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  • (If you only knew) The Half of It

    by KJ Keegan ...
    Speculation ran rampant within the family as to whether or not my grandfather, Richard Feeney, had been a member of the Irish Republication Brotherhood, prior to immigrating to the United States in 1908. Throw in some alleged gunrunning activity for Clan na Gael, the IRB's American counterpart, upon his arrival in New York and this hardly fit the image of the kindly old man everyone loved and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 100 Places That Made Britain

    In 100, carefully selected places, BBC History Magazine editor Dave Musgrove takes us on an unforgettable historical tour through British history, from the Roman invasion to 1960s Liverpool. Musgrove has asked foremost British historians such as Dominic Sandbrook, to nominate the sites they believe to be the most important in our history, and has travelled to each place to provide a visitor's ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History

    Discover the truth behind the myths of the Emerald IsleForget about shamrocks, leprechans, and all that blarney; 101 Things You Didn't Know about Irish History dispels the myths and tells the true story of the Irish.Inside, you'll learn about:Lives of the ancient Celts before the British invasionsFamous Irish including Michael Collins, Charles Parnell-and Bono!The potato famine and emigration ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 1014: Brian Boru & the Battle for Ireland

    "A deftly written history that reads as smoothly as a novel." — Midwest Book ReviewIn life, the eleventh-century Irish king Brian Boru held the Vikings at bay; in death, he remains a towering presence in history and legend. A thousand years have passed since the Battle of Clontarf, a turning point in Irish history in which two centuries of strife between Irish kings and Vikings climaxed in a ... Read more

    $14.95 USD

  • 16 Dead Men: The Easter Rising Executions

    Sixteen men were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland, 1916: fifteen were shot and one was hanged. Their deaths changed the course of Irish history. But who were these leaders who set in motion events that would lead to the creation of an independent Ireland? The executed leaders of the Easter Rising were a diverse group. This book contains fascinating accounts of the life ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1847

    A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity & Savagery

    Capture the spirit of an industrial, social and cultural revolution through this invigorating collection of historical portraits from the dawn of the industrialised world!Though it feels like an era marooned almost irretrievably in the distant past, the 1840s &ndash a decade of blistering social and cultural change – is only two lifetimes removed from the present day. There are, in other words, ... Read more

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  • 1916 - What the People Saw

    When the rebellion of 1916 had ended, more than 400 people were dead and over 2,000 wounded. More than half of these were civilians, but even for those civilians who were not direct casualties, the rising was one of the most momentous experiences of their lives. The accounts that Mick O'Farrell has collected come from letters, diaries, extracts from otherwise unrelated biographies, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1916 and All That

    A History of Ireland from Back Then Until Right Now

    by C. M. Boylan ...
    An irreverent, vibrant, satirical, and largely untrue history of IrelandIrish history started when people arrived on the island. At least, that is when history really got going. Before that things were rather quiet . . . So begins C.M. Boylan's wonderfully irreverent take on the history of Ireland. It will take readers from the "Age of the Third Best Metal" through the struggles of Wolfe Tone ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1916 in Global Context

    An anti-Imperial moment

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    The year 1916 has recently been identified as "a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions." Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of empires, and thus collectively represent a global anti-imperial moment, which was the revolutionary counterpart to the later diplomatic attempt to construct a new world order in the so ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • 1916: One Hundred Years of Irish Independence

    From the Easter Rising to the Present

    There’s before 1916 and then there’s after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country’s history forever. For though the resistance failed, it failed gloriously; the rebels were no longer a group of cranks and troublemakers in the public eye, but martyrs and national heroes, their example set the way for ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 1916: The Easter Rising

    Series series 10 MINUTE SERIES
    The Easter Rising began at 12 noon on 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of Dublin and the true beginning of Irish independence.The 1916 Rising was born out of the Conservative and Unionist parties' illegal defiance of the democratically expressed wish of the Irish electorate for Home Rule; and of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 365 Reasons to be Proud to be Irish

    365 Reasons To Be Proud To Be Irish is a year-long scenic route of jolliness taking in the quirky events, inventions, traditions, people, places and characters that make Ireland a country worth celebrating every day of the year.Within this humorously illustrated and entertaining book you'll find a historical year's worth of the discoveries, delights and derring-do that make Ireland a place to love ... Read more

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  • 46 Men Dead

    The Royal Irish Constabulary in County Tipperary 1919–22

    by John Reynolds ...
    IN JANUARY 1919, AT SOLOHEADBEG IN TIPPERARY, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46 policemen were killed, making it one of most violent counties in Ireland. The popular image of the RIC is that they were the 'eyes and ears of Dublin Castle', ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 50 Dáil Debates that Shaped the Nation

    Standing by the Republic

    by John Drennan ...
    From the debates of the 1950s that were strikingly similar to what we face today – struggles against bankruptcy, emigration and abuse of power by the State – through the wars in the 70s and 80s over divorce and abortion, to the Jacobean dramas surrounding the fall of Haughey in the 1990s, this essential book finally traces the fall of the first Republic via the tragic-comic dénouement of the Cowen ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916

    Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the rising were actually fired near Portlaoise and not in Dublin or indeed that both sides issued receipts: the rebels for food, the British for handcuffs. It features ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 70 cose da sapere sull'Irlanda

    70 curiosità, tutte da gustare, su una terra leggendaria e ricca di fascino.I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono guide agili, essenziali e complete, per orientarsi nella storia del mondo. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A 1950s Irish Childhood

    From Catapults to Communion Medals

    To the young people of today, the 1950s seem like another age. But for those born around then, this era of childhood feels like yesterday. 1950s Ireland was the age of De Valera and John Charles McQuaid. It was the age before television, before Vatican II, and before home central heating. It was a time when motor cars and public telephones had wind-up handles, when boys wore short trousers and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Belfast Child

    My true story of life and death in the Troubles

    by John Chambers ...
    John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore itself apart in civil strife. Kneecapping, brutal murders, and even public tarring-and-feathering were simply a fact of life for the children on the estate. He thought he knew which side he was on, but ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A Belfast Child

    My true story of life and death in the Troubles

    by John Chambers ...
    John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore itself apart in civil strife. Kneecapping, brutal murders, and even public tarring-and-feathering were simply a fact of life for the children on the estate. He thought he knew which side he was on, but ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Bloody Dawn

    The Irish at D-Day

    by Dan Harvey ...
    The epic Allied invasion of German-occupied Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, has been extensively chronicled. The largest seaborne invasion in history, it began the liberation of German-occupied France, and later Europe, from Nazi control, laying the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.What is less well known, however, is that thousands of Irish and members of the Irish diaspora ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Bloody Day

    The Irish at Waterloo

    by Dan Harvey ...
    Within the grand narrative of the Battle of Waterloo – one that marks the end of Napoleon’s career as conqueror and the beginning of an extended peace in western Europe – little is known of the formidable efforts made by the Irish who supplemented the strength of the British Army and, in no small measure, directed the outcome of this vital moment in the history of the world.Through empirical ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Bloody Night

    The Irish at Rorke’s Drift

    by Dan Harvey ...
    The word Zulu means ‘heaven’, but for the suddenly besieged and minute British garrison at Rorke’s Drift, among them a key faction of Irish soldiers, it represented a hellish horde of warriors from the Zulu nation.A Bloody Night documents the terrifying struggle of these Irishmen as thousands of poorly armed but well-trained Zulus unexpectedly hurled themselves in a head-long, deadly onslaught ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • A Bloody Summer

    The Irish at the Battle of Britain

    by Dan Harvey ...
    The Battle of Britain, regarded by historians as one of the greatest air battles in the history of warfare, was an early turning point in the Second World War. In the summer of 1940, the German army had, with astonishing speed, mercilessly swept aside all before them and were perched on the northern coastline of France. Outright victory over all of Europe was impeded only by the expanse of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Bloody Victory

    The Irish at War’s End, Europe 1945

    by Dan Harvey ...
    Post D-Day, with the Allies on the newly created ‘Second Front’ driving fast eastwards beyond Paris, and the Russians on the ‘Eastern Front’ pressing westwards, the fervour of the fanatical Fascist Nazi Regime remained undiminished. For the Third Reich it was intolerable to believe that they must now concede. Instead of ending the war and suing for peace, the levels of hostility, hatred, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD