Thomas Flanagan

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Thomas Flanagan's best-selling novel of the Irish rebellion of 1798.

The Year of the French

The lives of three friends, who fight as young men in the Fenian uprising in 1867 Ireland, take very different paths--a schoolmaster, a lawyer-politician, and a terrorist--yet remain inseparably bound to a common belief in their country

The Tenants of Time

Tenants of Time

Thomas Flanagan became famous as the author of a trilogy of novels, starting withThe Year of the French,about Ireland from the rebellion of 1798 to the civil war of the 1920s. But the novelist who began by reimagining the mental and physical world of eighteenth-century County Mayo had long been immersing himself, as a scholar, essayist, and reviewer, in the literature and history of his ancestral land. In the nonfiction writings collected here, many of them unpublished in his lifetime, Flanagan brings what Christopher Cahill calls his "keen eye and strong gaze and sharp tongue" to reassessments of key figures of Irish culture. They range from Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Lord Edward Fitzgerald, through W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, Charles Stewart Parnell and Michael Collins, to contemporaries and friends like Brian Moore and Frank O'Connor, and American Irish like the Molly Maguires and the director John Ford. Flanagan probes the tragically intertwined origins of celebrity and literary modernism in the careers of Irish-American writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O'Neill, and John O'Hara. He reflects on what his own novels have taught him about the possibilities of historical fiction. And his thoughts on Irish-American identity sum up the long-pondered mixture of experience and scrutiny he brought to his heritage. Witty, lively, and learned, this collection reveals that Thomas Flanagan was not only as a master of the historical novel but a writer who meditated broadly and deeply on the Ireland he once described as "a complex, profound, historical society, woven of many strands, some bright and some dark."

Writings on Irish and American Literature and History

There You are

Volume 3 of Thomas Flanagan’s Irish History Trilogy This third volume of Thomas Flanagan’s best-selling Irish-history trilogy (which begins with The Year of the French and continues with The Tenants of Time) brings to epic life the events of the Irish War of Independence. Flanagan’s gaze is both world historical and intimate as he tells the story of Janice Nugent, a recent war widow who strikes up a romance with Christopher Blake, a historian and propagandist for the IRA; of Patrick Prentiss, discharged from the British army after losing an arm in World War I to find Dublin engulfed in civil turmoil; of a Virgil-toting gunman named Frank Lacy; and of a panorama of meticulously drawn historical figures on both sides of the conflict, from Winston Churchill and Lloyd George to Eamon de Valera and Michael Collins. While violence escalates and losses mount, the once-mighty British Empire shows signs of strain and Irish independence finally glimmers on the horizon.

The End of the Hunt

Illustrated with Maps, Engravings, and Statistical, Chronological, & Genealogical Tables

A Manual of British & Irish History

From the Earliest Period, to the Re-establishment of the Hierarchy in 1850

A History of the Church in England

der grosse Irland-Roman

Ein Traum von Freiheit

Sommer 1798, Schauplatz Irland, ein Aufstand: Der historische Roman „Ein Traum von Freiheit" berichtet in detaillierter und facettenreicher Art über die Rebellion in Irland. Während die Bauern in bedrückender Armut leben, geniessen die Grundherren das Leben des Luxus. Doch auch die Grundherren müssen Abgaben leisten nämlich an die englische Krone. In Frankreich hat sich gerade erst die französische Revolution abgespielt, deren ideologisches Gedankengut sich nun auch über Irland ausstreckt. - Mithilfe von verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchtet der Autor die damaligen Lebensumstände, Phantasien und Wünsche Angehöriger verschiedener Schichten und Religionen und bringt dem Leser auf spielerische Weise die Komplexität der irischen Geschichte näher.

The dramatic history of the creation of the Irish Free State and the brutal Civil War that followed comes to life as four young Irish people become caught up in the emotional turbulence of their time. By the author of The Tenants of Time. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The first book-length application of game theory to Canadian politics. It uses a series of case studies, taken from real life political situations, to illustrate fundamental concepts of game theory.

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