Jammet's of Dublin

Author: Alison Maxwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843512035
Category : Jammet's (Restaurant)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
From 1901 to 1967, actors, writers, film stars, judges, barristers, doctors, chancers and characters trundled through the doors of Jammet's, in search of superb food and wine, or banter in the back bars. This book is a collection of their stories.

Dublin’s Lost Treasures

Author: Hugh Oram
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490794840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 127

Book Description
Dublin's Lost Treasures covers the many shops,cinemas,theatres and other institutions that have closed down in Dublin over the past 50 years.As the pace of development has quickened in recent decades,old places have closed Down at an increasing rate,so this book aims to be a record of many old shops and other establishments that have shut their doors for the last time,often before being demolished.Many of the reminiscences about these vanished places has been sent in by readers,including staff and owners.

Diary of an Almost Somebody

Author:
Publisher: David Boyd Barrett
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427

Book Description
The Diary of an Almost Somebody is exactly what is says on the tin. It is the story of an ordinary life starting with his family history going back to the 18th century in Ireland. The family history is taken mainly from entries in the Boyd Barrett family bible, supplemented by researching Irish 19th century censuses, parish records and newspaper archives. The later part contains his recollections from the 1940s to the present time. David’s life has not been out of the ordinary with, his childhood in England during WW11 followed by his boarding school education and teenage years in 1950s Dublin resonating with many readers. His early working life in London, Persia (Iran) and West Africa illustrates a life which no longer exists. He illustrates the ups and downs of his family and business life up to the present time and tries to describe it as it was and as it happened.

A Younger Son

Author: George Albemarle Bertie Dewar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description

Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers' Club (1933-1958)

Author: Deirdre F. Brady
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1789622468
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
This book is an original account of coterie culture in twentieth-century Ireland and the networks and connections which fostered women's writing. It paints a vivid portrait of the inspirational women involved in the Women Writers' Club, showcasing their influence and achievements in literature and their political campaigning for intellectual and creative freedom.

Dublin

Author: David Dickson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674744446
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 753

Book Description
As rich and diverse as its subject, Dickson’s magisterial history brings 1,400 years of Dublin vividly to life: from its medieval incarnation through the neoclassical eighteenth century, the Easter Rising that convulsed the city in 1916, the bloody civil war following the handover of power by Britain, to end-of-millennium urban renewal efforts.

That Neutral Island

Author: Clair Wills
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674026827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518

Book Description
Where previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island mines deeper layers of experience. Stories, letters, and diaries illuminate this small country as it suffered rationing, censorship, the threat of invasion, and a strange detachment from the war.

The Encyclopaedia of Dublin

Author: Douglas Bennett
Publisher: Gill
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description
A new edition of the standard reference work on the city of Dublin which reflects the welter of change that has swept the city since the early 1990s.

The Fight for Dublin, 1919-1921

Author: Joseph McKenna
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476684413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
In Dublin, the War of Irish Independence (1919-1921) was an intense and dirty battle between military intelligence agents. While IRA flying columns fought the British Army and the Black and Tans in the countryside, the fighting in Ireland's capital city pitted the wits of IRA commander Michael Collins against the cloak-and-dagger innovations of British Intelligence chief Colonel Ormonde de l'Epee Winter. Drawing on detailed witness statements of Irish participants and documents and biographies from the British side, this history chronicles the covert war of assassinations, arrests, torture and murder that climaxed in the Bloody Sunday mass assassination of British intelligence officers by IRA squads in November 1920.

Ambiguous Republic

Author: Diarmaid Ferriter
Publisher: Profile Books
ISBN: 1847658563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 849

Book Description
Hard-nosed scholarship and moral passion underpin Diarmaid Ferriter's work. Now he turns to the key years of the 70s, when after half a century of independence, questions were being asked about the old ways of doing things. Ambiguous Republic considers the widespread social, cultural, economic and political upheavals of the decade, a decade when Ireland joined the EEC; when for the first time a majority of the population lived in urban areas; when economic challenges abounded; which saw too an increasingly visible feminist moment, and institutions including the Church began to be subjected to criticism.Diarmaid Ferriter's earlier books have been described as 'a landmark' and 'an immense contribution'; making 'brilliant use of new sources'; 'prodigiously gifted', and 'ground-breaking'. All those words apply to this important book based on recently opened archives and unique access to the papers of Jack Lynch and Liam Cosgrave.