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Bertram Windle was a doctor, a scientist, an archaeologist, an
anthropologist, a writer on English literature and evolution, and
President of Queen's/University College Cork. During his time in
Ireland between 1904 and 1919, he had a major impact on the
development of higher education and the development of the National
University of Ireland. Windle was a privileged participant in Irish
public affairs with friends in the British Government, Dublin
Castle, the Irish Parliamentary Party, the Gaelic League and the
Catholic Church. The son of a Church of Ireland rector, he studied
medicine at Trinity College Dublin. A convert to Catholicism in the
early 1880s, he became a Professor of Anatomy in Birmingham,
helping to found Birmingham University. He took up his post as
President of Queen's College Cork in 1904, transforming the
university during the following decade and a half into a modern
institution with an enhanced curriculum, more staff, a growing
student body and new buildings and facilities. He was responsible
for the building of the Honan Hostel and Honan chapel. Windle
viewed with great concern the rise of radical nationalism and the
growth of Sinn Fein. He was a strong supporter of the British
government's participation in World War 1, a critic of the 1916
rising, and a member of the Irish Convention which sought to
resolve the 'Irish question' in 1917/1918. Windle had no sympathy
for the new radical nationalist coalition which contested the
general election of 1918. In the context of the decline of the
Irish Parliamentary Party and the rise of Sinn Fein led by Eamon de
Valera, he launched his second unsuccessful bid to establish an
autonomous university of Munster. Thwarted by a combination of
nationalist intransigence and the weakness of the British
government, he left Ireland for Canada in 1919 thoroughly
disillusioned by the politics of UCC, the Irish Catholic Church and
the emerging independent Irish state. Students of Irish history,
politics, culture, society and education will find the work of
interest together with those who wish to see Windle in his role as
a scientist and commentator on evolution and on religious matters.
Windle, given his background and formation, provides a unique view
of Irish politics, history and education. The work is all the more
important because of the richness primary sources on which it is
based
Teddy Powers is trying to live a normal 6th grade life after his
family moves to Charleston, South Carolina. There's just one
problem. His new classmates tell him that weird, unexplainable
things have happened through the years to kids who have been in the
house his parents just bought. Some got rich. Some got lucky. But
some - like six-year-old Jack Everett who lived in the house in
1944 - disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. Rumor
was, it all had to do with some powerful stones hidden somewhere
deep inside the house. It's not long before Teddy and his sisters,
Emmy and Gracie, discover the powerful stones and begin using them
against their parents, classmates, teachers and each other. It's
all fun and games until the stones are stolen into a dark, menacing
future world, and the Stone Keepers - a club of those given powers
by the stones over the last hundred years - show up to demand some
answers. Can Teddy steal back the stones before everyone's power is
lost? Or will he remain forever trapped in time?
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