In this book, I have covered a wonderful, challenging, exciting life in these few chapters. God has blessed me and saved my life time and again as only He can do. So many exciting and satisfactory accomplishments still come to my mind that I have not recorded. The sincere effort to help people in need as I traveled through a most interesting life, studded with excitement, challenge and the satisfaction of helping others who were not able to accomplish things they needed done has been rewarding. One thing for sure God has given me is a wonderful wife and family. He has guided me down lifes treacherous paths through the briers and brambles, across treacherous streams to a wonderful ending and He has given me the satisfaction of helping others that were in need along the way.
In this book, I have covered a wonderful, challenging, exciting life in these few chapters. God has blessed me and saved my life time and again as only He can do. So many exciting and satisfactory accomplishments still come to my mind that I have not recorded. The sincere effort to help people in need as I traveled through a most interesting life, studded with excitement, challenge and the satisfaction of helping others who were not able to accomplish things they needed done has been rewarding. One thing for sure God has given me is a wonderful wife and family. He has guided me down lifes treacherous paths through the briers and brambles, across treacherous streams to a wonderful ending and He has given me the satisfaction of helping others that were in need along the way.
The Hook Peninsula continues the Irish Rural Landscape series, building on the research agenda established by the internationally successful Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape. Located in county Wexford, this region was the first to be conquered by the Anglo-Normans and its landscape was shaped by the establishment of two Cistercian abbeys (Tintern and Dunbrody) in the Middle Ages. The location of the peninsula beside a major estuary and busy shipping lanes was of vital importance. The Hook figured prominently in the Confederate Wars in the seventeenth century and in the 1798 rebellion." "This compact and highly distinctive peninsula makes for a compelling case-study in which Billy Colfer carefully knits the local story into a wider narrative. An eye for detail and an intuitive understanding of his local community creates a vivid story, while Colfer's obvious love for the Hook infuses the volume with an underlying passion all the more moving for being understated. Ireland, 'an island nation', has at last a volume informed by a maritime perspective from a writer who understands the sea and its formative influence on landscapes and lives. In these beautiful pages, an astonishing array of maps, photographs, paintings, archive sketches and new drawings ensure that the Hook landscape is given a radiant treatment."--BOOK JACKET.
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