Author: Jonathan BeaumontPublisher: Locomotion Papers
ISBN: 9780853615880
Category : Locomotives
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Veiled Woman of Achill
Author: Patricia ByrnePublisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 184889953X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
At Valley House on Achill Island in 1894, an English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home burnt. James Lynchehaun, her former land agent, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped twice and won a groundbreaking case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. . A Franciscan monk in Achill, Brother Paul Carney, who had befriended and assisted Lynchehaun, wrote up the fugitive's story, and Lynchehaun became a folk hero. John Millington Synge visited Mayo in 1904/1905 and decided to locate The Playboy of the Western World in north Mayo. Lynchehaun was one of Synge's inspirations for constructing the character of Christy Mahon. The crime, the trial and escapes, and the island tensions are unravelled in a gripping account.
Author: John Charles Mackay
Author: Final Journey
Author: Nicolas WheatleyPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750996358
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This new history reveals the previously untold story of why and how trains have been used to transport the dead, enabling their burial in a place of significance to the bereaved. Profusely illustrated with many images, some never previously published, Nicolas Wheatley's work details how the mainline railways carried out this important yet often hidden work from the Victorian age to the 1980s, as well as how ceremonial funeral transport continues on heritage railways today. From royalty, aristocrats and other VIPs (including Sir Winston Churchill and the Unknown Warrior) to victims of accidents and ordinary people, Final Journey explores the way in which these people travelled for the last time by train before being laid to rest.
Author: John Charles Mackay
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