The chaotic history of riots and public disorder in Ireland since 1570. A collection of papers presented by historians at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick on riots and public violence across 16th, 17th 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Century Ireland. Including:The Dublin Parliamentary Elections 1613Urban Riots and Popular Protest in Ireland, 1540 to 1640.Riot at Cook Street, 1629Recovering the freight of the Julia: Conflict on a Connemara IslandThe political mobilisation of the Irish poor, 1851-1878'The Irish and the English criminal justice system in London'Conditioned Constitutionalists': The reaction of Fianna Fail grass-roots to the IRA Border Campaign, 1956 - 1962'Notorious Anarchists': The Irish Smallholder and the State during the Emergency (1939-45)Government responses to gang violence in pre-Famine Munster. A Riot at Glenosheen, 1822The Great Protestant Meeting: 19 December 1834'The one remarkable fact': Belfast,... Views: 66
When her husband leaves her with nothing, Phoebe Green vows to never give another man any part of her heart or her body without getting something in return. Jacoby Knight just wants to find a woman, who wants to join themselves with his body and not his massive bank account. These two strangers meet and find they can meet each other needs, yet one night won't do when passion this hot meets. Views: 66
First published in On Spec 7(1), 1995: 31-41. Views: 66
Daisy brings her totally true imaginary friend, Posey, to visit her totally real school in this seventh Daisy Dreamer chapter book!Nerd alert! Guess what? I, Daisy Dreamer, have a big confession. I love school. You know what else I love? Posey. He's my totally true imaginary friend. So if I were to mix school and Posey together, then I would have the absolutely, most perfect day. Obviously. Unfortunately, sometimes mixing two great things together makes for an absolutely huge mess, like grape juice and fluffy carpets, or lollipops and long hair. Well, I would not recommend mixing school and Posey together, unless you love having a classroom pest. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Daisy Dreamer chapter books are perfect for emerging readers. Views: 66
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like "a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them." For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tribal hatreds and the planet is beset by unnatural calami- ties, he is back with a new collection of essays that recall us to more humane ways of being in the world. Franzen's great loves are literature and birds, and The End of the End of the Earth is a passionate argument for both. Where the new media tend to confirm one's prejudices, he writes, literature "invites you to ask whether you might be somewhat wrong, maybe even entirely wrong, and to imagine why someone else might hate you."... Views: 66
It's Christmas Eve and Annie's electricity's been out for hours. An old college friend, who now works for the power company, arrives on her doorstep.Unable to fix her lines, Erik, convinces Annie to come home with him.He promises hot chocolate, It's a Wonderful Life on DVD, and music. The music which has always been a special bond between them.Will this special Christmas give them another chance to make things right?*The DVD is not included with the digital version of this book. Views: 66
Simon hates villages, especially Much Hampton in the wilds of Bodmin Moor. Determined to get his mission finished so he can leave, the last thing he expects is to find himself embroiled in a complex web of mysteries, lies and murder. He is no knight in shining armour but is drawn into protecting the beautiful Francesca, but is she the very person he has been sent there to capture? Views: 65
A love that spans lifetimes, an evil that follows them through the ages... Bern doesn’t believe in reincarnation, but when he sees Livie, it’s as if he’s known her forever. Livie and Bern soon discover there are shadows lurking from their past, past lives that is, which threaten everything they believe in, and even their lives. Will jealousy out of the past come back to destroy their future? Views: 65
More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA Views: 65
Sam Force travels to Belize to investigate an ancient and evil secret society in this second novel of the Pyramid Hunters series, which School Library Journal called a mix of "Indiana Jones, National Treasure, and The Da Vinci Code."Sam heads to Belize to continue his investigation into his parents' mysterious disappearance and to learn more about secret of the pyramids. But after being kidnapped by crocodile cultists, will he ever be able to find the answers he's looking for? Views: 65
". . . I got the impression that they could imagine only two reasons why a woman should choose to settle down in Bruach: either that she was running away from the police, or escaping from a lurid past." Neither reason applies to Lillian Beckwith, in this memoir of her convalescence on an isolated Hebridean island where "even the sheeps on the hills is lonely". On Bruach island, she observes, muses at and joins the native crofters in their unique rhythm of life; where friends fistfight in the evening and discuss bruises the next morning; where the taxi-driver is also the lorry driver, coal merchant and undertaker; where the locals don't remove their hats during a funeral so their heads won't get cold; and where the post-office's 'opening hours' fit around the daily milking of cows and not the other way round! In a series of vividly drawn sketches, taking in birth, death, marriage and the seasons of life, Lillian Beckwith's writing is shot through... Views: 65
Can her courage lead her to a life of happiness? Annie Swinburn is harbouring a terrible secret. She has killed a man. The man was evil in every possible way, but she knows that her only fate if she stays in the slums of Hull is a hanging. And so she runs. As fast as she can, and as far as she can – up the river, along hidden paths of the Humber and into a new and familiar territory where she can start a new life. There she meets Toby Linton – a man born into a good life but now estranged from his family. He and his brother Matt earn a dangerous living as smugglers, but Annie soon realises they have more in common than she thought. And this new way of life might just offer her the chance of love, in spite of all the tragedy that has gone before... If you enjoy books by... Views: 65
From Publishers WeeklyGeorge presents a romanticized Henry VIII and fails to capture the "brilliance, the cunning or the ruthlessness of the grim monarch who tore down monasteries to fill his coffers, executed two of his six wives and sacrificed friend and enemy alike for political expediency," PW commented. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review"A remarkable achievement...Magnificently researched and admirably written." --_Mary Stewart_ "Her novel is a...banquet feast for most readers...astonishing. There's rousing drama, robust atmosphere and consistently solid characterization; and finally, Margaret George's triumph is anchored in the urgent rhythm her writing attains." --_Forth Worth Star Telegram_ "It doth brim with lust, violence, cruelty and living conservation...Margaret George has found a new and fresh way to tell the story. --_Detroit Free Press_-- Review Views: 65
