This CD contains pictures and biographies of soldiers from Ireland who earned the Victoria Cross and Honours. These include background, career and family information with details on the circumstances in which their awards were earned~ Also included is an extensive history and a Who's Who of the Tyneside Irish (politicians, brigade founders, etc.). *Digitally enhanced images of the original text *Searchable text *Bookmarked by major headings *Fully printable ~Information available var More Info
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After just under 10 years the Ordnance Survey Memoir team has completed this major 40 volume series with the fascinating volume on the five counties in and along the southern reaches of the Province of Ulster, a large area stretching from Sligo and Leitrim in the west and as far as Louth in the east, with Cavan and Monaghan, particularly the latter, have the best coverage. Prominent themes are the...More Info
People are rarely neutral about the Irish language. In Northern Ireland it is a topic which usually creates more heat than light. While attitudes have softened somewhat over the years, polarised views about the language are remarkably persistent. Historic and contemporary efforts to maintain the language have had varied success, but the key goal of creating new sustainable language communities, wh...More Info
Denis Stanislaus Henry (1864-1925) occupies a unique place in the political and legal history of Northern Ireland politics. As a catholic, Henry supported the Union from the time of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill of 1886, and after joining the Ulster Unionist Council upon its formation in 1905, unsuccessfully contested the North Tyrone constituency in 1906 and 1907, losing by the narrow margins ...More Info
Armagh the smallest county in Northern Ireland, has a rich, colourful and even tempestuous history. War, famine and emigration over the last four centuries have all contributed to forming the distinctive character of its people. The constant struggle bewtween Planter and Gael that has characterised the county since the Plantation in the early 17th century may be seen in, form example the almost eq...More Info
This book by M. Perceval-Maxwell was first published in 1973, yet it continues to be one of the most significant works of scholarship on the Plantation of Ulster. This book describes in detail the initial establishment of settlement in Ireland's northern province over a comparitively short space of time, that is from 1603 to 1625. Dr Perceval-Maxwell examines the society that produced the Scottish...More Info