Looks Like Rain: 9000 Years of Irish Weather

Damian Corless

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Gill, Ireland, Cork, 2013

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The name the Romans gave to Ireland was Hibernia, which means `Land of Winter, and cold feet may have been a factor in their decision to leave the Irish to their own devices. The weather is our main topic of conversation and has done its bit in shaping our character. This lively overview shines a light on incidents when the weather generally bad changed the course of Irelands history. Along the way it takes in those years and there were quite a few when the sun really didnt shine. We learn how Oliver Cromwell, invincible in war, most likely caught his death from a Cork mosquito. The Irish climate created the heavy soil that made the potato flourish in Ireland like nowhere else, with disastrous consequences. David Lean came to Ireland fully intending to give the County Kerry weather a starring role in his film Ryans Daughter. He didnt make another film for fourteen years. Our professional forecasters still hedge their bets by predicting four seasons in one day and still often get it laughably wrong. But there are sunny stories too, such as how, in 1973, the brooding Antrim weather produced one of rock musics greatest album covers, and how the Irish legend of the crock of gold at the rainbows end came about. Remarkably, Irelands weather has remained the same moderate mixed blessing since the Romans left. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

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Titre
Looks Like Rain: 9000 Years of Irish Weather
Auteur
Damian Corless
Éditeur
Gill, Ireland, Cork
Année de publication
2013
État de l'article
Very Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1848891814
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781848891814
Poids de l'article
358 grammes
Dimensions
128.0 x 198.0

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