The Pirates of Clontarf

The Pirates of Clontarf PDF Author: Mary Ann Hart
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1483670333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Polly O'Brien is a girl of twelve who is desperately trying to save her father from the clutches of alcoholism. While attending Catholic school in the 1950s, she aspires to write and figure out life's mysteries without much guidance. Experiencing a frightening existence, she escapes by writing a book with the help of a ghost. Polly is visited by a spirit as she begins to pen a tale about the Irish Potato Famine. The apparition helps her to create by relating her own Famine story, and offers some advice. Dailearie O'Donovan, the visitation, tells of her adventures during the Famine in Ireland. By pirating and taking grain to county Mayo where their relatives previously died, she and her brothers hope to be the hand of God's bounty. This narrative describes coming of age before the era of information and the Internet, and the horrors of An Gorta Mór, The Great Hunger. It recounts the real difficulties that are often experienced by children and adults alike that have lived with someone suffering from alcoholism. Both the spirit and the very young author eventually find solutions to the devastating problems they both encounter

Narratives of the Voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa to the Straits of Magellan

Narratives of the Voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gambóa to the Straits of Magellan PDF Author: Clements R. Markham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317090306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
The volume covers the voyages of 1579-1589, translated and edited, with notes and an introduction. The supplementary material includes the 1894 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1895.

White Wings

White Wings PDF Author: Sir Henry Brett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy PDF Author: Royal Irish Academy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1174

Book Description
Includes also Minutes of [the] Proceedings, and Report of [the] President and Council for the year (beginning 1965/66 called Annual report)

Many Voyages in Strange Crafts

Many Voyages in Strange Crafts PDF Author: Captain William Rodick
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1038306388
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Young William Rodick was determined to go to sea, like his sea captain father. Even though his father warned him against it, William apprenticed with a merchant marine and boarded his first ship in Liverpool, England, at the age of fourteen. This began a life spent working at sea, travelling around the world and having seafaring adventures, until William’s retirement at the age of eighty in 1931. His voyages were often perilous, with storms, near-drownings, illness, physical violence, and encounters with many eccentric and interesting seamen and passengers. Many Voyages in Strange Crafts is Captain William Rodick’s firsthand account of life at sea at the turn of the twentieth century. He shares the struggles of a young apprentice in a harsh world, where boys were expected to quickly become men, and a view of the world in a time now past. He includes a wealth of information about marine history, the Scottish shipbuilding industry, and the dredging and creation of the Australian harbours. Captain Rodick also served in the Great War, and for his difficult and hazardous wartime duties, he received the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire medal. In his own words, Captain Rodick had “many voyages in strange crafts.”

The Voyages of the Clontarf

The Voyages of the Clontarf PDF Author: Marolyn Diver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780473184667
Category : Canterbury (N.Z.)
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
The story of the clipper ship Clontarf: In her short career the Clontarf made only two journeys to New Zealand between 1858-1860; introducing just under 800 emigrants to Canterbury. But before she slipped beneath the North Atlantic ocean she carried with her the unfortunate infamy of accumulating the worst human fatality from illness alone in a single voyage. Using shipboard diaries, official documentation, shipping lists and the combined information from the descendants of Clontarf passengers themselves, this is an informative and in-depth record of the ship and her journeys.
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