highly sensitive information, divulged by Ryan during exclusive secret meetings with the author, The Padre lifts the lid on the true extent of the priest’s involvement with the IRA: from being the link between the organisation and the Gaddafi regime, to Ryan’s connection to the failed assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The Padre tells the truly remarkably story of this man of the cloth, and his lifelong struggle with what he, in his heart, believes to be right and wrong.

Free Download Raymond Hickey, "The Oxford Handbook of Irish English "
English | ISBN: 0198856156 | 2024 | 736 pages | EPUB, PDF | 12 MB + 36 MB
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the range of varieties of English spoken on the island of Ireland, featuring information on their historical background, structural features, and sociolinguistic considerations. The first part of the volume explores English and Irish in their historical framework as well as current issues of contact and bilingualism. Chapters in Part II and Part III investigate the structures and use of Irish English today, from pronunciation and grammar to discourse-pragmatic markers and politeness strategies, alongside studies of specific varieties such as Urban English in Northern Ireland and the Irish English spoken in Dublin, Galway, and Cork. Part IV focuses on the Irish diaspora, with chapters covering topics including Newfoundland Irish English and Irish influence on Australian English, while the final part looks at the wider context, such as the language of Irish Travellers and Irish Sign Language. The handbook also features a detailed glossary of key terms, and will be of interest to a wide range of readers interested in varieties of English, Irish studies, sociolinguistics, and social and cultural history.