Author: Helen Walsh Folsom
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN: 9781581823554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
While women in modern Western society have spent the last century fighting for equal rights, women in ancient Ireland were accorded legal equality with men. Under the Brehon Laws women had the right to own property, rule territories, seek an education, and sue for divorce. Celtic women were also warriors, frequently taking up arms and marching into battle with their brothers and husbands.
Ah, Those Irish Colleens!
Author: Helen Walsh Folsom
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN: 9781581823554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
While women in modern Western society have spent the last century fighting for equal rights, women in ancient Ireland were accorded legal equality with men. Under the Brehon Laws women had the right to own property, rule territories, seek an education, and sue for divorce. Celtic women were also warriors, frequently taking up arms and marching into battle with their brothers and husbands.
Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN: 9781581823554
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
While women in modern Western society have spent the last century fighting for equal rights, women in ancient Ireland were accorded legal equality with men. Under the Brehon Laws women had the right to own property, rule territories, seek an education, and sue for divorce. Celtic women were also warriors, frequently taking up arms and marching into battle with their brothers and husbands.
The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag
The Chinook Must Die
Author: Michael O'Reilly
Publisher: Janus Publishing Company Lim
ISBN: 9781857565478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Real and imagined events and characters are expertly woven together in this political thriller about international power struggles, terrorism, and undercover agents. Building up to the mysterious Chinook helicopter crash at Mull of Kintyre in 1994, which killed 25 top British intelligence officials, the novel introduces Martin Carter, a Vietnam veteran and U.S. Special Forces agent who is recruiting for a dangerous mission in Europe. After a murder in Paris, a gun battle near Oxford Street, and a shattering explosion in a top-secret government chamber inside the Channel Tunnel, Martin finds out why he’s really been sent to Europe—and that it’s too late to back out. As powerful G7 countries plot to eliminate the IRA, a second deadly scheme is being plotted against Britain.
Publisher: Janus Publishing Company Lim
ISBN: 9781857565478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Real and imagined events and characters are expertly woven together in this political thriller about international power struggles, terrorism, and undercover agents. Building up to the mysterious Chinook helicopter crash at Mull of Kintyre in 1994, which killed 25 top British intelligence officials, the novel introduces Martin Carter, a Vietnam veteran and U.S. Special Forces agent who is recruiting for a dangerous mission in Europe. After a murder in Paris, a gun battle near Oxford Street, and a shattering explosion in a top-secret government chamber inside the Channel Tunnel, Martin finds out why he’s really been sent to Europe—and that it’s too late to back out. As powerful G7 countries plot to eliminate the IRA, a second deadly scheme is being plotted against Britain.
The Daughter of a Soldier: A Colleen of South Ireland
Author: L. T. Meade
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This is the family story set in Ireland. It deals with everlasting troubles of inheritance and succession in a wealthy family. L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914), a prolific writer of girls' stories.She began writing at 17 and produced over 280 books in her lifetime,[2] being so prolific that no fewer than eleven new titles under her byline appeared in the first few years after her death. She was primarily known for her books for young people, of which the most famous was A World of Girls, published in 1886. However, she also wrote "sentimental" and "sensational" stories, religious stories, historical novels, adventure, romances, and mysteries, including several with male co-authors.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This is the family story set in Ireland. It deals with everlasting troubles of inheritance and succession in a wealthy family. L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914), a prolific writer of girls' stories.She began writing at 17 and produced over 280 books in her lifetime,[2] being so prolific that no fewer than eleven new titles under her byline appeared in the first few years after her death. She was primarily known for her books for young people, of which the most famous was A World of Girls, published in 1886. However, she also wrote "sentimental" and "sensational" stories, religious stories, historical novels, adventure, romances, and mysteries, including several with male co-authors.
The Power of Silence
Author: Colum Kenny
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429921780
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book demonstrates that silence is eloquent, powerful, beautiful and even dangerous. It surrounds and permeates our daily lives. Drawing on a wide range of cross-cultural, literary and historical sources, the author explores the uses and abuses of silence. He explains how silence is not associated with solitude alone but has a much broader value within society.The main themes of The Power of Silence are positive and negative uses of silence, and the various ways in which silence has been understood culturally, socially and spiritually. The book's objectives are to equip people with a better appreciation of the value of silence and to enable them to explore its benefits and uses more easily for themselves.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429921780
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book demonstrates that silence is eloquent, powerful, beautiful and even dangerous. It surrounds and permeates our daily lives. Drawing on a wide range of cross-cultural, literary and historical sources, the author explores the uses and abuses of silence. He explains how silence is not associated with solitude alone but has a much broader value within society.The main themes of The Power of Silence are positive and negative uses of silence, and the various ways in which silence has been understood culturally, socially and spiritually. The book's objectives are to equip people with a better appreciation of the value of silence and to enable them to explore its benefits and uses more easily for themselves.
The Popular Poets and Poetry of Ireland
The Cabinet of Irish Literature
Author: Charles Anderson Read
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Cabinet of Irish Literature
Kells
Author: Helen Walsh Folsom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517175450
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Caitleen McNeill's goal was to escape the poverty and starvation of her childhood. Kells Fitzmichael's mission was to own his own sailing ships. However, within minutes of meeting, they were forced into a marriage of inconvenience from which the binds grew as tangled as a Celtic knot. Each had to survive as they traveled across a nation filled with torture, intrigue, betrayal and death as the Rebellion of 1798 broke out and trusted friends became, sometimes, a worse danger than the enemy. Who could they trust as they traveled across Ireland's war-torn nation in search of Kells' family? Who would not betray them to the dreaded Orangemen for a few palsley coins?What secret did Kells harbor that would help himmiraculously achieve his goal? Kells and Cait learned quickly that they had to trust each other in order to survive and reach a combined goal made of mutual trust and love.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781517175450
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Caitleen McNeill's goal was to escape the poverty and starvation of her childhood. Kells Fitzmichael's mission was to own his own sailing ships. However, within minutes of meeting, they were forced into a marriage of inconvenience from which the binds grew as tangled as a Celtic knot. Each had to survive as they traveled across a nation filled with torture, intrigue, betrayal and death as the Rebellion of 1798 broke out and trusted friends became, sometimes, a worse danger than the enemy. Who could they trust as they traveled across Ireland's war-torn nation in search of Kells' family? Who would not betray them to the dreaded Orangemen for a few palsley coins?What secret did Kells harbor that would help himmiraculously achieve his goal? Kells and Cait learned quickly that they had to trust each other in order to survive and reach a combined goal made of mutual trust and love.
Irish Girls About Town
Author: Maeve Binchy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743457460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from popular Irish women authors.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9780743457460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from popular Irish women authors.