Ireland

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...

The Great Famine in Ireland was a catastrophe of immense proportions. Eviction, emigration and death from starvation were widespread. Landlords, eager to dispose of `surplus' tenants, engaged in `assisted passages', whereby tenants were given financial...

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 9781952191312Author Matt ClaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Refora PublicationsPublisher Refora PublicationsWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A gritty graphic novel about Ireland's Great Hunger. Jack and his family have been evicted by their landlord and given one way tickets to the USA. They refuse to leave Ireland, unknowingly placing themselves in grave peril. When Jack falls in with a...

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 9780385418492Author Thomas CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385418492Author Thomas CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

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 explores the psychic, cultural and political ramifications of memory within the Irish Troubles. It investigates the traumatic impact of the violence perpetrated since 1969; the antagonistic cultural narratives of memory fashioned and mobilised...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088188989Author Assembly of IrelandFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 95g

On the morning of 15th May, 1922, over 1,000 recruits of the newly established Civic Guard suddenly broke ranks during Commissioner Michael Staines' TD address at Morning Parade in the training depot at Kildare Barracks. The recruits immediately set...

From Partition to Brexit is the first book to chart the political and ideological evolution of Irish government policy towards Northern Ireland from the partition of the country in 1921 to the present day. Based on extensive original research, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162514Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

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...

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 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 9781250060020Author Neil HegartyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martins Press-3plPublisher St. Martins Press-3plWeight(grams) 590g

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

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

As Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early 20th century, a clear delineation was made between what was "authentically" Irish and what was considered to be English influence. As a member of the Anglo-Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828225Author Billy ColferFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Renaissance Galway is the next ancillary publication from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. The subject of the book is the remarkable 'pictorial map' of Galway, which was produced in the mid-seventeenth century. It offers a bird's eye view of Galway city...

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...

"Land, Popular Politics and Agrarian Violence in Ireland" provides an original and insightful study of the highly formative Land War and Home Rule from a local and regional perspective. Lucey examines the emergence and development of the...

This work details traces the origins, development and impact of the proselytizing organization, the Society for Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics, from its Protestant foundation during the famine of 1845-47 to the early decades of Irish Free...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826597Author Adrian GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

At seventeen, Bobby Sands was interested in girls, soccer, and music. Ten years later he led his fellow prisoners on a protest against repressive conditions in Northern Ireland's H-Block prisons that grabbed the world's attention. After sixty-six days of...

The conflict in Northern Ireland since 1969 has cost over 3,600 lives and about 100,000 people in Northern Ireland live in a household where someone has been injured in a troubles-related incident. This has been a key issue in British and Irish politics...

The rebellion that set Ireland free, told as a graphic novel. The 1916 Easter Rising was an attempt by a small group of militant Irish republicans to win independence from Britain. It was the most significant rebellion in Ireland. Though a military...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914470011Author Dr Edith AdreesFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Wordwell BooksPublisher Wordwell Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914312564Author History Brought AliveFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Thomas William SwainPublisher Thomas William SwainWeight(grams)...

On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it...

Belfast Politics, arguably one of the most important texts in modern Irish history, appeared in 1794 as a collection of twenty essays outlining a moderate political position in the increasingly polarised politics of 1790s Ireland. It contains the seeds...

England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511216Author Harman MurtaghFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 1200g

A tragic fire at the Stardust nightclub on Valentine's Day, 1981 in a working-class suburb of Dublin caused the deaths of 48 young people, with an average age of just 19 years. After years of families and survivors fighting to find out what really...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511179Author Edel Bhreathnach Format HardbackPage Count 540Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510806Author Donal HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

The key turning point in modern Ireland's history, the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 has shadowed Ireland's political life for decades. In this first book-length assessment of the treaty in over seventy years, Jason Knirck recounts the compelling story of...