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The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 4, 1880 to the Present by Thomas Bartlett 9781107534155
RRP: £33.99£29.61This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scholarship and research, the many contributions from experts in their field offer detailed and fresh... -
Shadows from the Trenches: Veterans of the Great War and the Irish Revolution (1918-1923) by Emmanuel Destenay
RRP: £25.00£23.78Approximately 150, 000 Irish officers and men joined the British Army during the First World War. What happened to them when they returned home? What determining role (if any) did they play? Most importantly, did they fall victims of selective... -
Irish Political Prisoners 1960-2000: Braiding Rage and Sorrow by Sean McConville
RRP: £43.99£38.44This is a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of the Northern Ireland conflict and how they lived out the months, years and decades in Irish and English maximum security prisons.Erupting in... -
The Ulster Covenant: An Illustrated History of the 1912 Home Rule Crisis by Gordon Lucy 9781780730394
RRP: £7.99£7.11On the 28th September 1912, over 470,000 men and women signed Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant. By signing they proclaimed that they would surrender neither their 'civil and religious freedom' nor 'their cherished position of equal citizenship in the... -
The Arms Crisis of 1970: The Plot that Never Was by Michael Heney
RRP: £9.99£7.11The number one Irish Times bestseller In 1970, Taoiseach Jack Lynch accused two cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, of smuggling arms to the IRA in Northern Ireland. The criminal prosecution that followed was a cause celebre at the time... -
The Surnames of Ireland by Edward MacLysaght 9780716523666
£21.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780716523666Author Edward MacLysaghtFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
The Curious History of Irish Dogs by David Blake Knox 9781848407015
RRP: £12.99£11.44There are nine breeds of dog that are native to Ireland: four terriers, three gun dogs, and two hounds. In The Curious History of Irish Dogs, David Blake Knox tells the remarkable stories of each of the nine breeds, and reveals how they have become... -
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero by Timothy Egan
£14.10A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony for life. But two years later he was "back from the dead" and in New... -
Drogheda: Ireland in Old Photographs by Joe Curtis 9781845887988
RRP: £16.99£12.94Drogheda nestles on the east coast of Ireland, on the border of Louth and Meath. A lively medieval town, it is home to a host of contemporary music and theatre companies, an international Samba festival, and was the birthplace of many famous Irish... -
The Running Book: A Journey through Memory, Landscape and History by John Connell
£12.25'Sensational! John Connell has done it again' - Dean KarnazesFrom the award-winning, No.1 bestselling author of The Cow BookIn The Running Book, John Connell vividly describes a marathon through County Longford, Ireland, where he lives and farms. Because... -
Victoria and Albert by Brenda Williams
RRP: £6.00£4.44'He seems perfection and I think that I have the prospect of very great happiness before me...' Victoria in a letter of 15 October 1839 One of the greatest royal love matches of all time was that of Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert. The... -
Hell or Some Worse Place: Kinsale 1601 by Des Ekin 9781847179593
RRP: £15.99£12.37Kinsale, Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601 As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Aguila has been sprung from a prison cell to command... -
Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War by Siobhra Aiken
£44.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551663Author Siobhra AikenFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
Death on Ireland's Eye: The Victorian Murder Trial that Scandalised a Nation by Dean Ruxton
RRP: £15.99£11.61A tragic death, a murder trial and a 170-year-old mystery - but what really happened? Shortly after Maria Kirwan died in a lonely inlet on Ireland's Eye, it was decided that she had drowned accidentally during a day spent with her husband on the... -
The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century by Connie Kelleher 9781782053651
£30.29In the early part of the seventeenth-century, along the southwest coast of Ireland, piracy was a way of life. Following the outlawing of privateering in 1603 by the new king of England, disenfranchised like-minded men of the sea, many former privateers,... -
The Big Yank: Memoir of a Boy Growing Up Irish by J P Sexton 9780997900705
RRP: £17.95£16.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997900705Author J P SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 468Imprint John SextonPublisher John SextonWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 24mm -
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History by Alvin Jackson 9780198768210
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Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry 9780199276554
RRP: £67.00£55.80Eoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A guerrilla leader and protege of Michael Collins, he rose rapidly through the ranks of the republican movement. By 1922 he was chief of staff of the IRA, a member of the... -
Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 by Nicholas Canny 9780199259052
RRP: £88.00£72.06This is the first comprehensive study of all the plantations that were attempted in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. It examines the arguments advanced by successive political figures for a plantation policy, and the responses which this policy... -
Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750-1850 by Richard Butler 9781782053699
RRP: £35.00£28.82This book is the first national history of the building of some of Ireland's most important historic public buildings. Focusing on the former assize courthouses and county gaols, it tells a political history of how they were built, who paid for them, and... -
Dublin: The Story of a City by Stephen Conlin
RRP: £27.99£22.54Dublin has taken many forms over the last millennium: first a Scandinavian settlement, linked by kinship to Norway; then a medieval town that formed part of a Norman sphere of influence across Western Europe. By the eighteenth century, it was a 'polite'... -
Skellig: Experience the Extraordinary by Des Lavelle
RRP: £11.99£9.00'Magic that takes you out, far out, of this time and this world.' George Bernard Shaw, after a visit to Skellig This is the story of two of the world's most stunning and unspoilt islands, Skellig Michael and Small Skellig, which lie off the coast of... -
Agreement by Owen McCafferty 9780571385089
RRP: £10.99£7.32SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE'An outstanding evening, a landmark play, a thoroughly deserved five stars . . . Owen McCafferty's searing dramatisation is a political thriller with echoes of Greek drama.' Irish TimesOwen... -
Donegal: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 by Pauric Travers
RRP: £22.50£22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829789Author Pauric TraversFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Kerry Folk Tales by Gary Branigan 9780750984140
RRP: £12.99£9.62Named after the peoples of Ciarraige who inhabited the ancient territory, Kerry possesses a rich tapestry of history, legend and folklore unparalleled by many others. In this book, authors Gary Branigan and Luke Eastwood narrate a variety of myths and... -
Irish Women's Speeches: Voices That Rocked The System by Sonja Tiernan 9781910820902
RRP: £20.00£19.24Thirty-two inspiring speeches by women of Ireland from the nineteenth century to the present. Rallying cries for trade union action, denunciations of apartheid, calls for independence, unionism, peace and gender equality: Irish women have eloquently... -
James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist by Liam McNulty
RRP: £25.00£22.03Is the voice of James Connolly, silenced by a British bullet in 1916, coming back? This book offers a measured consideration of Connolly, alive to his continuing political relevance. It seeks to explain Connolly's political development in dialogue... -
Wise's Irish Whiskey: The History of Cork's North Mall Distillery by Barry Crockett 9781782055754
RRP: £45.00£36.75The book narrates the story of three generations of the Wise family as they became Cork-based merchant princes. It is also the story of their North Mall distillery, the then largest in Cork city, which even rivalled the great distilling houses of Dublin... -
The Battle of Clonmult: The IRA's Worst Defeat by Tom O'Neill 9780750992213
RRP: £15.99£12.25Exhaustive research by the author of newly available primary source material has unearthed new facts surrounding the battle. The new information allows this edition to more accurately document and analyse the Battle of Clonmult. The book makes an... -
The Northern Ireland Conflict: A Beginner's Guide by Aaron Edwards 9781851687299
RRP: £9.99£7.11The Northern Ireland conflict was one of the most bloody, protracted, and bitter campaigns of terrorist violence in modern history. Rooted in the partition of Ireland in 1921, over 50,000 people were killed or seriously injured because of the hostilities... -
Ulysses by James Joyce 9781529405538
RRP: £12.99£4.51'It is not that Ulysses excludes us; it is, rather, that it includes us in ways that no other work prepares us for. The question is not 'what is a novel?', but what can a novel be? Ulysses is the answer'Patrick McGuinness from his preface to Ulysses:... -
Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA by Ian S. Wood 9780748624270
RRP: £24.99£23.11Sectarian murder, torture, bloody power struggles and racketeering are what for many define their image of the Ulster Defence Association. Yet as Northern Ireland's Troubles worsened in 1971 and 1972, it emerged with a mass membership to defend Loyalist... -
Medieval Ireland: Territorial, Political and Economic Divisions by Paul MacCotter 9781846825576
£35.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846825576Author Paul MacCotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Without a Dog's Chance: The Nationalists of Northern Ireland and the Irish Boundary Commission, 1920-1925 by James Cousins 9781788551021
£21.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551021Author James CousinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd -
A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland by Catriona Pennell 9780198708469
£39.74In this, the first fully documented study of British and Irish popular reactions to the outbreak of the First World War, Catriona Pennell explores UK public opinion of the time, successfully challenging post-war constructions of 'war enthusiasm' in the... -
The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland by Eugenio F. Biagini
RRP: £27.99£25.27Covering three centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic changes, this textbook is an authoritative and comprehensive view of the shaping of Irish society, at home and abroad, from the famine of 1740 to the present day. The first major work on... -
Jailtacht: The Irish Language, Symbolic Power and Political Violence in Northern Ireland, 1972-2008 by Diarmait Mac Giolla Chriost 9780708324967
RRP: £19.99£15.23This book tells the dramatic and often surprising story of the learning of the Irish language by Irish Republican prisoners held in the infamous H-block cells during the bloody political conflict in Northern Ireland. Using research methods and... -
Nightmare at Scapa Flow: The Truth About the Sinking of HMS "Royal Oak" by H.J. Weaver
RRP: £7.99£5.69"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds incredible..." - William L Shirer, journalist, 18 October 1939 Sinking the battleship HMS... -
Unmanageable Revolutionaries: Women and Irish Nationalism, 1880-1980 by Margaret Ward 9781851322565
RRP: £29.95£26.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851322565Author Margaret WardFormat PaperbackImprint Arlen HousePublisher Arlen House -
The Last Bohemian: Brian Desmond Hurst, Irish Film, British Cinema by Lance Pettitt 9780815637295
£36.19The Last Bohemian offers the first extended, critical evaluation of all of Brian Desmond Hurst's films, reappraising the reputation of a director who was born in 1895 in Belfast and died in Belgravia, London, in 1986. Pettitt skillfully weaves together...