Most Read This Week In Ireland
Books that are set in Ireland. See also Irish literature.
...more
Most Read This Week Tagged "Ireland"
“
True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few potatoes had been planted that, even if they escaped bight, they would not be enough to feed the poor folk who relied upon them. More and more of those small tenants and cottagers, besides, were being forced off the land and into a condition of helpless destitution. Ireland, that is to say, was a country utterly prostrated.
Yet the Famine came to an end. And h
...more
”
― The Rebels of Ireland
― The Rebels of Ireland
“
The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is doubtful if anybody at all changes at any time. In spite of hosts of deniers, and asserters, and wise-men, and professors, the majority still are adverse to sitting down to dine thirteen at a table, or being helped to salt, or walking under a ladder, of seeing a single magpie flirting his chequered tale. There are, of course, children of light who have set their faces against all this, although even a
...more
”
―
―
A groupf of people for northern ireland who love book and talking about them. A great way to mak…more
5 members,
last active 8 years ago
Long ago, there was a man named Collin O'Brian. He was a young man of the best blood in Ireland,…more
21 members,
last active 5 years ago
I'm looking to meet and chat with people about Irish Mythology in modern literature, what people…more
56 members,
last active 7 years ago
