An orphaned teenage girl steals a ship while on a sailing trip in Scotland with other disadvantaged youngsters, in order to search for the mythical treasure of Odysseus - a search her lost father began but failed to complete.
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Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago
Francis O'Neill; Nicholas Carolan
Northwestern University Press
2008
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This remarkable memoir of immigration and assimilation provides a rare view of urban life in Chicago in the late 1800s by a newcomer to the city, the Midwest, and the nation as well. Francis O'Neill left Ireland in 1865. After five years traveling the world as a sailor, he and his family settled in Chicago, just shortly before the Great Fire of 1871.As O'Neill looked back on his life, writing in Chicago at the age of 83, he could give first-hand accounts of the Pullman strike of 1894, the railway strike of 1903, and the packinghouse strike of 1904. He could also reflect on the corruption that kept him at the whim of powerful aldermen who transferred him from station to station to prevent his advance as a member of the Chicago Police Department. Despite these obstacles, O'Neill eventually rose to be chief of police. In addition to his professional success, O'Neill is also remembered and beloved for his hobby, preserving traditional Irish music.O'Neill's story offers perspective on the inner workings of the police department at the turn of the twentieth century. His memoir also brings to life the challenges involved in succeeding in a new land, providing for his family, and integrating into a new culture. There were opportunities in America for ambitious, hardworking people, and Francis O'Neill serves as a fine documentarian of the Irish immigrant experience in Chicago.
Chief O'Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago
Francis O'Neill; Nicholas Carolan
Northwestern University Press
2017
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This remarkable memoir of immigration and assimilation provides a rare view of urban life in Chicago in the late 1800s by a newcomer to the city and the Midwest, and the nation as well. Francis O'Neill left Ireland in 1865. After five years traveling the world as a sailor, he and his family settled in Chicago just shortly before the Great Fire of 1871. As O'Neill looked back on his life, writing in Chicago at the age of 83, he could give first-hand accounts of Pullman strike of 1894, the railway strike of 1903, and the packinghouse strike of 1904. He could also reflect on the corruption that kept him, in spite of his innovations, extremely high exam scores, and performance, subject to powerful aldermen who prevented his advance as a member of the Chicago Police Department. Despite these obstacles, O'Neill eventually rose to be chief of police--a position from which he could enact much-needed civil service reform. In addition to his professional success, O'Neill is also remembered and beloved for his hobby, preserving traditional Irish music. O'Neill’s story offers perspective on the inner workings of the police department at the turn of the twentieth century. His memoir also brings to life the challenges involved in succeeding in a new land, providing for his family, and integrating into a new culture. Francis O'Neill serves as a fine documentarian of the Irish immigrant experience in Chicago.
Love's Story of Why We Are HereThis book sets out to answer one big question about our lives, and indeed all of life on our planet. That question is: Why are we here?And also to propose, if we know why we are here, what we can do about it.In his first book, Life and Death: Making Sense of It, the author explores human life, how we might resolve our concerns and fears around death, and provides grounds for believing in an afterlife. In this companion book, he broadens out the debate to include all of life, the rocks, the plants, animals, ourselves and the universe.In answering this question, and bridging the gap between the sciences and the spiritual, the author advances a revolutionary and exciting model of awakening and consciousness showing how everything has a role to play. This includes what he calls the "soul ladder," an essential part of this model.He argues that all of life is seeking to awaken, become self-aware. And he explains how this is operating at a level currently overlooked by conventional wisdom, religions and science.The Love's Story chapter, which lends itself to the book's title, provides a version of the hypothesis in story form.Apart from presenting an agenda behind awakening and consciousness, the book includes discussion on: Gaia, the living Earth The problem with evolution as we currently view it Quantum theory The aura, and the soul Are we alone in the Universe? Extraterrestrial life and Disclosure
Get healthier, wealthier and find inner peaceFrom the author of Life and Death: Making Sense of It, this easy to read compact book is a self-development guide packed full of all the tools you need to get all fired-up and get healthier, wealthier and find inner peace - indeed make a success of your life. It includes sections on: o Seven principles leading to successThe benefits of self-hypnosis How to use creative visualisation in context with the Law of AttractionHow to keep fit and well The importance of meditationThe Eight-fold pathA loving kindness contemplationThis book provides essential resources in helping to improve one's mind, body and spirit. It is drawn from an aide-memoire that the author wrote to himself - which he reads through regularly. It is a resource of reminders of what is important going forward. Here you can take advantage of the same tools and techniques for your own health, wealth and prosperity.Click on Amazon's Look Inside feature and begin reading today.
Irish Minstrels and Musicians: With Numerous Dissertations on Related Subjects (1913)
Francis O'Neill
Literary Licensing, LLC
2014
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Irish Minstrels and Musicians: With Numerous Dissertations on Related Subjects (1913)
Francis O'Neill
Literary Licensing, LLC
2014
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""Irish Minstrels and Musicians"" is a book written by Francis O'Neill and published in 1913. It is a comprehensive study of Irish music and musicians, with a particular focus on the traditional music of Ireland. The book includes numerous dissertations on related subjects, such as the history of Irish music, the role of the harp in Irish culture, and the influence of Irish music on other musical traditions.The book is divided into several sections, each of which explores a different aspect of Irish music. The first section provides an overview of the history of Irish music, tracing its origins back to ancient times and discussing its evolution over the centuries. The second section focuses on the harp, which has long been a symbol of Irish culture and is an important instrument in traditional Irish music.Other sections of the book explore the lives and music of individual musicians, including famous Irish fiddlers, pipers, and singers. The book also includes a number of musical transcriptions, allowing readers to learn and play some of the traditional Irish tunes discussed in the text.Overall, ""Irish Minstrels and Musicians"" is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history and culture of Irish music. It provides a detailed and engaging look at the music and musicians of Ireland, and is a must-read for anyone who loves traditional Irish music.This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
It is Europe's darkest time in near memory. American warrior poet Alistair Stears, thrown into Italian WWI through his mother's love for an Italian colonel, experienced a convoy of the dying through burning provinces of Italy in the terrible retreat of 1917. It brought from him the great English poem of the Italian war. One war later, all gracious things await destruction, knowledge is burned, thought coarsened, manners trashed, perverted faith and truth follow the dictators' flags-vultures to grace. Stears is a famous poet now, married into German-Italian nobility and determined with his wife to fight the Axis powers. He risks everything to protect Italy and all else he loves. He finds that the bravest and fiercest resistance may be the rightness of a poem, the closing of a letter, the welcome of guests, the embrace of a bride, faith toward a fallen friend-and that it may also come from the barrel of a gun. Spanning both world wars, The Poet's War finds loyalty, patriotism, war, deception, intrigue, romance, love, and death swept up in a maelstrom that spans generations and changes Europe forever.
Index of Obituaries and Marriages of the (Baltimore) Sun, 1871-1875, A-J
Francis P O'Neill
Heritage Books
2013
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Index of Obituaries and Marriages of the (Baltimore) Sun, 1871-1875, K-Z
Francis P O'Neill
Heritage Books
2013
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The Dismissal of Religious in the Temporary Vows: An Historical Conspectus and Commentary
Francis Joseph O'Neill
Literary Licensing, LLC
2013
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Index of Obituaries and Marriages of The (Baltimore) Sun, 1866-1870, with Addendum, 1861-1865
Francis P O'Neill
Heritage Books
2013
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Index of Obituaries and Marriages of The (Baltimore) Sun, 1876-1880
Francis P O'Neill
Heritage Books
2009
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Learn How to Read Your Birth-chart in 5 Steps
Francis Eugene O'Neill
Some Inspiration Publications
2024
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Here's a question for you. What is the purpose of your life? Or put another way: Why are you here? What are you here to experience, to learn or to give? The author of this astrology workbook will say the best way to find an answer to this question, or quest, is by following an ancient way of doing it; that is, through getting to grips with your birth-chart. In five steps this workbook will teach you how to both get hold of your birth-chart, if you haven't got one, and how to read it. The Steps cover: 1. The Birth-chart in the round - includes a look at Mozart's chart 2. The Zodiac signs and their matrix 3. The major Planets and their Aspects 4. The Angles and Houses 5. And the best bit, how to make sense of it all. The book's Resources section provides interpretations for every component part of the birth-chart. Making it easy to piece them together. Some readers might like to explore the One Step Further section and delve into the more spiritual, or karmic, perspective that their birth-chart can offer them. This workbook also includes access to a FREE Bonus Pack of more resources and relevant astrology articles. If you have a sense that there is a greater purpose to your being alive, than the life you're living, study your birth-chart to help you find it.
