Patricia McCarthy Bücher

Based on extensive research from national collections and recent studies, this book looks at Ireland’s love affair with claret in the eighteenth century which began in earnest with the establishment of Irish families in the wine trade in Bordeaux early in the century. So much red wine from Bordeaux was being consumed by Ireland’s nobility and gentry that Jonathan Swift referred to it as ‘Irish wine,’ in the full knowledge that his correspondent would understand that he meant claret. The book deals with questions such as how was the domestic wine cellar planned and used? When did connoisseurship in wine commence? What was the role of the merchant, apart from providing the wine?

'Ich habe Hymnen, die ich schweige' – das eigene Ich und die mögliche Existenz Gottes in Worte zu fassen und begreifbar zu machen, ist das große Thema der Literatur um 1900. Aus der Anbetung Gottes in den Stundenbüchern des Mittelalters wird bei Rilke die Suche nach Gott und der eigenen Identität. Sein wichtigstes Frühwerk entstand vor dem Hintergrund seiner Erfahrungen in der Großstadt Paris. 'Das Stundenbuch', erschienen 1905, geliebt wegen der Musikalität seiner Verse, kritisiert wegen seiner verklärenden Wirklichkeitssicht, ist eins der bedeutendsten lyrischen Werke der Moderne.

Could it be said you had potential for a career in medicine if, with the first breath of your life, you contradicted the prognosis of your mother's obstetrician?If, from the day of that birth, you had to make your way through daily life using only one arm and hand, could dress yourself? tie your shoes? fix your bike? ride a bull? drive a tractor? type a letter? play a trumpet? run your own sewing machine? supervise a toxicology confirmation laboratory?We all fail at something, sometime, but failure to try may be the biggest failure of all - especially if you start out facing higher hurdles than the rest of the team. The girl in this story - her story, spent her life refusing to recognize the hurdles before her. She saw them but chose to ignore them, starting with the first day she looked in a mirror and realized her shoulders were at different levels -- unlike everyone else's. Most of us probably don't have what it takes to face that kind of reality every day for eighty years but, those who can should write a book -- and she did.