Ireland

As British and Irish migrants sought new lives in the Caribbean, Asia, North America and Australasia, they left a trail of physical remains where settlement occurred. Between the 17th and 20th centuries, gravestones and elaborate epitaphs documented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307389879Author Robert KanigelFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)...

The second edition of this bestselling survey of modern Irish history covers social, religious as well as political history and offers a distinctive combination of chronological and thematic approaches.Reviews'There are in print approximately two dozen...

William Ewart Gladstone was both the most charismatic and the most extraordinary of Victorians. His huge public career - in and out of office from 1834 to 1894 and four times prime minister - was consistently controversial and dramatic. His private life...

At the height of the Irish Famine, now considered the greatest social disaster to strike nineteenth-century Europe, Anglo-Irish landlord Major Denis Mahon was assassinated as he drove his carriage through his property in County Roscommon. Mahon had...

The mountains and spectacular coastline of County Waterford are rich in traditional stories. Even today, in the modern world of internet and supermarkets, old legends dating as far back as the days of the ancient Gaelic tribes and the carvers of the...

Did You Know?According to legend, St Kevin founded his monastery at Glendalough after being shown the spot by a goose. A murder in the sleepy village of Barndarrig in east Wicklow in 1890 led to the last hanging in Wexford gaol. The Little Book of...

West 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876588Author Eamonn McCannFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Bookmarks PublicationsPublisher Bookmarks PublicationsWeight(grams) 305g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934309Author Anna-Maria HajbaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint WordwellPublisher WordwellDimensions(mm) 234mm * 25mm * 156mm

12 classic English fairy tales and their history, from tales of dragons to Robin Hood. Folk tales and legends are an intrinsic part of English national culture. In his book, Rosalind Kerven has revived the best English fairy tales for a new generation...

This is a groundbreaking examination of the attempts to regulate female sexuality in twentieth-century Northern Ireland, which opens up new and exciting areas of a previously neglected history. A wide-ranging study, it explores the sexual experiences of...

This 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,...

On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a twenty-five year old former Trinity College student and doctor's son. His name was Robert Emmet and he was standing trial for...

'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...

A reassessment of the rivalry between the two great Anglo-Norman magnate families in late medieval and early modern Ireland, putting forward a new interpretation of events. The Fitzgerald Earls of Kildare and the Butler Earls of Ormond were the foremost...

A 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...

Who are the Celts, and what does it mean to be Celtic? In this book, Caoimhin De Barra focuses on nationalists in Ireland and Wales between 1860 and 1925, a time period when people in these countries came to identify themselves as Celts. De Barra chooses...

Relative to its size Northern Ireland is possibly the most heavily researched area on earth; hundreds of books and thousands of articles have been published since the current troubles began in the mid 1960s. John Whyte had been studying Northern Ireland...

A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934125Author Bryan MacMahonFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell

Politics in the Republic of Ireland is now available in a fully revised sixth edition. Building on the success of the previous five editions, it continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of the government and politics in the...

From a range of leading academics and historians, this collection of essays examines Irish emigration during the Great Famine of the 1840s. From the mechanics of how this was arranged to the fate of the men, women and children who landed on the shores of...

This book contains interviews with members of the IRA's Mid Clare and East Clare Brigades. It includes details of the Rineen Ambush, which was, at that time, the largest and most successful operation that the IRA had conducted against the RIC. It also...

An authoritative and extensive resource for British and Irish history Quickly access basic information on the history of the British Isles from this reliable resource. A Dictionary of British and Irish History provides concise information covering all...

In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary primary sources with sociological and anthropological methods,...

The February 2020 general election in the Republic of Ireland sent shockwaves through the country's political system. Sinn Fein, ahead of all other parties in terms of first preference votes, secured its place as a potential coalition partner, a role it...

This is the first dedicated biography of the extraordinary Irish woman, Eva Gore-Booth. Gore-Booth rejected her aristocratic heritage choosing to live and work amongst the poorest classes in industrial Manchester. Her work on behalf of barmaids, circus...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898876076Author Brian ManningFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint BookmarksPublisher BookmarksWeight(grams) 298g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846821363Author Frances McGeeFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 368g

The first complete introduction to the subject ever published, A History of Irish Thought presents an inclusive survey of Irish thought and the history of Irish ideas against the backdrop of current political and social change in Ireland.Clearly written...

Illustrated with exceptionally high quality archive photographs, many previously unpublished, this is both a striking visual work and a controversial history of the one of Ireland's most well-known areas. For many years, the scenic side of the town has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250060020Author Neil HegartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 590g

The young George III was a poignant figure, humdrum on the surface yet turbulent beneath: hiding his own passions, he tried hard to be a father to his siblings and his nation. This intimate, fast-moving book tells their intertwined stories. His sisters...

This is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism. It traces the development of Ribbonism from its origins in the Defender movement of the 1790s until the latter part of the century when the remnants of the Ribbon tradition found solace in the...

In the first major work on the subject for over 30 years, Nancy Edwards provides a critical survey of the archaeological evidence in Ireland (c. 400-1200), introducing material from many recently discovered sites as well as reassessing the importance of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934392Author Patrick O'Sullivan GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510264Author Conor LuceyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

In this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn looks at his experience of contracting polio as a child in the context of a new pandemic, that of COVID-19. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953928750Author Jeffrey DudgeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Belfast PressPublisher Belfast Press