The Irish have always been proud of their contribution to Manchester. Alan Keegan & Danny Claffeys Irish Manchester: A Third Selection combines many previously unpublished photographs with well-researched captions to create a fascinating picture of the Irish community in the city. Among the themes featured are suburbs characters shops clubs buildings events & entertainment of the past. Packed with memories anecdotes & people this is the ultimate guide to Manchesters strong links with the Emerald Isle. Two chapters are being contributed by notable local characters Joe Casserley (who presents a local radio show) & Rose Morris of the Irish Heritage Centre. ...

From the epic Irish legend of Cuchulain to tales of banshees leprechauns & wizards these short stories & fables cover a wide range of Irelands mythology & legends forming a companion volume to Michael Scotts Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. ...

Backbreaking blister-making work followed by pints of the black stuff in the Admiral Rodney the Shamrock the Cattle Market Tavern & many others well-told stories fine songs characters like the Connemara lads Cockney Woods Pigfoot Paddy & occasional punch-ups. These are the people & events that make this book an extraordinarily vivid picture of an Irish navvys life in the England of the 1950s. Workless & foodless days the hardships of work camps lonesome partings after trips home periods of intense isolation & occasional bitterness were also part of the picture. This is an honest account of how the average Irish labourer worked lived in & contributed to the country of the ancient enemy. Originally published in Irish as Dialann Deorai to wide acclaim. ...

Roberts Irish series continues with this br&-new story in Silhouette Special Edition ("! Upon arriving at Royal Meadows Farms from Ireland rugged horse trainer Brian Donnelly is stunned by the beauty of his bosss daughter Keeley Grant. Now its up to this innocent beauty to tame this handsome Irish rogue. Satellite media tour." ...

The tens of thousands of Irish soldiers who fought in the British Army in World War I gained a fierce fighting reputation distinguishing themselves at Ypres Gallipoli the Somme & Palestine. Despite the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922 Irishmen continued to volunteer for the British Army in World War II. Again their war record was distinguished; units included the famous 38th Irish Brigade who fought in North Africa & Italy & the Irish Guards who won a total of two Victoria Crosses 33 Military Crosses & 90 other military medals. Providing the first concise illustrated history of the Irish Regiments in both World Wars this book covers their uniforms & insignia as well as battle histories & proud service records. ...

Irelands rich culinary heritage is brought to life in this new edition of Darinas bestselling Irish Traditional Cooking". With 300 traditional dishes including 100 new recipes this is the most comprehensive & entertaining tome on the subject. Each recipe is complemented by tips tales historical insights & common Irish customs many of which have been passed down from one generation to the next. Darinas fascination with Irelands culinary heritage is illustrated with chapters on Broths & Soups Fish Game Vegetables & Cakes & Biscuits. She uses the finest of Irelands natural produce to give us recipes such as Sea Spinach Soup Potted Ballycotton Shrimps with Melba Toast & Rhubarb Fool." ...

Can we not build up a national tradition a national literature which shall be none the less Irish in spirit from being English in language? W. B. Yeats This anthology traces the history of modern Irish literature from the revolutionary era of the late eighteenth century to the early years of political independence. From Charlotte Brooke & Edmund Burke to Elizabeth Bowen & Louis Mac Neice the anthology shows how in forging a tradition of their own Irish writers have continually challenged & renewed the ways in which Ireland is imagined & defined. The anthology

Includes:: a wide-ranging & generous selection of fiction poetry & drama. Three plays by W. B. Yeats Augusta Gregory & J. M. Synge are printed in their entirety along with the opening episode of James Joyces Ulysses. The volume also

Includes:: letters speeches songs memoirs essays & travel writings many of which are difficult to obtain elsewhere. Stephen Regans anthology vividly & valiantly presents a nation & a national literature coming into being. Paul Muldoon ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.



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The new IRiver Story e Book Reader is one of the most stylish e Book readers available with its slim design fresh white colour & full QWERTY keyboard. The 6” e-Ink display that can be viewed in a portrait or landscape mode makes the IRiver Story easy to use & comfortable to read especially as it only weighs 284g. The IRiver supports a huge range of file formats including e Books (e Pub PDF TXT) Office Files (XLS PPT DOC) & Music files (MP3 WMV) all of which are viewable with no conversion needed. The QWERTY keyboard means that you can edit text make entries into the personal diary feature & perform book searches across your device. With a capacity of up to 8000 books on an external SD card the book search feature is invaluable. Other features that make the IRiver Story a must have e Book Reader include a battery life of 9000 page turns a voice recorder & an audio player Technical Specifications
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In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors industrialists & entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery & the factory & thereby changed the whole of human society bringing into being new methods of social & economic organisation new social classes & new political forces. The Industrial Revolution also dramatically altered humanity's relation to the natural world & embedded the belief that change not stasis is the necessary backdrop for human existence. Iron Steam & Money" tells the thrilling story of those few decades the moments of inspiration the rivalries skulduggery & death threats & the tireless perseverance of the visionaries who made it all happen. Richard Arkwright James Watt Richard Trevithick & Josiah Wedgwood are among the giants whose achievements & tragedies fill these pages. In this authoritative study Roger Osborne also shows how & why the revolution happened revealing pre-industrial Britain as a surprisingly affluent society with wealth spread widely through the population & with craft industries in every town village & front parlour. The combination of disposable income widespread demand for industrial goods & a generation of time-served artisans created the unique conditions that propelled humanity into the modern world. The industrial revolution was arguably the most important episode in modern human history; " Iron Steam & Money" reminds us of its central role while showing the extraordinary excitement of those tumultuous decades." ...

Jiggy only jumped into the school broom cupboard for two minutes to avoid a teacher. So when he emerges from his hasty hiding spot into a parallel universe hes not impressed! & theres not a lion or a witch in sight... In this new world Jiggy finds he has swapped places with a boy called Juggy who is about to go on a school trip
- a trip to compete in the UK Extreme Ironing Championships...
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