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Searching for: +path:transcriptions-eire +(+date:sep +date:2008)
Viewing 1-7 of 7 matches from 36,113,247 documents
1. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Childhood Memoirs, Protestant Anglo-Irish Daily Life -- Elizabeth BOWEN (1899-1973) [1]
SNIPPET: Elizabeth BOWEN (1899-1973), celebrated writer, was born in Dublin, but spent most of her life in England. After inheriting the family home, Bowen's Court, in Co. Cork, she lived there part of each year. This memoir of her comfortable childhood winters in Dublin presents a matter-of-fact picture of the Protestant Anglo-Irish daily life. "On Sundays we went to St. Stephen's, our parish church, a few minutes' walk along the canal. St. Stephen's Georgian facade, with its pillars and steps, crown
2. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Account, 1888 -- The Shannon and a visit to Edgeworthstown, Longford -- Richard LOVETT [1]
SNIPPET: Victorian visitor to Ireland, Richard LOVETT, recorded his travels that were first published in 1888 by The Religious Tract Society. This was the great age of railway travel, before the coming of the motorcar and aeroplane, and his itinerary followed a leisurely style by steamer, train, carriage and foot. "Ireland is exceedingly rich in rivers and loughs. The traveller marvels, first, at the extent and beauty of these natural high-roads, and, secondly, at the comparatively slight use made of
3. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Other Recent Trips to Ireland [1]
SNIPPET: Readers of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine shared their impressions of the Emerald Isle in the March/April 2008 issue and sent along photos that were published in that issue: James W. GALLOWAY, Bowie, TX wrote: "St. Brendan's Cathedral in Loughrea, some twenty miles east of Galway Bay in the west of Ireland, is a modest structure enclosing glorious Celtic Revival stained glass windows and a beautiful series of Stations of the Cross. At the entrance to the Cathedral a lady graci
4. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Great Famine: British Government 1845-46 - Prime Minister Robert PEEL's Response - Corn Laws [1]
SNIPPET: "Scenes of starvation were commonplace in Ireland by the end of 1846, but they had been a year in the making. Actual starvation had been averted at first, when the British government under Prime Minister Robert PEEL moved aggressively to counter the potato famine in 1845. PEEL was an old hand on matters Irish; he had been the government's chief secretary in Ireland, which meant that he was responsible for implementing government policy on the island. One of those policies was the introdu
5. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Derry's Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall (built 1873) [1]
SNIPPET: In the city center, the old city walls of Derry, built 1613-1618 and still intact except for wider gates to handle modern vehicles, hold an almost mythical place in Irish history. It was here in 1688 that a group of brave apprentice boys, many of whom had been shipped to Londonderry as orphans after the great fire of London in 1666, took their stand. They slammed the city gates shut in the face of the approaching Catholic forces of deposed KING JAMES II. With this act, the boys galvanized the
6. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] Memoir, Lanes of Limerick - "Angela's Ashes" (1996) Frank McCOURT [1]
SNIPPET: "Frank McCOURT's life and his searing telling of it, reveals all we need to know about being human," wrote the 'Detroit Free Press when his award-winning memoir, 'Angela's Ashes' was published in 1996. Frank taught English for many years at Stuyvesant High School in NYC after he returned to the States from Ireland as a young man. Here are some excerpts: "My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and married and where I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when
7. [TRANSCRIPTIONS-EIRE] 'Cousin John' - "An Irish County Childhood" - Co. Mayo-born Mrs. Marrie (FERGUSON) WALSH [1]
SNIPPET: In her charming memoir, "An Irish County Childhood," about growing up in Attymass, Co. Mayo in the 1930s-40s, Mary Kate FERGUSON (Mrs. Tom WALSH) shared: "My mother's only cousin, John, emigrated to America as a young man and worked as a miner in Illinois. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he had lost both his parents as a young child, whereupon he and his younger brother, Larry, were sent to Ireland to their uncle, my maternal grandfather. They arrived in our little town in the West of Ireland
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