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The Bloody Red Hand
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Author : Derek Lundy
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2011-04-20
The Bloody Red Hand written by Derek Lundy and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-20 with History categories.
A bestselling chronicler of the sea turns to a trio of his own ancestors to see what memory and the selective plundering of history has made of the truth in Northern Ireland. The name “Lundy” is synonymous with traitor in Ulster. Derek Lundy’s first ancestral subject was the Protestant governor of Derry in 1688, just before it came under siege by the Catholic Irish army of James II. For reasons that remain ambiguous, Robert ordered the gates of the city opened in surrender. Protestant hard-liners staged a coup de ville and drove him away in disgrace, a traitor to the cause. But Robert is more memorable for his peace-seeking moderation than for the treachery the standard history attributes to him. William Steel Dickson’s legacy is a little different: a Presbyterian minister born in the late 18th century, he preached with famous eloquence in favour of using whatever means necessary to resist the tyranny of the English, including joining forces with the Catholics in armed rebellion. Finally, there is “Billy” Lundy, born in 1890, the antithesis of the ecumenical William, and the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants had become by the beginning of World War I – a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the project of an independent Ireland. The lives of Robert Lundy, William Steel Dickson and Billy Lundy encapsulate many themes in the Ulster past. In telling their stories, Derek Lundy lays bare the harsh and murderous mythologies of Northern Ireland and gives us a revision of its history that seems particularly relevant in today’s world. Excerpt from The Bloody Red Hand: The other thing I remember is the look the young man gave me, after he had taken the cash, put his pistol away and was standing with his hands in his jacket pockets. It wasn’t the expression of someone who was thinking of shooting me too; I never had that feeling. But the way he looked at me was so familiar – wary and calculating. Many people in Belfast had stared in the same way since I’d arrived for a visit. For a long time, I couldn’t understand what it meant. Eventually, I knew. They were trying to decide “what foot I kicked with” – what religion I was. There were supposed ways to tell, subtle indicators. Was I someone they should fear? Or was I one of them? That was what the armed robber was doing, too. He had just shot a man who knew him by his first name. But he was looking at me, the stranger, and trying to figure out whether I was a Prod or a Taig.
Men That God Made Mad
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Author : Derek Lundy
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-10-31
Men That God Made Mad written by Derek Lundy and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this remarkable book, Belfast-born Derek Lundy uses the lives of three of his ancestors as a prism through which to examine what memory and the selective plundering of history has made of the truth in Northern Ireland. In Ulster the name 'Lundy' is synonymous with 'traitor'. Robert Lundy was the Protestant governor of Londonderry in 1688, just before it came under siege by the Catholic Irish army of James II. Robert Lundy ordered the city's capitulation. Crying 'No Surrender', hardline Protestants prevented it and drove him away in disgrace. William Steel Dickson's legacy is a little different. A Presbyterian minister born in the mid-eighteenth century, he preached with famous eloquence in favour of using whatever means necessary to resist the tyranny of the English. Finally there is 'Billy' Lundy, born in 1890, the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants had become by the beginning of World War I - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the concept of a united Ireland. The lives of Robert Lundy, William Steel Dickson and Billy Lundy encapsulate many themes in the Ulster past. In telling their stories, Derek Lundy lays bare the harsh and murderous mythologies of Northern Ireland and gives us a revision of its history that seems particularly relevant in today's world.
Brothers Of The Red Hand
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Author : Charles Dillon
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000-11-20
Brothers Of The Red Hand written by Charles Dillon and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-20 with Fiction categories.
A thrilling story of an island torn in half by ancient influences and outside influences, where the Brothers of the Red Hand act to punish the informers and traitors who betray the aspirations of the Irish people in their struggle for liberty and independence. There is betrayal, arson, and violence committed by both the patriots and the English soldiers. Set on the Emerald Isle in the mid-1840¡_s during the Great Hunger when Irish families faced the potato famine, and where a million people starved to death in their villages and a million others fled overseas. Sufficient food was available in the country to feed the people, but absentee English landlords sent it to England. The story is told against a complex background of adventure and intrigue as the author paints a multicolored picture of unforgettable characters with varying beliefs and loyalties. You¡_ll meet lords and ladies, Republicans and English terrorists, priests and ministers¡ªboth kind and evil¡ªand plain country folk. Irish folklore is woven into the story. Equal importance to the plot of this fine novel is the beauty of the language. So lively is Dillon¡_s style that you can almost smell the fragrant peat fires and taste the porter and poteen. Mr. Dillon has the Irish gift of ¡°passing the time of day¡± in a delightful way.
The Bloody Hand
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Author : Blaise Cendrars
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-02-19
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The Bloody Hand (titre original La Main coupée) est un récit autobiographique écrit pendant et après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, entre 1944 et 1946, et constitue un vivant témoignage de Cendrars sur son expérience de soldat engagé volontaire dans la Grande Guerre. La couverture du livre (rigide) est percée de trous. Ces trous, qui dessinent la constellation d'Orion, laissent apparaître un fond argenté. Orion/C'est mon étoile/Elle a la forme d'une main/C'est ma main montée au ciel, écrit Cendrars dans son poème éponyme. En fin de volume, une cinquantaine de dessins de poilus, conservés à l'Historial de la Grande Guerre de Péronne, illustrent la vie dans les tranchées.
Bloody Hand
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Author : Matthew braun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980-06
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The Red Hand
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Author : Venables, Toby
language : en
Publisher: Abaddon Books
Release Date : 2014-12-30
The Red Hand written by Venables, Toby and has been published by Abaddon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-30 with Fiction categories.
˜England, 1193. Guy of Gisburne, knight and agent to Prince John, is all that stands between England and anarchy, fighting a shadow battle to protect the kingdom from those who would destroy it. Returning to England after foiling a plot to destroy Jerusalem, Guy of Gisburne is arrested and hauled to the Tower of London; John, England?s regent in the absence of its monstrous King, needs his knight once more. A killer has broken into the Prince?s most secure castle in the north and left a message, drawn on the skin of one of his victims: dies irae venit ? ?Judgement Day is coming? ? signed with a bloody handprint. Is the threat genuine? Who, or what, is the Red Hand? Someone is killing John?s most loyal supporters, and the obvious culprit ? the most dangerous man in the Kingdom, Hood himself ? has an alibi even Guy can?t deny.
Bloody Hand
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Author : Matt Braun
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Wordsworth Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable
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Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
language : en
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Release Date : 2001
Wordsworth Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and has been published by Wordsworth Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Allusions categories.
This work explains the origins of the familiar and the unfamiliar in everyday speech and literature, including the colloquial and the proverbial. It embraces archaeology, history, religion, the arts, science, mythology and characters from fiction.
The Red Hand
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Author : Peter Temple
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-01-23
The Red Hand written by Peter Temple and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-23 with Drama categories.
Peter Temple held crime writing up to the light and, with his poet's ear and eye, made it his own incomparable thing. Peter Temple started publishing novels late, when he was fifty, but then he got cracking. He wrote nine novels in thirteen years. Along the way he wrote screenplays, stories, dozens of reviews. When Temple died in March 2018 there was an unfinished Jack Irish novel in his drawer. It is included in The Red Hand, and it reveals the master at the peak of his powers. The Red Hand also includes the screenplay of Valentine's Day, an improbably delightful story about an ailing country football club, which in 2007 was adapted for television by the ABC. Also included are his short fiction, his reflections on the Australian idiom, a handful of autobiographical fragments, and a selection of his brilliant book reviews. .
The Strongest Immortal Emperor In History
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Author : Hu Liqun
language : en
Publisher: Sellene Chardou
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The Strongest Immortal Emperor In History written by Hu Liqun and has been published by Sellene Chardou this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Art categories.
Zhou Jiwang looked at the old man in front of him. He was in a daze. He was a young man in his twenties. Although he was younger than the old man in front of him, he didn't know how old he was, but he was called by the other side. He was still not used to it. He wanted to answer the old man's question, opened his mouth, and his throat stung. He couldn't say a word. He wanted to struggle to sit up, but he couldn't use any strength. He simply couldn't feel his body, only