Edward Hincks (1792-1866), the Irish Assyriologist and decipherer of Mesopotamian cuneiform, was born in Cork and spent forty years of...
Edward Hincks (1792-1866), the Irish Assyriologist and decipherer of Mesopotamian cuneiform, was the Church of Ireland Rector. In 1856 Hincks...
Contains the letters written to each other by the renowned Joyce scholars, Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen, between 1953 and...
Shortly after his appointment as Professor of Classics at Moscow University, Vladimir Pecherin fled from Russia in 1836 to pursue...
Covers the period from the 1820s when Hincks was a young clergyman and scholar, applying himself assiduously to his family...
Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as 'the most learned Englishman I know'....
In 1903, Roger Casement, then a British consul, left his consular base on the Lower Congo River and made a...
In 1903, Roger Casement, then a British consul, left his consular base on the Lower Congo River and made a...
Volume three of a collection of surviving letters written by Peter le Page Renouf covering his varied career from his...
Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as "the most learned Englishman I know"....
Sir Peter le Page Renouf (1822-97), a Guernseyman, was described by Lord Acton as "the most learned Englishman I know"....
Letters written between 1950 and 1975 by Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen discussing their reading of "Finnegan's Wake"....
Letters written between 1950 and 1975 by Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen discussing their reading of "Finnegan's Wake"....
These memoirs were written in the late 1940s and cover events in Ireland from 1916-26. Besides casting fresh light on...