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Land Is All That Matters

The Struggle That Shaped Irish History

By: Myles Dungan

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Land Is All That Matters

The Struggle That Shaped Irish History

By: Myles Dungan

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside the north-east of the country. Land was vital. But most of it was owned by a class of Protestant, English and often aristocratic landlords. The dream of having more control over their farms, even of owning them, drove many of the most explosive conflicts in Irish history. Rebellions against British rule were rare, but savage outbreaks of murder related to resentments over land ownership, and draconian state repression, were a regular feature of Irish rural life. The struggle for the land was also crucial in driving support for Irish nationalist demands for Home Rule and independence. In this epic narrative, Myles Dungan examines two hundred years of agrarian conflict from the ruinous famine of 1741 to the eve of World War Two. It explores the pivotal moments that shaped Irish history: the rise of 'moonlighting', the infamous Whiteboys and Rightboys, the insurrection of Captain Rock, the Tithe War of 1831–36, the Great Famine of 1845 that devastated the country and drastically reduced the Irish population, and the Land War of 1878–1909, which ended by transferring almost all the landlords' holdings to their tenants. These events take place against the backdrop of prevailing British rule and stark class and wealth inequality. Land Is All that Matters tells the sweeping story of the agrarian revolution that fundamentally shaped modern Ireland.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1801108161

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9781801108164

Four Killings

Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution

By: Myles Dungan

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Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution

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The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 'A vivid and chilling narrative... Confronts uncomfortable questions that still need answering' Roy Foster 'Marries acute storytelling skills with scholarship, fortified throughout by the author's wry sense of humour' Michael Heney 'Narrative history, told through a unique prism' Irish Sunday Independent 'Dungan knows his history; he also knows how to tell a story... A gem of a book' RTÉ Culture 'Sober and intelligent... Dungan does a fine job of showing that little people can make history too' Business Post Myles Dungan's family was involved in four violent deaths between 1915 and 1922. Jack Clinton, an immigrant small farmer from County Meath, was murdered in the remote and lawless Arizona territory by a powerful rancher's hired assassin; three more died in Ireland, and each death is compellingly reconstructed in this extraordinary book. What unites these deaths is the violence that engulfed Ireland during the war of independence, but also the passions unleashed by arguments over the ownership of the soil. In focusing on one family, Four Killings offers an original perspective on this still controversial period: a prism through which the moral and personal costs of violence, and the elemental conflict over land, come alive in surprising ways.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1800244878

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9781800244870

How the Irish Won the West

By: Myles Dungan

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How the Irish Won the West

By: Myles Dungan

Here is the full story of the Irish immigrants and their decedents whose hard work helped make the West what it is today. Learn about the Irish members of the Donner party, forced to consume human flesh to survive the winter; mountain men like Thomas Fitzpatrick, who discovered the South Pass through the Rockies; Ellen “Nellie” Cashman, who ran boarding houses and bought and sold claims in Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada; and Maggie Hall, who became known as the “whore with a heart of gold.” A fascinating and entertaining look at the history of the American West, this book will surprise many and make every Irish American proud.

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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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1626367310

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9781626367319

How the Irish Won the West

By: Myles Dungan

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1616081007

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9781616081003

Land Is All That Matters

The Struggle That Shaped Irish History

By: Myles Dungan

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Four Killings

Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution

By: Myles Dungan

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Irish Voices from the Great War

By: Myles Dungan

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Irish Voices from the Great War

By: Myles Dungan

This pioneering study, first published in 1995, retains its rank as one of the most powerful histories ever written about Irish involvement in World War 1. This year, the centenary of the war, sees its timely re-publication as the Irishmen who fought in that war re-enter the national memory after decades of indifference and hostility. The gradual softening of attitudes over the last twenty years amid great historic change on the island of Ireland, is due in no small part to the efforts of historians, such as Myles Dungan, to tell thousands of forgotten stories. Drawing on the diaries, letters, literary works and oral accounts of soldiers, Myles Dungan tells some of the personal stories of what Irishmen, unionist and nationalist, went through during the Great War and how many of them drew closer together during that horror than at any time since. This volume deals with a selection of the most important battles and campaigns in which the three Irish Divisions participated.

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Merrion Press

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1908928832

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If You Want to Know who We are

Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society, 1913-2013

By: Myles Dungan

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Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society, 1913-2013

By: Myles Dungan

A history of the last 100 years of the Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society.

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Gill

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0717157121

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9780717157129

The Stealing of the Irish Crown Jewels

An Unsolved Crime

By: Myles Dungan

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The Stealing of the Irish Crown Jewels

An Unsolved Crime

By: Myles Dungan

Dublin, 1907. Days before a crucial State visit, the Irish crown jewels go mysteriously missing. In the ensuing chaos, suspicions are rife and theories proliferate. The police believe it to be an inside job and their investigation leads to a web of political and sexual intrigue that comes close to the Crown itself. The investigation stalls, the culprit goes free and the jewels are never recovered. This is an account of one of Ireland's most fascinating unsolved crimes.

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1860591825

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Land Is All That Matters

Land Is All That Matters

Four Killings

Four Killings

How the Irish Won the West

How the Irish Won the West

How the Irish Won the West

How the Irish Won the West

Land Is All That Matters

Land Is All That Matters

Four Killings

Four Killings

Irish Voices from the Great War

Irish Voices from the Great War

Irish Voices from the Great War

Irish Voices from the Great War

If You Want to Know who We are

If You Want to Know who We are

The Stealing of the Irish Crown Jewels

The Stealing of the Irish Crown Jewels

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