Feis

Everyone thinks this is the Irish Feis Samhain, which began at sunset on 31 Oct and that the Church co-opted the date.

November 2nd, 2009 m_francis 2009

It was a thoroughly unrealistic approach to what we today would call nation building, and diplomatic historian Herbert Feis explained it this way: We had realized that it was essential to create a powerful military force to win the war.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

Grew Diary, July 1941, p. 5332 (“vicious circle”); Feis, Pearl Harbor, p. 249 (“cunning dragon”); Akira Iriye, Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), p. 273, n.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Feis remains the classic diplomatic history, to be supplemented by Jonathan G. Utley, Going to War with Japan, 1937–1941 Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Feis remains the classic diplomatic history, to be supplemented by Jonathan G. Utley, Going to War with Japan, 1937–1941 Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Other oil companies were furious at the notion that they would be, as Herbert Feis put it, “exposed to what they feel is favored competition.”

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Other oil companies were furious at the notion that they would be, as Herbert Feis put it, “exposed to what they feel is favored competition.”

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Grew Diary, July 1941, p. 5332 (“vicious circle”); Feis, Pearl Harbor, p. 249 (“cunning dragon”); Akira Iriye, Power and Culture: The Japanese-American War, 1941–1945 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), p. 273, n.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

The great event to which all energies were directed was the Glasthule Feis, due to be held the last Saturday in July at Ballygihen House.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

The great event to which all energies were directed was the Glasthule Feis, due to be held the last Saturday in July at Ballygihen House.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002