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  • Edward Blake, Irish Nationalist

    A Canadian Statesman in Irish Politics 1892-1907

    Series series Heritage
    In 1892, Edward Blake, ex-Premier of Ontario and former leader of the Liberal party in the Canadian House of Common, was invited by the Irish parliamentary party to stand for election in the British Parliament. This surprising invitation grew out of the conflicts of the Irish “Home Rule” controversy, then a critical issue in British politics. When Blake abandoned the Canadian political scene he ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • In a Defiant Stance

    The Conditions of Law in Massachusetts Bay, the Irish Comparison, and the Coming of the American Revolution

    by John P. Reid ...
    The minimum of violence accompanying the success of the American Revolution resulted in large part, argues this book, from the conditions of law the British allowed in the American colonies. By contrast, Ireland's struggle for independence was prolonged, bloody, and bitter largely because of the repressive conditions of law imposed by Britain.Examining the most rebellious American colony, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Jewish War

    Translated by G. Williamson ...
    Josephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus changed sides after he was captured to become a Rome-appointed negotiator, and so was uniquely placed to observe these turbulent events, from the siege of Jerusalem to the final heroic resistance and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Early Irish Myths and Sagas

    First written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world - part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, they speak of a land of heroic battles, intense love and warrior ideals, in which the otherworld is explored and men mingle freely with the gods. From the vivid adventures of the great Celtic hero Cu Chulaind, to the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Disillusioned Decades – Ireland 1966–87

    From Seán Lemass to Mass Unemployment

    From Seán Lemass to mass unemployment: Ireland changed between 1966 and 1987 and, Tim Pat Coogan argues in Disillusioned Decades, not for the betterThe year 1966 was one in which to take stock: fifty years since the Rising, what had the Republic achieved? In Disillusioned Decades, Ireland's most celebrated and controversial historian Tim Pat Coogan looks at a country in bloom – Seán Lemass was at ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Surnames of Ireland

    6th Edition

    Ireland was one of the earliest countries to evolve a system of hereditary surnames. More than 4,000 Gaelic, Norman and Anglo-Irish surnames are listed in this book, giving a wealth of information on the background and location of Irish families. Edward MacLysaght was a leading authority on Irish names and family history. He served as Chief Herald and Genealogical Officer of the Irish Office of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement

    Patterns, Links, and Letters

    Series series Heritage
    In mid-nineteenth-century Canada, the Irish outnumbered the English and Scots two to one. Yet they have been much less studied than their US counterparts, even though their experience was very different. Irish settlers arrived earlier in Canada, formed a larger proportion of the founding communities, and were largely rural-based; more than half were Protestant. The Famine provided only a rather ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Visitation of God

    The dramatic failure of the potato crop in mid-19th century Europe caused widespread hunger and distress. In Ireland the impact was probably the greatest, where a million people died and many more emigrated. In this book, Austin Bourke seeks to explain how, from being welcomed originally as a protection against hunger, the potato became the very emblem of famine.The text brings together the author ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth

    by William Yeats ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create a movement in literature that was enriched by and rooted in a vital native tradition. In this volume ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Robert Whyte's Famine Ship Diary 1847

    Edited by James Mangan ...
    The voyage of the 'coffin ship' Ajax, from Dublin to Grosse Île, the Canadian quarantine station as described in the contemporary diary of one of the passengers, Robert Whyte. Whyte was a Protestant gentleman of education and position, as well as being a professional writer who intended to publish his diary. The diary appeared in 1848. It is signed in the author's own handwriting and features ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921

    Ideology and Innovation

    The Gaelic Revival has long fascinated scholars of political history, nationalism, literature, and theater history, yet studies of the period have neglected a significant dimension of Ireland's evolution into nationhood: the cultural crusades mounted by those who believed in the centrality of the Irish language to the emergent Irish state.This book attempts to remedy that deficiency and to present ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Cattle Lords and Clansmen

    The Social Structure of Early Ireland

    In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary primary sources with sociological and anthropological methods, Patterson produces a unique approach to the study of early Ireland—one that challenges previous scholarship. The second edition includes a chapter ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Ancient Ireland - The Users' Guide

    by Conan Kennedy ...
    Extracts from the A to Z read: WATER Ireland does not ever appear to have been short of water. However, whether in surplus or not, water is perceived as the source of life and as such enjoys veneration and inspires mystery and awe in all societies. Modern man reacts particularly strongly to the pollution of water, of sea, or lake, or river. We put up with filthy air and desecrated landscape... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life of St Columba

    Translated by Richard Sharpe ...
    Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was born into one of the ruling families in Ireland at a time of immense expansion for the Irish Church. This account of his life, written by Adomnán - the ninth abbot of Iona, and a distant relative of St Columba - describes his travels from Ireland to Scotland and his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Easter Rebellion

    The outstanding narrative history of the 1916 Rising in Ireland

    by Max Caulfield ...
    This is a scrupulously researched and superbly written account of the events of that fateful week. The narrative proceeds almost on an hour-by-hour basis building up a picture which, while immensely detailed, is none the less presented with the greatest clarity. First published in 1964, The Easter Rebellion quickly established itself as the outstanding narrative history of the 1916 Rising in ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Hidden Ireland

    Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration

    by Robert Scally ...
    Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-48, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic. The human toll of "Black '47," the worst year of the famine, is notorious, but the lives of the emigrants themselves have remained largely hidden, untold because of their previous obscurity and ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • The French Idea of Freedom

    The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789

    Edited by Dale Van Kley ...
    Series series The Making of Modern Freedom
    “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789” is the French Revolution’s best known utterance. By 1789, to be sure, England looked proudly back to the Magna Carta, the Petition of Right, and a bill of rights, and even the young American Declaration of Independence and the individual states’ various declarations and bills of rights preceded the French Declaration. But the French ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine

    An Oral History of Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

    Famine Echoes is a groundbreaking oral account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845–52, telling the stories of its victims for the first time ever in their own words and those of their descendants. 'When the potato crop failed no other food was available and the people perished by the hundreds of thousands, along the roadside, in the ditches, in the fields from hunger and cold, and what was ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The People's Rising

    The Great Wexford Rebellion of 1798

    by Daniel Gahan ...
    The Wexford Rising of 1798 was the most bloody campaign in Irish history since the Williamite wars. In little than a month, over 30,000 people died. The Rising, which had been launched on a tide of revolutionary optimism, ended in slaughter. After this, the first republican revolt, Irish history was changed forever. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dublin Pub Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin's Traditional Irish Pubs

    The Recollections of Dublin's Publicans, Barmen and 'Regulars'

    Dublin is renowned for its amazing profusion of pubs and for its exuberant pub culture. In Dublin Pub Life and Lore, Professor Kevin Kearns examines the history of this phenomenon by speaking to old publicans, barmen and regular customers, relating the story of Dublin pubs and their patrons in an engaging and entertaining fashion. Traditionally in Ireland, the public house or 'pub' was the centre ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Michael Collins and the Troubles

    When Asquith introduced his bill for Home Rule for Ireland in 1912, he sparked a decade of turbulence and violence for Ireland and her people.Michael Collins played a crucial role in rekindling Ireland's aspirations for freedom. A leading figure in the nation's bitter and bloody resistance to British Rule, he played a key part in reshaping Ireland's history as we know it today. Ulick O'Connor ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Death-Dealing Famine

    The Great Hunger in Ireland

    Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52.The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants. ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Celts

    The Celtic period was one of tremendous expansion, the last phase of European material and intellectual development before the Mediterranean world spread northwards over the Continent and linked it to modern times. Nora Chadwick's classic survey traces the rise and spread of the Celts, from their arrival in the British Isles in about the eighth century BC to the gradual transformation of their ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sean Lemass: The Enigmatic Patriot

    The Definitive Biography of Ireland's Great Modernising Taoiseach

    by John Horgan ...
    The definitive biography of Seán Lemass, the finest Taoiseach in the history of the Irish StateThere are few facets of Irish life which do not owe something to the genius, effectiveness or determination of Lemass. Horgan's biography explores that contribution quite brilliantly.Bertie Ahern, The Irish TimesAs a boy Seán Lemass fought in the 1916 rising. He was a member of de Valera's first cabinet, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus