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Twice A Hero
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Twice A Hero

The true story of hardship and horror in the blood and mud seen through the eyes of a teenage volunteer and his comrades in the forgotten conflicts of Salonika and Palestine, during the Great War, fighting for the freedom of small nations and in particular, Home Rule for Ireland. Then the Irish War of Independence, which helped establish a nation.

A Struggle for the Irish American Dream:
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 178

A Struggle for the Irish American Dream:

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-11-20
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  • Publisher: iUniverse

In the early part of the twentieth century, the Lyne family of Eskadour, County Kerry, encounters several challenges that threaten their survival. Though most of the children in the family are young, they bravely man a farm and battle members of the British forces. Despite overwhelming odds, they overcome their obstacles and optimistically move forward. But when additional difficulties come their way, it is John, the sixth of their twelve children, who remains focused on his dream of living in America to find his fortune. Meanwhile in Cavan, seventeen-year-old Sheila McGovern is also contemplating her future. As she leaves Ireland bound for England, she cannot help but wonder if England is t...

Dialectological and Folk Dialectological Concepts of Space
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Dialectological and Folk Dialectological Concepts of Space

In variational linguistics, the concept of space has always been a central issue. However, different research traditions considering space coexisted for a long time separately. Traditional dialectology focused primarily on the diatopic dimension of linguistic variation, whereas in sociolinguistic studies diastratic and diaphasic dimensions were considered. For a long time only very few linguistic investigations tried to combine both research traditions in a two-dimensional design – a desideratum which is meant to be compensated by the contributions of this volume. The articles present findings from empirical studies which take on these different concepts and examine how they relate to one ...

Growing Up a Woman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Growing Up a Woman

This book explores contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, showing that the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism remains of equal importance in the era of postfeminism. The female Bildung narrative has acquired an important position in twentieth – and twenty-first century literature through its continuing depiction of female self-discovery and emancipation as a process of negotiating the traditional divisions of female and male roles in relation to the private and public spaces. Recognizing the seminal contribution of feminist criticism to the definition of the genre and the role of feminist cultural pro...

The Carriage Journal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 48

The Carriage Journal

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR . THE BRITISH DRIVING SOCIETY DRESS FOR DRIVING by Sanders Watney, Esq .. STILL THE WHIP CITY by Harold Martin . SPR[NG VALLEY HOUNDS DRIVING SHOW . CARRIAGE MEET IN DUTCHESS COUNTY by Margaret Creal . THE WAPETI by Mrs. Lister . IN KING EDWARD'S DAYS by \/. T. O' Donovan CARRIAGE CLOCKS by Frank Evans . THE WHIP SALUTE . A CHART OF THE STANDARD SYSTEM OF ESTIMATING DOBBIN'S STILL RUNNING, The Draft Horse Journal DRIVING by The Duke of Beaufort, K. G . GO BY COACH TO DINNER by Don Gray . "ROADRUNNER REMINISCENCES" by James Laird ..

Homer's Text and Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Homer's Text and Language

As Homer remains an indispensable figure in the canons of world literature, interpreting the Homeric text is a challenging and high stakes enterprise. There are untold numbers of variations, imitations, alternate translations, and adaptations of the Iliad and Odyssey, making it difficult to establish what, exactly, the epics were. Gregory Nagy's essays have one central aim: to show how the text and language of Homer derive from an oral poetic system. In Homeric studies, there has been an ongoing debate centering on different ways to establish the text of Homer and the different ways to appreciate the poetry created in the language of Homer. Gregory Nagy, a lifelong Homer scholar, takes a stand in the midst of this debate. He presents an overview of millennia of scholarly engagement with Homer's poetry, shows the different editorial principles that have been applied to the texts, and evaluates their impact.

The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy

The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a voice to classes who otherwise would have been marginalized and silenced in Athenian society: women, foreigners, and the enslaved. The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy addresses the possible meanings ancient audiences might have attached to these songs. Casey Dué challenges long-held assumptions about the opposition between Greeks and barbarians in Greek thought by suggesting that, in viewing the plight of the captive women, Athenian au...

Finding Your Irish Ancestors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 291

Finding Your Irish Ancestors

Finding Your Irish Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide is the ultimate resource to help you learn if the luck of the Irish is in your blood or not. This easy-to-use guide will teach you to make use of the many Irish family history records that have become available in recent years. Explore the best family history sources in Ireland, including birth, marriage, and death records; church records; census records; and much more. Finding Your Irish Ancestors will help you discover Internet sites for searching Irish heritge and prepare for a successful family history trip to Ireland.

How Irish Immigrants Made America Home
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 82

How Irish Immigrants Made America Home

Written by a descendent of Irish immigrants, this book tells the tale of how Irish-born immigrants functioned as the largest immigrant group during the first two hundred years of the British Colonies. Readers will discover how they forged frontier societies and expanded the geographic boundaries of colonial settlements. Irish Americans served at all levels in U.S. government, including twenty-two presidents, and they contributed to canals, roads, and railroads during the nineteenth century. This volume will divulge how Irish immigrants suffered severe prejudice and lost much of their original culture and language, though their eventual assimilation provided a blueprint for the acceptance of other immigrant groups.

Amphoteroglossia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Amphoteroglossia

This work offers the first systematic and interdisciplinary study of the poetics of the twelfth-century medieval Greek novel. This book investigates the complex ways in which rhetorical theory and practice constructed the overarching cultural aesthetics that conditioned the production and reception of the genre of the novel in twelfth-century Byzantine society. By examining the indigenous rhetorical concept of amphoteroglossia, this book probes unexplored aspects of the re-inscription of inherited allegorical, comic, and rhetorical modes in the Komnenian novels, and offers new methodological directions for the study of Byzantine secular literature in its cultural complexities. The creative r...