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Wild Atlantic Way Pocket Map: The perfect way to explore Ireland's west coast by Collins Maps
RRP: £3.99£3.28Explore new places with handy pocket maps from Collins. Handy full-colour map of Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way with a high level of detail. Clear mapping of the full 2500 km (over 1500 miles) route, showing the road network and places of... -
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan 9781137278838
RRP: £11.99£8.00During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the... -
The Appin Murder: The Killing That Shook a Nation by James Hunter
RRP: £12.99£8.56On a hillside near Ballachulish in the Scottish Highlands in May 1752 a rider is assassinated by a gunman. The murdered man is Colin Campbell, a government agent travelling to nearby Duror where he's evicting farm tenants to make way for his relatives... -
Islands of the Evening: Journeys to the Hebrides by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £10.99£7.32'[an] exploration of Scotland's past through the eyes of a scholarly hiker ... Magnificent' - New Statesman, Books of the Year Fourteen centuries ago, Irish saints journeyed to the Hebrides and Scotland's Atlantic shore. They sought spiritual solitude... -
The Pocket Book of the GAA by Tony Potter
RRP: £6.99£5.13A fully illustrated history of Ireland's most famous sporting institution, published in association with the GAA museum in Croke Park. This is a fascinating and colourful introduction to Gaelic games, covering football, hurling, camogie and handball... -
The Coffin Roads: Journeys to the West by Ian Bradley
RRP: £8.99£6.08'Coffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This book journeys along eight coffin roads to discover and explore... -
The Political Writings of EVA Gore-Booth by Sonja Tiernan
RRP: £19.99£14.52The political writings of Eva Gore-Booth brings together a fascinating array of material from this important Irish author and political activist. The volume includes a selection of letters, political pamphlets, newspaper articles and poetry relating to... -
The Princes in the Tower: Solving History's Greatest Cold Case by Philippa Langley 9781803995410
RRP: £25.00£17.13'Philippa Langley has done it again.' - THE TIMESA HISTORY HIT BOOK OF THE MONTHHistory re-written: has the 540-year-old mystery been solved?'The totality of evidence revealed is astonishing. Following the discovery of King Richard III's grave in a car... -
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958 by Fintan O'Toole
RRP: £12.00£8.44The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'With the pace and twists of an... -
Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict by David McKittrick
RRP: £16.99£12.28COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION -- THE ESSENTIAL HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES'Compellingly written and very even-handed. By far the clearest account of what happened in the Northern Ireland conflict and more importantly why it happened' Irish... -
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills 9780241640951
RRP: £20.00£14.29'This is a history shaken by intimacy - a brave and rigorously humane book' Sean HewittHow far would you go for the missing?When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and Baby Home in 1950s... -
Hauntings: A Book of Ghosts and Where to Find Them Across 25 Eerie British Locations by Neil Oliver 9781787636347
RRP: £25.00£18.02' Haunted is a wonderful book: part history, part rumination on life, and, of course a haunting book about ghosts .... beautifully written, fascinating, deeply moving and thought-provoking.' - James Holland'A proper page-turner .... A fascinating tangle... -
Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean O'Driscoll
RRP: £10.99£7.77'Fascinating . . . O'Driscoll's research is impressive' Ben Macintyre, The Times_____The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRAShe grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate.She was presented to the Queen at... -
Modernity Britain: 1957-1962 by David Kynaston
RRP: £16.99£12.68This edition collects both volumes of Modernity Britain for the first time Following Austerity Britain and Family Britain, the third volume in David Kynaston's landmark social history of post-war Britain 'Triumphant ... A historian of peerless... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game by Andrew Hodges
RRP: £10.99£8.17The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in... -
Diaries Volume One: Prelude to Power by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £14.99£10.95As Alastair Campbell said in the introduction to The Blair Years, it was always his intention to publish the full version, covering his time as spokesman and chief strategist to Tony Blair. Prelude to Power is the first of four volumes, and covers the... -
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
RRP: £14.99£10.10A smaller, cheaper edition of this acclaimed illustrated biography of Beatrix Potter. Respected biographer Sarah Gristwood discovers a life crisscrossed with contradictions and marked by tragedy, yet one that left a remarkable literary - and... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce 9780241543023
RRP: £25.00£17.62'A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book' Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time: the eclipse of the... -
The Twelve Apostles by Tim Pat Coogan
RRP: £8.99£6.96Ireland, 1919: When Sinn Fein proclaims Dail Eireann the parliament of the independent Irish republic, London declares the new assembly to be illegal, and a vicious guerilla war breaks out between republican and crown forces. Michael Collins,... -
How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
RRP: £19.99£17.69'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called `path breaking,' `seminal,' `essential,' a `must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of... -
Double Agent: My Secret Life Undercover in the IRA by Kevin Fulton
RRP: £9.99£6.85'"I am a British soldier," I told my reflection. "I am a British soldier and I'm saving lives. I'm saving lives. I'm a British soldier and I'm saving lives..."'Kevin Fulton was one of the British Army's most successful intelligence agents. Having been... -
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £14.99£9.80This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987).'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the... -
Dear Gay: Letters to The Gay Byrne Show – a handwritten history of Ireland by Suzy Byrne 9780717195633
RRP: £25.99£18.28For 25 years, Gay Byrne received thousands of letters from listeners all over Ireland. Some of these letters were light-hearted and innocent, but others were more challenging. While many people didn't feel comfortable sharing their issues with their... -
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £10.99£7.77London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through... -
Undercover War by Harry McCallion
RRP: £9.99£6.85When British troops first deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969 to keep apart rioting factions of loyalists and nationalists, they could not have known that they were being drawn into the longest campaign in the British Army's history, a battle against... -
A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver 9780753828861 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.42Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their... -
A History of Ancient Britain by Neil Oliver
RRP: £10.99£7.40Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their... -
A Belfast Child by John Chambers
RRP: £9.99£6.85John 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... -
Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch
RRP: £9.99£6.80BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED PROPHET SONG.'Paul Lynch is peerless' Donal Ryan, author of Strange FlowersSpring 1832: Donegal, north west Ireland. Coll Coyle wakes to a blood dawn and a day he does not want to face. The young father stands... -
The Monk: The Life and Crimes of Ireland's Most Enigmatic Gang Boss by Paul Williams 9781805460312
RRP: £9.99£6.70**THE EXPLOSIVE BESTSELLER, NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE GANGLAND TRIAL OF THE CENTURY**On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood where he grew up, Gerry Hutch was perceived as an ordinary decent criminal, a quintessential Robin Hood... -
Thatcher's Spy: My Life as an MI5 Agent Inside Sinn Fein by Willie Carlin 9781785374173 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£7.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374173Author Willie CarlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Thatcher's Spy: My Life as an MI5 Agent Inside Sinn Fein by Willie Carlin
RRP: £9.99£8.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374173Author Willie CarlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered by Turtle Bunbury
RRP: £14.99£9.80Why did the Romans never try to conquer Ireland? Why did the King of Spain give his name to an Irish county? And how did brandy change the course of Irish history? Turtle Bunbury explores unexpected corners of the past to offer an informative and... -
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
RRP: £25.00£16.43A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2023 A Spectator Book of the Year 2023 The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller 'As taut as a... -
The Faded Map: The Lost Kingdoms of Scotland by Alistair Moffat
RRP: £10.99£7.32In this modern age the regional and national boundaries which define Scotland seem fixed and permanent. But of course this has not always been so. In this book Alistair Moffat looks at the shifting political shape of the land long before its modern... -
Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the wisdom of what lies beneath us by Manchan Magan
RRP: £21.99£15.61Our ancestors developed a uniquely nature-focused society, centred on esteemed poets, seers, monks, healers and wise women who were deeply connected to the land. They used this connection to the cycles of the natural world - from which we are... -
Killing Rage by Eamon Collins
RRP: £10.99£7.32This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of 'killing rage', in which the murder of neighbour becomes thinkable. Over 3000 people have died in Northern Ireland since 1969,... -
A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by Jonathan Bardon 9780717146499
RRP: £17.99£13.35Jonathan Bardon covers all the obvious things: the invasions, battles, development of towns and cities, the Reformation, the Georgian era, the Famine, rebellions and resistance, the difference of Ulster, partition, the twentieth century. What makes his... -
Ideology and the Irish Question: Ulster Unionism and Irish Nationalism 1912-1916 by Paul Bew 9780198207085
RRP: £52.00£51.56Going right to the heart of the Irish Question, Paul Bew offers a new interpretation of Irish politics in the critical 1912-1916 period. He re-examines the issues at stake in the home rule crisis of 1912-14, arguing that the then leader of constitutional... -
Republic of Shame: Stories from Ireland's Institutions for 'Fallen Women' by Caelainn Hogan
RRP: £10.99£7.77'At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here' Margaret Atwood '[A] furious, necessary book' Sinead GleesonUntil alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated a...