Spaced Out - A Guide to Award Winning Contemporary Spaces in the UK
This beautifully illustrated guide celebrates some of the most significant award winning public spaces in major cities in the UK and Ireland over the last ten years.
BBC reporter Delaney's fictionalized history of his native country, an Irish bestseller, is a sprawling, riveting read, a book of stories melding into a novel wrapped up in an Irish history text. In 1951, when Ronan O'Mara is nine, he meets the aging itinerant Storyteller, who emerges out a "silver veil" of Irish mist, hoping to trade a yarn for a hot meal. Welcomed inside, the Storyteller lights his pipe and begins, telling of the architect of Newgrange, who built "a marvelous, immortal structure... before Stonehenge in England, before the pyramids of Egypt," and the dentally challenged King Conor of Ulster, who tried, and failed, to outsmart his wife.
Gladstone and Ireland - Politics, Religion and Nationality in the Victorian Age
On 8 June 1886 William Gladstone urged a crowded House of Commons to think ‘not for the moment, but for the years that are to come’ and vote for a Bill conferring domestic self-government on Ireland. This dramatic scene has only a handful of parallels in British history and marked the culmination of Gladstone’s engagement with the ‘Irish Question’. This question had many aspects- political, economic, social, religious, intellectual and constitutional - raising moral issues and provoking a debate on the character and composition of the British nation.
Viking Antiquities in Great Britain and Ireland, 5 Volumes
Published in 1940, this five volume set details Viking activity in Europe, with an emphasis on the British Isles. The volumes catalogue archaeological finds and enrich the narrative works about the sixth through eleventh centuries. Thoroughly documented and well illustrated. A "must have" for Norse studies.
From the mid-1860s to 1914 the Irish problem was frequently the prime issue in British politics. Quantatively it absorbed more time and energy than any other question. There was little about Ireland which was not aired at length in the press, in Parliament and at the dinner tables of the British political elite. Fenianism obsessed British minds at the beginning of the period while at the end it seemed all too possible that Irish home rule would spark off the largest civil disruption in the British Isles since the seventeenth century. Throughout the late Victorian and Edwardian eras Ireland never drifted far from political consciousness.
