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  • Medical Journal of the Emigrant Ship Amity

    by James McTernan, Paul Allen, Paul Allen ...
    On the 17th of May 1825, the Amity sailed from the Cove of Cork, carrying 27 men, 24 women and 96 children from some of the most distressed districts in the south of Ireland. These people were transported, at Government expense, as part of an experimental emigration that settled over 2000 Irish paupers in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Responsibility for the success of this enterprise fell to ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    by Thomas Cahill ...
    Series series The Hinges of History
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift!Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he ... Read more

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  • A Short History Of England

    "Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

    by GK Chesterton ...
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Campden hill, Kensington on May 29th 1874. Originally after attending St Pauls School he went to Slade to learn the illustrators art and literature. In 1896 he joined a small London publisher and began his journalistic career as a freelance art and literary critic. In 1901 he married Frances Blogg, to whom he remained married for the rest of his life. ... Read more

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  • Bible and Sword

    England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    From Barbara W. Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August, comes history through a wide-angle lens: a fascinating chronicle of Britain’s long relationship with Palestine and the Middle East, from the ancient world to the twentieth century.Historically, the British were drawn to the Holy Land for two major reasons: first, to translate the Bible into English and, later, to control ... Read more

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  • A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes – Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Irish History

    Fascinating Snippets of Irish History from the Ice Age to the Peace Process

    by Jonathan Bardon ...
    THE ONLY BOOK ON IRISH HISTORY YOU'LL EVER NEED!From invasions to rebellions, heroic martyrs to pragmatic politicians, industrial development to mass emigration, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by renowned Irish historian Jonathan Bardon will take you on a sweeping journey through Irish history, getting behind the historical headlines to reveal the lived experience of Irish people.Written in ... Read more

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  • Flight from Famine

    The Coming of the Irish to Canada

    by Donald MacKay ...
    One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Civilizations of the Americas: The History and Culture of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes over 50 pictures of the civilizations' art, ruins, architecture, and more. *Describes everyday life for the Maya, Inca and Aztecs, from language to diet. *Comprehensively covers the civilizations' most famous characteristics, including Mayan astronomy, the Aztecs' infamous human sacrifice rituals, and the Inca's Macchu Picchu.*Includes a Table of Contents When the Spanish arrived in the ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD

  • Medical Journal of the Emigrant Ship Elizabeth

    by Pierce Power, Paul Allen, Paul Allen ...
    On the 21st of May 1825, the Elizabeth sailed from the Cove of Cork, carrying 45 men, 31 women and 134 children from some of the most distressed districts in the south of Ireland. These people were transported, at Government expense, as part of an experimental emigration that settled over 2000 Irish paupers in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Responsibility for the success of this enterprise fell to ... Read more

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  • The Peasants War

    by Ernest Bax ...
    The time was out of joint in a very literal sense of that somewhat hackneyed phrase. Every established institution - political, social, and religious - was shaken and showed the rents and fissures caused by time and by the growth of a new life underneath it. The empire - the Holy Roman - was in a parlous way as regarded its cohesion. The power of the princes, the representatives of local ... Read more

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  • Medical Journal of the Emigrant Ship Fortitude

    by Francis Connin, Paul Allen, Paul Allen ...
    On the 10th of May 1825, the Fortitude sailed from the Cove of Cork, carrying 61 men, 48 women and 173 children from some of the most distressed districts in the south of Ireland. These people were being transported, at Government expense, as part of an experimental emigration that settled over 2000 Irish paupers in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Responsibility for the success of this enterprise ... Read more

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  • Medical Journal of the Emigrant Ship Star

    by Ninian McMorris, Paul Allen, Paul Allen ...
    On the 17th of May 1825, the Star sailed from the Cove of Cork, carrying 35 men, 32 women and 147 children from some of the most distressed districts in the south of Ireland. These people were transported, at Government expense, as part of an experimental emigration that settled over 2000 Irish paupers in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Responsibility for the success of this enterprise fell to ... Read more

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  • The Irish Paradox

    How and Why We Are Such a Contradictory People

    by Sean Moncrieff ...
    What does it mean to be Irish?'We've been clever and stupid, principled and corrupt. We can be kind and cruel, guilty of dopey optimism and chronic fatalism. We're friendly, but near impossible to get to know. We're proud to be Irish but often crippled with self-loathing. We think we're great, but not really. We find ourselves fascinating. Of course we do. We're a paradox.'There's something about ... Read more

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