Bøger af Gabriel Murray

The Rebel Countess; The story of Countess Markievicz, Anglo-Irish revolutionary She returns to her father's estate in the West coast of Ireland. She gets involved in the Irish struggle for freedom. She takes part in the 1916 revolution and is sentenced to death, escapes execution and helps establish the Irish Republic. A story of heroism and personal sacrifice on a grand scale.

The Spielberg Files.This is the story of the escape of Steven Spielberg's ancestors from Russia to America; along with two million Jewish emigrants.On April 10, 2003, over 100,000 files went up in flames in a monastery in the town of Kamenets Podolsk in western Ukraine. These were the entire records of the Jewish community living there since the 15th century. Among these Jewish files were the records of the ancestors of Hollywood director, Steven Spielberg. This book traces the extraordinary untold story of the escape of his grandfather, Shimuel, during the Russian pogroms of 1905, which were instigated by 'The Black Hundred, ' a anti -Semitic secret society loyal to Tsar Nicholas II.A rescue operation was organised on an enormous scale by Jewish bankers in London, along with many other Jewish organisations. Their leader was Baron de Hirsch, who donated over £300,000,000 to this operation. It was one of the largest humanitarian rescues in human history.A biblical exodus of hundreds of ships, every year from ports, in Germany to America, was the main escape route; that was organised by Jewish man Albert Ballin. With vast funds at their disposal, organisations such as; Alliance Israélite Universelle, the Jewish Temporary Shelter and the Jewish Colonization Association, rescued, transported and resettled over two million Jewish emigrants to America; that were part of the Hasidic, Ashkenazi and Sephardic community.Those who did not escape became victims of Nazi death squads in the Ukraine in 1941, or fled eastwards to China, America and Israel. Some of these Jewish refugees were the Spielberg family. However, the Spielbergs that remained in Podolsk, were murdered, on the orders of the S.S. leader, Friedrick Jeckeln.The full breadth, context and scale of this story is now told for the first time. This book is the result of many years of research in archives in England, Germany, Austria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and the Ukraine. The author travelled to these countries to rediscover the Jewish communities, and the lost archipelagos of villages and shtetls; in order to locate the synagogues, mass graves and archives that are the remnants of this lost Jewish homeland, known as the Pale of Settlement. It was a journey into the past to reconstruct what remains of this lost history, before it vanishes into the midst of time. This book uncovers the extraordinary story of the heroism, faith, love and hope, of a people on the edge of extinction, and the will to survive against all odds; and of those who assisted them in their quest, to find a new homeland.

The Vatican and the theological investigation of the Terence Mac Swiney's hunger strike - 1920.

The story of how Aut Even Hospital was founded and the creation of health.care in Kilkenny, Ireland; in the period from 1915 to 1933. It was a transitional period during the civil war, in Ireland, (1922-23); where members of the Anglo Irish, aristocracy, Catholic and Protestant clergy were involved in healthcare, social welfare and child protection.The Countess of Desart attached and funded various organisations and the building of Auteven Hospital. The Marchioness of Ormonde founded the District Nurses Association, along with their daughters Beatrice and Constance. Along with Lady Aberdeen they were involved in the eradication of TB in Kilkenny. Constance founded the Red Cross in Kilkenny, and went on to take up a major position as leader of the entire medical war supplies in London during the great war of 1914-1918. These extraordinary and forgotten achievements are record for the first time in this book, that links in with other academics working in this area, that do not have access to certain materiel that the book explores. This is the first major book on this subject in Kilkenny.

The foundation of Auteven Hospital, (1915-1933). and the birth of healthcare in Kilkenny; that involved the noble efforts of the Countess of Desart, the, Lady Aberdeen, Lady Beatrice Butler, Lady Constance Butler, and the Marchioness of Ormonde, in this great endeavour. Monograph with Notes.

The story of Irish rock the music that changed the world.Dublin the city of 1000 rock bands.A novel based on the early days of Irish rock when Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy) Bono (U2) and Bob Geldof (The Boom Town Rats) blazed a trail across Dublin. The days when U2 played for fifty pence, at the Dandelion Flea Market, Bob Geldof worked in an abattoir and Phil Lynott busked on Grafton street. All became world famous rock stars. This is the story of their humble beginnings in the clubs of Dublin.

Elizabeth Ross (1752 - 1836), [1] also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 with making the first American flag, accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag. Though most historians dismiss the story. Ross family tradition holds that General George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and two members of a congressional committee-Robert Morris and George Ross-visited Mrs. Ross in 1776. Mrs. Ross convinced George Washington to change the shape of the stars in a sketch of a flag he showed her from six-pointed to five-pointed by demonstrating that it was easier and speedier to cut the latter. However, there is no archival evidence or other recorded verbal tradition to substantiate this story of the first American flag. It appears that the story first surfaced in the writings of her grandson in the 1870s with no mention or documentation in earlier decades

The Sound of SilenceThe Sound of Silence Faith Love and Hope and the Greatest of these is Love.A historical novel based on the story of Hans Malling Hansen -Denmark's forgotten hero of the deaf, dumb and blind. Rasmus Malling Hansen (1835-1890), was the greatest educationalist for deaf and dumb children, in Denmark and Scandinavia, in the 19th century. He saved the lives of hundreds of children, by building new schools, and accommodation. He was funded by princess Alexandra from the Danish royal family, who suffered from deafness herself. He became famous for inventing the first electric typewriter, for deaf mute children, so they could learn to communicate. With them. The novel explores the fate of one of Hansen's pupils, an extremely handicapped girl named Christabel, who becomes deaf, dumb and blind due to a bomb explosion during the 1863 war with Germany and Denmark. Hansen's with the help of many medical and educational experts unlocks her miraculously from her enclosed tomb, allowing her to communicate with the world. Christabel while searching for a cure to her terrible fate, developed a friendship with Laura Bridgeman the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, it is a story of courage and great endeavour and of faith love and hope for all children that are handicapped in this way.

The story of Scotsman John Ross and his Cherokee friend Sequoyah, who tried to stop the American Government removal of the Cherokee Nation, from Georgia to Oklahoma. In May 1838, federal troops and state militia units, supervised by General Winfield Scott, rounded up the Cherokee, who refused to accept the Indian Removal Act, and forced them to make a one-thousand-mile journey across America, to a reservation in Oklahoma. This heroic journey is known as 'The Trail of Tears.

The Countess of Desart. Ellen Odette Cuffe, Countess of Desart (née Bischoffsheim, 1857-1933), wasa London born Jewish woman; who was best known as an Irish politician, president of the Gaelic League, reviver of the Arts and Craft movement. andmember of the Industrial Society in Ireland. She donated millions to variouscharities in England and Ireland. She was the daughter of Henri LouisBischoffsheim, a wealthy Jewish banker of German origin. He was partlyresponsible for founding three of the largest banks in the world; DeutscheBank, Paribas Bank, and Société Generale. The Countess was president ofthe Women's Committee of the Jewish Temporary Shelter in London anddirectly involved in the rescue of over 150,000 Russian Jews from TzaristRussia, before the borders of England closed, with the enforcement of AliensAct in 1906. She invested in various projects, library's, hospitals, housing etcin Kilkenny, southern Ireland. She championed workers' rights privately andin government. She was appointed to the Irish Free State in Seanad Éireannas an independent member in 1922 and served there, until her death in 1933.Her mother's family the Bidermanns', were victims of the Nazis in Austria, where they were court jewellers to the Emperor. They lost all their property'sand possessions in 1938, when Austria was annexed by Germany. Manyof her cousins in Paris died in Auschwitz. The author has researched thisbook over twenty years, accessing archives in Ireland, England, Poland, Austria, and Russia, to complete his research. The Countess is regardedas the most important Jewish woman in Irish history. This is thefirst book to be published on her life, philanthropy and great works.

The Countess of Desart. Ellen Odette Cuffe, Countess of Desart (née Bischoffsheim, 1857-1933), was London born Jewish woman; who was best known as an Irish politician, president of the Gaelic League, reviver of the Arts and Craft movement. and member of the Industrial Society in Ireland. She donated millions to various charities in England and Ireland. She was the daughter of Henri Louis Bischoffsheim, a wealthy Jewish banker of German origin. He was partly responsible for founding three of the largest banks in the world; Deutsche Bank, Paribas Bank, and Société Generale. The Countess was president ofthe Women's Committee of the Jewish Temporary Shelter in London and directly involved in the rescue of over 150,000 Russian Jews from Tzarist Russia, before the borders of England closed, with the enforcement of Aliens Act in 1906. She invested in various projects, library's, hospitals, housing etc in Kilkenny, southern Ireland. She championed workers' rights privately and in government. She was appointed to the Irish Free State in Seanad Éireannas an independent member in 1922 and served there, until her death in 1933.Her mother's family the Bidermanns', were victims of the Nazis in Austria, where they were court jewelers to the Emperor. They lost all their property'sand possessions in 1938, when Austria was annexed by Germany. Many of her cousins in Paris died in Auschwitz. The author has researched this book over twenty years, accessing archives in Ireland, England, Poland, Austria, and Russia, to complete his research. The Countess is regarded as the most important Jewish woman in Irish history. This is the first book to be published on her life, philanthropy and great works.

WOMEN IN IRISH HISTORY; 1864 -1984CONTENTS;1.THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASAES ACT 1864.2.MARGARET SKINNIDIER'Doing My Bit For Ireland'3.HELENA MARY MOLONY (1883 - 1967).'A Revolutionary Life'.4.THE ANTI -SUFFRAGIST LEAGUE'Mary Wards Crusade'5. EMIGRATION TO AMERICAIde O'Carroll, ReviewModels and Movers; Irish Women's Emigration to America.Case Studies. Nora Joyce, Brigid Gilchrist, Mary Walsh.6.THE TRAGIC FATE OF ANN LOVETT, 1968-1984.Official, Academic, Media, Public and Individual Responsesto her tragic death.7.IRELANDS WOMENS SLAVE TRADEThe Magdalene Laundries8.IRELAND WOMEN'S RIGHTS1970-1980Feminism 2nd Wave Ireland.

Due to the Internet Revolution, human conversational data -- in written forms -- are accumulating at a phenomenal rate. At the same time, improvements in speech technology enable many spoken conversations to be transcribed. Individuals and organizations engage in email exchanges, face-to-face meetings, blogging, texting and other social media activities. The advances in natural language processing provide ample opportunities for these "informal documents" to be analyzed and mined, thus creating numerous new and valuable applications. This book presents a set of computational methods to extract information from conversational data, and to provide natural language summaries of the data. The book begins with an overview of basic concepts, such as the differences between extractive and abstractive summaries, and metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of summarization and various extraction tasks. It also describes some of the benchmark corpora used in the literature. The book introducesextraction and mining methods for performing subjectivity and sentiment detection, topic segmentation and modeling, and the extraction of conversational structure. It also describes frameworks for conducting dialogue act recognition, decision and action item detection, and extraction of thread structure. There is a specific focus on performing all these tasks on conversational data, such as meeting transcripts (which exemplify synchronous conversations) and emails (which exemplify asynchronous conversations). Very recent approaches to deal with blogs, discussion forums and microblogs (e.g., Twitter) are also discussed. The second half of this book focuses on natural language summarization of conversational data. It gives an overview of several extractive and abstractive summarizers developed for emails, meetings, blogs and forums. It also describes attempts for building multi-modal summarizers. Last but not least, the book concludes with thoughts on topics for further development. Table of Contents: Introduction / Background: Corpora and Evaluation Methods / Mining Text Conversations / Summarizing Text Conversations / Conclusions / Final Thoughts