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The West of Ireland: New Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century by Dr. Conor McNamara 9781845887056
RRP: £24.99£18.52West of Ireland; New Perspectives on the Nineteenth Century examines the lives of ordinary people in the west of Ireland and the political organisations which represented them throughout the nineteenth century. Featuring contributions from some of... -
Wars of the Irish Kings by David Willis McCullough 9780609809075
RRP: £22.50£15.94Apologies 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 -
Ireland and the British Empire by Kevin Kenny 9780199251841
RRP: £53.00£43.32Modern 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... -
Haunted Antrim by Madeline McCully 9780750983600
RRP: £14.99£11.55Discover the darker side of Antrim with this collection of spine-chilling tales from across the county. This spooky selection of stories includes the phantom coach of Dundermot Mound, Devil Worship at Crebilly, the witch of Glentow and the Grey Lady of... -
Erin and Iran: Cultural Encounters Between the Irish and the Iranians by H. E. Chehabi 9780674088283
RRP: £20.95£16.88In Erin and Iran, ten essays by North American and European scholars discuss parallel themes in and interactions between Irish and Iranian cultures. In the first section three essays explore common elements in pre-Christian Irish and pre-Islamic Iranian... -
The Irish Coroner by Michelle Mcgoff-Mccann
£40.10Apologies 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 -
Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors - Second Edition by Ian Maxwell 9781473851795
RRP: £14.99£10.95The second edition of Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century... -
The Invincibles: The Phoenix Park Assassinations and the Conspiracy that Shook an Empire by Shane Kenna 9781788490603
RRP: £22.99£17.77'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,... -
Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800 by S.J. Connolly 9780199583874
RRP: £48.99£48.91For 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... -
Irish Art 1920-2020: Perspectives on Change by Catherine Marshall 9781911479826
£38.15Irish Art 1920-2020: Perspectives on change by Catherine Marshall and Yvonne Scott, is a generously-illustrated book in which eleven authors examine different aspects of Irish art through the hundred years or so since independence. During this time, art... -
Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents by Eoin O'Sullivan 9780719095450
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, reformatory and industrial schools,... -
Peace after the Final Battle: The Story of the Irish Revolution, 1912-1924 by John Dorney
RRP: £12.99£9.09As we close out the decade of centenaries, and approach a re-appraisal of the Civil War our nation has never truly confronted, John Dorney's engaging history of those years - now in paperback for the first time - is a must read. Within the space of... -
Moving Histories: Irish Women's Emigration to Britain from Independence to Republic by Jennifer Redmond 9781789620191
RRP: £27.45£24.50An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Moving Histories is an original and enlightening book which details the lives of women who left Ireland after independence. Drawing on a wide... -
A New History of Ireland, Volume I: Prehistoric and Early Ireland by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín 9780199226658
£79.03A 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... -
Fermanagh by Daniel Purcell 9781846829772
RRP: £22.50£22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829772Author Daniel PurcellFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Frederick Douglass in Ireland by Laurence Fenton 9781848891968
RRP: £15.99£14.50`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,... -
Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland by Frances Finnegan 9780195174601
RRP: £39.99£27.89Frances 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... -
Waterford Harbour: Tides and Tales by Andrew Doherty
RRP: £12.99£9.62Waterford harbour has centuries of tradition based on its extensive fishery and maritime trade. Steeped in history, customs and an enviable spirit, it was there that Andrew Doherty was born and raised amongst a treasure chest of stories spun by the... -
A New History of Ireland, Volume III: Early Modern Ireland 1534-1691 by T. W. Moody 9780199562527
£81.33A 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... -
On the Blanket: The Inside Story of the IRA Prisoners' "Dirty" Protest by Tim Pat Coogan 9780312295134 [USED COPY]
£14.96Apologies 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: £26.99£16.89Apologies 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)... -
The Meath War Dead: A History of the Casualties of the Great War by Noel E. French 9781845887230
RRP: £20.00£15.04Over five hundred men from Meath died in the Great War. One hundred of those men were from Navan. Twenty Meath families lost more than one member in this war. The poet, Francis Ledwidge, would be the most famous of these, but many personal tragedies play... -
The Sacred Isle - Belief and Religion in Pre-Christian Ireland by Daithi O Hogain 9780851157474
RRP: £30.00£21.79The 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... -
The Lore of Ireland: An Encyclopaedia of Myth, Legend and Romance by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin 9781837651122
RRP: £29.99£24.83The definitive reference book on Ireland's cultural and religious heritage. Ireland has one of the finest cultural heritages and a standard reference book combining the related subjects of folklore, myth, legend and romance is long overdue. There are... -
Emmet Dalton: Somme Soldier, Irish General, Film Pioneer by Sean Boyne 9781785370748
£19.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785370748Author Sean BoyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Ghost-Haunted Land: Contemporary Art and Post-Troubles Northern Ireland by Declan Long 9781526146243
RRP: £35.00£24.70Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 - the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern 'Troubles' - contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land -... -
The Tragedy of Erskine Childers by Leonard Piper 9781847250209
£33.03In "The Riddle of the Sands", a gripping spy story set amongst the shoals and mists of the North Sea coast in the years before the First World War, Erskine Childers fathered the modern genre of spy adventures, as well as writing a great yachting classic... -
Navigating Historical Crosscurrents in the Irish Atlantic: Essays for Catherine B. Shannon by Kelly Mary
RRP: £35.00£28.82This volume takes inspiration from Professor Catherine Shannon's scholarship on Modern Irish and Irish American history and her advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland and features original research by distinguished scholars and social-justice activists... -
Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of Revolution by Richard Whatmore
£45.54A 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... -
Banished Babies: The Secret Story of Ireland's Baby Export Business by Mike Milotte
RRP: £14.99£12.53The 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... -
Songs Of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook by James Connolly
RRP: £12.99£8.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604868265Author James ConnollyFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 152g -
The Queen v Patrick O'Donnell: The Man who shot the informer James Carey by Sean O Cuirreain
£16.15Apologies 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 -
The I.R.A. at War 1916-1923 by Peter Hart 9780199252589
£117.82Between 1916 and 1923, Ireland experienced rebellion and mass mobilization, guerrilla and civil war, partition and ethnic conflict, and the transfer of power from British to Irish governments. The essays in The I.R.A. at War propose a new history of this... -
O'Brien: The Origins of the O'Brien Family and Their Place in History by Iain Gray 9781852173005
RRP: £3.99£3.19Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Kings of Ailech and the Vikings: 800-1060 AD by Darren McGettigan 9781846828362
£19.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828362Author Darren McGettiganFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
The Rising: Easter 1916 by Fearghal McGarry
RRP: £19.99£19.91The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history. But how did it achieve this? What role did people from ordinary backgrounds play in the making of the Irish revolution and what motivated... -
Backstop Land by Glenn Patterson 9781800240452
RRP: £9.99£7.11'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... -
Irish Political Prisoners 1848-1922: Theatres of War by Sean McConville 9780415378666
RRP: £71.99£63.05This is the most wide-ranging study ever published of political violence and the punishment of Irish political offenders from 1848 to the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922. Those who chose violence to advance their Irish nationalist beliefs ranged... -
Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War Volume 2: Northern Ireland and the Troubles 1988-90 by Ken Wharton 9781911512011
RRP: £25.00£18.62Apologies 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 -
White Elephants: The Country House and the State in Independent Ireland, 1922-73 by Emer Crooke 9781910820285
RRP: £35.00£33.49Grand, 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,...