The Story of the Irish Race (Paperback or Softback)

MacManus, Seumas

ISBN 10: 1596050632 / ISBN 13: 9781596050631

Edité par Cosimo Classics 4/15/2005, 2005

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The Story of the Irish Race.

N° de réf. du vendeur BBS-9781596050631

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Story of the Irish Race (Paperback or Softback)
• Éditeur: Cosimo Classics 4/15/2005
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1596050632
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781596050631
• Reliure: Paperback or Softback
• État de l'article: New
• Poids: 2,07 livres
• Type de livre: Book

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Synopsis

To understand modern Ireland one must understand the history of Ireland. Its legends, religious and political life, culture, and wider contributions to the world remain linked to its rich past. In The Story of the Irish Race, popular writer and storyteller Seumas MacManus provides a wide-ranging look at the development of Ireland and its people. Beginning with the early colonization by the Milesius of Spain, MacManus explores ancient stories about the Tuatha De Danann, Cuchullain, Fionn and the Fian, Irish invasions of Britain, St. Bridget and St. Patrick, Irish missionaries and scholars abroad, and life and culture in ancient and medieval Ireland. He also investigates more recent events and names in Irish history, such as Oliver Cromwell, "The Wild Geese," Wolfe Tone, Daniel O'Connell, the Fenians, the Famine, Charles Stewart Parnell, and the Land League. From its earliest days to the Easter Rising, MacManus provides an entertaining and enlightening look at one of the most fascinating cultures we know. SEUMAS MacMANUS was a prolific Donegal-based author who published a number of books in the U.S., including Donegal Fairy Stories, In Chimney-Corners, The Donegal Wonder-Book, The Well o' the World's End, and A Lad of the O'Friels. He contributed stories to some of the leading magazines of his day, including Harper's and The Century. He was married to Anna Johnson, who, under the pen name Ethna Carbery, published two volumes of verse, The Passionate Heart and The Four Winds of Erin.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This IS an attempt to sketch a rough and ready picture of the more prominent peaks that rise out of I relands past the high spots in the story of our race. The story is developed with the object of interesting and informing the man who can not, or will not, afford the time to read studiously. Yet it is earnestly hoped that it may vhet the appetites of many, and stimulate them to go browsing in broader and richer pastures in anticipation of which there are set down, at ends of chapters or periods, titles of some of the more important books dealing with the subject just treated of. The writer was impelled to the compilation of this story of our race by the woeful lack of knowledge on the subject which he found in the four corners of A merica, among all classes of people, alike the intelligent and the ordinary. With the vast majority of America sintellectual ones he found I relands past as obscure as the past of Borneo. On three occasions he was asked by educated women who were pillars in their Societies, Has I reland got a history? To a large extent the blame for American ignorance of I relands story rests upon the ignorance of our own exiles, and the children of those exiles. Were these possessed of a general knowledge of I relands past, and the proper pride that must come of that knowledge, the good Americans around them would catch information by contagion. The vriter hopes that even this crude compendium may put some of the necessary knowledge and pride in the minds and hearts of his people and also the incentive to seek out and study the history of the country that endowed them with the rare riches, spiritual and mental, that characterises the far-wandered children, and childrens children, of the Gael. Also it is to be hoped that many of the general American public, ever sympathetic toward I reland, may, through the aid of this rough record, graduate from
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