Best of
Ireland

1937

Famine


Liam O'Flaherty - 1937
    It is a masterly historical novel, rich in language, character, and plot--a panoramic story of passion, tragedy, and resilience.

The Way That I Went: An Irishman in Ireland


Robert Lloyd Praeger - 1937
    Includes illustrated fold out map in back.

The Irish Republic: A Documented Chronicle of the Anglo-Irish Conflict and the Partitioning of Ireland, with a Detailed Account of the period 1916-1923


Dorothy Macardle - 1937
    

Floating Republic: An Account of the Mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797


George Ernest Mainwaring - 1937
    Though it shook the country from end to end, it was largely ordered with rigid discipline, a respect for officers and an unswerving loyalty to the King. Moreover, it was so rationally grounded that it not only achieved its immediate end, the betterment of the sailor's lot, but also began a new and lasting epoch in naval administration.Here are familiar names: the aged hero Lord Howe, the indecisive Lord Bridport, the giant Admiral Duncan who held a mutineer over the side of his ship until the wretch admitted his error, the ever unpopular Captain Bligh, and less familiar figures such as Richard Parker, who led the mutiny at the Nore and paid for his insurrection at the end of a rope. This fascinating account will appeal to all who love Horatio Hornblower, Jack Aubrey and other fictional heroes of the era.The value of The Floating Republic does not merely reside in its excellent treatment of its theme - but likewise in the light it sheds upon the history of the eighteenth century generally.