An ancient verse, sent by person or persons unknown. Within 100 hours, Oscar van Dam's life is turned upside down. A meeting with a mysterious woman, a hidden past, a mysterious legacy and an unexpected future. Oscar's quest takes him to the west of Ireland and on a journey through the history of the ancient Celts. As the plot thickens, past, present and future merge. Oscar van Dam: the unsuspecting hero of the last Irish legend.

This captivating book introduces you to a loving, fascinating family and a special way of life. You will laugh and cry as you experience life with the family and friends of Joshua McCracken. You will find that it will leave you with a hunger for more. Mary Kathryn Donachy will capture your interest as well as your heart and leave you anxiously awaiting the unfolding saga of The House of Joshua. Paula J. Reichert Raising teenagers has never been easy, even in Pennsylvania in the 1800s. But this family relies on their faith, determination, and dreams of the future to survive the physical, mental, and spiritual obstacles they face. This is a saga of the McCracken family, led by Joshua and Mary Kathryn, who lead their children with love and dependence on their own individual faith and personal convictions. On their journey, they meet new friends and new opportunities. There are the crises of young love, dealing with scars of the past, as well as a perilous blizzard. We meet Indians and runaway slaves and learn about tanning and ice harvesting. This is a great page-turner. I couldn't wait to see what happened next. Daniel C. Brown

The anecdotes portrayed in this publication are the outcome of many years of dedicated service to the photographic industry, in particular the wedding sector. Some stories will tease the mind but they are all of a very true nature, some going back many years going back only a few. The names have been changed to protect the Guilty. The stories have not. This book is a vivid recollection of the strange and often bizzare things that have happened over the years, some believable and some very hard to swallow but nonetheless true. A few fascinating facts have been thrown in along the way to interest and amuse you. 'Quotes by the famous' 'Bet you didn't know' and 'Snapshots' including 'Funnybits' and 'Trivia'. Also information about matrimony that you probably didn't know featuring various traditions and cultures from around the world. Now sit back and enjoy the experience that has taken over forty years to achieve.

Commemorative celebration of the Milwaukee Irish Fest's 25th anniversary.

Through a socio-semiotic analysis of promotional materials used by both producers of quality products and their support organizations, this book investigates the use of imagery, especially images of place, in three contrasting regions of Ireland. It highlights the role of place (particularly rural) imagery in the promotion of handcrafts and rural tourism services, and suggests some of the meanings which may be contacted through the use of such imagery. Much of the research to date in this field has concentrated on the use of imagery to promote particular places, rather than products and, in an Irish context, on the promotion of Ireland as a tourism destination. This book focuses on the regional and local level to examine the creation and use of more micro-place specific images - both real and mythical - by small and medium sized businesses and explores the extent to which the two industries borrow from, and feed into, firstly each other, and secondly, macro place myths and iconographies.

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