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  • The Revelation of Ireland

    1995-2020

    Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate about abortion, the status of women and same-sex marriage underlined the scale of the transformation. The new diversity of the population and literary and musical prowess also revealed a country ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Ireland

    A Short History

    Series series Short Histories
    From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how modern Irish society is the product of a rich, multivalent history.Combining factual information with a critical approach, Coohill covers all the key events, including the Great Famine, Home Rule, the Good Friday Agreement and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • History of Britain and Ireland

    The Definitive Visual Guide, New Edition

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Definitive Visual Histories
    From ancient bloody battles and colonial conquests to the Industrial Revolution and Beatlemania, this visual guide leads you through major moments in British and Irish history.Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that shaped British and Irish history, from the Stone Age to the present day. Combining over 700 photographs, maps, and illustrations with accessible text, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Kitty's War

    by Eimear Lawlor ...
    Kilkenny, 1939. Ireland might be neutral, but Kitty Flynn is caught in her own war. Forced to give up her child at seventeen, she escaped to London in search of a fresh start.However, in 1941, upon hearing that her brother, Anthony, who had been injured during the Spanish Civil War, is now gravely ill, Kitty must return home to care for him. In a time where food and medicine are scarce, Kitty is ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Land is All That Matters

    The Struggle That Shaped Irish History

    by Myles Dungan ...
    In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside the north-east of the country. Land was vital. But most of it was owned by a class of Protestant, English and often aristocratic landlords. The ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Excavations at Tlachtga, Hill of Ward, Co. Meath, Ireland

    Initial remote sensing survey at Tlachtga, Co. Meath in 2011–12 highlighted the presence of multiple, partially overlapping phases of enclosure at the site. Three subsequent seasons of excavation provided critical interpretive evidence, with over 15,000 fragments of animal bone, human remains, charred plant material, evidence of metalworking, and a hoard of Anglo-Saxon silver coins dating to the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Green Space

    The Transformation of the Irish Image

    Series series The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
    A historical exploration of the Irish image in popular cultureIt only took a century or so to segue from phrases like “No Irish Need Apply” to “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” in American popular culture. Indeed, the transformation of the Irish image is a fascinating blend of political, cultural, racial, commercial, and social influences.The Green Space examines the variety of factors that contributed to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Four Shots in the Night

    A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland

    by Henry Hemming ...
    Four Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant.The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would deliver more than the truth. It exposed his status as an informant and led to protests, campaigns, far-reaching changes to British law, a historic ruling ... Read more

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  • Missing Persons

    or, My Grandmother's Secrets

    by Clair Wills ...
    Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story."Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing light into the dark recesses of her family’s history—and the history of Ireland. Missing Persons is a stunningly eloquent exploration of how truth-telling, secret-keeping, and outright lies are part of all family ... Read more

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  • Black Abolitionists in Ireland

    Volume 2

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    Building on the narratives explored in volume one, this publication recovers the story of a further seven Black visitors to Ireland in the decades prior to the American Civil War.This volume examines each of these seven activists and artists, and how their unique and diverse talents contributed to the movement to abolish enslavement and to the demand for Black equality. In an era that witnessed ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Belfast Flashbacks: Stories From Both Sides

    Belfast Flashbacks tells the story of the Northern Ireland conflict during some of the darkest days. Bill Meulemans presents 28 personal stories written through the eyes of both Irish nationalists and British unionists. The author took considerable personal risks to gain access to the rank-and-file members of warring parties. His contacts included paramilitary members, clergy, governmental ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Struggle for Mastery in Ireland, 1442-1540

    Culture, Politics and Kildare-Ormond Rivalry

    by Dr Alan Kelly ...
    Series Book 28 - Irish Historical Monographs
    A reassessment of the rivalry between the two great Anglo-Norman magnate families in late medieval and early modern Ireland, putting forward a new interpretation of events.The Fitzgerald Earls of Kildare and the Butler Earls of Ormond were the foremost old colonial magnates in the late medieval Lordship of Ireland. Rivals for power and influence throughout the island but in particular for the post ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Plentiful Country

    The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York

    From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, “a superb revisionist history” of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their “riveting and deeply personal stories” in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America (Wall Street Journal).In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland’s ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The House on an Irish Hillside

    A Memoir

    “A lovely writer, far superior to the average memoirist. . . . A curious mind, a perceptive observer with an artist’s eye, a seeker of truth and beauty.” —Irish IndependentFrom the moment I crossed the mountain, I fell in love with the place, which was more beautiful than any I’d ever seen. And with a way of looking at life that was deeper, richer and wiser than any I’d known before. . . . From ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Redress: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice

    Edited by Katherine O'Donnell ...
    How will Ireland redress its legacy of institutional abuse? What constitutes justice? What is Transitional Justice? How might democracy evolve if survivors' experiences and expertise were allowed to lead the response to a century of gender- and family separation-based abuses? REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice seeks the answers. This collection explores the ways in which ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • True Irish Ghost Stories

    A Collection of First-Hand Tales of the Paranormal

    Embark on a chilling journey into the shadowy realms of the Emerald Isle with this collection of captivating Irish ghost stories, featuring first-hand tales of paranormal sightings.Faithfully recorded from real newspaper accounts, interviews, and personal letters, St. John Seymour and Harry Neligan eagerly recount the eery and enigmatic ghost-sightings of the Irish people. In these masterfully ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Aran Islands

    "The Aran Islands" by John Millington Synge was first published in 1907. It is a four part series of essays on the geography and people of the islands with whom the playwright and author became intimate with over several summers in the late 1890s."The Aran Islands" explain how Synge lived among the ordinary Aran islanders, listening to the flow of their everyday conversation, observing their way ... Read more

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  • Irish Race in the Past and Present

    Thebaud delves into the unique character of the Irish nation, tracing its roots back to ancient times and examining its distinct cultural, religious, and social aspects.Despite centuries of foreign rule and challenges, the Irish have maintained a strong sense of identity, rooted in their deep Catholic faith and rich cultural traditions. Thebaud argues that Ireland's small size and seeming ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Richard III. As Duke of Gloucester and King of England Vol. I

    Series Book 1 - Richard III. As Duke of Gloucester and King of England
    This is a fascinating biography of Richard III, the infamous King of England who reigned for just two years in the late 15th century. The author, Caroline Amelia Halsted, provides a detailed and nuanced portrait of Richard III, examining his life, his reign, and his legacy. Halsted offers a fresh perspective on the king, challenging many of the common assumptions and myths that have surrounded him ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Party System

    Pertinent to America, Britain, and other Western democracies, this book explains that what people believe happens in national assemblies and parliaments is radically different from the reality. Instead of being places where debate is intense, passionate, and aimed at the national interest, the fact is most members of these institutions act on behalf of powerful, unelected interests. They know, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Richard III. As Duke of Gloucester and King of England Vol. II

    Series Book 2 - Richard III. As Duke of Gloucester and King of England
    This is a fascinating biography of Richard III, the infamous King of England who reigned for just two years in the late 15th century. The author, Caroline Amelia Halsted, provides a detailed and nuanced portrait of Richard III, examining his life, his reign, and his legacy. Halsted offers a fresh perspective on the king, challenging many of the common assumptions and myths that have surrounded him ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Alice Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess of Great Britain and Ireland Biographical Sketch and Letters with Portraits

    A memoir, by Dr. K. Sell, with a translation of the letters of the princess to her mother, was published anonymously in German, Darmstadt, 1883. The letters are here given in the original, with a translation by Princess Christian, of the memoir.-Print ed.The life of a princess is not always as glamorous as it seems. The tragic yet inspiring story of Alice, the third child of Queen Victoria is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Life of a Sportsman

    by Nimrod ...
    Writing under the pseudonym of 'Nimrod', this is Captain Apperley's famous "half-true, half-fictitious story descriptive of a country gentleman, of large fortune and highly connected, having two sons and two daughters the hero of my tale is the younger son, who, differing in tastes from his brother, enters into the sports of the field at a very early age, and becomes a thorough sportsman, in the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Eyewitness to War and Peace

    by Eamonn Mallie ...
    In this gripping memoir, Eamonn Mallie takes us on an extraordinary journey through his life as a journalist in Northern Ireland. From the frontlines of the Troubles to the corridors of power, Mallie’s fearless reporting and unrelenting pursuit of the truth have made him a legendary figure in Irish journalism.Having gained unparalleled access to key players, Mallie shares his reflections on his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD