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The cover states: ‘ “Those were amongst the happiest days of our childhood. We were in a different world, a world where life moved at a slower pace, where the worries of today had not even been imagined. I was sad to leave what I consider… more

It was on one of those nights in August, when the moon and stars shine through an atmosphere clear and cloudless, with a mildness of lustre almost continental, that a horseman, advancing at a rapid pace, turned off a remote branch of road u… more

I am agreeably called upon by my bookseller to prepare for a Second Edition of “Willy Reilly.” This is at all times a pleasing call upon an author; and it is so especially to me, inasmuch as the first Edition was sold at the fashionable, bu… more

Thomas D’Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee, PC, (April 13, 1825 – April 7, 1868) was an Irish Nationalist, Catholic spokesman, journalist, and a Father of Canadian confederation. He fought for the development of Irish and Canadian national identiti… more

THE POCKET BIBLE THE FULL SERIES OF OR History of a Proletarian Family Across the Ages B y E U G E N E S U E.TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL FRENCH BY D A N I E L D E L E O NThe epoch covered by this, the 16th story of Eugene Sue’s dra… more

Controversial, factual and concise! Everything you ever wanted to know about the cannabis plant and more! Writer and activist Mel Thomas traces the history of cannabis from ancient times through to the present day prohibition laws and consp… more

The incidents upon which this book is founded seem to be extraordinary and startling, but they are true; for, as Byron says, and as we all know, “Truth is strange—stranger than Fiction.” Mr. West, brother to the late member from Dublin, co… more

There are some griefs so deep and overwhelming, that even the best exertions of friendship and sympathy are unequal to the task of soothing or dispelling them. Such was the grief of Ellen Duncan, who was silently weeping in her lone cottage… more

Bill Crawford (W.H. Crawford) had played a key role in the development of Irish economic, social and regional history for over forty years.The essays in Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-1950 are testimony to his many spheres of i… more

INTRODUCTION. The compiler of this volume deems it proper to protest here, at the very outset of his undertaking, against the un- just and ill-boding practice of indiscriminately stigmatizing as a traitor almost every man, whether in the No… more

Kindle for Genealogists and Family History Researchers [article]This 8-page article is aimed primarily at genealogists and family historians however the principles apply to many other hobby, leisure and professional pursuits.The Kindle has … more

PREFACE.For many years the author of this pamphlet has been collectingdata relative to the Catlett family of the United States. So faras our extensive investigations have been made, the only immigrantsof this name to this country at any tim… more

The black Homer of Jimtown (1900)

The Chatham ministry marked a new phase in the relation of public opinion to the government of the State. In 1766 as in 1756 Pitt had been called into office by the voice of the people at large.

Another brief, but organized coverage of the Great Depression.

A poem about displacement…

‘How Was It for You?’ is a collection of hundreds of people’s personal memories from the unforgettable decade of the 1940s. Whilst many of these memories are of experiences in World War Two, a host of other events in the decade are also rec… more

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt ( April 2, 1725 – June 4, 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. This autobiography, Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), is regarded as one of the most authentic sour… more

An illustrated account of the pendle witch trials of 1612. Written by John Clayton, a historian, landscape archaeologist and authority on the subject, the book gives an up to date account of the most notorious witchcraft trials in English h… more

Stories told by Wesley Moore, alias Post Hole Augerson, a geezer of some renown in Priest River, Idaho. The tales capture the history and humor of a storyteller, who grew up on a farm in Illinois and headed west to Idaho in 1941 with a neig… more