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While the great wave of Irish immigrants which arrived on our shores in the mid- to late-nineteenth century is well known, and their role in the industrialization of the United States is widely recognized, the important role they played in the original settlement of this country is frequently overlooked. The author's purpose in compiling this volume was to show beyond any doubt the magnitude of the Irish involvement in the founding of the Unit...

Imagined by one of the world's foremost JFK scholars, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of America's most glamorous and mythologised president.For many, the presidency of John F. Kennedy was a magic interlude in American history. His admirers saw him as a leader of intelligence and imagination, who wielded power with grace, courage and verve - although detractors have questioned the depth of his convictions and d...

Humans originally evolved in a world of few choices. Prehistoric, preindustrial, and predigital eras required fewer decisions than today's all-access, always-on world of too much information. Economists have largely discarded the idea that agents act rationally and the market follows suit. It seems that no matter how small or innocuous a decision might seem, there's almost no way to guess the effect it might have. The authors of The Importance...

God changed me by placing me on a cliff looking down into the abyss! He allowed me to feel what that would be like. I knew I could never die, and I was going to live forever. However, where I found myself was like being in a seat, traveling out into deep space where there was nothing but blackness. No stars or suns or anything-just me, all alone for eternity. I can truly say it was a fate worse than death. Going to church and getting involved ...

Current and future managers are regularly confronted with decisions that create risk in the legal environment of business. This book provides a framework for qualifying legal risk and then determining if the legal risk is worth taking. This framework begins by looking at the relationship between the firm, its suppliers, customers, owners, agents, and others in society as a whole to understand specific risks in personal injury, agreements, prod...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Irish Pioneers in Kentucky: A Series of Articles Published in the Gaelic American New YorkOur irish-american literary and historical associations could do no better work than turn the searchlight on the early records of Kentucky. Of all the original Thirteen Colonies, none presents a wider, more prolific or more interesting field for historical research than that portion of the Colony of Virginia, originally called Fincastle Count...

Excerpt from The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918T is truer, perhaps, of a newspaper than of most I other complex things in the world that the whole may be greater than the sum of all its parts. In any daily paper worth a moment's consideration the least fancifully inclined observer will discern an individual ity apart from and in a degree independent of the dozens or hundreds or thousands of personal values entering at a given time into ...

Wrongly jailed for the murder of a Cardiff newsagent in 1987. Michael O'Brien became known as one of the Cardiff Newsagent Three. After serving eleven years and 43 days in prison, he was cleared at the Court of Appeal in 1999. Michael subsequently became an author and motivational speaker and has written a number of books on the criminal justice system, which have won him four international awards. While Michael was in prison, his daughter and...

Excerpt from Irish Colonists in New York: A Lecture Delivered Before the New York State Historical Association at Lake George, New York, August 22nd, 1906The Colonies which now form the Unit ed States may be considered as Europe transplanted. Ireland, Eng-land, Scotland, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland and Italy furnished the original stock of the present population, and are generally supposed to have contributed to it in...

Excerpt from The McCarthys in Early American HistoryIrish have sadly neglected the opportunities which these records afiord, to rescue from oblivion and to perpetuate a knowledge among their fellow Americans of the part played by men and women of the Irish race in laying the foundations of the structure upon which this great nation rests.There is no earthly reason why the Irish, like Amer icans of other races, should not be accorded a place in...

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Excerpt from A Hidden Phase of American History: Ireland's Part in America's Struggle for Liberty The work divides itself easily into three parts - one devoted to laying bare the heart of the Irish race in Ireland during the War for Independence as beating in sympathy with the revolted Colonies in America, and therein refuting the statements of Bancroft founded upon one-sided quotation and misread information, and involving suppression of imp...

Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.

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Original edition entered under: O'Brien, Elizabeth.

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***ALL the profits from Shift will go to World Bicycle Relief.*** This is a must-read book for anyone looking to change their perspective and live a more purposeful life. Michael O'Brien (OB to his friends) shows that the secret to becoming our best starts with our mindset. Drawing on his personal story from his ''last bad day'', Michael shares the emotional and physical recovery that starts with his near-death accident on the morning of July ...