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The Little Book of Tyrone

By: Cathal Coyle

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The Little Book of Tyrone is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this much-loved county. Here you will find out about Tyrone's myth and legend, its proud sporting heritage, its castles and great houses and its famous (and occasionally infamous) men and women. Through quaint villages and bustling towns, this book takes the reader on a journey through County Tyrone and its vibrant past. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the history and the secrets of this ancient county.

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180

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The History Press

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0750962844

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9780750962841

The Charlestown Chronicles

By: Cathal Henry

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The Charlestown Chronicles

By: Cathal Henry

Charlestown has long been a place of strategic importance to Mayo. It has provided many prominent and dedicated residents who have made their contribution not alone to their own area but to the county at large through involvement in public life, sport, community development and business. In The Charlestown Chronicles, Cathal Henry has immortalised the people, places and events that have shaped his native place. Painstaking historical research is presented alongside lively and affectionate personal recollections, resulting in a book to be treasured by Charlestown people across the globe.

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216

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The History Press

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0752481169

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9780752481166

The Little Book of Derry

By: Cathal McGuigan

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The Little Book of Derry

By: Cathal McGuigan

The Little Book of Derry is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Derry. Here you will find out about Derry's history and archaeology, its arts and culture, its proud sporting heritage and its famous (and occasionally infamous) men and women. Through quaint villages and bustling towns, this book takes the reader on a journey through County Derry and its vibrant past. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage and the secrets of this fascinating county.

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179

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The History Press

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0750965835

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9780750965835

Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine

An Oral History of Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

By: Cathal Poirteir

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Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine

An Oral History of Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

By: Cathal Poirteir

Famine Echoes is a groundbreaking oral account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845–52, telling the stories of its victims for the first time ever in their own words and those of their descendants. 'When the potato crop failed no other food was available and the people perished by the hundreds of thousands, along the roadside, in the ditches, in the fields from hunger and cold, and what was even worse – the famine fever. The strongest men were reduced to mere skeletons and they could be met daily with the clothes hanging on them like ghosts.' The Great Irish Famine is the greatest tragedy in Irish history. Over one million people died and nearly two million emigrated as a result. Famine Echoes gives a voice to its victims, offering a unique perspective on the Great Hunger, the defining event of modern Irish history. In Famine Echoes, descendants of Famine survivors recall the community memories of the great hunger in their own words, conveying like never before the heartbreak and horrors their relatives experienced. This remarkable book, a seminal record of the oral transmission of folk memory, is a record of the last living link with the survivors of Ireland's most devastating historical event. In the 1940s, the Folklore Commission conducted interviews with thousands of elderly people around Ireland who remembered what they themselves had heard from ancestors who had survived the Famine. Cathal Póirtéir has edited a selection of these recollections, arranging the material in an order which follows the rough chronology of the Famine itself. Famine Echoes is published to coincide with the RTÉ Radio series of the same name. Famine Echoes: Table of Contents - Folk Memory and the Famine - Before the Bad Times - Abundance Abused and the Blight - Turnips, Blood, Herbs and Fish - 'No Sin and You Starving' - Mouths Stained Green - 'The Fever, God Bless Us' - The Paupers and the Poorhouse - Boilers, Stirabout and 'Yellow Male' - New Lines and 'Male Roads' - 'Soupers', 'Jumpers' and 'Cat Breacs' - The Bottomless Coffin and the Famine Pit - Landlords, Grain and Government - Agents, Grabbers and Gombeen Men - 'A Terrible Levelling of Houses' - The Coffin Ships and the Going Away - Of Curses, Kindness and Miraculous FoodAppendix I Appendix II

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345

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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0717165841

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9780717165841

Out of Control

How My Addiction Almost Killed Me

By: Cathal McCarron,Christy O'Connor

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Out of Control

How My Addiction Almost Killed Me

By: Cathal McCarron,Christy O'Connor

Cathal McCarron is a Tyrone footballer, talented enough to be nominated for an All-Star twice in the last three years. However, he hid a dark secret for years, a gambling addiction which almost destroyed him. While effectively on the run in London in 2013, his life had spiralled so viciously out of control that he ended up having sex with a man for a gay porn website. After getting paid, he walked across the road and gambled half his earnings in a betting shop. When footage subsequently leaked, McCarron could no longer hide his terrible secret, and keep running from his troubled past. He slowly began the long road back to rehabilitation. After a year out of the inter-county game with Tyrone in 2014, McCarron made a remarkable recovery in 2015, ending the season with an All-Star nomination. His story is a remarkable tale of the hidden demons that often visit and terrorise inter-county players. It also underlines the pressures and expectations so often taken for granted with amateur players. McCarron recalls his journey with searing honesty, from the depths of depression and to the edge of suicide to path taken back to recovery and rehabilitation. He is now studying to be a counsellor, aiming to help people rid themselves of the demons that once almost destroyed his life. The edge to the book is added with McCarron still an active inter-county player. His journey will also take you inside the dressing room of a team with serious ambitions of winning another All-Ireland title. McCarron’s story is unlike any other written by a GAA player before.

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314

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Simon and Schuster

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1471157857

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9781471157851

Wars of the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715

An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization

By: Cathal J. Nolan

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Wars of the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715

An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization

By: Cathal J. Nolan

Dominated by the ambitions of France's King Louis XIV, Europe in the years 1650-1715 witnessed a series of wars from which emerged many of the theories, practices, and technologies that characterize modern warfare. During this period, European armies evolved modern ideas of army organization and military leadership, as well as modern views of campaign strategy and battle tactics. As European soldiers and colonists moved into Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas, the practice or influence of their military techniques and ideas also affected wars fought in those places. In this volume's 1000 plus entries, an award-winning author of reference works on international relations and war describes and defines important events, technologies, and individuals from this seminal period of global military history.

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654

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313359202

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9780313359200

American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective

Lords of Land and Labor

By: Cathal Smith

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American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective

Lords of Land and Labor

By: Cathal Smith

This is the first study to systematically explore similarities, differences, and connections between the histories of American planters and Irish landlords. The book focuses primarily on the comparative and transnational investigation of an antebellum Mississippi planter named John A. Quitman (1799–1858) and a nineteenth-century Irish landlord named Robert Dillon, Lord Clonbrock (1807–93), examining their economic behaviors, ideologies, labor relations, and political histories. Locating Quitman and Clonbrock firmly within their wider local, national, and international contexts, American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective argues that the two men were representative of specific but comparable manifestations of agrarian modernity, paternalism, and conservatism that became common among the landed elites who dominated economy, society, and politics in the antebellum American South and in nineteenth-century Ireland. It also demonstrates that American planters and Irish landlords were connected by myriad direct and indirect transnational links between their societies, including transatlantic intellectual cultures, mutual participation in global capitalism, and the mass migration of people from Ireland to the United States that occurred during the nineteenth century.

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261

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Routledge

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1000358054

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9781000358056

Border Ireland

From Partition to Brexit

By: Cathal McCall

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Border Ireland

From Partition to Brexit

By: Cathal McCall

When the 1998 Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of conflict, which was mainly focused on the existence of the Irish border, most breathed a sigh of relief. Then came Brexit. Border Ireland: From Partition to Brexit introduces readers to the Irish border. It considers the process of bordering after the partition of Ireland, to the Good Friday Agreement and attendant debordering to the post-Brexit landscape. The UK's departure from the EU meant rebordering in some form. That departure also reinvigorated the push for a ‘united Ireland’ and borderlessness on the Island. As well as providing a nuanced assessment that will be of interest to followers of UK/Irish relations and European studies, this book’s analysis of processes of bordering/debordering/rebordering helps inform our understanding of borders more generally. Students and scholars of European studies, border studies, politics, and international relations, as well as anyone else with a general interest in the Irish border will find this book an insightful and historically-grounded aid to contemporary events.

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0429996225

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The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650

An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization [2 volumes]

By: Cathal J. Nolan

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The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650

An Encyclopedia of Global Warfare and Civilization [2 volumes]

By: Cathal J. Nolan

The Age of Wars of Religion saw navies, armies, armed merchant companies, and mercenaries battle one another and local potentates in many lands and along numerous shores. Wars of religion were fought in and between all the major religions and civilizations, from Europe to China, in Africa, and in the isolated Americas, mixing motives of knightly idealism, mercenary greed, and competing claims of divine sanction. This unparalleled work traces the extraordinary upheavals of the period in military technology, competing theologies, and civilizational change that were brought about by, or impinged upon, military conflict. It offers nearly 2,000 discrete but cross-referenced entries on cultural, military, religious and political history, as well as geography, biography, and military literature. Close to 2,000 entries offer detailed information on the major events, places, battles, figures, technologies, and ideas one must know to begin to make sense of the past six centuries of global conflicts. Though especially ferocious and intense, the Wars of Reformation and Counter-Reformation fought by Europeans from the 15th through 17th centuries were hardly unique in world or military history. The Byzantine Empire, bastion of Christian Orthodoxy, staggered to the tortuous end of its long conflict with the Ottoman Empire, the Great Power of the Sunni Muslim world. The Ottomans, in turn, were still engaged in an equally ancient intra-Muslim war, between Sunnis and Shi'ites. In India, the Hindu Rajputs and Marathas, and also the Sikhs, organized armies around religious communities to throw off the Muslim Yoke (Mughul Empire), and also fought against Christian invaders from Europe. As for the isolated Americas, ideas of divine kingship sustained by powerful priesthoods and religious warfare also prevailed, as exemplified by the Inca and Aztec empires.

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0313086745

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The Little Book of Tyrone

The Little Book of Tyrone

The Charlestown Chronicles

The Charlestown Chronicles

The Little Book of Derry

The Little Book of Derry

Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine

Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine

Out of Control

Out of Control

Wars of the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715

Wars of the Age of Louis XIV, 1650-1715

American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective

American Planters and Irish Landlords in Comparative and Transnational Perspective

Border Ireland

Border Ireland

The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650

The Age of Wars of Religion, 1000-1650

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