Key Above the Door

Maurice Walsh

Literature & Fiction

Macmillan

<p>In the rich vein of John Buchan and Rider Haggard . . . The vigorous style of Maurice Walsh again captures the exhilaration of the great out-of-doors combining a warm heart and lively imagination with a true patriot's sympathy of outlook. An ambush that went awry brought unlooked-for company to Hugh Forbes and his doughty fighters. The lives of all present that June night above Lough Aonach became strangely intertwined, among them Paddy Bawn, 'The Quiet Man', who first battled Red Will O'Danaher to win proud Ellen Roe and then helped Major MacDonald bring peace to lovely Nuala Kierley - one-time participant in a grim game of life and death for the cause . . .</p>

Green Rushes

Pan.

Blackcock's Feather

Chambers

And No Quarter

<p>Bitter Freedom is a new history of the Irish Revolution, placing Ireland in the global disorder born of the terrible slaughter of total war, as well as a kaleidoscopic portrait of the human face of the conflict. The Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities and the newly-formed IRA - was the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire. But it was not alone. Nationalist movements across the world were fired by the American promise of self-determination. For too long, the story of Irish independence and its aftermath has been told within an Anglo-Irish context. Now, in a vividly written and compelling narrative, Maurice Walsh shows that Ireland was part of a civilisation in turmoil. A national revolution which captured worldwide attention from India to Argentina was itself profoundly shaped by international events, political, economic and cultural. In the era of Bolshevism and jazz, developments in Europe and America had a profound effect on Ireland, influencing the attitudes and expectations of combatants and civilians. The hopes, dreams and bitter disappointments of the revolutionary years affected everyone in Ireland whether they fought or not. Walsh also brings to life the experiences of Irish people removed from the fighting - the plays they went to, the exciting films they watched in the new cinemas and the books they read. But the price of freedom was partition, a devastating civil war and the daunting challenge of establishing a new nation in an uncertain world...</p>

Bitter Freedom: Ireland In A Revolutionary World 1918-1923

History

World

Faber&Faber

Castle Gillian

Lythway P.

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