Stephen Gwynn: 12 books

If you take this ebook with you as you travel around Donegal and the Glens of Antrim you will find that you journey not only over land, but also over time. More than just about anywhere else, the landscapes of Ireland evoke the past. Viewing Donegal and the Antrim Glens through the lens of history...

Limiting itself to only the most essential and famous authors writing in English, this 1904 introduction to literature devotes itself mainly to Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Bacon, Milton, Pope, Defoe, Swift, Burns, Scott, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, plus Samuel Johnson’s circle and the novelists...

Irish statesman John Edward Redmond was a remarkable political figure who was well known for bringing together clashing factions and crafting mutually amenable compromises. The last years of his career were dedicated to securing Irish Home Rule, a triumph that was ultimately nullified by the advent of World War I. This probing biography details the final fight of Redmond's political life.

This collection of essays, published in 1919, constitutes a wide-ranging examination of its subject, from "Novels of Irish Life in the Nineteenth Century" to "A Century of Irish Humor" to "Irish Education and Irish Character" and “Literature among the Illiterates.”

The following Life of Sir Charles W. Dilke consists mainly of his own Memoirs and of correspondence left by him or furnished by his friends. The Memoirs were compiled by Sir Charles Dilke from his private diaries and letters between the years 1888 and his return to Parliament in 1892. The private diaries...

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and...

BOYHOOD AND EARLY POEMS Sudden fame, acquired with little difficulty, suffers generally a period of obscuration after the compelling power which attaches to a man's living personality has been removed; and from this darkness it does not always emerge. Of such splendour and subsequent eclipse, Moore's...

In writing this book, I have had access to my late leader's papers for the period beginning with the war. These were placed at my disposal by his son, Major William Archer Redmond, D.S.O., M.P. I had also the consent of Mrs. Redmond to my undertaking the task. But for the book and for the opinions expressed...

Could archaeologists benefit contemporary cultures and be a factor in solving world problems? Can archaeologists help individuals? Can archaeologists change the world? These questions form the root of “archaeology activism” or “activist archaeology”: using archaeology to advocate for and affect...