52 Results for : vitriol
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The Birth of the Republic of Ireland: The History of Ireland’s Split from the British Empire in the Early 20th Century , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 155min
“If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed.” -Patrick Pearse There are very few national relationships quite as complicated and enigmatic as the one that exists between the English and the Irish. For two peoples so interconnected by geography and history, the depth of animosity that is often expressed is difficult at times to understand. At the same time, historic links of family and clan, and common Gaelic roots, have at times fostered a degree of mutual regard, interdependence, and cooperation that is also occasionally hard to fathom.During World War I, for example, Ireland fought for the British Empire as part of that empire, and the Irish response to the call to arms was at times just as enthusiastic as that of other British dominions such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. And yet, at the same time, plots were unearthed to cooperate with the Germans in toppling British rule in Ireland, which would have virtually ensured an Allied defeat. In World War II, despite Irish neutrality, 12,000 Irish soldiers volunteered to join the Khaki line, returning after the war to the scorn and vitriol of a great many of their more radical countrymen. One of the most bitter and divisive struggles in the history of the British Isles, and in the history of the British Empire, played out over the question of Home Rule and Irish independence, and then later still as the British province of Northern Ireland grappled within itself for the right to secede from the United Kingdom or the right to remain.What is it within this complicated relationship that has kept this strange duality of mutual love and hate at play? A rendition of “Danny Boy” has the power to reduce both Irishmen and Englishmen to tears, and yet they have torn at one another in a viole ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/136636/bk_acx0_136636_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Modern Ireland: The History of the Emerald Isle from the Middle Ages to Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 343min
There are very few national relationships quite as complicated and enigmatic as the one that exists between the English and the Irish. For two peoples so interconnected by geography and history, the depth of animosity that is often expressed is difficult at times to understand. At the same time, historic links of family and clan, and common Gaelic roots, have at times fostered a degree of mutual regard, interdependence, and cooperation that is also occasionally hard to fathom.During World War I, for example, Ireland fought for the British Empire as part of that empire, and the Irish response to the call to arms was at times just as enthusiastic as that of other British dominions such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. And yet, at the same time, plots were unearthed to cooperate with the Germans in toppling British rule in Ireland, which would have virtually ensured an Allied defeat. In World War II, despite Irish neutrality, 12,000 Irish soldiers volunteered to join the Khaki line, returning after the war to the scorn and vitriol of a great many of their more radical countrymen. One of the most bitter and divisive struggles in the history of the British Isles, and in the history of the British Empire, played out over the question of Home Rule and Irish independence, and then later still as the British province of Northern Ireland grappled within itself for the right to secede from the United Kingdom or the right to remain. What is it within this complicated relationship that has kept this strange duality of mutual love and hate at play? A rendition of “Danny Boy” has the power to reduce both Irishmen and Englishmen to tears, and yet they have torn at one another in a violent conflict that can be traced to the very dawn of their contact.This history of the British Isles themselves is in part responsible. The fraternal difficulties of two neighbors so closely aligned, but so unequally endowed, can be blamed for much of the trouble. The impe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/137433/bk_acx0_137433_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Harvard Square: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 560min
André Aciman has been hailed as "the most exciting new fiction writer of the 21st century" (New York magazine), a "brilliant chronicler of the disconnect...between who we are and who we wish we might have been" (Wall Street Journal), and a writer of "fiction at its most supremely interesting" (Colm Tóibín). Now, with his third and most ambitious novel, Aciman delivers an elegant and powerful tale of the wages of assimilation - a moving story of an immigrant’s remembered youth and the nearly forgotten costs and sacrifices of becoming an American. It’s the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of 17th-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square café, everything changes. Nicknamed Kalashnikov - Kalaj for short - for his machine-gun vitriol, the cab driver roars into the student’s life with his denunciations of the American obsession with "all things jumbo and ersatz" - Twinkies, monster television sets, all-you-can-eat buffets - and his outrageous declarations on love and the art of seduction. The student finds it hard to resist his new friend’s magnetism, and before long he begins to neglect his studies and live a double life: one in the rarefied world of Harvard, the other as an exile with Kalaj on the streets of Cambridge. Together they carouse the bars and cafés around Harvard Square, trade intimate accounts of their love affairs, argue about the American dream, and skinny-dip in Walden Pond. But as final exams loom and Kalaj has his license revoked and is threatened with deportation, the student faces the decision of his life: whether to cling to his dream of New-World assimilation or risk it all to defend his Old-World friend. Harvard Square is a sexually charged and ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sanjiv Jhaveri. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/004850/bk_brll_004850_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Valentines & Vitriol
Valentines & Vitriol: ab 20.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Etiquette and Vitriol
Etiquette and Vitriol - The Food Chain and Other Plays: ab 17.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Durban Poison
Durban Poison - A Collection of Vitriol and Wit: ab 13.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Fountain (CD)
All seine Teenage Angst, seine Zweifel, seine Zerbrechlichkeit schüttet das Trio in seine kristallklaren Songs und erinnert mit Indie-Dream Pop an My Vitriol, an den Indie-Noir von Yo La Tengo und an die Unnahbarkeit von The Whitest Boy Alive. Das Leben ist eine Reise, die heimwärts führt schrieb Herman Melville einmal auf einen Zettel und dachte dabei bloß an den großen weißen Wal, den er Moby Dick nannte und von einem Getriebenen, einem vernarbten Kapitän jagen ließ. In der deutschen Provinz, irgendwo im Nirgendwo, in Lorch am Rhein, hat sich ein musikalisch hochbegabtes Trio auf genau jene Suche gemacht, die der berühmte Schriftsteller Melville zu seinen Lebzeiten nicht beenden konnte: Was ist der Mensch, wo kommt er her, wo geht er hin? WYOMING heißt diese Band, die von den Gebrüdern Manuel und Sascha Lukas und ihrem Schulfreund David Stieenhofer im März 2012 gegründet wurd All seine Teenage Angst, seine Zweifel, seine Zerbrechlichkeit schüttet das Trio in seine kristallklaren Songs und erinnert dabei an die zitternden Elektroschläge von My Vitriol, an den Indie-Noir von Yo La Tengo und an die Unnahbarkeit von The Whitest Boy Alive. Die Band nennt ihre Musik Dream/Independent Pop und vereint dabei Space-Gitarren mit großzügiger Synthesizer-Landscape, evokative Arrangements mit nervösen Rhythmen. Die Melodien kann man trotzdem mitsingen. Das Debütalbum Fountain bringt nun all das zusammen, in einem losen Konzeptwerk. Die Songs heißen hier Afterword , Weary Boat oder Cave Bear und sind kleine Hiobs-Geschichten, Erzählungen vom Scheitern. Klirrende Kälte wandelt sich zu strahlender Schönheit, vertrackte Samples verbrüdern sich mit glitzerndem Folk-Pop. Das Album ist keine 40 Sekunden alt, da steckt man schon mittendrin, in diesem kitzelnden, aufgeladenen Wahnsinn, den man vielleicht aus New York, aus Manchester, aus Brighton erwarten würde. Doch kommt diese Band aus dem hessischen Lorch und mit ihr diese Musik, dem besten Soundtrack fürs nächtliche Autofahren durch die deutsche Provinz. - Christian Preußer (Die WELT, Plattentests.de) TRACKS: 1. Man/Machine 2. Afterword 3. Under The Blue Red Sun 4. Parasites 5. Goodbye, My Deer! 6. Weary Boat 7. Rapid. Eye. Movement. Sleep. 8. Cave Bear 9. Memento 10. Man/Machine Pt. II- Shop: odax
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