The Story of Ireland (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
Автор:Emily Lawless Год: 2007 Издание:Книга по Требованию Страниц: 352 ISBN: 9781406535969 A title by popular author Emily Lawless who an Irish writer. She was born at Lyons House below Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare. Her grand-father was a member of the United Irishmen Valentine Lawless and son of a convert from Catholicism to the Church of Ireland. In contrast her brother Edward Lawless was a landowner with strong Unionist opinions, a policy of not employing Roman Catholics in any position in his household, and chairman of the Property Defence Association set up in 1880 to oppose the Land League and "uphold the rights of property against organised combination to defraud". Emily wrote 19 books of fiction, biography, history, nature studies and poetry, many of which were widely read at the time.
