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Name: Karl Lueger And The Twilight Of Imperial ViennaSubtitle: The Life And Work Of A Municipal Socialist And Precursor Of Christian DemocracyAuthor:Editor: Clifford, AngelaCategory: German-Irish CollectionPublisher: Belfast Historical & Educational SocietyPublished: 2002ISBN: 1 872078 07 9Contents: Karl Lueger's achievements were unique. He discredited the Austrian Free Marketeers in the closing decades of the 19th century, built a popular base for himself, established a new kind of European politics, and modernised and socialised the City of Vienna in his years as Mayor, 1897 to 1910 (when he died). Yet he is hardly known outside Austria. The reason for this is that after 1945 he was travestied into a forerunner of Adolf Hitler by slipshod historians and propagandists of the victorious powers. In fact Hitler, who lived in Vienna during his Mayoralty, admired him as a social reformer but rejected his social philosophy because it was not racist. It would be as reasonable to represent the influential British economist, J. M. Keynes, as Hitler's forerunner on the ground that Keynes's economic theories were first put into effect in Nazi Germany. When Nazi Germany took over Austria, Lueger's successors in the leadership of the Christian Social party, which he founded, were arrested and sent to Concentration Camps along with the leaders of the Social Democracy. In the generation after the Second World War the stability of Western Europe was chiefly the work of the Christian Democracy, of which Lueger's Christian Social movement was the pioneer. This book, composed of extracts from a number of biographies of Lueger translated by Philip O'Connor, seeks to introduce Mayor Lueger to the English-speaking world—which has plenty to learn about community politics. An introduction by Angela Clifford takes up perceptions of Lueger in the context of her own Viennese and Palestinian background, and Councillor Mark Langhammer—who also has links with a lost Middle Europe—supplies a Preface.Extracts: No extra online material at this time.Errata: No errata available at this time.Price: £8.00Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble.Add To Cart:View Cart: |
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Name: Kilmichael Ambush CommemorationSubtitle: Address On 94th AnniversaryAuthor: Lane, JackEditor:Category:Publisher: Aubane Historical SocietyPublished: 2014ISBN: 978-1-903497-85-2Contents: Anyone who takes an interest in our history will know that there is an ongoing debate about the War of Independence and it is appropriate that this Ambush has been central to this debate. The Ambush has been the subject of detailed discussion and every minute and every blow of the Ambush has been analysed, researched, interpreted and misinterpreted ad nauseam. You might say there has been a concerted attempt to ambush Kilmichael and the reputation of Tom Barry but it has been repulsed.Extracts: The fact is that the War of Independence has been fought all over again in recent years, without guns this time, fortunately, but a no less significant war because of that. It is just a different kind of war. In the context of this new ‘war’ events such as this commemoration here and similar commemorations elsewhere have a vital importance because they present opportunities for putting the record straight about the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence. Opportunities for doing so are few and far between these days. You will very rarely find such opportunities in forums such as the media, in academia, in the educational system and in 'history books' and in mainstream political parties. And when the mainstream politicians commemorate such events they give the distinct impression that they are simply going through the motions. In those forums you will get everything from outright condemnation of the Rising and the War of Independence to an acknowledgment of these events but with all sorts of reservations, qualifications and regrets and a negative tone throughout. The end result is to seek to give us a bad conscience about the whole thing.Errata: No errata at this timePrice: £1.50Postage Option: It is not possible for us to trade using only one postage rate. We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Air Mail. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble.Add To Cart:View Cart: |
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Name: Kilmichael: The False SurrenderSubtitle:Author: Clifford, BrendanEditor:Category: Irish CollectionPublisher: Athol BooksPublished: 1999ISBN: 1 903497 00 0Contents: A discussion by Peter Hart, Padraig O'Cuanachain, D.R. O'Connor Lysaght, Dr. Brian Murphy & Meda Ryan. Includes: Why The Ballot Was Followed By The Bullet, by Jack Lane and Bredan Clifford. 48 pp.Extracts: No extra online material at this time.Errata: No errata available at this time.Price: £5.00Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble.Add To Cart:View Cart: |
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Name: King Mahon's RockSubtitle: A Monument and its HistoryAuthor:Editor:Category: Irish collectionPublisher: Kilcorney Historical SocietyPublished: 2014ISBN: 978-1-903497-81-4Contents: Published on the occasion of the unveiling of the monument at Mushera near Millstreet, Co. Cork, on Holy Saturday, 19th April 2014. The world knows of Brian Boru very well. The current Millennium Anniversary celebrations of the Battle of Clontarf have brought him and his achievements to our attention once again. However, if the event we are commemorating here today had not happened, Brian Boru would have been but a footnote in our history and the Battle of Clontarf might never have happened.Extracts: There are no extracts at present.Errata:Price: £8.00Postage Option:Add To Cart:View Cart: |
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