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Free Download Linden Peach, "Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction: Gender, Desire and Power"
English | 2007 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 070831998X, 0708322174 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Welsh writing has recently undergone an international renaissance-however, very little of this attention has been directed toward women’s fiction. Aimed at a general audience with a broad array of interests, Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women’s Fiction is the first comparative study of fiction by late-twentieth and twenty-first-century women writers from Ireland, North Ireland, and Wales. This volume breaks new ground in its exploration of rich and critically-deserving texts that have previously been marginalized from much of Welsh and Irish literary fiction in English.

Free Download Graham Turner, "Battle of the Boyne 1690: The Irish campaign for the English crown"
English | 2005 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 184176891X | PDF | 25,9 mb
Osprey’s examination of the battle of the Willamite War in Ireland (1689-1691), which would decide the fate of the crown of England. In April 1685, James II ascended the English throne. An overt Catholic, James proved unpopular with his Protestant subjects, and a group of nobles invited the Dutch prince William of Orange to take the throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688; James II fled to France. James returned in 1689, a French fleet landing him at Kinsale in Ireland. On 14 June 1690, William led an army to Ireland and came face-to-face with the Jacobites along the banks of the Boyne near Drogheda. This book describes the events that led to the momentous battle on July 1, 1690.

Free Download Magic of the Celtic Otherworld: Irish History, Lore & Rituals by Steve Blamires, Roger Clark, Tantor Audio
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B09W82Q2HN | 11 hours and 22 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 312 Mb
Explore a marvelous world of glamoury: the Celtic Otherworld of shadow and Sidhe, a realm where everything that ever was, is, or will be, exists right now. The Celts had a life-affirming, mystical way of viewing and living life, in tune with the forces of Nature and magic. Drawing upon Irish Celtic spiritual tradition, history, literature, and myth, this tried and true guidebook offers a holistic system that will help you reconnect with this enchanting realm-the Green World of the Celts.
Magic of the Celtic Otherworld presents techniques for becoming attuned to the life forces of the Green World through seasonal rituals, visualizations, and practical magical workings. Learn how to find your way around the Otherworld, and gain an understanding of how each of us constantly shapes and affects the land on which we live. Most importantly, discover how to make contact with inhabitants of the Otherworld in order to deepen your spiritual practice and enrich your everyday life.

Free Download M.A. Frank MacEowen, "The Celtic Way of Seeing: Meditations on the Irish Spirit Wheel"
English | ISBN: 1577315413 | 2007 | 288 pages | EPUB | 428 KB
The Celtic way of seeing posits a direct link between the eye and the heart, a link that connects seekers to forces, energies, and knowledge that exist beyond the corporeal world. Here, Frank MacEowen explains this intuitive way of seeing by retelling a traditional Irish story, "The Settling of the Manor of Tara." The story is essential because it introduced to Irish culture the concept of the four directions – north, south, east, and west. For the Irish, just as for Native Americans, the directions act as guides and protectors. Once seekers learn to "see" the directions, spirituality becomes a living thing, making each seeker not just an observer but a participant. After retelling the ancient story in beautiful, prose evocative of ancient Ireland, MacEowen then places its wisdom in contemporary terms, and shares exercises and practices that help readers incorporate the teachings into daily life.

Free Download Mark H. Dunkelman, "Patrick Henry Jones: Irish American, Civil War General, and Gilded Age Politician "
English | ISBN: 0807159662 | 2015 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Patrick Henry Jones’s obituary vowed that "his memory shall not fade among men." Yet in little more than a century, history has largely forgotten Jones’s considerable accomplishments in the Civil War and the Gilded Age that followed. In this masterful biography, Mark H. Dunkelman resurrects Jones’s story and restores him to his rightful standing as an exceptional military officer and influential politician of nineteenth-century America.

Free Download Madeleine Scherer, "Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature "
English | ISBN: 3110673886 | 2021 | 350 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Classical Memories is an intervention into the field of adaptation studies, taking the example of classical reception to show that adaptation is a process that can be driven by and produce intertextual memories. I see ‘classical memories’ as a memory-driven type of adaptation that draws on and reproduces schematic and otherwise de-contextualised conceptions of antiquity and its cultural ‘exports’ in, broadly speaking, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These memory-driven adaptations differ, often in significant ways, from more traditional adaptations that seek to either continue or deconstruct a long-running tradition that can be traced back to antiquity as well as its canonical points of reception in later ages. When investigating such a popular and widespread set of narratives, characters, and images like those that remain of Graeco-Roman antiquity, terms like ‘adaptation’ and ‘reception’ could and should be nuanced further to allow us to understand the complex interactions between modern works and classical antiquity in more detail, particularly when it pertains to postcolonial or post-digital classical reception. In

Free Download Irish Poetry of the 1930s By Gillis, Alan
2005 | 220 Pages | ISBN: 0199277095 | PDF | 2 MB
The 1930s have never really been considered an epoch within Irish literature, even though the Thirties form one of the most dominant and fascinating contexts in modern British literature. This book argues that during this time Irish poets faced up to political pressures and aesthetic dilemmas which frequently overlapped with those associated with "The Auden Generation." In so doing, it offers a provocative intercession into Irish history. But more than this, it offers powerful arguments about the way poetry in general is interpreted and understood.In this way, Gillis seeks to redefine our understanding of a frequently neglected period and to challenge received notions of both Irish literature and poetic modernism.Irish Poetry of the 1930sgives detailed and vital readings of the major Irish poets of the decade, including original and exciting analyses of Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and W. B. Yeats.

Free Download Jarlath Killeen, "Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion Ed 111"
English | ISBN: 1399500554 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Irish Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion provides a comprehensive account of the extent to which Gothic can be traced in Irish cultural life from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, across both elite and popular genres, and through a range of different media, including literature, cinema, and folklore. It responds, in particular, to the understanding that Gothic is ubiquitous in Irish literature. Rather than focus specifically or exclusively on the oft-studied Irish Gothic foursome – Charles Maturin, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde, and Bram Stoker – this companion turns attention to overlooked ‘minor’ figures such as Regina Maria Roche, Stephen Cullen, and Anne Fuller. At the same time, it considers the multi-generic nature of Irish Gothic, thinking beyond fiction and, in particular, the novel, as the Gothic genre par excellence. The collection thus affords fresh perspectives on Irish Gothic and its pervasiveness in Irish culture from the eighteenth century to today.

Free Download Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions: Playwrights, Sexual Politics and the International Left, 1892-1964 By Harris, Susan Cannon
2017 | 280 Pages | ISBN: 1474424465 | PDF | 9 MB
Reveals the untold story of Irish drama’s engagement with modernity’s sexual and social revolutionsThe first modern Irish playwrights emerged in London in the 1890s, at the intersection of a rising international socialist movement and a new campaign for gender equality and sexual freedom. Irish Drama and the Other Revolutions shows how Irish playwrights mediated between the sexual and the socialist revolutions, and traces their impact on left theatre in Europe and America from the 1890s to the 1960s. Drawing on original archival research, the study reconstructs the engagement of Yeats, Shaw, Wilde, Synge, O’Casey, and Beckett with socialists and sexual radicals like Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Morris, Edward Carpenter, Florence Farr, Bertolt Brecht, and Lorraine Hansberry.

Free Download Dark Intervals Irish Lyre Harp KONTAKT | 745.4 Mb
Very simple, yet very exotic sounding library sampled in 6 velocity layers. ​This instrument is complementary with various celtic string instruments, so it can be a valuable add-on to your existing library.