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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.

Free Download James Silas Rogers, "Irish-American Autobiography: The Divided Hearts of Athletes, Priests, Pilgrims, and More"
English | ISBN: 0813229189 | 2016 | 208 pages | EPUB | 1367 KB
Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though it’s often an indirect one. True, the age of heroic immigration is over, and today the term "Irish-American" almost always means an American of Irish descent. If the Irish long ago ceased to be America’s largest ethnic group, they’ve nonetheless stayed among the most visible (not least because St Patrick’s Day has been adopted by the nation at large). But for all the external trappings of Irishness, the terms, traditions, and nuances of that identity stay elusive.

Free Download Unfinished business: The politics of ‘dissident’ Irish republicanism By Marisa McGlinchey; Kevin Bean
2019 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0719096987 | PDF | 58 MB
This book discusses the development of ‘dissident’ Irish republicanism and considers its impact on politics throughout Ireland since the 1980s. Based on a series of interviews with over ninety radical republican activists from the wide range of groups and currents which make up ‘dissident’ republicanism, the book provides an up-to-date assessment of the political significance and potential of the groups who continue to oppose the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement. It shows that the ‘dissidents’ are much more than traditionalist irreconcilables left behind by Gerry Adams’ entry into the mainstream. Instead the book suggests that the dynamics and trajectory of ‘dissident’ republicanism are shaped more by contemporary forces than historical tradition and that by understanding the "dissidents" we can better understand the emerging forms of political challenge in an age of austerity and increasing political instability internationally.

Free Download Official Irish Republicanism, 1962 to 1972 By Sean Swan
2008 | 424 Pages | ISBN: 1430319348 | EPUB | 1 MB
A history of the Official Irish Republican movement, from the IRA’s 1962 ceasefire to the Official IRA’s permanent ceasefire in 1972. The civil rights movement, the outbreak of violence in August 1969, the Official IRA’s campaign, the ceasefire, and later developments towards ‘Sinn Fein the Workers’ Party’, are explored. "the first in-depth study of this crucial period in the history of Irish republicanism. Using his unprecedented access to the internal documents of the movement and interviews with key participants Swan’s work will transform our understanding of this transformative period in the history of the movement.," Henry Patterson, Author of ‘The Politics of Illusion: A Political History of the IRA’. "There is much fascinating material . and also much good sense.," Richard English, Author of ‘Armed Struggle, A History of the IRA’.."an outstanding job teasing out the detail of an incredibly complex process." Roy Johnston