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Irish Murders by Lily Seafield 9781849343381
RRP: $9.73$7.41There are violent events and murders in the history of every country and Ireland is no exception. Through the years, it has had its share of violent murders including the murder of its most famous victim, Ellie Hanley or the 'Colleen Bawn', and the... -
Victorian Maps of England: The county and city maps of Thomas Moule by Thomas Moule
RRP: $58.50$44.36The most beautiful Victorian maps of England's counties and cities - in large format - by one of Britain's great cartographer's Thomas Moule. Thomas Moule was one of the finest Victorian mapmakers and is regarded as the true follower of John Speed in... -
Protestant and Irish: The minority's search for place in independent Ireland: 2019 by Ian D'Alton 9781782053811
$39.68In 1989 Edna Longley remarked that if Catholics were born Irish, Protestants had to 'work their passage to Irishness'. With eighteen essays by scholars with individual perspectives on Irish Protestant history, this book explores a number of those... -
The I.R.A. and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923 by Peter Hart 9780198208068
RRP: $117.00$89.84What is it like to be in the I.R.A. - or at their mercy? This fascinating study explores the lives and deaths of the enemies and victims of the County Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923 - the most powerful and deadly branch of the I.R.A. during one of the... -
Ireland: A New Economic History 1780-1939 by Cormac O Grada 9780198205982
RRP: $120.90$101.32Ireland: A New Economic History offers a fresh, comprehensive economic history of Ireland between 1780 and 1939. Its methodology is mould-breaking, and it is unparalleled in its broad scope and comparative focus. Cormac O Grada unites historical research... -
The Dublin Girls: A powerfully heartrending family saga by Cathy Mansell
RRP: $19.48$13.26Dramatic, emotional and romantic, if you love Lorna Cook, Tracy Rees and Jenny Ashcroft, you'll love this gripping and heartrending novel from Cathy Mansell, author of A Place to Belong.'Glorious - a cross between Maeve Binchy and Catherine Cookson' 5*... -
Fermanagh by Margaret Unwin
RRP: $37.03$30.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838041632Author Margaret UnwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
Settlement in the Irish Neolithic: New Discoveries at the Edge of Europe by Jessica Smyth
RRP: $48.73$44.21The Irish Neolithic has been dominated by the study of megalithic tombs, but the defining element of Irish settlement evidence is the rectangular timber Early Neolithic house, the numbers of which have more than quadrupled in the last ten years. The... -
Mary of Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560: A Political Career by Pamela E. Ritchie
RRP: $58.50$40.17Challenging the conventional interpretation of Mary of Guise as the defender of Catholicism whose regime climaxed with the Reformation Rebellion, Pamela Ritchie shows that Mary was, on the contrary, a shrewd and effective politique, whose own dynastic... -
Kildare Folk Tales by Steve Lally 9781845888107
RRP: $25.33$18.76County Kildare abounds in folk tales, myths and legends and a selection of the best, drawn from historical sources and newly recorded local reminiscence, have been brought to life here by professional storyteller Steve Lally. Included in this collection... -
About Time: Surviving Ireland's Death Row by Peter Pringle 9781845887605
RRP: $33.13$25.23Law and justice are not always one and the same. On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: 'Peter Pringle, for the crime of capital murder ... the law prescribes only one penalty, and that penalty is... -
Ireland'S Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment by James M. Smith 9780719078880
RRP: $38.98$35.53Ireland's Magdalen Laundries and the Nation's Architecture of Containment connects Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation-state's nativist politics in the post-independence era, while critically evaluating cultural representations of the Magdalen... -
The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland by R. F. Foster 9780195168877
RRP: $22.41$17.57Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that,... -
When the Hangman Came to Galway: A Gruesome True Story of Murder in Victorian Ireland by Dean Ruxton 9780717180851
RRP: $33.13$23.95The paths of a secret paramour, a jilted lover and a reluctant hangman cross in one fateful winter week in Galway, 1885 James Berry was the notorious hangman who ended the lives of over 100 criminals in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Tortured by... -
A Dance Called America: The Scottish Highlands, the United States and Canada by James Hunter
RRP: $29.23$19.11A dance was devised in eighteenth-century Skye. An exhilarating dance. A dance, a visitor reports, 'the emigration from Skye has occasioned'. The visitor asks for the dance's name. 'They call it America,' he's told. In his introduction to this new... -
Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution by Myles Dungan
RRP: $19.48$13.86The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 'A vivid and chilling narrative... Confronts uncomfortable questions that... -
Growing Up with Ireland: A Century of Memories from Our Oldest and Wisest Citizens by Valerie Cox
RRP: $19.48$13.26'An incredible portal to our past' The Sunday TimesOn 7 January 1922, Ireland became a free state. Born into that era of turbulence and hope were the twenty-six women and men whose stories and memories of a lifetime are captured by cherished Irish... -
Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?: The Northern Ireland Conflict by Liam Kennedy
RRP: $46.78$40.64The Troubles claimed the lives of almost four thousand people in Northern Ireland, most of them civilians; forty-five thousand were injured in bombings and shootings. Relative to population size this was the most intense conflict experienced in Western... -
Contemporary Ireland by Eoin O'Malley 9780230516700
$72.46In the last quarter century, Ireland has experienced dramatic political and economic change. This broad-ranging text provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to Irish society, politics and culture, as well as developments in its economy and... -
Medieval Irish Buildings, 1100 - 1600 by Tadhg O'Keeffe 9781846822483
$44.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846822483Author Tadhg O'KeeffeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 489g -
Cith Is Dealán by Seamus Ó' Grianna 9780853424482
RRP: $27.28$25.99Séamus Ó Grianna (Máire) was born in Rannafast in the Rosses of County Donegal. He wrote many novels and short stories about his native place which were treasured for their idioms and their picture of Donegal life at the turn of the century. His dislike... -
Exploring Ireland's Castles by Tarquin Blake
RRP: $52.63$45.38Whether ruined or opulent, castles have the power to fire the imagination. For almost a millennium, they have studded the Irish countryside. The concept of using building methods to protect territory was introduced from overseas in the twelfth century,... -
Orange, Green and Khaki: Story of the Irish Regiments in the Great War, 1914-18 by Tom Johnstone 9780717119943
RRP: $38.98$35.12Nearly a third of a million Irishmen fought in the Great War and 50,000 died. There was a significant Irish presence in every major theatre of war. The Irish were mobilised in three divisions - the 10th, the 16th and the 36th - as well as in the... -
Skean: The Distinctive Fighting Knife of Gaelic Ireland, 1500-1700 by Robert Gresh
RRP: $44.83$30.52This is the history of the distinctive fighting knife of the Gaelic Irish, the skean (Irish: scian). Author Robert Gresh has scoured primary sources for references to the weapon in use and traveled to examine the known surviving examples. The skean fell... -
There Once Was A Man With Six Wives: Our Kings and Queens in Limericks by Mick Twister 9781911042235
RRP: $25.33$16.54A hugely entertaining collection of clever and fun limericks, one for each monarch in British history - and more! Royal history as you've never seen it before - in limericks! ... -
Wolves in Ireland: A Natural and Cultural History by Kieran Hickey 9781846824234
$27.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846824234Author Kieran HickeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
The Irish Diaries (1994-2003): Alastair Campbell by Kathy Gilfillan
$34.69The four volumes of spokesman and strategist Alastair Campbell's diaries were a publishing sensation.As British Prime Minister Tony Blair's right-hand man, former journalist and political analyst Campbell played a critical role in every aspect of New... -
The Rise and Fall of the Orange Order during the Famine by Daragh Curran
RRP: $126.75$87.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828645Author Daragh CurranFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
The Letters of John McGahern by Frank Shovlin 9780571387410
RRP: $33.13$24.53'Magnificent.' Irish Times'Much to savour.' The Times'An event in Irish culture.' TLSThe collected letters of John McGahern, 'one of the greatest writers of our era' (Hilary Mantel) and 'the most important Irish novelist since Samuel Beckett.'... -
East Belfast: Ireland in Old Photographs by Keith Haines 9781845887780
RRP: $33.13$25.23Local history of East Belfast.Book InformationISBN 9781845887780Author Keith HainesFormat PaperbackImprint Nonsuch PublishingPublisher The History Press Ltd -
Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution by Richard Whatmore 9780691206646
RRP: $54.60$43.29A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth centuryIn 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were... -
Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
RRP: $31.18$22.64More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England's Ulster Plantation in... -
James Connolly: Working Class Hero by Rod Smith 9781781998724
$11.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781998724Author Rod SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint In A NutshellPublisher Poolbeg Press Ltd -
Cork Burning by Michael Lenihan 9781781177921
RRP: $33.13$24.73'A tale of arson, loot and murder' was how one source described the events that would befall Cork city on the night of 11-12 December 1920. In a scene of almost unprecedented destruction, members of the British forces bent on revenge for the ambushes at... -
Boatlines: Scottish Craft of Sea, Coast and Canal by Ian Stephen
RRP: $33.13$22.58People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be so... -
The Secret Army: The IRA by J. Bowyer Bell 9781560009016
RRP: $97.48$86.78The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a... -
The Maximalist: The Rise and Fall of Tony O'Reilly by Matt Cooper 9780717167210
RRP: $62.38$45.38An Irish epic, The Maximalist documents in unflinching detail and with great subtlety the meteoric rise and slow unravelling of an Irish icon. 'Biography of the Year.' The Sunday Times 'Biography of the Year.' Sunday Business Post ... -
The Wartime Irish Marine Service: The first-hand experiences of broadcaster Norris Davidson by Daire Brunicardi
RRP: $35.08$26.60'It was a farewell to all my pleasant life, a farewell to the enjoyment of summer. My theme was that we were all about to undergo a change. The hills and the streams would remain, the sun would set as redly on the western sea, but they would not ever be... -
Churches in the Irish Landscape: Ad 400-1100 by Tomas O Carragain
RRP: $87.75$87.71Between the fifth century and the ninth, several thousand churches were founded in Ireland, a greater density than most other regions of Europe. This period saw fundamental changes in settlement patterns, agriculture, social organisation, rituals and... -
The Last Irish Question: Will Six into Twenty-Six Ever Go? by Glenn Patterson 9781800245464
RRP: $19.48$12.71A view of the south of Ireland - political, social, geographical - through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it. 'A pleasure to read... Incisively mixing memoir, reportage and analysis' Daily Mail 'Discursive, humane...