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Poverty in Ireland, 1837: A Hungarian's View : Szegenyseg Irlandban by Baron Jozsef Eotvos 9781908420206
RRP: $32.25$23.88In 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... -
The Way We Were: Centenary essays on Catholic Ireland by Mary Kenny 9781782183860
RRP: $23.21$18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782183860Author Mary KennyFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Columba BooksPublisher Columba Books -
Wales by Alison Jenkins
$17.18Amazing and Extraordinary Facts: Wales takes you on an absorbing journey around Wales to unearth the adventures, inventions, legends, firsts and birthplaces that have shaped the unique history of Wales. From the ancient mines of the Great... -
Medieval Irish Buildings, 1100 - 1600 by Tadhg O'Keeffe 9781846822483
$29.85Apologies 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 -
Spike Island: Saints, Felons and Famine by Michael Martin 9781845889104
RRP: $19.34$15.12The dominant star shaped fortress on Spike Island testifies to it's strategic importance in the once heavily fortified bastion of British military might that was Cork Harbour. Beneath and around this edifice however lies the story of an island steeped in... -
The Curious History of Irish Dogs by David Blake Knox 9781848407015
RRP: $16.76$15.11There 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... -
Island of the Setting Sun: In Search of Ireland's Ancient Astronomers by Anthony Murphy 9781916099852
RRP: $38.64$27.50Ireland is home to some of the world's oldest astronomically-aligned structures, giant stone monuments erected over 5,000 years ago. Despite their apparent simplicity, these megalithic edifices were crafted by a scientifically knowledgeable community of... -
Kildare Folk Tales by Steve Lally 9781845888107
RRP: $16.76$12.73County 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... -
Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice by Claire McGettrick 9781350452039
$32.96Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually abused or raised in the care of the Church and... -
Big Jim Larkin: Hero or Wrecker? by Emmet O'Connor 9781906359935
RRP: $54.83$53.46Much has been written about 'Big Jim' Larkin but, remarkably, this is the first full-length biography. Through the research of leading Labour historian Emmet O'Connor, Larkin - Labour leader and agitator - is thoroughly evaluated. Based on newly... -
Death on Ireland's Eye: The Victorian Murder Trial that Scandalised a Nation by Dean Ruxton
RRP: $20.63$15.21A 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 Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History by Alvin Jackson 9780198768210
$45.15Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Fighters of Derry: Their Deeds and Descendants, Being a Chronicle of Events in Ireland During the Revolutionary Period, 1688-91 by William R Young 9781910375082
RRP: $29.66$27.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375082Author William R YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Books UlsterPublisher Books UlsterWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *... -
There Once Was A Man With Six Wives: Our Kings and Queens in Limericks Mick Twister 9781911042235
RRP: $16.76$11.24A 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! ... -
Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero by Fearghal McGarry 9780199276554
RRP: $86.43$71.98Eoin 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... -
The Women by Alice Taylor 9781847177889
RRP: $19.34$15.56'We walk in the footprints of great women, women who lived through hard times on farms, in villages, towns and cities. The lives of these women are an untold story. This book is a celebration of the often forgotten "ordinary" women who gave so much to... -
Mapping South Kerry: 450 Years of a Changing Landscape: 2023 by Arnold Horner 9781913934712
$58.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934712Author Arnold HornerFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint WordwellPublisher WordwellDimensions(mm) 260mm * 210mm * 40mm -
Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 by Nicholas Canny 9780199259052
RRP: $113.52$92.96This 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... -
Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?: The Northern Ireland Conflict by Liam Kennedy
RRP: $30.95$26.88The 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... -
Rathmines: Ireland in Old Photographs by Maurice Curtis 9781845887049
RRP: $21.92$16.94Rathmines lies on the south bank of the Grand Canal, stretching out as far as Rathgar and bordered on two sides by Ranelagh to the east and Harold's Cross to the west. It is one of the country's most well-known suburbs, home to heads of government, vast... -
Conflict, Peace and Mental Health: Addressing the Consequences of Conflict and Trauma in Northern Ireland by David Bolton 9781526126672
RRP: $25.79$23.35What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. ... -
Ulysses by James Joyce 9781529405538
RRP: $16.76$6.02'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:... -
Agreement by Owen McCafferty 9780571385089
RRP: $14.18$9.73SHORTLISTED 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... -
Growing Up with Ireland: A Century of Memories from Our Oldest and Wisest Citizens Valerie Cox 9781529337389
RRP: $12.89$9.03'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... -
Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives Martyn Bennett 9781837644377
RRP: $45.14$41.23In this collection of essays, a range of established and early-career scholars explore a variety of different perspectives on Oliver Cromwell's involvement with Ireland, in particular his military campaign of 1649-1650. In England and Wales Cromwell... -
Irish Aran: History, Tradition, Fashion by Vawn Corrigan
RRP: $15.47$12.77Irish Aran knitting is a living tradition with a worldwide reach. Arans communicate warmth, comfort and a sense of home, which people the world over continue to respond to, even though the connection to our rocky outcroppings in the Atlantic Ocean may be... -
The Invincibles: The Phoenix Park Assassinations and the Conspiracy that Shook an Empire by Shane Kenna 9781788490603
RRP: $29.66$23.28'Britain in Ireland is a beast exceeding terrible; his feet and claws are of iron,' The Invincibles In an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents,... -
The First National Museum: Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth-century by Sherra Murphy 9781782054559
RRP: $45.15$37.46Dublin's Natural History Museum is a uniquely preserved sliver of the past, an intact example of a nineteenth-century natural science collection. While its polished cases and stuffed animals show us what the museum looked like in its heyday, this book is... -
All the Way by The Grand Canal by Jo Kerrigan 9781788493437
RRP: $23.21$18.09Stretching from Dublin right through the Midlands and west to the mighty Shannon, the Grand Canal was a stunning feat of engineering in the eighteenth century, vital for Ireland's trade and industry. Over two centuries later, the canal has a new life... -
Wise's Irish Whiskey: The History of Cork's North Mall Distillery by Barry Crockett 9781782055754
RRP: $58.05$47.78The 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... -
Without a Dog's Chance: The Nationalists of Northern Ireland and the Irish Boundary Commission, 1920-1925 by James Cousins 9781788551021
$28.23Apologies 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 -
Dublin: The Story of a City by Stephen Conlin
RRP: $36.11$29.52Dublin 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'... -
A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland by Catriona Pennell 9780198708469
$51.26In 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... -
Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison by Jerry White
RRP: $25.80$18.95For Londoners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, debt was a part of everyday life. But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be thrown into one of the capital's most notorious jails: the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison.In Mansions of... -
Drogheda: Ireland in Old Photographs by Joe Curtis 9781845887988
RRP: $21.92$16.94Drogheda 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... -
All Along the Echo by Danny Denton
RRP: $19.34$14.13'A cyclone of a novel' GuardianAn absolute marvel' Max Porter, bestselling author of Lanny'Dancing and dodging, surprising and poignant' Lisa McInerney, bestselling author of The Rules of RevelationFIRST VOICE: Why are we listening? SECOND VOICE: I... -
The Last Irish Question: Will Six into Twenty-Six Ever Go? by Glenn Patterson 9781800245464
RRP: $12.89$8.67A 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... -
The Last Bohemian: Brian Desmond Hurst, Irish Film, British Cinema by Lance Pettitt 9780815637295
$46.69The 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... -
Irish Folk Ways by E. Estyn Evans 9780486414409
RRP: $27.08$21.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486414409Author E.Estyn EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War by Siobhra Aiken
$57.60Apologies 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