MARY ROBINSON

With the approach of the thirteenth century, the world awoke from its long and dreamless sleep. Then began the age of faith, the miraculous century, starving for lack of bread and nourished upon heavenly roses...A fascinating look at the end of the medieval world and the beginning of the Renaissance.

"Looking Good, Mary" is something my parrot used to say to me and when I was feeling low it gave me a real lift. This book of poems started as a collection of memoirs that I wrote for my children. It is a mixture of things that happen in everyday life - funny and sometimes sad. I am still amused as I read these as every one of them is a true story from my life.

Mary Robinson, Julie A. ShafferWalsingham (1797) is both a lively story and a commentary by Mary Robinson on her society's constraints upon women. The novel follows the story of two main characters, Walsingham Ainsforth and his cousin, Sir Sidney Aubrey, a girl who is passed off as a son by her mother so that she will become the family heir. Sidney, educated in France, returns to England as an adult and persistently sabotages Walsingham's love interests (having secretly fallen in love with him herself). Eventually, Sidney reveals her identity, and she and Walsingham declare their mutual love, wed, and share the family's estate. This Broadview edition includes a rich selection of primary source material, including: contemporary reviews, historical and literary accounts of eighteenth-century female crossdressers; and selections from contemporary works that focus on the figure of the "fallen" woman.

As an advocate for the hungry and the hunted the forgotten and the ignored Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering but illuminated a better future for our world BARACK OBAMA SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2018 Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003 Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into Before his fiftieth birthday he would share the planet with more than nine billion people people battling for food water and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate The faceless shadowy menace of climate change had become in an instant deeply personal Mary Robinson s mission would lead her all over the world from Malawi to Mongolia and to a heartening revelation that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level mainly among women many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself From Sharon Hanshaw the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations to Constance Okollet a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraord

With the Lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire by Grace and / Philip Wharton / Ed.: J. Fitzgerald Molloy

When Julius Caesar invaded the country, some fifty years before the birth of Christ, he found it divided into three principal parts: there was Aquitaine, the land of springs and waters, extending, in the southwest, from the ocean to the Garonne, already a land of pleasant life, rich in commerce and refinement; there was Celtic Gaul, the west, which reached from the Atlantic to the Marne and the Seine; and there was Belgian Gaul (as Caesar calls it), that north-eastern space between the Seine and the Rhine: an expanse which roughly corresponds to the provinces devastated by the Great War...

Dime. Treinta cuentos es una selección de las tres colecciones de relatos que la autora ha escrito a lo largo de sus veinticinco años de carrera. En este volumen se confirma su temprana brillantez y la plenitud de su talento literario. A traves de estas historias, muchas de las cuales fueron publicadas por primera vez en la prestigiosa The New Yorker, la autora nos introduce en un astuto mundo de personajes anonimos y comunes que a veces son intrigantes, conspiradores o fugitivos pero que nunca nos dejan indiferentes. Robison habla a un lector inteligente al muestra unos cuantos momentos de la historia para que el mismo saque las consecuencias. La caracteristica comun de sus personajes, ya sea un entrenador de futbol que cambia de equipo, una mujer que rompe con su marido o una joven que acompaña a su madre a sus citas nocturnas, es que se expresan con un lenguaje breve y lleno de tension. En los escenarios de los cuentos se producen a menudo pequeñas victorias y siempre da la sensacion de que las grandes victorias son imposibles. De estas historias, tan contemporaneas como agudas, dijo Richard Yates: "Robison escribe como un angel vengador y pienso que puede ser un genio".