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Troubles were an English ambient post-rock instrumental band formed in 2005 following the demise of Hope Of The States.
The band comprised Joel Clifford, Sam Herlihy, Michael Hibbert, Simon Jones, Mike Siddell and Jon Winter.
Troubles is a 1970 novel by J. G. Farrell. The plot concerns the dilapidation of a once grand Irish hotel (the Majestic), in the midst of the political upheaval during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921). It is the first instalment in Farrell's acclaimed 'Empire Trilogy', preceding The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip. Although there are similar themes within the three novels (most notably that of the British Empire), they do not form a sequence of storytelling.
Troubles was well-received upon its publication. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and, later, the Lost Man Booker Prize. It was adapted into a made-for-television film in 1988, starring Ian Charleson and Ian Richardson.
In 2010, Sam Jordison in The Guardian called Troubles "a work of genius", and "one of the best books" of the second half of the twentieth century. "Had [Farrell] not sadly died so young,” Salman Rushdie said in 2008, "there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists of the English language. The three novels that he did leave are all in their different way extraordinary."
Troubles is a 2006 album by the UK-based ambient post-rock instrumental band Troubles. The album was originally sold at the band's first gigs but has since become available from their MySpace page.
The Troubles was a period of political unrest and violence in Northern Ireland, from the late 1960s to the turn of the millennium.
Troubles or The Troubles may also refer to:
- Irish War of Independence 1919–1921
- Irish Civil War 1922–1923
- Time of Troubles, a 17th-century political crisis in Russia
- Great troubles (1359–1381), the civil war of the Golden Horde which led to its downfall in the 14th century.
In popular culture:
- Troubles (band), a UK post-rock band
- Troubles (Troubles album)
- Troubles (Steve Lacy album)
- Troubles (novel), a novel by J. G. Farrell
- "The Troubles" (Law & Order), an episode of Law & Order
- "The Troubles" (Haven), supernatural afflictions certain citizens have in tv series Haven.
Troubles is the second album by Steve Lacy to be released on the Italian Black Saint label. It features performances of five of Lacy's compositions by Lacy, Steve Potts, Irene Aebi, Kent Carter and Oliver Johnson.
Usage examples of "troubles".
During my stay at Augsburg several Poles, who had left their country on account of the troubles, came to see me.
I had to exercise boldness and foresight to rid myself of troubles which chance might bring to pass or which I could foresee.
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
The pains and troubles I had gone through had been followed by so many days of happiness that I felt disposed to bless my destiny.
Now, when all these troubles have been long over and I can think over them calmly, reflecting on the annoyances I experienced at Amsterdam, where I might have been so happy, I am forced to admit that we ourselves are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
She replied that a wife, if a good one, would have been only too happy to alleviate my troubles by sharing in them, but her mother observed that a woman of parts, after seeing to the safety of my baggage and my coach, would have busied herself in taking the necessary steps for setting me at liberty, and I supported this opinion as best indicating the real duty of a good wife.
Confide in me your troubles, if I cannot lighten them I can at least share them, and be sure I will keep your counsel.
I meant to write a history of the troubles of unhappy Poland up to its dismemberment, which was taking place at the epoch in which I was writing.
The next day I took up my abode in one of the quietest streets to finish my second volume on the Polish troubles, but I still managed to enjoy myself during my stay at Gorice.
While these troubles were harassing me, I dismissed all my workgirls, who had always been a great expense, and replaced them with workmen and some of my servants.
You may console yourself by telling me of your troubles, but do not imagine that my curiosity springs from any unworthy motive, I only want to be of service to you.
You have reason to mortify me and reproach me in recalling all the troubles I caused you, and especially that which you call treachery, the sale of your books, of which in part I was not guilty .
Most of it was old news, people passing messages, rumors, and gossip, about one or both Troubles, and she unwound the towel from around her still-wet hair, ran her fingers through the short strands to ease it into shape, not wanting to bother getting a comb, while the program displayed message after message.
Cerise has had troubles before with rapidly shifting perceptual fields, something like vertigo when her brainworm is set at its higher levels, but knows, too, that she has to trust Cerise.
I would have gone, but he stopped me, and having dismissed the two men he told me that he was delighted to see me, and forthwith began the tale of his troubles, which were of more than one kind.