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Haunted Ground
| Author | : Darryl V. Caterine |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2011-08-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
This fascinating and insightful tour through present-day meetings of Spiritualists, UFOlogists, and dowsers illuminates our obsession with the paranormal and challenges the misunderstanding of the paranormal as a marginal or inconsequential feature of America's religious landscape. According to a 2005 Gallup poll, 75 percent of Americans believe in some form of paranormal activity. The United States has had a collective fascination with the paranormal since the mid-1800s, and it remains an integral part of our culture. Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America examines three of the most vibrant paranormal gatherings in the United States—Lily Dale, a Spiritualist summer camp; the Roswell UFO Festival; and the American Society of Dowsers' annual convention of "water witches"—to explore and explain the reasons for our obsession with the paranormal. Both academically informed and thoroughly entertaining, this book takes readers on a "road trip" through our nation, guided by professor of American religion Darryl V. Caterine, PhD. The author interprets seemingly unrelated case studies of phantasmagoria collectively as an integral part of the modern discourse about "nature" as ultimate reality. Along the way, Dr. Caterine reveals how Americans' interest in the paranormal is rooted in their anxieties about cultural, political, and economic instability—and in a historic sense of alienation and homelessness.
Bog Child
| Author | : Siobhan Dowd |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2015-07-30 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 144817337X |
Digging for peat in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she's been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him - his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what, a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls. Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace, and the unflinching strength of the human spirit.
Buried In a Bog
| Author | : Sheila Connolly |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2013-02-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101619120 |
New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly introduces the first novel in the County Cork mystery series—set in a small village in Ireland where buried secrets are about to rise to the surface... Honoring the wish of her late grandmother, Maura Donovan visits the small Irish village where her Gran was born—though she never expected to get bogged down in a murder mystery. Nor had she planned to take a job in one of the local pubs, but she finds herself excited to get to know the people who knew her Gran. In the pub, she’s swamped with drink orders as everyone in town gathers to talk about the recent discovery of a nearly one-hundred-year-old body in a nearby bog. When Maura realizes she may know something about the dead man—and that the body’s connected to another, more recent, death—she fears she’s about to become mired in a homicide investigation. After she discovers the death is connected to another from almost a century earlier, Maura has a sinking feeling she may really be getting in over her head...
Conservation and Restoration of Raised Bogs
| Author | : Matthijs G. C. Schouten |
| Publisher | : Duchas -The Heritage Service of Department of Environment and Loc |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Peat bogs |
| ISBN | : 9780755715596 |
This book is the result of a decade of co-operation between the Irish and Dutch state organizations responsible for nature conservation and between Irish and Dutch scientists. Published (among others) by Staatsbosbeheer
Life in Ireland
| Author | : Conor W. O'Brien |
| Publisher | : Merrion Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2021-04-22 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1785373862 |
This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before the first people set foot here. In Life in Ireland, Conor O’Brien guides the reader on a journey around the island to explore the history of natural life here, from the Jurassic Coast of Antrim to the great Ice Age bone-beds of Cork. Along the way, we’ll meet some of the astonishing creatures to have called Ireland home through the ages: shelled monsters; huge marine lizards; armoured dinosaurs; giant deer; mighty mammoths. Vital strands in the story of life on Earth have left their mark here, including some of the first creatures to crawl onto land or take to the wing. This epic journey will take us from the first fossils to the present day, to see how our wildlife has adapted to the human age and explore what the future might hold for life in Ireland.
By the Bog of Cats
| Author | : Marina Carr |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 94 |
| Release | : 2014-09-04 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 057131872X |
Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her, Hester is once again betrayed, this time by the father of her child, the man she loves. On the brink of despair, she embarks on a terrible journey of vengeance as the secrets of her tangled history are revealed. 'A piece of poetic realism steeped in the past... Carr has an extraordinary ability to move between the mythic and the real.' Guardian 'A great play... a great work of poetry... the word should soon carry across both sides of the Atlantic.' Independent By the Bog of Cats premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 1998. It was revived at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in November 2004.
Ireland's Peatland Conservation Action Plan 2020
| Author | : Irish Peatland Conservation Council |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biodiversity |
| ISBN | : 9781874189275 |
Essay on the Peat Bogs of Ireland ... To which is added an appendix: Doctor Rennie's position relative to the sterility of peat moss combated, etc
| Author | : William RICHARDSON (D.D., of Moy.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 1812 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Contentious Terrains
| Author | : Derek Gladwin |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781782052043 |
This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or peat bogs) are represented in modern and contemporary Irish literature and culture from the 1880s to the present. Bogs are more than ubiquitous landforms in Ireland. They function as a kind of narrative that reveals some of the potentially unanswered questions in an Irish literary geo-history, particularly leading up to and during the Land Wars of the 1880s, Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), the "Troubles" (1960s and 1970s), Celtic Tiger (1990s and 2000s), and into the current environmental crisis. Drawing on a range of Irish writers, including Bram Stoker, Frank O'Connor, Sean O'Faolain, Daniel Corkery, Seamus Heaney, Marina Carr, Deirdre Kinahan, Patrick McCabe, and Tim Robinson, Contentious Terrains, ultimately argues that the destabilizing and haunting capacities of the bog provide a space to explore historically fraught colonial tensions and social struggles through the Gothic form. It employs a cross-disciplinary scope, examining an assortment of Irish writers in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, thus testifying to the pervasiveness and range of the bog's allure in Irish culture.--Publisher description.
