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In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known "hinge" of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to the "island of saints and scholars," the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells. Here, far from the barbarian despoliation of the continent, monks and scribes laboriously, lovingly, even playfully preserved the West's written treasury. When stability returned in Europe, these Irish scholars were instrumental in spreading learning, becoming not only the conservators of civilization, but also the shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western culture.
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The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe.
Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians.
In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost -- they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task.
As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated.
In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's
A Distant Mirror,
How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
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From the fall of Rome to the rise of Charlemagne--the "dark ages"--learning, scholarship, and culture disappeared from the European continent. The great heritage of western civilization--from the Greek and Roman classics to Jewish and Christian works--would have been utterly lost were it not for the holy men and women of unconquered Ireland.
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Enjoyable reading.......2007-09-28
I enjoyed this book and am somewhat surprised by the nasty reviews. I wasn't looking for a historical textbook or I would surely have looked elsewhere. As an introduction to the role Ireland played in history, I found it a scratching of the surface that made me want to go out and learn more. And I loved Cahill's rather lighthearted amusing writing style. I'm intrigued enough to want to read more in the hinges of history series and I find myself wanting to study Irish poetry from the middle ages.
An enjoyable read!
An ok book about the Irish.......2007-08-27
An ok book about irish civilization. I cannot say that I loved this book. It was a general read about the Irish. I was not overwhelmed by this.
Heavy reading.......2007-07-18
This book is an interesting intellectual history of the fall of Western classical civilization, and how its literary works and ideas were preserved and then brought back to life through Irish monasteries. Cahill begins with an analysis of why the Roman Empire collapsed, which he supports by drawing heavily on classical writers, from Plato to Cicero. He also examines the state of Irish society at the time, using the Tain as an example. He then traces the history of Saint Patrick bringing Christianity to Ireland, and how the new Christian monasteries came to be the institutions that preserved the ancient classical texts and brought them back to mainland Europe in future centuries.
I found Cahill's approach to history quite interesting, in his heavy use of contemporary literary works to exemplify his descriptions. He argues that it was the special nature of Irish intellectual society, in which the monks were interested in reading and preserving all classical works without censoring them, which enabled many classic Greek and Roman texts to be preserved. Without such broad interests in preserving all ancient texts, Cahill argues they would have been lost for good with the looting and burning of the great European libraries, and the ideas in them would not have been available to fuel the renaissance. The book is quite thought-provoking, and would make a good choice for book discussions.
Wonderful Book.......2007-06-14
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Like many of Thomas Cahill's books the author spends the first few chapters on background history (which can be a slow read for some - myself included), but once he sets up the time and place it is a smooth enjoyable ride that leaves you inspired and enriched.
Not scholarly literature.......2007-06-13
I thought Cahill's premise was fascinating. The book was interesting, too, but it's not a scholarly work. Cahill tells a story. I admit that I have not read enough in this area to be able to fully critique his work, but like any work the reader should not blindly accept everything he or she reads.
I was disappointed by the vagueness of much of Cahill's text. Much of it seemed irrelevant. Ausonius and Augustine and Plato are nice, but I don't know if they're really the greatest cross-section of classical civilzation to cite. I was confused by the way in which the story was told. I felt cheated by the layout, which seems to indicate that events happened in this order: 1) Rome is great, 2) Rome is overrun by barbarians, 3) Ireland becomes civilized, 4) Ireland enlightens the world, 5) the world is saved. However, if you look at the chronology in the back, these events are intertwined and one is not necessarily the result of another. This book seems to be the bones of the story - but it's not fleshed out. Please note that Cahill's credentials are as a religious scholar, not a historian.
Cahill's arguments are interesting, and he did illuminate an aspect of history that was previously a shadow of the Dark Ages. The time between the fall of the Roman empire and Charlemagne seems to be a black hole in history. Cahill does make the usual error of assuming that the people of his society are the only people in the world - but anyone who knows anything about history knows that the world was never empty. I may give Cahill another chance, but I have my reservations.
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
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More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself.
Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character.
Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music.
Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.
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Never bend a knee to Rome........2007-09-29
This was a well written and thought provoking book. I can see how some of the ideas put forward can be misconstrued do to the nature of the subjects but find myself agreeing with most of them. Mr. Webb has shed light on some very interesting topics. I am not a Scots-Irish historian so I enjoyed the history that this book offered. In the end this book has done a good service to one of the immigrant groups that built and fought for this great nation.
SuperTerrificWonderful.......2007-08-10
Webb does a phenomenal job weaving the various economic, political, and religious threads together to create a vivid tapestry depicting the origin and impact of the Scots-Irish. Well-written and riveting. My only criticism is that the author never acknowledged my request to have him autograph my copy (I even offered to deliver it to his office in D.C.!).
Enjoyable Reading.......2007-05-13
This is a book that you savour by slow reading. It is enjoyable histore particularly for a Scot or Irish man.
How the Rednecks Saved the World!.......2007-03-28
If James Webb's "Born Fighting" gets the reception it deserves, it will go a long way in exposing the first and apparently last socially acceptable prejudice in America: that against the working class southerner. Webb's book explodes the stereotypes attached to this people, demonstrating a depth of cultural character running much deeper than the traditional portrayals of them as stubbornly ignorant, lazy, beer guzzlers living in trailer parks.
Webb recounts the fascinating history of the Scots-Irish, beginning with the Scottish resistance to the Roman Empire itself, moving on to William Wallace and Robert the Bruce and the Scottish was for independence from the new Rome of England. He gives us the high drama of the creation of the distinctively Scots-Irish character when the English crown settled the first Scots in Ireland. With the Scots-Irish as their vanguard, the English were able to hold Ireland against other European powers (and, unfortunately, against the Irish themselves). England thanked the Scots-Irish by outlawing their Presbyterian religion in much the same way they had done the Catholicism of the Irish several years before. And so the Scots-Irish packed their bags and headed to America.
We should gain a newfound respect for these people from Webb's recouting of how they opened the American frontier, acting as a collective picket line against Indian attacks on the more settled English colonists in the coastal areas, and the important and unexpected roles they played in the southern Revolutionary War in the battles of King's Mountain and Cowpens.
Unfortunately, after the Revolutionary War, Webb's book loses a bit of its steam. Much of the drama and portraits of singular individuals we get in the earlier chapters gives way to talk of general social trends. Webb is still informative. Without for a moment excusing slavery or prejudice, Webb gives us an unexpected and perhaps uncomfortable view of just what problems the south had with the north, and how the southern working class was systematically oppressed by southern large land owners and northern merchants and industrial barons. Webb gives us surprising statistics on how much of our armed forces in the World Wars and Viet Nam were supplied by the Scots-Irish. And he reminds us that the closest thing we have to a national muscial genre -- country western -- is basically Scots-Irish music. Neverthess, the most interesting parts of "How the Scots-Irish Shaped America" end with America only on the verge of becoming a nation.
There are a few other problems too. While the old line WASP establishment and the new PC media establishment have both unjustifiably despised the Scots-Irish, Webb celebrates aspects of their character that have made them their own worst enemies time and again -- their "sensuality", their constant competitiveness in all athletics and all things physical, their hard drinking. The fact is that that sensuality has broken many hearts and busted many lives, the athleticism has led to alot of children to waste time and energy they could have spent on bettering their situation in life, and the drinking ... well, that speaks for itself. Also, the later chapters are chock full of stories from Webb's own ancestry. Fascintating characters in their own right to be sure, but the number of these stories comes close to making the second half of the book more of a James Webb memoir and less of a work on how an entire people shaped an entire nation. And toward the end of the book, Webb gets on a bit of a political rant that, though I agree with in many points, makes this book sound like the first step in his campaign for the Virginia Senate seat.
So "Born Fighting" is probably seen better as a corrective to WASP and PC prejudice against the Scots-Irish than as the final word on who the Scots-Irish are and what they should be. And a corrective is certainly needed. After reading "Born Fighting", it occurred to me that no one, as far as I can tell, has ever written at length specifically on the Scots-Irish as a distinct people -- no one, either to champion them or to cast WASP/PC aspersions on them. And where the Scots-Irish have gained scholarly or media attention, it has often been from pseudointellectuals such as H.L. Mencken (at whom Webb directs a few broadsides) bent on showing them in the worst light possible. One manifestation of this prejudice is that "Born Fighting" is bound to -- indeed it actually has now been -- characterized as racist. Such accusations are utter nonsense. One of Webb's heroes, in fact, is his own grandfather who suffered tremendously under white southern landowners for alerting the African Americans of his community to the inequities they were suffering at the landowners' hands. But in the minds of many these days, being fair-minded just isn't enough to escape the racist epithet.
"Born Fighting" doesn't quite deserve to be the last word on America's Scots-Irish. But it seems to be close to the first word, and a well-spoken one at that, on a people who have perhaps shaped the American character more than any other.
Jim Webb.......2007-03-21
The newest senator from Virginia has outdone himself with this work. If you are the least interested in Irish or Scottish history, combined with history of the American South, this is the one book you must have. It explains so much of why we Southerners or how we are. You will find yourself buying copies of this book to give as gifts. Outstanding!
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Sun Dancing: Life in a medieval Irish monastery and how Celtic spirituality influenced the world
Geoffrey Moorhouse
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Visible on a clear day off the west coast of Ireland, the Skellig Islands, a cluster of cruel rocks, rise spectacularly from the Atlantic Ocean. A sanctuary to birds and seals today, for over six hundred years during the middle ages it was a center for a particularly intense form of monastic life, one that acclaimed writer Geoffrey Moorhouse explores with utmost fascination, scholarship, and imagination in Sun Dancing. A must read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Celtic spirituality, Moorhouse's lively narrative is a superbly imagined account of the monks' isolated life-the spiritual struggles and triumphs and unbelievable physical hardships. To complement and enrich the book, Moorhouse establishes the historical context of Irish monasticism and describes the monks' influence and undeniable role in preserving western civilization, as well as unexpected connections between medieval Ireland and India, Egypt, and Byzantium, and the surviving impact of pagan mythology. An entertaining and enlightening work, Sun Dancing makes medieval Ireland come alive.
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The Way They Really Were.......2005-05-31
This book will capture your interest and will leave you hanging with more questions. If your interest is in the field of archaeology, etc, you will probably want to "pass by, Horseman." However, if you're like me and you just want to know what was happening to the average peasant and believer on the banks of the River of history, then this book is for you. G. Moorehouse, does a smash up job of bringing to life the spirit of the Celtic monks who changed the world. The book is divided into two parts: the first being a "faction", that is a historically accurate fictional account of day to day life in the monastery of Sceilig Michail. In this section, he attempts to penetrate the Celtic mind and I have to give him credit for this. If in any way, he failed, it is only because the truly Celtic Christian mind was lost to us after the Great Schism of 1054 and after their valiant and heroic resistance, Eire finally fell to the Roman church. (We should all mourn what might have been contributed to Byzantium because it is the less for all that!)
The second section deals in the facts, insofar as they are known, and as cold as the stones that pious Celtic hands pressed into service, to build the monasteries of Iona, Lindisfarne, Sceilig Michail. The bibliography alone is worth every penny, the price of the book and I highly recommend it as much for Mr. Moorehouse's attempt to plumb the depths of the celtic Christian heart, as for it's more scholarly attributes.
If you're looking for new age nonsense about "Celtic" spirituality, move on. If you are looking for the Orthodoxy (big O intended) of the Celts, you've come to the right place. Moorehouse skirts the issue, and never directly says it outright, but the message of this book is loud and clear: The origin of Celtic Christianity lies in the East, with Eastern Orthodoxy and not with Roman pontiffs. Nobody, with any knowledge will fail to recognize the obvious: St. John Cassian's prayer and method of use (pre-cursor of the Jesus prayer), the monastic cell rules, the ascetism of St. Anthony and other Desert Fathers.
In the end, what one is left with is this: Iona, Lindisfarne, and Sceilig Michail are not so far away as they may appear in the mist. They may, and must, be re-built each day in our own hearts with a Christianity that is Orthodox and that is lived each day, without fail.
Is it history or historical fiction?.......2003-05-16
As the reviewer from the Atlantic Monthly points out, this book is half history, half historical fiction. This gave me a fundamental problem in getting into the book. The first half is decently written and attempts to get in the heads of various Irish monks in the Middle Ages, the second half provides the facts to back up the conjecture of the first. I preferred the second half, though that may be because I tend to enjoy my history a bit harder than most. I just didn't like the structure of the book. To me, what this book really is is a novella about an Irish Monastery on a rocky island with a novella-sized end note section. To me, the end notes were more relevant. I don't question the scholarliness of the work, just the presentation. Overall, not bad, but if you can get past the strange way it's put together, unlike me, you'll probably enjoy it.
entertaining and illuminating.......2001-12-03
Fun for anyone with even slight interest in history, Christian religion, etc. Part story, part historical text, very clever and interesting. I got bored about halfway through, which is why I didn't give this book a better rating, but I did finish it later and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Rocks of passion.......2000-03-24
If you've ever stood on the rocks of Skellig Michael, or peered at them from safe ground across the tossing waves, you've thought to yourself, "only crazy people and seagulls would live there". You would be wrong - passionate maybe, maybe not crazy. This story of the monks on Skellig Michael, part history, part fiction, speaks of the loneliness and of being alone - which are not the same things - and the astonishing strength that can come from the most unexpected places when one person or a group of people who share a focus come together. Even the early pages that detail the types of ink used in the glorious illuminated manuscripts of Clanmacnoise draw you into this passion and this focus. It's an incredible story of life on a rock in the middle of nowhere that provided a continuous line of education and religion (like it or not) in a time beyond our imagination.
Very good and informative read.......1999-10-26
This book's best quality is that it lacks the pretension of Cahill's "How the Irish Saved Civilization." We see the Irish monks' lives at close range, in much detail and with sympathy. The monks are not portrayed as kooks but as devotees of Christ who expected His return at any minute.
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"Under the Tarnished Dome" is the bestselling book that rocked the Notre Dame football program. Don Yaeger and Douglas S. Looney investigate the contrast between the Notre Dame image--that of a place where wins on the field are no more important than the integrity off it--and the Notre Dame football program's reality, with trash talking, rampant steroid use, pregame fights, and academic misconduct. Part history and part investigative journalism--the authors interviewed 150 people for this book, including nearly 100 former Notre Dame football players--this is a stunning indictment of the school's administration and especially of present-day Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz.
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Interesting look at NCAA Football & Scandal.......2007-01-04
I felt the authors did a decent job exposing the realities of College Football and the scandalous things athletic programs will do for victory. Those scandalous things include looking the other way on steroids and player misbehavior, downgrading injuries, and academic malfeasance. The authors picked on Notre Dame and then-Coach Lou Holtz, but could have written this book about USC, Colorado, Michigan, Florida State, or other big-time progams. Despite the scandalous activities alleged in these pages, Notre Dame probably has one of the cleaner reputations among football schools. We fans might not like these types of books, but we should at least question the relationship between NCAA sports and higher education. After all, college football scandals have occurred with great regularity all the way back to the late 1800's.
Several reviewers attacked this book as unfair. Perhaps they were correct, or perhaps they wrote more as fans than as objective readers. Whatever the case, readers should also see THE HUNDRED YARD LIE, a superbly-paced expose by former Northwestern player Rick Telander.
Great Read.......2006-12-21
This book is a MUST read for every college football fan. The authors get deep inside the nd football program and shines a light on the dark underbelly that is nd. The lily white image of nd is truly tarnished, it just took two great writers to expose the myth that nd has on the sports world. It is always the ones who scream that they are perfect that are the most corrupt.
Perfect book, excellent read.
Notre Dame NCAA violation in 2000.......2006-09-19
Before dismissing this book as a lie, remember that Notre Dame football program was sanctioned by NCAA for major violations in December 1999, and the violations occurred from 1993 to 1998, under Lou Holtz. Notre Dame got away with loss of one scholarship a year for two yesrs (because it is Notre Dame). While the authors may have a personal agenda against Lou Holtz, Lou Holtz does not run a clean ship to begin with. 3 stars, worth a read especially if you are a usc or michigan fan :-)
Makes Pravda Look Objective.......2006-07-09
Well documented here is the story of how this book came about, that once denied the access they craved to the football program, the authors performed a hatchet job from the outside.
What would have made the book credible is any account from a successful ND football star who could substantiate anything in this book, ie - a smoking gun. But what you get instead are extended interviews with washouts and proven drug users who the school pushed down the depth chart, off the team, or out of school. The book falls because it's primary sources are all players who would have THRIVED in an atmosphere of rampant drug use and academic violations the book claims to unveil. As demonstrated from other sources, here is the list of the top sources of the book, and their fortunes with the team:
1. Dan Quinn (suspended from the university, took steroids, accused of sexual assault, sued Notre Dame);
2. Marty Lippincott (suspended from the team, placed on academic probation three times);
3. Jim Baugus (suspended for steroid use);
4. George Marshall (suspended for drug use);
5. Linc Coleman (played only one year, dropped out of Notre Dame after academic problems);
6. Tony Smith (claimed Notre Dame caused him to lose $1 million in the NFL draft by playing injured);
7. John Foley (placed on academic probation);
8. John Askin (claims Tarnished Dome is ?an outright fraud?);
9. Mike Crounse;
10. Jeff Pearson (suspended from the university, tested positive for steroids, sold steroids);
11. George Williams (suspended from the team);
12. Kurt Zackrison;
13. Mike Golic (played at Notre Dame before Holtz became coach).
Hardly a smoking gun, in fact quite the opposite. When such a rogue's gallery of shady people stand as your character witnesses, it almost proves the opposite of what you have in the book. Where are the interviews with the players the university holds up as the model? Why do so many say the authors deceived them in their approach for an interview, or claim they were taken out of context? This book stands alone, with no one of any merit to vouch for it.
If there is a bargain bin for bargain bins, this should be in it. Hopefully it will sell for less than the price of kindling, as that is the proper use of this deceitful, transparently biased "expose."
10% truth, 90% lies.......2005-09-13
The authors had an ax to grind with Lou Holtz. They had asked for full access to the ND team in order to do a Season on the Brink type of book on ND. Their request was denied. From that point on, they went into smear mode, taking comments from a small number of unhappy players and embellishing them with exaggerations and lies. A number of players stated that they were taken out of context or misquoted after the publication of the book. ND is the college with the most fans and haters both. This book was written for the latter group. Poorly written and researched, I might add. For the record, I am a University of Texas alum.
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Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to succeed in American.
Focusing on how the Irish were assimilated as "whites" in America, Noel Ignatiev uncovers the roots of conflict between Irish-Americans and African-Americans and draws a powerful connection between the embracing of white supremacy and Irish "success" in 19th century American society. Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to help gain and secure their newly found place in the White Republic.
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What a stupid and ignorant title ... .......2007-09-24
I find the book's title downright stupid.
I get the point: white is not just a color, it's also a social position ... Downright ignorant, white IS a color.
White Americans seem to forget where their whiteness comes from (and their English language for that matter)
Irish immigrants were no different from the original English immigrants that started it all; they simply were in a different social position because they were poor and came looking for opportunities.
Funny thing is, as of today, Irish people look actually whiter than Americans which is kind of ironic given the book's title.
more hatemongering lunacy.......2007-04-06
I don't think their is much to add to my title, other than this is just more lunacy from the same hatemonger who wrote "race traitor"
How Lunacy Becomes Learning.......2006-08-16
Let's get this straight; arriving in America in the midst of a civil war, and finding themselves in the states that were fighting to abolish slavery, Irish immigrants decided to ingratiate themselves with the ruling elite by attacking Blacks? Using Ignatiev's logic, if these immigrants had landed in the South they would have sought to assimilate with the locals by flocking to the cause of abolitionism. That's almost as brilliant as Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's conclusion that the lack of evidence of anti-Semitism in medieval Germany, shows that anti-Semitism was so widespread that no one even bothered to mention it. If Irish catholic immigrants had really wanted to ingratiate themselves with the Anglo population they would have embraced the draft and converted to Protestantism. Perhaps understandably, Irish peasants fresh from the boat had a slight aversion to facing the half-crazed Scots-Irish soldiers of the Confederacy. To make the point crystal clear they inaugurated a pogrom against the ethnic group they were being enlisted to manumit. The fact that Noel Ignatiev can claim that these attacks were part of a covert conspiracy to rehabilitate the Irish in the eyes of Wasps, says more about his obsession with race than it does about his powers of deductive logic. I expect that when Ignatiev is not calling for the destruction of the White race, he spends his time searching for "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Erin". Real historians know that the Irish assimilated into the American mainstream by embarking upon a behavioural reformation inspired by charismatic leader John "Dagger" Hughes. If Black America had more Dagger Hughes and fewer Al Sharptons maybe Noel Ignatiev would be looking for a job?
THE TRUTH HURTS! BUY THIS BOOK!.......2006-06-19
This is a fantastic book! Professor Ignatiev has written the truth, some people just don't want to hear it! Why? Because THE TRUTH HURTS!
What next?.......2006-01-23
Blame a victim anyone? I will say nothing about the author's motives. Perhaps this one will be posted. Posted on 5-12-07.
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A dazzling collection of essays in which today's most celebrated writers explore their personal relationships with the literary life.
Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its tales of The Writing Life. In it, authors divulge professional secrets: how they first discovered they were writers, how they work, how they deal with the myriad frustrations and delights a writer's life affords. Culled from ten years of the distinguished Washington Post column of the same name, The Writing Life highlights an eclectic group of luminaries who have wildly varied stories to tell, but who share this singularly beguiling career. Here are their pleasures as well as their peeves; revelations of their deepest fears; dramas of triumphs and failures; insights into the demands and rewards.
Each piece is accompanied by a brief and vivid biography of the writer by Washington Post Book World editor Marie Arana who also provides an introduction to the collection. The result is a rare view from the inside: a close examination of writers' concerns about the creative process and the place of literature in America. For anyone interested in the making of fiction and nonfiction, here is a fascinating vantage on the writer's world--an indispensable guide to the craft.
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Average for the Genre. .......2007-02-11
I agree that one can find writing inspiration in these pages. Studying the mechanics and practices of other writers is always enjoyable and enlightening. Sometimes one can find tricks and short cuts to emulate which then enhance one's own work, and that is certainly the case with The Writing Life. The problem that I had with it is due to its selection bias. In my opinion, it chronicled far too many journalists as opposed to outstanding writers. Many of the individuals are not people one considers to be luminaries at all. I picked up The Paris Review's Interviews book which is more satisfying in this regard. Obviously though, this text isn't devoid of value, but it depends on what you wish to use it for.
Get the Story Behind the Writer.......2006-09-05
This is an excellent compilation of writers and a bit of their story. I know that other reviewer's recommended this book for writers, but Ido not consider myself a writer in professional terms, and I still found it facinating.
Arana provides a backhistory of each writer introducing them, and then each author tells some aspect of how they handle the writing life. I enjoy being able to get "behind the scenes" and understand how a writer approaches their day...where they write, do they use a computer, etc. As she says in her introduction, she invited "seasoned writers to mull the craft" of their writing.
More Than Meets the Eye.......2005-10-13
I love reading other authors' takes on "the writing life" and how they cope with or find inspiration from daily life to continue nurturing their creativity, motivation, and changing goals. This book surprised me with an extremely varied mix of writing advice and insight.
From dealing with publishers and the importance of self-marketing to dealing with the slack you get for your chosen genre not being as academically accepted or how to maintain a personal life along with your career...the authors in this collection cover it all. There's enough here to touch on any aspect of writing you may be dealing with or thinking about and will, no doubt, include many surprises you haven't realized you do need more information about.
Reading the collection introduced me to new authors, some with writing styles I fell in love with and intend to read more from, and made me think about so many aspects of the art of writing that I've since realized keys for improving my own novel and new directions I want to go in in my own career.
This is the perfect gift for any writer you know...even if you have no idea what their own writing style or interests are. You'll make a better writer of them.
Great Anthology of Writers..........2005-09-04
Over the years, I've read 'The Writing Life' segment found in many a Washington Post "Book World" section. Last spring, a writing instructor assigned Arana's collection of these articles for our outside class reading. I was pleased to find many of the articles I had previously enjoyed plus plenty I had not read combined in one volume, thus allowing me to purge the accordian file folder where I store such items.
Arana has selected some of the best pieces for her volume, and prefaced each with a short introduction of the author. In some cases I reread segments by favorite authors, and in other cases I had never read the author.
One author I've been meaning to try is Barbara Mertz. Haven't heard of her? She writes under the pen name Elizabeth Peters, and is the author of the the tales of the exploits of Amelia Peabody-Emerson, archeologist and sleuth. Now, I had thought about reading Peters, but had not done so because I have been trying to curb a hopeless addiction to mysteries and force myself to read things that "improved my mind." Peters, i.e. Mertz, says at age 60, she figures her mind "is about as good as it's going to get" and that statement and others she wrote made me laugh. Being from a long line of folks suffering from a bad case of the "Protestant ethic" I've always needed permission to have fun, and now that I am 63 I have it.
I read my first Peters novel (reviewed elsewhere) and ordered 6-7 more. Is this frivoluous, you bet. Will I keep it up, Hopefully!!
Elegant, Exquisite, Eclectic.......2004-09-27
Arana bundles a life tapestry of professional experience, formal education, and school of hard knocks, in a motif of a writer's existence. This work is much more than just a mere compilation of WP Book World excerpts. Clearly, significant thought was devoted to the selection of her WP articles along with fundamentally pragmatic insights that are certain to be invaluable to anyone interested in the profession of writing or editing.
Customer Reviews:
The southwest of Europe!.......2006-12-20
Ryan Air is the southwest airlines of Europe and has done very well against the inefficient Flag Carriers over there. This book is the story of how that came about and is done very well. My biggest complaint of the book is that the print is way to small. The information is great and the stories told about O'Leahry are very entertaining. If you are looking for a sense of how no frills airlines will succeed this is a great book to read. It really explains the airline business in Europe and is a great comparison for southwest airlines.
Well-written, engaging corporate tale.......2005-12-21
The story of how discount airfares came to Europe is no fairy tale. This book is a disturbing story about the underside of deregulating Ireland's airline industry. It's a tale of temperamental executives, overspeculation, greed, government intervention, mistreated customers and the challenges of free market operations. Given a wealth of material and an exciting industry, author Siobhán Creaton delivers a well-written, engaging corporate tale. The cast includes a combustible mix of powerful personalities who sometimes, but not always, tolerate each other. There is also a revolving door of top executives who serve the company's purposes and leave, as well as horror stories about how cost cutting created festering customer relations. Creaton packs this into an exciting story that moves quickly, though it rambles now and then. We recommend this compelling profile to anyone interested in corporate case studies, executive management or modern aviation.
Intriguing, inspiring, and hilarious...a great book!.......2005-01-07
This is a great book that I couldn't put down until I read it entirely!
As a frequent Ryanair customer, saving big money every time I travel, I always tried to imagine how such a great airline could charge so little for airfare and continue to make a profit(or stay in business). As a school project (Economics) I chose to research Ryanair's success story and discovered this book. I even drove 4 hours (round trip) to get a copy! This book answered all of my questions and I am still fascinated with this company!
Regardless of Ryanair CEO, Michael O'Leary's 'colorful' personality and his ability to stir up the media, his tenacious efforts continue to drive the company to the top of the airline industry. Some of his comments, outbursts, and responses that are quoted throughout the book, had me rolling with laughter! The humble beginning Ryanair endured through the 1980's is a very inspiring story of persistence that brought radical changes to the way we travel today.
Not only is this a good read about this company, however anyone interested in overcoming great adversity will be inspired and motivated to never give up on their dreams.
A great book that is worth the money (as well as a 4 hour drive)!
Delightful.......2005-01-06
Thanks to Amazon I could read this book because it was not available at any book shop in Portugal.
The author cleverly writes about all that happened from the very beginning giving a very good idea of how Ryanair was born. She points out the way that CEO Michale O'Leary achieved the control of the company by adopting new ideas and giving great motivation to the Ryanair employees.
Congratulations!
In depth, well written and not in love with Mr. O'Leary.......2004-10-05
I bought this book in Ireland and read it on the way back on
Aer Lingus. The author writes well and does an in-depth study
of the airline and how it came into being. She gives all the right personalities their due and carefully details the airline's move from its Ireland UK routes to its expansion in Europe. She effectively strips Michael O'Leary of his PR star status making him out to be juvenile, abusive, deceitful yet an effective swashbuckling airline buccaneer. When I came to the part about the way the Ryanair mistreats the disabled by charging them for the use of wheelchairs and making them claw their way up the plane's steps on the tarmac, the thought rocketed into my mind that I would exercise my rights not want to fly Ryanair even - if the price was free.
Book Description
As Britain’s colonial secretary in the 1920s, Winston Churchill made a mistake with calamitous consequences and unseen repercussions extending into the twenty-first century. Christopher Catherwood, scholar and adviser to Tony Blair’s government, examines Churchill’s creation of the artificial monarchy of Iraq after World War One, forcing together unfriendly peoples—Sunni Muslim Kurds and Arabs, and Shiite Muslims—under a single ruler.
Defying a global wave of nationalistic sentiment and the desire of subjugated peoples to rule themselves, Churchill put together the broken pieces of the Ottoman Empire and unwittingly created a Middle Eastern powder keg. Inducing Arabs under the thumb of the Ottoman Turks to rebel against rule from Constantinople, the British during WWI convinced the Hashemite clan that they would rule over Syria. However, Britain had already promised the territory to the French. To make amends after the Great War, Churchill created the nation called Iraq and made the Hashemite leader, Feisel, king of a land to which he had no connections. Catherwood examines Churchill’s decision, which resulted in a 1958 military coup against the Iraqi Hashemite government and a series of increasingly bloody regimes until the ultimate nightmare of Ba’athist party rule under Saddam Hussein.
Photographs and maps are included.
Customer Reviews:
An Endlessly Interesting Read!.......2007-07-24
This is a tremendously insightful and thought-provoking book!
Author Christopher Catherwood has done his research well, demonstrating that there is a great deal in the Iraq of the 1920s that still resonates loudly today, as evidenced by Winston Churchill's correspondence of the period:
- On the nature of warfare in Iraq: "Week after week and month after month for a long time we shall have a continuance of this miserable, wasteful, sporadic, warfare marked from time to time certainly by minor disasters and cutting off of troops and agents, and very possibly attended by some grave occurrence."
- On the impact of the news media: "I am quite certain that the loose talk indulged in the newspapers about the speedy evacuation of Mesopotamia [Iraq] earlier in the year was a factor which provoked and promoted the [1920] rebellion."
- On the British military in Iraq: "Our own military forces are extremely weak and maintained with great difficulty and expense, and we have not secured a single friend among the local powers."
- On the threat of a Turkish invasion of northern Iraq: "Please telegraph fully what evidence you have pointing to a Turkish invasion during the present year. I am naturally doing my utmost to procure a settlement with the Turks which will ease our position throughout the Middle East. Evidence tending to show the dangers to our Mesopotamia position by Turkish hostility will be useful.
[Fearing a Turkish invasion of Mosul, Churchill went on to recommend that British forces in northern Iraq not be withdrawn until they could be replaced by Iraqi forces.]
- Churchill's Agenda for a Reduction in Strength of British forces in Iraq: "First, the new ruler; Second, future size, character and organization of the future [British] garrison; Third, the time-table of reduction from present strength to that garrison; Fourth, arising out of the above the extend of territory to be held and administered."
Some of the author's conclusions:
- In modern Iraq religion is stronger than nationalism.
- Any new Iraqi regime will have the same problems of legitimacy that so hampered the Hashemite rulers of Iraq and their successors from 1921 to 1958. During that period the country suffered through no less than 58 changes of government, a sure sign of chronic and unresolved instability
- Genuine democracy means the absolute right of the people to make even the wrong choice. Iraq could end up with a theocratic regime not entirely dissimilar to the one in Iran.
- Under such a regime, the Kurds and Sunni Arabs might wish to withdraw from what would be a majority Shiite state, triggering an unbridled civil war much larger than those in Bosnia and Kosovo.
- Oil, a blessing for Iraq, could become a curse for the region if Iraqi Arabs attempt to take the oil-rich area of northern Iraq from the Kurds, prompting a Turkish military invention.
Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq.......2007-02-21
great background foundation history to todays strategic current events in Middle East
CHURCHILL'S FINAL FOLLY: OUR IRAQ QUAGMIRE!.......2006-11-25
How does the Iraq quagmire the United States finds itself in some three and a half years after invading that Middle East country, to supposedly remove dictator Saddam Hussein from power and look for `weapons of mass destruction,' relate to the legacy of one of the 20th Century's most famous figures?
World War One and its conclusion created many of the problems for the world that we are still suffering from today, with one being the forced creation of the many countries of the Middle East who sells oil to the west. Iraq was one of those nations formed that was not based on any ethnic consideration of the tribes living there but was instead constituted just so the British Petroleum Oil Company could drill for oil and do it with a friendly foreign government's blessing and pledge of non-interference.
So if there's one individual from history that we can blame for the unpleasant situation we find ourselves at in Iraq and hope to one day extract ourselves from then it would have to be the late, great British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It was he who devised that secular nation amongst others in the Middle East from nothing, except for a map and political convenience, and that forced creation has caused the western powers nothing but grief ever since.
That is the conclusion of author Christopher Catherwood in his non-fiction book entitled `Churchill's Folly: How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq' that has been released by Carroll and Graf. Catherwood's work was published in 2004 and has just been issued in trade paperback. In the provocative tome, Catherwood alleges that the legendary World War Two war leader's forced gathering of Iraq's three major Muslim tribes into one `united' nation began the problems in that region that still haunts us today.
The Ottoman Empire that previously controlled most of the Middle East from Palestine all the way south to what is present day Saudi Arabia collapsed in 1918 at the end of The Great War. Britain and France took control of those former colonies via the spoils of victory and subsequently carved up that region for their own vested financial interests. And it was Winston Churchill who personally put forward the plans of dividing up those oil-rich lands for Britain's benefit.
Churchill was a member of the British Parliament at the conclusion of that war and had been appointed by British Labor Party Prime Minister David Lloyd George to the position of Colonial Secretary, whose job was to restructure the newly inherited region. He forced together the Sunni Muslims Kurds, Sunni Muslim Arabs and Shiite Muslims under a single ruler in that land along the Tigris River to be called Iraq (Al-Jumhurria Al-Iraqia) which meant `the Republic of the River Shore.' His main goal: Establish a series of Arab states that were friendly to Great Britain and at as little cost as possible to the cash poor British Empire that was still suffering the financial effects of the just concluded four year worldwide war.
The problem we face as we try to get these same tribes to work together in this democratic form of government they've just approved is that Churchill's guide for dividing up the conquered territories eighty years ago was not based on any ethnic tribal considerations into creating separate sovereign nations who would respect their Muslim neighbors. Instead, he devised a simplistic formula to ensure that the British Petroleum Oil Company made the maximum amount of profits on its wells in those lands with as little problem as possible from the locals and those he chose to become the rulers of those artificially created countries.
Author Catherwood's main argument in his thesis is that Churchill made a crucial mistake when forming those three tribes into the nation of Iraq and it appears that we, as the backers of this new constitution are about to repeat, is assume that the people of those tribes believe that nationalism is more important to them than their religious beliefs.
A previously disgraced Saudi Arab named Faisel Haishem who had been thrown out of those lands subsequently emigrated north and was personally selected by Churchill to rule the newly created country as a devoted ally to the west. He and his descendents of the self-proclaimed Haishemite Dynasty reigned over Iraq from 1921 to 1958 until they were deposed in a violent military coup with most of the royal family and their supporters being killed. Military dictators ruled the country from then on with an iron fist and that eventually gave us Saddam Hussein who took control in 1979 until his overthrow by the United States led multi-country military invasion in 2003.
Could Winton Churchill's forced creation of Iraq back in 1922 eventually cause the downfall of the United States one century later? The rebel forces in Afghanistan beat the old Soviet Union in 1989 and that loss contributed to that union's dissolution into smaller, less thriving states in 1991. Will Saddam Hussein have the last laugh if it turns out that the Iraq quagmire Winston Churchill gave us leads to a final breakup of that nation's three tribes into smaller states that are constantly at war with each other and their neighbors? And by our own meddling into Iraq's affairs could it even lead to our own country's ruin?
Conceived in Error.......2006-07-03
The state of Iraq was conceived in error. The English drew lines on maps and thus created a country with separate populations--Kurd, Sunni, Shia. Thus, the problem of a nonunified populace occurred at the beginning.
Then, the English favored Sunnis, thus creating conflicts among the three major population groups.
Budgetary problems led to England running its "mandate" on the cheap.
In a way, we see the problems thus created at the origins manifest after the American invasion. The problem of the three distinct major populations and the American effort "on the cheap" (the pledges of electricity, water, sanitation, and security--too few American "feet on the ground"--were obviously never redeemed) are issues that never should have occurred. These recapitulate the decisions made at the origins of Iraq--and indicate a lack of reflection on lessons that should have been learned.
Another of Churchill's Mistakes.......2005-12-03
Whenever I get a chance to talk smack about Winston Churchill, I take it. With that in mind, I read this book subtitled "How Churchill Created Modern Iraq". Churchill was the man in charge of the Middle East following World War One, when with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire the Middle East as we know it today was created. While the book focuses on the creation of a nominally independent Iraq under British control, the grand geo-political games played by all in the Mid East are touched upon, as well as the internal political dynamics of British politics in which Churchill was a major player, jockeying to increase his power. But most of all this is a look at Churchill himself and the choices he made. According to Catherwood, Churchill's main goal was the creation of "an Arab regime that would preserve British interests but would cost as little as possible." (96) This was his guiding principle, not the self-determination of the local population or their well-being. His priority was Britain. Now Catherwood, while pointing out many of the shortcomings of Churchill's policies and actions, in the end absolves Churchill of any real guilt, he was simply a pragmatic politician doing what he though was best for Britain. I, however, disagree. I consider Churchill the last of the real old school imperialists, and this book shows that with great clarity. His short-sighted political interests precluded him from doing what was best in the long term not only for Britain and Iraq, but for the whole world. He had know problems killing as many people as possible for what was, in the end, his own personal political goals. As Catherwood points out, this included using chemical weapons in Iraq. Catherwood concludes with some other options Churchill could have chosen, and creates some counterfactual outcomes that are certainly interesting. But in the end, Churchill did what he did, and the world today is dealing with the consequences.
Book Description
In this landmark study of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, Luca Crispi and Sam Slote have brought together fourteen other leading Joyce experts in a genetic guide to one of the twentieth century’s most intriguing works of fiction. Each essay approaches Finnegans Wake through novel perspectives afforded by Joyce’s preparatory manuscripts. By investigating a work through its manuscripts, genetic criticism both grounds speculative interpretations in an historical, material context and opens up a broader horizon for critical and textual interpretation.
The introduction by Luca Crispi, Sam Slote, and Dirk Van Hulle offers a chronology of the composition of Finnegans Wake, an archival survey of the manuscripts, and an introduction to genetic criticism. Then, the volume provides a chapter-by-chapter interpretation of Finnegans Wake from a variety of perspectives, probing the book as a work in progress. The fruit of more than two decades’ worth of Wakean genetic studies, this book is the essential starting point for all future studies of Joyce’s most complex and fascinating work.
Customer Reviews:
innovative critique of Finnegan's Wake yields new insights and understandings.......2007-05-29
In this critical tour de force on modern literature's most distinctive tour de force, 15 leading Joyce scholars (including the two editors) enhance understanding of "Finnegan's Wake" by "genetic criticism [whose] goal might be to show how the published text came into being or to demonstrate how the earlier documents can illuminate the published text, or might be more a matter of studying the writing process itself." "Genetic" implies the psychic origination, the embryonic, cellular-like growth, and the fruition of Joyce's work; which all combined like the strands of DNA as a code bringing it about. The code is not a code as in "secret code," as if the scholars were attempting to--or even could--decipher the book; but rather a biological or physiological code, something like a personality, making for its cogency as a work of art and its polyglot elements. "Finnegan's Wake" has a cogency, but not a coherence; an unpredictable, ultimately unfathomable mix of elements which is not in the end gibberish.
The number of authors who know Joyce and "Finnegan's Wake" inside out try to shed new light on what is going on by moving "away from a strictly textual approach" to consider factors of Joyce's life, including books he read, and also the creative writing process. Joyce worked on the book from 1922 to 1939. Thus the effects of time in this lengthy period are also considered. The insights and commentary of this approach by the authors with a lifetime of scholarship on Joyce are richly rewarding for ones interested in this singular modern author and in the currents and new terrain of modern literature in general.
Book Description
Family genealogists will find easy step-by-step suggestions for determining an Irish ancestor's place of origin, and advice for researching Irish records in America and on the Emerald Isle itself.
Readers will find a wealth of information, such as:
* the basic strategies of Irish research
* working with home sources
* accessing, making sense of and working with Irish records inside and outside of Ireland
* making the most of Internet resources
* using cemetery records, church records, estate records, military records and more!
Customer Reviews:
Specifically written for the aspiring genealogist.......2001-05-21
A Genealogist's Guide To Discovering Your Irish Ancestors was specifically designed and written for the aspiring genealogist seeking guidelines for determining an Irish ancestor's place of origin. Dwight Radford and Kyle Betit effectively collaborate to present sound advice for researching Irish records both domestically and overseas; basic strategies essential to successful Irish research; special advice about tracing Scots-Irish ancestors; practical advice for accessing Irish cemeteries, land, church, estate, census, and military records; how to access civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, as well as emigration lists; sources and strategies for researching Irish ancestors who settled in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Scotland, Wales, and the Caribbean, as well as timely information on Internet resources and favorite sites on the World Wide Web. Highly recommended for personal and community library genealogical research reference collections, A Genealogist's Guide To Discovering Your Irish Ancestors offers both the novice and the experienced genealogist with everything necessary to trace and record their family's Irish history.
Irish Strategies to the Point.......2001-03-29
This is an excellent resource for both advanced beginners and experienced reseachers. Well organized, conversational, and very factual. Specific strategies for solving a variety of research challenges are developed and illustrated. The authors want the researcher to be able to locate the specific piece of Irish soil where the ancestor lived.
Betit and Radford do not attempt to address every record type or resource, nor does this work replace the standard reference works of Mitchell, Ryan, etc. It is not Irish county specific, nor is Argentine emigration addressed. What they have done very well is present the material in such a way that can enable the serious researcher, whatever the experience level, to get arms around a complex subject.
As you may surmise, I definitely recommend this book. Good luck and have fun.
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