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The Little Book of Dalkey and Killiney by Hugh Oram 9780750992169
RRP: $19.34$15.12Discover a delightful and unspoiled seaside village through this fact-packed compendium. Renowned for its castle, book festival and nearby island, Dalkey and neighbouring Killiney Hill Park have plenty of special places to find and history to uncover. A... -
Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882-1906 by Carla King 9781906359928
RRP: $58.05$57.26Michael Davitt is known as the 'Father of the Land League'. His story of suffering and self-sacrifice, childhood eviction and exile, youthful radicalism, harsh imprisonment and eventual triumph over adversity ensures his memory in the pages of history... -
The Twelve Apostles: Michael Collins, the Squad, and Ireland's Fight for Freedom by Tim Pat Coogan 9781510732315
RRP: $32.24$20.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510732315Author Tim Pat CooganFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 239mm... -
The Assassination of Michael Collins by S.M. Sigerson 9781493784714
$20.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493784714Author S.M. SigersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace -
Banished Babies: The Secret Story of Ireland's Baby Export Business by Mike Milotte
RRP: $19.34$16.33The story of baby trafficking organised by nuns, sanctioned by an archbishop, administered by civil servants and approved by politicians who tried to keep it secret... In this re-issue of the 2012 second edition of his highly acclaimed Banished... -
The Queen v Patrick O'Donnell: The Man who shot the informer James Carey by Sean O Cuirreain
$21.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829949Author Sean O CuirreainFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 650g -
Irish Ghost Tales: And Things that go Bump in the Night by Tony Locke 9781845888671
RRP: $19.34$15.12Do ghosts exist, do supernatural beings walk the land and do creatures linger in the shadows. Are legends of blood-sucking creatures based on some truth found on the edges of reality? Within these pages Tony Locke will take you on a journey through the... -
Rare Old Dublin: Heroes, Hawkers and Hoors by Frank Hopkins 9781860231544
$21.49Pirates executed in St Stephen's Green; Mother Bungy's 'sink of sin' in what is now Temple Bar; the Viking thingmote in College Green where human sacrifices took place; hidden holy wells under the city streets: these are just some of the things uncovered... -
When I Was Your Age: Ireland's Grandparents Share Memories and Wisdom Valerie Cox 9781399712279
RRP: $19.34$12.96INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH BERTIE AHERN, MARY KENNEDY, SEAN O'ROUKE, MARY COUGHLAN AND MANY OTHERS. What was life like for Ireland's grandparents when they were young?What has changed for the better? What values do they wish to hand down?In these pages,... -
That Place We Call Home: A journey through the place names of Ireland by John Creedon 9780717189854
RRP: $28.37$23.58John Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from when he was a young boy growing up in Cork City to travelling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new book, he digs beneath the surface of familiar place names,... -
Irish Women's Speeches: Voices That Rocked The System by Sonja Tiernan 9781910820902
RRP: $25.80$25.21Thirty-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... -
Wars of the Irish Kings by David Willis McCullough 9780609809075
RRP: $29.03$20.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609809075Author David Willis McCulloughFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 702g -
Alexis De Tocqueville's Journey in Ireland, July-August, 1835 by Emmet Larkin 9780813207193
RRP: $19.29$18.32Alexis de Tocqueville visited Ireland in the company of his good friend Gustave de Beaumont in July and August of 1835. At the time of his visit, Tocqueville had just acquired an international reputation with the publication of the first two volumes of... -
Monaghan: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 by Terence Dooley 9781846826160
$29.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826160Author Terence DooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 367g -
Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 2: Northern Ireland and the Troubles 1988-90 by Ken Wharton 9781911512011
RRP: $32.25$24.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911512011Author Ken WhartonFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Ireland and the British Empire by Kevin Kenny 9780199251841
RRP: $68.37$55.88Modern Irish history was determined by the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire. British imperial history, from the age of Atlantic expansion to the age of decolonization, was moulded in part by Irish experience. But the nature of Ireland's... -
White Elephants: The Country House and the State in Independent Ireland, 1922-73 by Emer Crooke 9781910820285
RRP: $45.15$43.54Grand, awe-inspiring and beautiful, the `Big House' is widely viewed as a jewel in the Irish landscape today. Despite this, the relationship between the country house and the state has long been complex and nuanced. Houses such as Castletown, Mote Park,... -
Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA by Ian S. Wood 9780748624270
RRP: $32.24$30.28Sectarian 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... -
The Irish Coroner by Michelle Mcgoff-Mccann
$51.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510639Author Michelle Mcgoff-MccannFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Unfolding Irish Landscapes: Tim Robinson, Culture and Environment by Derek Gladwin 9780719099472
RRP: $32.25$22.72An unprecedented compilation of critical and creative essays and visual texts from leading international scholars, Unfolding Irish landscapes presents cross-disciplinary studies of the prose, cartography, visual art and cultural legacy of the... -
Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800 by S.J. Connolly 9780199583874
RRP: $63.20$63.09For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the... -
Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution by Richard Whatmore
RRP: $45.15$37.35A 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... -
Southern Irish Loyalism, 1912-1949 by Brian Hughes
RRP: $42.56$38.97This book brings together new research on loyalism in the 26 counties that would become the Irish Free State. It covers a range of topics and experiences, including the Third Home Rule crisis in 1912, the revolutionary period, partition, independence... -
Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison: A Political History, 1750-1850 by Richard Butler 9781782053699
RRP: $45.15$37.46This 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... -
On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners' "Dirty" Protest by Tim Pat Coogan 9780312295134 [USED COPY]
$19.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312295134Author Tim Pat CooganFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners' "Dirty" Protest by Tim Pat Coogan 9780312295134
RRP: $34.82$22.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312295134Author Tim Pat CooganFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
A New History of Ireland, Volume I: Prehistoric and Early Ireland by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín 9780199226658
$101.95A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... -
Frederick Douglass in Ireland by Laurence Fenton 9781848891968
RRP: $20.63$19.13`When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, `we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and our great abolitionist,... -
The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small by Neil Jordan 9781803289328
RRP: $12.89$8.67From multi-award-winning author and film director Neil Jordan comes a thrilling reimagining of a turning point in Irish, American and European history. 'A masterwork from one of the most inventive artists of our day' John Banville 'A writer of... -
Struggle Or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast's 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots by Sean Mitchell 9781608466788
RRP: $19.34$13.08In October 1932, the streets of Belfast were gripped by vicious and widespread rioting that lasted the best part of a week. Thousands of unarmed demonstrators fought extended pitched battles against heavily-armed police. Unemployed workers and, indeed,... -
Kerry Folk Tales by Gary Branigan 9780750984140
RRP: $16.76$12.73Named 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... -
Bagpipes: A National Collection of a National Treasure by Hugh Cheape 9781905267552
RRP: $19.34$16.19Based on a 'national collection of the national instrument' now assembled in National Museums Scotland, this book offers an account of the musicology of the bagpipe in its European context, including the remarkable influence of the Baroque on Scotland's... -
Faeries, Elves and Goblins: The Old Stories and fairy tales by Rosalind Kerven 9781849945424
RRP: $16.76$15.40A unique collection of traditional stories about faeries, elves and goblins. Faeries, elves, goblins, leprechauns, brownies, spriggans and many other supernatural beings leap vividly off the page in this collection of haunting stories. Included are 25... -
De Valera: Rise 1882–1932 by David McCullagh 9780717155866
RRP: $43.85$40.36From the host of RTE's Primetime and author of The Reluctant Taoiseach, the widely acclaimed biography of John A. Costello, Rise 1882-1932 is the first volume of a major two-part reassessment of the man who shaped modern Ireland. Eamon de Valera is... -
Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland by Frances Finnegan 9780195174601
RRP: $51.59$35.98Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented... -
A New History of Ireland, Volume III: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691 by T. W. Moody 9780199562527
$104.92A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... -
Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution by Alan Woods 9781913026769
$16.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913026769Author Alan WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Wellred BooksPublisher Wellred BooksWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm -
The Sacred Isle - Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland by Daithi O Hogain 9780851157474
RRP: $38.70$28.11The myths and legends of prehistoric Ireland have inspired writers through the ages, down to W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney in our own century, but what do we know of the realities of ancient Irish belief? Daithi O hOgain's book approaches the question by... -
Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland by Richard Rankin Russell
RRP: $45.15$40.17Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal Northern Review. In Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley,... -
The Fight for Scottish Democracy: Rebellion and Reform in 1820 Murray Armstrong 9780745341330
RRP: $21.92$15.11Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a...