[PDF] The Natural History Of Ireland eBook

Author : William Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 1849
Category : History
ISBN :

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Author : Conor W. O'Brien
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785373862

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This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before the first people set foot here. In Life in Ireland, Conor O’Brien guides the reader on a journey around the island to explore the history of natural life here, from the Jurassic Coast of Antrim to the great Ice Age bone-beds of Cork. Along the way, we’ll meet some of the astonishing creatures to have called Ireland home through the ages: shelled monsters; huge marine lizards; armoured dinosaurs; giant deer; mighty mammoths. Vital strands in the story of life on Earth have left their mark here, including some of the first creatures to crawl onto land or take to the wing. This epic journey will take us from the first fossils to the present day, to see how our wildlife has adapted to the human age and explore what the future might hold for life in Ireland.

Author : Michael Viney
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 158834424X

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Ireland conjures up images of nature's majesty: sweeping coastlines, rolling green hills, and secluded peat bogs and marshlands. A place of legendary beauty, it is also a land with a rich natural history. Michael Viney invites us to discover the geologic forces that created the island, peer into the famous bone caves that hold unique clues about animals from long ago, and experience the dramatic scenes of the cliff-lined coast and tempestuous seas. Viney begins deep in the past, when rivers of molten rock and enormous glaciers stripped the land bare. Soon after the glaciers retreated, the island was transformed into a fresh, new landscape, home to an intriguing variety of plants and animals, and an environment that has cultivated a rich human history and inspired countless myths. Infused with the lyricism of Irish prose, Ireland: A Smithsonian Natural History is indispensable for anyone seeking to understand the natural beauty of the Emerald Isle.

Author : Philip O'Sullivan-Beare
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781859184394

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gives an overall history of the O'Sullivans and Philip in particular. This translation constitutes an important contribution to scholarship pertaining to O'Sullivan Beare, early modern Irish Latin literature and Irish history in general and will be of interest to historians of science, as well as to the broad group of historians who study early modern Ireland and its connections with Europe of the time." --Book Jacket.