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“lucy mcdiarmid”

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  • Poets and the Peacock Dinner

    The Literary History of a Meal

    by Lucy McDiarmid ...
    On January 18, 1914, seven male poets gathered to eat a peacock. W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound, the celebrities of the group, led four lesser-known poets to the Sussex manor house of the man they were honouring, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: the poet, horse-breeder, Arabist, and anti-imperialist married to Byron's only granddaughter. In this story of the curious occasion that came to be known as the 'peacock ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Irish Art Of Controversy

    by Lucy McDiarmid ...
    Controversies are high drama: in them people speak lines as colourful and passionate as any recited on stage. In the years before 1916, public battles were fought in Ireland over French paintings, Dublin slum children, and theatrical censorship. Controversy was 'popular,' wrote George Moore, especially 'when accompanied with the breaking of chairs'. In her new book, Lucy McDiarmid gives a lively ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Irish Art Of Controversy

    by Lucy McDiarmid ...
    Controversies are high drama: in them people speak lines as colourful and passionate as any recited on stage. In the years before 1916, public battles were fought in Ireland over French paintings, Dublin slum children, and theatrical censorship. Controversy was 'popular,' wrote George Moore, especially 'when accompanied with the breaking of chairs'. In her new book, Lucy McDiarmid gives a lively ... Read more

    $3.74 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • At Home in the Revolution

    by Lucy McDiarmid ...
    On Monday morning 24 April 1916, Catherine Byrne jumped through a window on the side of the GPO on O'Connell Street to join the Irish revolution; Mairead Ni Cheallaigh served breakfast to Patrick and Willie Pearse, their last home-cooked meal, and then went out to set up an emergency hospital with members of Cumann na mBan; Maire Nic Shiubhlaigh persuaded Thomas MacDonagh to let her into the ... Read more

    $25.59 USD

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    Behind the Author's Desk: Dramas of Famous Writers' Real Lives

    A BBC Radio 4 drama collection

    by Mary Cooper, Jonathan Tafler, Anna Linstrum, Alistair McGowan, Elizabeth Lewis, Robin Brooks, Lucy Caldwell1, Sarah Wooley2, Stephen Wakelam4, Frances Bingham6, David Pownall8, Katie Hims0, Ian Billings2, Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre3, Judith Adam4 ...
    Narrated by Andrew Scott, Alistair McGowan, Glenda Jackson, Toby Jones, Haydn Gwynne0, Ian McDiarmid3, Richard Dormer5, Full Cast7, Paul Ritter9, Tom Goodman-Hill1 ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 33 min

    18 biographical dramas based on the lives and loves of celebrated writersThese surprising, revealing dramas take a behind-the-scenes look at some of our best-loved authors, mingling fact and fantasy to explore their extraordinary hidden lives. From love affairs, friendships and family relationships to traumas, tragedies and journeys of self-discovery, we glimpse the unwritten worlds that shaped ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

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    When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.'In August 1922 during the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true – Collins was shot and killed by a fellow Irishman in a shocking political assassination.So ended the life of the greatest of all Irish nationalists, but ... Read more

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  • George V

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    From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnershipThe grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936, a period of ... Read more

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  • Dead Interesting Stories from the Graveyards of Dublin

    by Shane MacThomais, Dublin Cemeteries Trust ...
    Series series Glasnevin Trust
    From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing monument, every marker in Glasnevin cemetery bears witness to a life that, in ways small or large, helped shape the history and culture of the Irish state. Shane MacThomáis offers a fascinating insight into some of these lives in this book. Within its pages, you'll meet not only the heroes of the Irish fight for freedom, like Michael ... Read more

    $6.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1916: The Easter Rising

    by Tim Pat Coogan ...
    Series series 10 MINUTE SERIES
    The Easter Rising began at 12 noon on 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of Dublin and the true beginning of Irish independence.The 1916 Rising was born out of the Conservative and Unionist parties' illegal defiance of the democratically expressed wish of the Irish electorate for Home Rule; and of ... Read more

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  • Rebel Ireland:From Easter Rising to Civil War

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    by Sean McMahon ...
    The stories of these conflicts, with their scores of killings, torture, reprisals and long- lasting bitterness are told concisely in this book. &newpara;Easter 1916 – the rebellion which took place in Ireland 90 years ago was arguably the most momentous event in this country's history. &newpara;The War of Independence – the guerrilla war, characterised by marvellous courage and miserable cruelty. ... Read more

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  • Public Schools and The Great War

    The Generation Lost

    by Anthony Seldon, David Walsh ...
    "A sweeping riveting history that manages to capture the essence of the conflict, as well as the contributions of particular schools and individuals." — HMC Insight MagazineIn this pioneering and original book, Anthony Seldon and David Walsh study the impact that the public schools had on the conduct of the Great War, and vice versa. Drawing on fresh evidence from 200 leading public schools and ... Read more

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  • Renegades: Irish Republican Women 1900-1922

    by Ann Matthews ...
    The history of the Irish republican movement is dominated by the story of the men who took up arms in Ireland's fight for freedom against the British. The names of men like Pearse, Connolly, Collins and Barry still resonate today as heroes who won independence for Ireland. However, the critical role of women in this fight for freedom has often been overlooked. Renegades examines the part played by ... Read more

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