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New York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted storyteller. The pages are populated with figures from myth, history, and the present-from Saint Patrick to Oliver Cromwell, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Charles Parnell to Sinead O'Connor and Bono. Some beloved, some controversial-each influenced the course of Irish and world history. While McCourt vividly describes Ireland's turbulent history, he also offers a cultural survey with fresh insights to the folklore, literature, art, music, and cuisine of Ireland, producing an irresistible tour through the Emerald Isle.
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Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland, Brian McDonald, Malachy McCourt
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 2008
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- Abîmé
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- Titre
- Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Brian McDonald, Malachy McCourt
- Publié
- 2008
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0762431814
- ISBN13
- 9780762431816
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Biographies, Biographies, Europe, Histoire de l'Europe, Voyages, Histoire du monde, Irlande, Littérature irlandaise, Histoire sociale, Histoire politique, Irlande du Nord
- Description
- New York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted storyteller. The pages are populated with figures from myth, history, and the present-from Saint Patrick to Oliver Cromwell, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Charles Parnell to Sinead O'Connor and Bono. Some beloved, some controversial-each influenced the course of Irish and world history. While McCourt vividly describes Ireland's turbulent history, he also offers a cultural survey with fresh insights to the folklore, literature, art, music, and cuisine of Ireland, producing an irresistible tour through the Emerald Isle.