Bøger af Charles Ivar McGrath

Lansdowne FC is one of the most iconic rugby clubs in Ireland. Based at the headquarters of Irish rugby, the Club was established even before the international game came to Lansdowne Road. The brain-child of the visionary H.W.D. Dunlop, Lansdowne FC has been a central player in the history of Irish rugby for 150 years. Generation after generation of Irish greats have plied their trade with the Club: J.J. Coffey, Ernie Crawford, Eugene Davy, Jack Arigho, Morgan Crowe, Ned Lightfoot, Con Murphy, Alan Duggan, Moss Keane, Mick Quinn, Dick and Donal Spring, Michael Kiernan, Eric Elwood, Conor O'Shea, Shane Horgan, Gordon D'Arcy, and many, many more. This book also looks at the social and cultural world of club-life and the people who make it happen. From fund-raising to tea-making and from pitch to pavilion, the driving forces behind the success and survival of a sporting club over 150 years, through wars and revolution and global economic depressions and health pandemics, are the people themselves. The history of Lansdowne FC epitomizes the ability of people to associate and come together in order to overcome calumny, penury, death, and disease in a journey that is universal in nature: to strive to do better, and to be better.

This volume contains over 170 original documents and materials covering Irish History from 1603-1800. Included among these documents are 1609 - Instructions for the inquisition of the state of the tenants in Ireland and other matters relating to the forfeited estates, 1616 - Account and opinion of the state of Ireland by Lord Chichester, 1622 - Report of the commissioners of inspection on the Irish plantations, 1632 - Appointment of Wentworth as chief governor of Ireland, 1640 - Subsidy Act, 1641 - Proclamation of Phelim O'Neill &c., 24 Oct. 1641, 1642 - Acts of the Ecclesiastical Congregation, Kilkenny, 10-13 May 1642, 1642 - Petition of the Confederate Supreme Council to Charles I, 31 July 1642, 1648 - Speech of Capt. Oliver French, agent of the Supreme Council, to the States General of the United Provinces, 5 May 1648, 1650s - Cromwellian Union, 1678 - Draft legislation for banishing Catholic prelates and regular clergy, 1689 - Jacobite parliament's Act of Attainder, 1697 - Bishops' Banishment Act, 1700 - Act of Resumption, 1723 - Address of the House of Commons to the king on Wood's halfpence, 27 Sept. 1723, 1745 - The question of security and Scottish Jacobite rising, 1778 - Formation of the first Volunteer units, 1782 - Catholic Relief Act, 1796 - The Insurrection Act, 1798 - Documents on the rebellion.

Historians often view early modern Ireland as a testing ground for subsequent British colonial adventures further afield. McGrath argues against this passive view, suggesting that Ireland played an enthusiastic role in the establishment and expansion of the first British Empire. He focuses on two key areas of empire-building: finance and defence.