Celtic Revival?

Author: Sean Kay
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1442211113
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
Celtic Revival? explores what happens when a society loses its wealth, its faith in government, and its trust in its Church. The glorious rise of the Celtic Tiger in Ireland was thought by many to be a model for future economic growth for countries around the world; its dramatic crash in 2008 resonated equally widely. Yet despite the magnitude of the ongoing collapse, Sean Kay shows that seen in historical perspective, the crisis is part of a much larger pattern of generations of progress and change. Kay draws on a rich blend of research, interviews with a broad spectrum of Irish society, and his own decades of personal experience to tell the story of Ireland today. He guides the reader through the country's major economic challenges, political transformation, social change, the crisis in the Irish Catholic Church, and the rise of gay rights and multiculturalism. He takes us through the streets of Derry and Belfast to understand the Northern Ireland peace process and the daunting task of peace building that has only just begun. Finally, we see how Irish foreign policy has long been a model for balancing competing interests and values. Kay concludes by highlighting Ireland's lessons for the world and mapping a vital path for twenty-first-century challenges and opportunities for the coming generations in Ireland and beyond.

The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Gerard Kelly
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1780920725
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
This compilation, comprising a Baker's (street) Dozen of his adventures, re-creates the gas-lit, fog-enshrouded world of Victorian London as once more Sherlock Holmes urges - Come, Watson, the game is afoot!

The San Francisco Attorney

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 678

Book Description

Elections 2011

Author: Seán Donnelly
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0952019787
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 562

Book Description
A complete guide to Dáil, Seanad & Presidential elections in Ireland in 2011, including comprehensive background & historical information.

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Green Dragon

Author: M R Rivera
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 180424127X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Set in late January and early February of 1891, during the time that Professor Moriarty declares in The Final Problem, that Holmes had "incommoded" his plans, Holmes and Watson are visited by two charwomen and retained to clear the name of a drunkard lighthouse keeper who has been arrested and charged with the murder of a German man in Tynemouth, England. After learning the name of the unfortunate German man, Gustav Oberstein, Holmes realizes that the case has much greater significance than the simple murder of a German in the Tynemouth lighthouse. So begins a battle of wits between Holmes and Professor Moriarty. Holmes must determine the meaning of the German's last words and solve a mystery that will prevent the deaths of countless people in England and the Continent - a mystery that grabs the attention of the highest levels of the British government. Holmes's very life is on the line as he and Watson comb the English Northeast and the depths of London to solve the mystery of The Green Dragon and bring ruin to the Moriarty syndicate. The game is afoot!

The Redacted Sherlock Holmes - Volume 4

Author: Orlando Pearson
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1787052109
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
Five more sizzlingly scandalous Sherlock Holmes stories from the pen of Orlando Pearson - The Baron of Wimbledon: Holmes averts an injustice and makes a dramatic self-discovery - On Consistent Luck: What an enables an industry to enjoy constant good fortune? Sherlock Holmes shows how - Variations on an Enigma: Holmes unravels one Enigma and analyses another - A Study in Red, White and Blue: A diplomatic coup after a divisive vote on a European Alliance - The Hounding of Peers Baskerville: Is the Hound back on Dartmoor? Holmes and Watson investigate Mr Pearson mixes the canon with elite sport, business high jinks, a musical mystery, a literary mystery, Realpolitik and, in The Hounding of Peer Baskerville rolls the most famous of all detective stories on twenty years. A must for traditionalists, lovers of mystery, and anyone who likes a rattling good read.

Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels

Author: Kieran McMullen
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1780920547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
It is early 1916 and the world is at war. Sherlock Holmes is well into his spy persona as Altamont following the capture of the German spy Von Bork at the opening of the Great War. Watson is called to London by Mycroft Holmes and is asked to join Sherlock, who has infiltrated the Irish Volunteers. War within the United Kingdom could deal a decisive blow to the war effort and Holmes must find out the rebels plans, and if possible, stop the rebellion which appears imminent. He has need of Watson once again.

The Final Tales of Sherlock Holmes - Volume 1

Author: John A. Little
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1780925662
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122

Book Description
Holmes and Watson are plunged into the secret underworld of 1925 London, where a serial killer of musical (gay) men is afoot. The killer has a little list, and Sherlock is on it. Why? And what have the Bloomsbury Group and the Diogenes Club got to do with anything? Thanks to Royal Jelly, Holmes is a fit 71-year-old, who has lost his interest in bees and returned to detecting. He's not quite as sharp as he used to be, but he's still pretty sharp, and a bit of a vigilante in his old age. He meets up with his colleague and friend, Dr. John Hamish Watson, a 72-year-old not-quite-so-fit-at-all twice-widower, who hankers after the good old days of derring-do. They are joined by their excitable new housekeeper at 221B Baker Street, the brilliant, buxom Miss Lily Hudson and are helped in their work by Jasper Lestrade of Scotland Yard, the ambitious, respectful son of the late George Lestrade.

Sherlock Holmes and the Affair of the Contentious Contralto

Author: Fiona-Jane Brown
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
ISBN: 1780926146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 59

Book Description
It is 1910, a widowed Dr Watson moves back to Baker Street to discover that age has done nothing to dim his old friend's thirst for mystery and deduction. One morning after Watson returns from a client to find Holmes in a bright mood - the reason? Holmes and Watson have been invited to the farewell concert of celebrated former Prima Donna of the Warsaw Opera - Irene Adler. The Woman requests their presence! What happens when Holmes meets his one female equal twenty years after their first, curious meeting which Watson described in "A Scandal in Bohemia"?

The Sherlock Holmes Adventure

Author: Regis McCafferty
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595315475
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159

Book Description
He turned up the light, filled and lit a pipe, and then turned to the note from Sherlock Holmes. It read: "Pitt--Inspector MacLeish paid me a visit this evening to discuss the particulars of a murder that occurred at Coldfall Lodge, Tetherdown. Mr. Artimus Weatherill was brutally murdered and property taken, including a fair amount in sovereigns. There are some particulars regarding this event that puzzle MacLeish and since I am returning to Glasgow in the morning to testify in the Seamus Walsh affair, I took the liberty of telling the Inspector you would look into it in my absence. If your appointments will give you the morning, MacLeish will be at Coldfell Lodge at seven o'clock. Best regards, Holmes" Enter Joshua Pitt, inquiry agent, chess playing opponent of Dr. Watson, and one-time Baker Street Irregular who has set up shop little more than a block away on Baker Street. A young man in his late twenties, he is rarely without a smoking pipe at hand, a good blend of tobacco, and prefers strong Assam tea and Highland whiskey. His cases are as much adventure as mystery, and the reader is invited along for the ride, in a hansom, of course.