Enchanted Ireland

Travel

Lay, Paul

Europe

Little,Brown

More than 150 remarkable full-color photographs record a world both familiar and strange, by turns celebratory and spiritual. Here pilgrims walk uphill, barefoot in the rain; turf-cutters and hay-makers work the land; and castles and ruins dot the landscape and the Celtic statues of Irish pre-history observe an island forever tugging at the heartstrings. In chapters that evoke the timeless culture of a land that sent so many of its children far away, Paul Lay's vivid commentary, underwritten by the author's respect for Irish history and literature, provides a lyrical and loving context to the scenes of Irish life and landscape.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Stewart, Tabori and Chang

British cook book extraordinary reciepes.

Great British Menu

Imprint unknown

This history explores a year that fell within one of the least understood periods in British history—the Interregnum between the execution of Charles I and the restoration of Charles II—and reclaims it as one of the most politically exciting and culturally creative eras of European history. Far from being the dreary Puritan society of royalist myth, the Interregnum was one of the most intellectually thrilling times in British history. This was the crucible in which modern British thought—inquiring, iconoclastic, and creative—was forged, and it marked the foundation of modern British democracy: pluralistic, inclusive, and based on a people's charter to rule.

Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate (A Year In . . .)

History

Apollo

The story of the rise and fall of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate (1653-9), England's sole experiment in republican government - and one of the most extraordinary but neglected periods in British history. <h2>'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian.</h2> ***************** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies. He is master of Britain and Ireland. But Parliament, divided between moderates, republicans and Puritans of uncompromisingly millenarian hue, is faction-ridden and disputatious. By the end of 1653, Cromwell has become 'Lord Protector'. Seeking dragons for an elect Protestant nation to slay, he launches an ambitious 'Western Design' against Spain's empire in the New World. When an amphibious assault on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1655 proves a disaster, a shaken Cromwell is convinced that God is punishing England for its sinfulness. But the imposition of the rule of the Major-Generals - bureaucrats with a penchant for closing alehouses - backfires spectacularly. Sectarianism and fundamentalism run riot. Radicals and royalists join together in conspiracy. The only way out seems to be a return to a Parliament presided over by a king. But will Cromwell accept the crown? Paul Lay narrates in entertaining but always rigorous fashion the story of England's first and only experiment with republican government: he brings the febrile world of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate to life, providing vivid portraits of the extraordinary individuals who inhabited it and capturing its dissonant cacophony of political and religious voices. ***************** Reviews: 'Briskly paced and elegantly written, Providence Lost provides us with a first-class ticket to this Cromwellian world of achievement, paradox and contradiction. Few guides take us so directly, or so sympathetically, into the imaginative worlds of that tumultuous decade' John Adamson, The Times. 'Providence Lost is a learned, lucid, wry and compelling narrative of the 1650s as well as a sensitive portrayal of a man unravelled by providence' Jessie Childs, Guardian.

Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate

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