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America B.C. : ancient settlers in the New World / by Fell, Barry,1917-1994.(CARDINAL)121273;
Bibliography: pages 300-306.
Subjects: Inscriptions, Irish.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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America B.C. : ancient settlers in the New World / by Fell, Barry,1917-1994.(CARDINAL)121273;
Subjects: Inscriptions, Irish;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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The true image : gravestone art and the culture of Scotch Irish settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina backcountry / by Patterson, Daniel W.(Daniel Watkins),1928-(CARDINAL)176441;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-470) and indexes.The immigrant craftsmen in Pennsylvania -- The stonecutters' world in the Carolinas -- The Bigham workshop and nearby Scotch Irish stonecutters -- Reading Scotch Irish emblems -- Seeing Scotch Irish inscriptions -- The Scotch Irish in the light of legends -- Reflections on the stonecutters' world -- The Scotch Irish in slave economy and landgrab.A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania. Most are the vulnerable legacy of three generations of the Bigham family, Scotch Irish stonecutters whose workshop near Charlotte created the earliest surviving art of British settlers in the region. In The True Image, Daniel Patterson documents the craftsmanship of this group and the current appearance of the stones. In two hundred of his photographs, he records these stones for future generations and compares their iconography and inscriptions with those of other early monuments in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Combining his reading of the stones with historical records, previous scholarship, and rich oral lore, Patterson throws new light on the complex culture and experience of the Scotch Irish in America. In so doing, he explores the bright and the dark sides of how they coped with challenges such as backwoods conditions, religious upheavals, war, political conflicts, slavery, and land speculation. He shows that headstones, resting quietly in old graveyards, can reveal fresh insights into the character and history of an influential immigrant group. (Publisher).
Subjects: Sepulchral monuments; Sepulchral monuments; Sepulchral monuments; Scots-Irish; Scots-Irish; Scots-Irish;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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Irish emigrants in North America. by Dobson, David,1940-(CARDINAL)172086;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Directories.; Family histories.; Irish Americans; Irish;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Celtic myth and religion : a study of traditional belief, with newly translated prayers, poems and songs / by MacLeod, Sharon Paice,1960-author.(CARDINAL)397973;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.Here is a comprehensive overview of Celtic mythology and religion, encompassing numerous aspects of ritual and belief. It contains new translations of poems, prayers, inscriptions and songs from the early period (Gaulish, Old Irish and Middle Welsh) as well as the folklore tradition (Modern Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Breton and Manx).
Subjects: Mythology, Celtic.; Celts; Religious literature;
© 2012, McFarland,
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Basic guide to Irish records for family history / by Mitchell, Brian.(CARDINAL)185735;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-52).A primary aim of this book is to dispel the widely-held notion that most records of genealogical interest in Ireland were destroyed during the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin on 28 June 1922, in which many important historical documents were lost.Getting started -- The main sources : Civil registers of births, marriages and deaths; Church registers of baptisms, marriages and burials; Gravestone inscriptions; Wills; 1901 and 1911 census returns; Mid-nineteenth-century Griffith's valuation; Early nineteenth-century tithe applotment books; Other census substitutes -- Irish administrative divisions -- The major record offices -- Irish genealogy centres -- Websites.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Bibliographies.; Family histories.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The legend of the Irish castle / by Warner, Gertrude Chandler,1890-1979,author.(CARDINAL)127406; VanArsdale, Anthony,illustrator.(CARDINAL)498113;
The bad omen -- A sound of wailing -- New guests -- An unwelcome gift -- The familiar figure -- A creature in the forest -- The inscription -- The famous face -- The man in the picture -- Forgiveness -- About Ireland.The Aldens travel to Ireland to explore castles. While visiting Duncarraig Castle the children discover a cloaked figure roaming around.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Boxcar children (Fictitious characters); Siblings; Orphans; Castles; Detective and mystery stories; Siblings.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 14
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A brief guide to Celtic myths & legends / by Whittock, Martyn,1958-(CARDINAL)188983;
"In this wide-ranging and very readable introduction to the myths and legends of the Celts--a world of giants, tumultuous storms, magic cauldrons, fierce warriors, and severed heads that talk--Whittock draws extensively on up-to-date archeological evidence, Greek and Roman inscriptions, and medieval Irish and Welsh manuscripts. He also examines the later Breton literature--and, where written evidence is scarce, enduring oral traditions. Such recourse to recent research enables an interpretation that is both fresh and authentic of characters such as the Irish gods before gods, the Fomorians; the children of Lr̕, the sea diety; the hunter-warrior Finn mac Cumhaill, whose exploits are chronicled in the Fenian Cycle; C C͠hulainn, the Hound of Ulster; the Welsh heroes of the Mabinogion; and the mythical Welsh Arthur, who predates the medieval legends. In addition to examining the myths of the Irish and the Welsh, this account also explores the related mythologies of Scotland, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, and Brittany."--from cover, p. [4].
Subjects: Celts; Celts; Legends; Legends; Mythology, Celtic.; Tales; Tales;
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Empires of the plain : Henry Rawlinson and the lost languages of Babylon / by Adkins, Lesley.(CARDINAL)281614;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-402) and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Rawlinson, Henry, Sir, 1810-1895.; Assyriologists; Cuneiform inscriptions, Akkadian.; Old Persian inscriptions.;
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The furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820 : "a true North Britain" in the Southern backcountry / by Davison, Elizabeth A.,1956-(CARDINAL)304278; Shearer, John,approximately 1760-approximately 1820.(CARDINAL)304277;
Includes bibliographical references and index.PART I: JOHN SHEARER AND HIS FURNITURE -- Introduction -- Who Was John Shearer? -- Inlay and Inscriptions-Reflections of Loyalism, Heritage, and Style -- Observations on John Shearer's Work -- PART II: CATALOG OF KNOWN SHEARER FURNITURE -- Appendix I: Shear Madness: The Shearer Collectors / by Oscar P. Fitzgerald -- Appendix II: John Shearer's Tool Kit, circa 1800-1806 / by Brian Coe -- Bibliography -- Index.This book is a full-color catalogue raisonne that interprets the distinctive furniture made by John Shearer, one of the most accomplished and intriguing furniture makers during the post-Revolutionary period. Shearer emigrated from Scotland to America in the late eighteenth century and retained loyalist sympathies throughout his life, evidenced by the imagery and inscriptions sympathetic to various British causes--such as the suppression of the Irish rebellion in 1798 and the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805--that he worked into his furniture. Elizabeth A. Davison provides insight into the furniture's appeal to Anglo American patrons, not secret loyalists, but men still culturally tied to Great Britain. Shearer's pieces are scattered among various collections, and many of them have been identified only in the past twenty-five years. This catalog is the only work in which all of Shearer's known pieces of furniture are presented in a single volume. --Book Jacket.
Subjects: Shearer, John, approximately 1760-approximately 1820; Furniture; Furniture;
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