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Our Man In Hibernia

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Author : Charlie Connelly
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-09-02

Our Man In Hibernia written by Charlie Connelly and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-02 with Travel categories.

Each year on St Patrick's Day eighty million people around the world celebrate their Irish ancestry. Millions more don leprechaun hats and down pints of Guinness in the annual high-fiving of Ireland and the Irish. Charlie Connelly was one of them. He thought he had a good idea of what Ireland was all about. He was, after all, practically Irish. He had a bodhran and everything. Then, when he was least expecting it, he went to live there. Our Man in Hibernia follows Charlie's adventures among the Irish. Immersing himself in Ireland's language, music and literature, he learns how closely the rose-tinted image he'd grown up with matches the reality, and explores the land, from the small patch of Connemara bog that changed the world to the Holy Tree Stump of Rathkeale. From defining moments of the country's history - the Great Famine and the Easter Rising - to its quirkier phenomena, such as the National Ploughing Championships and the Rose of Tralee, in Our Man in Hibernia Charlie Connelly paints an evocative, entertaining and witty portrait of Ireland today.

Pacata Hibernia Or A History Of The Wars In Ireland During The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth

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Author : Thomas Stafford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1810

Pacata Hibernia Or A History Of The Wars In Ireland During The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth written by Thomas Stafford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1810 with categories.

Pacata Hibernia Or A History Of The Wars In Ireland During The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth

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Author : Sir Thomas Stafford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1810

Pacata Hibernia Or A History Of The Wars In Ireland During The Reign Of Queen Elizabeth written by Sir Thomas Stafford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1810 with Ireland categories.

The Channel

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Author : Charlie Connelly
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-06-25

The Channel written by Charlie Connelly and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-25 with History categories.

A bulwark against invasion, a conduit for exchange and a challenge to be conquered, the English Channel has always been many things to many people. Today it's the busiest shipping lane in the world and hosts more than 30 million passenger crossings every year but this sliver of choppy brine, just 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, represents much more than a conductor of goods and people. Criss-crossing the Channel - not to mention regularly throwing himself into it for a bracing swim - Charlie Connelly collects its stories and brings them vividly to life, from tailing Oscar Wilde's shadow through the dark streets of Dieppe to unearthing Britain's first beauty pageant at the end of Folkestone pier (it was won by a bloke called Wally). We learn that Louis Bleriot was actually a terrible pilot, the tragic fate of the first successful Channel swimmer, and that if a man with a buttered head and pigs' bladders attached to his trousers hadn't fought off an attack by dogfish we might never have had a Channel Tunnel. Here is a cast of extraordinary characters - geniuses, cheats, dreamers, charlatans, visionaries, eccentrics and at least one pair of naked, cuddling balloonists - whose stories are all united by the English Channel to ensure the sea that makes us an island will never be the same again.

Walker S Hibernian Magazine Or Compendium Of Entertaining Knowledge

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1811

Walker S Hibernian Magazine Or Compendium Of Entertaining Knowledge written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1811 with categories.

Gilbert

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Author : Charlie Connelly
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-08

Gilbert written by Charlie Connelly and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-08 with Sports & Recreation categories.

There are few more instantly recognisable figures, from any era, from any walk of life, than W.G. Grace. With his enormous height, beer-barrel girth and immense beard he was - and remains - a caricaturist's dream. Too much so, in many ways. Arguably the finest and most influential cricketer who ever lived and one of the first true celebrities Grace became a persona rather than a person, racketing up unprecedented amounts of runs and wickets while slowly vanishing behind an increasing swirl of myth and apocrypha. Gilbert is the first examination of Grace to dig beneath the surface, blow the fog of fable and explore the man himself, the human being, and ask what he might have thought and felt. Who, in effect, was W.G. Grace? In the year that marks the centenary of Grace's death, Charlie Connelly charts the final years of his life, from his fiftieth birthday celebrations in 1898 to his death at the age of 67 in 1915, through the eyes of Grace himself. In an unusual take on this most eminent Victorian and extraordinary pioneering sportsman, Connelly draws on contemporary documents and accounts to imagine Grace's progress through his final years. It was no quiet dotage either: he played cricket until a year before his death, captained the England curling team and remained an enthusiastic golfer and shooter to the end. He also dealt with bereavement, ill health and was greatly troubled by the gathering clouds of war. He was, in short, a human being as much as a sporting colossus. Combining facts and imagination, Gilbert is an affectionate and beautifully written account of the Champion's later life that comes closer than ever before to giving a sense of the real W.G. Grace behind the mythology; the perennially childlike soul saddled with the weight of genius. To the public he was The Doctor, The Champion and W.G., but to those who knew him best he was simply Gilbert. This is a book about Gilbert.