Eamon: 54 books
Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism
From Galway to Cloyne and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope’s address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland’s most charismatic clerics, Bishop...
by Eamon Tobin
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Prayer can nourish your soul like nothing else. But just as there are many different foods for the body, so too are there many different types of prayer for the soul. And a healthy prayer diet will include a variety of them for different times and seasons. But what are these different methods of prayer?...
Imprinting Britain
Newspapers, Sociability, and the Shaping of British North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Printing presses were instrumental in creating and upholding a sense of community during the eighteenth century. While the importance of print in the development of colonial America and the nascent United States is well-established, Imprinting Britain extends the historical discussion northward to...
Saints and Sinners
A History of the Popes; Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2006
This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago to the present day. In this new edition, the final chapter has been expanded to cover the last years of John Paul II and the election of Benedict XVI.Praise for the earlier editions:[A]...
by Daniel Arthur Smith, Eamon Ambrose, P.K. Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
This Fourth Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned is loaded with seventeen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from thirteen of today’s top speculative fiction writers.
Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction,...
by Eamon Phoenix, Pádraic Ó Cléireacháin, Eileen McAuley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Glens of Antrim formed one of the last Irish-speaking areas of Ulster until the early 1900s. Until the opening of the Antrim coast road in the 1850s Irish was universally spoken in the Glens and on Rathlin. The turn of the nineteenth century saw the Gaelic Revival which in the north of...
by Henry Dietrich-Fernandez, Maria Ruvoldt, William Eamon
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Secrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicized books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers’ shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate...
Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else
The stories behind Australia's weird and wonderful place names
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.
From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names...
The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan
Historical and Social Roots of Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book explains the origins and nature of terrorism in Pakistan and examines the social, political and economic factors that have contributed to the rise of political violence there.
Since 9/11, the state of Pakistan has come to be regarded as the epicentre of terrorist activity committed...
by Eamon Duffy
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2003
In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and antipapal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in the countryside? And how did country people feel...
by Eamon Duffy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The reign of Queen Mary is popularly remembered largely for her re-introduction of Catholicism into England, and especially for the persecution of Protestants, memorably described in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments. Mary's brief reign has often been treated as an aberrant interruption of England's...
Reformation Divided
Catholics, Protestants and the Conversion of England
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The religious revolution initiated by Martin Luther is usually referred to as 'The...
The Church of the English College in Rome
Its history, its restoration
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
This special publication is one of several to mark the occasion of the reopening of the restored church of the Venerable English College in Rome. It is in three parts. The first section is historical, a collection of articles on subjects related to the origins of the College, its church and the significance...
The Book on Joshua
Love at War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Oh well, shes not my girl back home anyway. Her name is Halamie Tikara. Shes Iraqi, and not so far away. So complicated, our beautiful love.
Human Intelligence Specialist Joshua Martin lies stranded and severely wounded after a night raid on an al-Qaeda hideout in Samarra. He spends a long...