Nicholas Furlong traces the history of County Wexford, Ireland, from early Christian settlements through Norman colonization and the uncertainties of the Elizabethan and Cromwellian periods; through the great rising of 1798 and the institutional revival of Catholicism in the nineteenth century. This series features experienced and authoritative authors local to the counties providing accessible histories from antiauity to the present, with bibliographies, notes and indices for each

A History of County Wexford

History

Furlong, Nicholas

Europe

Gill Macmillan Ltd

Dermot, king of Leinster and the foreigners

Biographies & Memoirs

Anvil Books

Fr. John Murphy of Boolavogue: 1753-1798

Geography Publications

A Foster Son for a King

Irish Books & Medi

Foster Son for a King

Children's Books

Anvil Books (Childrens Press)

very good copy, photograph on front of Wellingtonbridge Police Barracks 1888, some light wear but a very good clean copy.

County Wexford in the rare oul' times (Ireland)

Old Distillery Press

Diarmait Mac Murchada was a king through misadventure. Owing to a series of fatal family mishaps he was elected to power in 1126 at sixteen. He ruled through a turbulent period and became one of the most dominant figures in Irish history. Furlong presents a thorough account of Diarmait's life and examines his actions and decisions not only in the context of his questionable personal traits and character but also expanding the analysis to reflect on his effect on the political turbulence of the time. At one stage of his influential life, ousted as King of Leinster, he invited King Henry II of England to assist him in regaining the throne. The subsequent invasion marked the beginning of eight centuries of English dominance. After his death he was damned as a traitor and a blackguard. He is recorded as having two wives at the same time, raping an abbess, the abduction of Dervorgilla, the wife of his bitter rival, and the mutilation and killing of rivals. Furlong's Diarmait King of Leinster is a subtle, compassionate yet realistic examination of the man behind the myth.

Diarmait King of Leinster

Furlong, Diarmait

Historical

Mercier Press

Young Farmer Seeks Wife

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Humor & Satire

Font Publications

The mother told me to avoid the company of girls until I was 35 or so and then marry a good sensible match, a respectable girl with a farm and money. "Take your time, Nicolas," she said. "There are thousands of farmers' daughters with their tongues hanging out to be married, and don't worry about anything, for after my day you'll have this place forever, and your uncle Dick's place as well." In 1950s Ireland, the course of true love is running anything but smoothly for young dairy farmer Nicholas Furlong. When not being thwarted at every turn by his mother, the ferocious Widow Furlong, or his equally fearsome bachelor Uncle Richard, he's misconstruing the female signals. Or misfiring his responses. Nicholas prides himself on rising above the ashes of ridicule and rejection that surround him and his two comrades in courtship, Mulcahy and MacDonagh. But now a new torment has arrived in the form of an ageing guardian of the peace intent on courting The Widow. And the farm. This outrage to the proper order of romance must be stopped. But how? With hilarious hyperbole and vivid, melodic language, the author takes a scalpel to the hypocrisies and injustices of rural life in this coming-of-age novel that is by turns moving and hysterically humorous. "Reminds me of both John B Keane and Brian O'Nualain: Keane's loquaciousness with words and O'Nuallain's undermining effect with them... a tightrope act executed with frothy bravado." - Sunday Independent

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