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The Guinness Girls - A Hint of Scandal: A truly captivating and page-turning story of the famous society girls by Emily Hourican
€25.01'Glorious! Glamorous, feisty women living through shifting times. Wonderful escapism' TRACY REESFrom the top ten bestselling author of The Glorious Guinness Girls, a stunning new novel of secrets, scandals and passions which follows the three enigmatic... -
On Every Tide: The making and remaking of the Irish world by Sean Connolly
RRP: €15.46€10.23An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times'Impressive, provocative and perception-tilting... it's indispensable' Irish Independent'Essential reading for... -
The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-1945 by Madeleine Bunting
RRP: €20.22€14.61'A masterly work of profound research and reflection, objective and humane' Hugh Trevor-Roper, Sunday TelegraphWhat would have happened if the Nazis had invaded Britain? How would the British people have responded - with resistance or collaboration? In... -
Code-Breaker: The untold story of Richard Hayes, the Dublin librarian who helped turn the tide of WWII by Marc McMenamin 9780717181612
RRP: €21.41€15.41The incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War II When unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track... -
Becoming Irish American: The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK by Timothy J. Meagher 9780300126273
RRP: €29.75€24.89The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century "Subtly provocative. . . . [Meagher] traces the making and remaking of Irish America through several iterations and shows the impact of religion on... -
The Way It Was.. and That: Recollections of Old Mayo by Joe Coen 9781906628680
€17.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906628680Author Joe CoenFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CheckPoint PressPublisher CheckPoint PressWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Sean MacDiarmada: 16Lives by Brian Feeney 9781847172631
RRP: €19.03€14.72Sean MacDiarmada moved in the shadows, ultra-cautious about what he committed to paper, aware that his letters could be intercepted by the police. Because of this, history has not allocated MacDiarmada the prominent role he deserves in the organisation... -
The City of Lies by Michael Russell
RRP: €11.89€8.09Dublin 1940. An IRA attack leaves two guards dead on the streets of Dublin. Two days later, a battle between warring gangs erupts at a race meeting, and on Ireland's east coast the cremated bodies of a wealthy family of five are found in their shuttered,... -
Forgotten Voices of the Blitz and the Battle For Britain: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women on Both Sides by Joshua Levine
RRP: €20.22€14.61Drawing material from the Imperial War Museum's extensive aural archive, Joshua Levine brings together voices from both sides of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain to give us a unique, complete and compelling picture of this turbulent time.In June 1940,... -
A Short History of Ireland by Sean McMahon 9781856351379 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.53Change is constant in human affairs and Ireland has seen its fair share over the centuries. If we are to understand Ireland's current challenges then we must grasp the complexity of its past. This concise and even-handed account describes the history of... -
The World of the Galloglass: Kings, Warlords and Warriors in Ireland and Scotland, 1200-1600 by Sean Duffy 9781846826245
€23.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826245Author Sean DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
A James Connolly Reader by Shaun Harkin
RRP: €20.22€14.36Considered by many to be Ireland's most important revolutionary, James Connolly devoted his life to struggles against exploitation, oppression and imperialism. Active across the world, Connolly was a peerless organiser, sharp polemicist, and highly... -
Agincourt: Great Battles Series by Anne Curry 9780199681020
RRP: €15.46€10.82From Shakespeare to The Beatles, the battle of Agincourt has dominated the cultural landscape as one of the most famous battles in British history. Anne Curry seeks to find out how and why the legacy of Agincourt has captured the popular imagination. ... -
1014: Brian Boru & the Battle for Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
RRP: €14.27€10.71The date was Good Friday, April 23rd in the Year of Our Lord 1014. The most ferocious battle ever fought in Ireland was about to begin... In the three decades since Morgan Llyweyln wrote the bestselling novel Lion of Ireland, she has studied the... -
The Rising (Centenary Edition): Ireland: Easter 1916 by Fearghal McGarry
RRP: €27.36€20.34The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history. But why did it happen? What was the role of ordinary people in this extraordinary event? What motivated them and what were their aims?... -
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America by Kerby A. Miller
RRP: €27.95€21.27From the 1660s to the early 1900s, no fewer than seven million people emigrated from Ireland to North America. This vast flow at once reflected and compelled enormous social changes on both sides of the Atlantic. In this book Miller chronicles the... -
The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland by Mary E. Daly 9781009314879
RRP: €30.93€26.17The Irish battle for legal contraception was a contest over Irish exceptionalism: the belief that Ireland could resist global trends despite the impact of second-wave feminism, falling fertility, and a growing number of women travelling for abortion. It... -
Shillelagh: The Irish Fighting Stick by John W Hurley
RRP: €23.74€20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450538411Author John W HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Ireland Under the Union 1800-1900 for CCEA A2 Level by Russell Rees 9781780731230
€15.93Conflict in 19th Century Ireland, has been updated and revised to assist teachers and students to meet the requirements of the CCEA GCE History A2 1 Unit 2, `Ireland Under the Union 1800-1900'. This comprehensive account of the birth of the modern era... -
Haunted Derry by Madeline McCully 9781845888688
RRP: €17.84€13.74From the Admore Banshee to the ghost in the Bog of Lettermuck, this collection of spine-chilling tales from across County Derry is guaranteed to make your blood run cold. This spooky selection features stories of unexplained phenomena, ghostly... -
Social Change and Everyday Life in Ireland, 1850-1922 by Caitriona Clear
RRP: €23.79€16.99Men and women who were born, grew up and died in Ireland between 1850 and 1922 made decisions - to train, to emigrate, to stay at home, to marry, to stay single, to stay at school - based on the knowledge and resources they had at the time. This, the... -
Gilligan: The Mob Boss Who Changed the Face of Organized Crime by Paul Williams
RRP: €17.84€11.66John Gilligan is one of the most notorious and hated criminal figures in Irish history. His name is indelibly etched in the national psyche a quarter of a century after he crossed the line to organise the execution of the fearless, high-profile... -
Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf by Sean Duffy
RRP: €21.41€15.41Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that... -
Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious by Gustave de Beaumont 9780674025394
€35.32Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to America, Gustave de Beaumont traveled through Ireland in the mid-1830s to observe its people and society. In Ireland, he chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the... -
Belfast Days: A 1972 Teenage Diary by Eimear O'Callaghan
RRP: €17.84€14.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785371103Author Eimear O'CallaghanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Ireland's Secret War: Dan Bryan, G2 and the lost tapes that reveal the hunt for Ireland's Nazi spies by Marc McMenamin
RRP: €21.41€15.41Ireland's Secret War is a thrilling account of the true extent of Irish-Allied co-operation during World War II. It reveals strategic Nazi intentions for Ireland and the real role of leading government figures of the time, placing Dan Bryan and G2 firmly... -
The Oxford History of Ireland by R. F. Foster 9780192802026
RRP: €20.22€14.61Under the editorship of R. F. Foster, a team of distinguished Irish historians has produced a challenging assessment of Ireland's history, invaluable for the student and general reader alike. Their approach stresses the ancient, rooted nature of Irish... -
1066 by Frank McLynn
RRP: €20.22€14.61Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years is has become customary to assume that the victory was virtually inevitable, given the alleged superiority of Norman military technology. In this new study,... -
The Politics Of James Connolly by Kieran Allen
RRP: €22.60€15.17Born in 1868 and executed by the British in 1916 for his role in the Easter Rising, the work of Irish national hero James Connolly has long been misunderstood. From Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein, to conservative Irish nationalists and the Church, many groups... -
The Country House at War: Life below stairs and above stairs during the war by Simon Greaves
RRP: €23.80€17.06A fascinating illustrated history of the First World War told through the great houses of the National Trust. The First World War touched every family in the country and this book tells a story of national collective action and intense private experience... -
Poverty in Ireland 1837: Szegenyseg Irlandban - A Hungarian's View by Baron Jozsef Eotvos 9781908420213
RRP: €17.79€13.21In 1837, the power of Daniel O'Connell's oratory focused the attention of Europeans on Ireland. They were horrified at what they saw there. The Irish poor - a third of the population - had no food except the potatoes they grew, and not enough clothing to... -
A New Ireland: Politics, Peace, and Reconciliation by John Hume
RRP: €15.46€11.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568332093Author John HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Roberts Rinehart PublishersPublisher Roberts Rinehart PublishersWeight(grams)... -
Faeries, Elves and Goblins: The Old Stories and fairy tales by Rosalind Kerven
RRP: €17.84€12.8825 tales of faeries, elves and goblins, beautifully illustrated throughout Faeries, elves, goblins, leprechauns, brownies, spriggans and many other supernatural beings leap vividly off the page in this collection of 25 haunting stories and... -
Fermanagh Folk Tales by Doreen McBride 9781845888831
RRP: €15.46€11.45Fermanagh's culture, heritage, characters and stories set it apart from the rest of the world. Every mountain, tree, lake, stream, rock, stone and character tells a tale. There are the strange stories of mythical creatures, such as the Shining Folk that... -
The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland by Breandan Mac Suibhne
€38.08South-west Donegal, Ireland, June 1856. From the time that the blight first came on the potatoes in 1845, armed and masked men dubbed Molly Maguires had been raiding the houses of people deemed to be taking advantage of the rural poor. On some... -
Battle of the Four Courts: The First Three Days of the Irish Civil War by Michael Fewer
RRP: €11.89€8.46A meticulous, compellingly readable reconstruction of those three summer days that ignited the civil war - the defining event of modern Irish politics. The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder... -
Backstop Land by Glenn Patterson 9781838932022 [USED COPY]
RRP: €16.65€2.23'Funny, wise, entertaining and illuminating, this book is one of the best things to come out of the Brexit saga' FINTAN O'TOOLE. 'Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, we have been playing with fire. There is no longer any excuse for... -
Backstop Land by Glenn Patterson
RRP: €16.65€15.01'Funny, wise, entertaining and illuminating, this book is one of the best things to come out of the Brexit saga' FINTAN O'TOOLE. 'Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, we have been playing with fire. There is no longer any excuse for... -
Wherever Green Is Worn: The Story of the Irish Diaspora by Tim Pat Coogan 9780099958505 [USED COPY]
RRP: €22.60€3.15Far more Irishmen live outside Ireland than within it. This fascinating study, by Ireland's best known and most controversial contemporary historian, reveals why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic,... -
The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation by Roy Hattersley
RRP: €20.22€14.61William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away...