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The Belligerent Prelate

An Alliance between Archbishop Daniel Mannix and Eamon de Valera

By: Patrick Mannix

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The Belligerent Prelate

An Alliance between Archbishop Daniel Mannix and Eamon de Valera

By: Patrick Mannix

This book is an examination and evaluation from a historical perspective of the alliance that was established and forged between the former Taoiseach and President of Ireland, Eamon de Valera, and the former President of Maynooth and Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia, Dr Daniel Mannix. The book will examine how the alliance between the two men played a pivotal role in Ireland’s push for independence. The Archbishop’s role is used as a symbol of the vast Irish diaspora worldwide and how their support, both financially and physically through demonstrations for Ireland, helped keep the push for autonomy alive. Having examined the role the Archbishop played in his alliance with de Valera and the clergy, the book appraises how Dr Mannix, so revered at one stage in Irish society, became such an isolated figure after 1925. Irish history has largely neglected the role of the Archbishop. This historical analysis, grounded in research of both primary and secondary sources including previously undocumented oral evidence, archival papers, written public and private correspondence between the two characters and visual sources, will help to replenish his role.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443835366

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9781443835367

Havana Bay

By: John Patrick

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Havana Bay

By: John Patrick

Cuba, 1952. Twenty-year-old Ernesto Ruiz is determined to save his family's cigar business by exporting directly to the American market, but he'll need to learn about American customs and lifestyles first. That's why he takes a part-time job at an American guest house. Hank Mannix, a beefcake magazine model, enjoys his carefree life in Havana, where new men come and go every week. But his immediate attraction to the new gardener is different. He’s drawn to the young man in a way he’s never experienced before. A fateful encounter in the garden results in a misunderstanding that upends both their lives. As they begin to acknowledge the true depth of their feelings for each other, they must navigate through a city and country on the brink of revolution. Ernesto and Hank strive to secure their own happiness in a world where the future is uncertain, and their love is forbidden. With vivid historical detail and memorable characters, Havana Bay is a captivating story of love and revolution in a time of change.

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487

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NineStar Press

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1648906672

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9781648906671

Turtle Bay

By: John Patrick

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Turtle Bay

By: John Patrick

It’s 1947, and New York City is awaiting the construction of the new United Nations building, the FBI is actively pursuing Communists and Soviet spies as the Cold War begins to build, and homosexual men have even more reasons to hide who they are. Uptight FBI Agent Arthur Mason is so deep in the closet he doesn’t even realize he’s in one. Clueless about his own sexuality, he’s surprised at his reaction to both Hans Schmidt and his twin sister, Ada. Under pressure from work, Mason investigates Hans and his boarders, including the highly suspicious Hank Mannix, a known member of the Communist Party. Though Mason can’t seem to locate Ada, he can’t stop thinking about Hans and keeps going back to visit. Hans Schmidt is a cross-dressing German immigrant running a boarding house for “a certain type of man,” and he wants nothing to do with Agent Mason and his ill-fitting suits and bad haircut. Until he begins to see Mason more as a man and less as a government official. Hans enjoys dressing as a woman from time to time, and once his feelings for Arthur begin to change, he realizes he needs to share his Ada persona if they are to have a future together. Secrets on both sides must be revealed and cherished beliefs challenged if these two men are to find the love and happiness they deserve. This story can be read on its own; however, characters from book one, Dublin Bay, play a prominent role as secondary characters, so it’s recommended to read that first.

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NineStar Press

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1648905110

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9781648905117

Fritz Lang

The Nature of the Beast

By: Patrick McGilligan

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Fritz Lang

The Nature of the Beast

By: Patrick McGilligan

The name of Fritz Lang—the visionary director of Metropolis, M, Fury, The Big Heat, and thirty other unforgettable films—is hallowed the world over. But what lurks behind his greatest legends and his genius as a filmmaker? Patrick McGilligan, placed among “the front rank of film biographers” by the Washington Post, spent four years in Europe and America interviewing Lang’s dying contemporaries, researching government and film archives, and investigating the intriguing life story of Fritz Lang. This critically acclaimed biography—lauded as one of the year’s best nonfiction books by Publishers Weekly—reconstructs the compelling, flawed human being behind the monster with the monocle.

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1032

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452940649

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9781452940649

Catholic Converts

British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome

By: Patrick Allitt

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Catholic Converts

British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome

By: Patrick Allitt

From the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, an impressive group of English speaking intellectuals converted to Catholicism. Outspoken and gifted, they intended to show the fallacies of religious skeptics and place Catholicism, once again, at the center of western intellectual life. The lives of individual converts—such as John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, and Dorothy Day—have been well documented, but Patrick Allitt has written the first account of converts' collective impact on Catholic intellectual life. His book is also the first to characterize the distinctive style of Catholicism they helped to create and the first to investigate the extensive contacts among Catholic convert writers in the United States and Britain. Allitt explains how, despite the Church's dogmatic style and hierarchical structure, converts working in the areas of history, science, literature, and philosophy maintained that Catholicism was intellectually liberating. British and American converts followed each other's progress closely, visiting each other and sending work back and forth across the Atlantic. The outcome of their labors was not what the converts had hoped. Although they influenced the Catholic Church for three or four generations, they were unable to restore it to the central place in Western intellectual life that it had enjoyed before the Reformation.

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361

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Cornell University Press

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1501720538

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9781501720536

George Cukor

A Double Life

By: Patrick McGilligan

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George Cukor

A Double Life

By: Patrick McGilligan

One of the highest-paid studio contract directors of his time, George Cukor was nominated five times for an Academy Award as Best Director. In publicity and mystique he was dubbed the “women’s director” for guiding the most sensitive leading ladies to immortal performances, including Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Judy Garland, and—in ten films, among them The Philadelphia Story and Adam’s Rib—his lifelong friend and collaborator Katharine Hepburn. But behind the “women’s director” label lurked the open secret that set Cukor apart from a generally macho fraternity of directors: he was a homosexual, a rarity among the top echelon. Patrick McGilligan’s biography reveals how Cukor persevered within a system fraught with bigotry while becoming one of Hollywood’s consummate filmmakers.

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612

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U of Minnesota Press

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081668488X

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9780816684885

Film Crazy

Interviews with Hollywood Legends

By: Patrick McGilligan

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Film Crazy

Interviews with Hollywood Legends

By: Patrick McGilligan

In Film Crazy, McGilligan shares some of his fascinating interviews with screen luminaries from his salad days as a young journalist working the Hollywood beat. He rides the presidential campaign bus with Ronald Reagan, visits Alfred Hitchcock on the set of the Master of Suspense's last film, "Family Plot," meets George Stevens at the Brown Derby and conducts the last interview with the director of "Shane" and "Giant." Other interview subjects captured for posterity include rough-and-ready pioneer directors William Wellman and Raoul Walsh; likeable actor Joel McCrea; actress - and the only female director of her era - Ida Lupino; French legend Rene Clair; and lowly-contract-writer-turned-studio-mogul Dore Schary. Film Crazy is a must for film students, scholars and professionals.

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232

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St. Martin's Press

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1466875739

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9781466875739

Sports Medicine: Justs the Facts

By: Francis G. O'Connor,Robert Sallis,Robert Wilder,Patrick St. Pierre

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Sports Medicine: Justs the Facts

By: Francis G. O'Connor,Robert Sallis,Robert Wilder,Patrick St. Pierre

Easy access to concise, authoritative answers on the comprehensive range of health issues sports clinicians confront. Perfect as a desk reference or quick review for certification exams, this manual gives readers quick solutions to diagnostic and treatment questions, an abundance of useful tables and charts, emergency-care procedures, plus incisive strategies for keeping athletes healthy.

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651

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McGraw Hill Professional

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007144632X

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9780071446327

Downfall

How the Labor Party Ripped Itself Apart

By: Aaron Patrick

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Downfall

How the Labor Party Ripped Itself Apart

By: Aaron Patrick

How Labor lost the race -- how Bill Shorten could save the party - and why it matters. In the 2007 election, led by Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard they smashed the Howard government and made the country look fresh and optimistic again. But under the sunny exterior lurked unchecked tensions, corrupt members, factional warlords, leadership woes. Now, Labor's pains have become the Abbott-led Coalition's gain. For journalist and former Young Laborite, Aaron Patrick, Labor at its best is a force for good. But until it addresses the rot at its core, voters will continue to abandon it. In his gripping book, Downfall, Patrick shows how Labor came to be in the mess it's in - and what it needs to do to get out of it. Fast paced and intensely readable, Downfall is a troubling portrait of a once-great institution in decline.

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HarperCollins Australia

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1743098065

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9781743098066

On the Punt: True Tales from the Track

True Tales from the Track

By: Patrick Bartley

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On the Punt: True Tales from the Track

True Tales from the Track

By: Patrick Bartley

EVER HAD AN UNFORGETTABLE DAY ON THE PUNT? Racing aficionado Patrick Bartley collects tales of fervour, intrigue and folly straight from the track. His anecdotes offer a view into the world of racing: the big wins, gut-wrenching losses, plunges, long-shot winners and larger-than-life characters that colour Australia's racetracks. Brimming with Bartley's signature wit, these stories will have you trackside before you can even open a form guide. 'Patrick has gathered the stories racing people tell each other when they think no one else is listening.' Andrew Rule

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Penguin Group Australia

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1742531679

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9781742531670

The Belligerent Prelate

An Alliance between Archbishop Daniel Mannix and Eamon de Valera

By: Patrick Mannix

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The Belligerent Prelate

An Alliance between Archbishop Daniel Mannix and Eamon de Valera

By: Patrick Mannix

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Book's by Patrick Mannix

The Belligerent Prelate

The Belligerent Prelate

Havana Bay

Havana Bay

Turtle Bay

Turtle Bay

Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

Catholic Converts

Catholic Converts

George Cukor

George Cukor

Film Crazy

Film Crazy

Sports Medicine: Justs the Facts

Sports Medicine: Justs the Facts

Downfall

Downfall

On the Punt: True Tales from the Track

On the Punt: True Tales from the Track

The Belligerent Prelate

The Belligerent Prelate

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