Ireland

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about their future, in many different ways and contexts. It spans the long nineteenth century from c. 1800 to c...

This is a wide-ranging analysis of the internal dynamics of Irish republicanism between the outbreak of ‘the Troubles’ in 1969 and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. Engaging a vast array of hitherto unused primary sources alongside original and re-used...

In Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964), Polish critic Jan Kott defines one purpose of scholarship in the humanities that summarises the chief aim of this project: ‘The writing of history and, above all, literary criticism can, and must, always be...

This book offers a re-evaluation of the emergence, development and outcome of the peace process in Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with many of the key participants of the peace process, newly released archival material and the existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934583Author Pat DarganFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

For nearly four decades the conflict in Ireland has embittered relations between the communities living there and spoiled relations between the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain. For three decades it escalated, punctuated by periodic bloody clashes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904859901Author Harry BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 199g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859917247Author J. A. H. MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint D.S. BrewerPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 624g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828140Author Brid McGrathFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541703186Author Henry HemmingFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934729Author Susan RoundtreeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511162Author Philip FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

The Event and its Terrors undertakes a critical reimagining of one of the major events of Irish history-the Great Famine of the 1840s-and of its subsequent legacies. Drawing on a wide range of sources, past and present, it considers the emergence of the...

The decades after 1800 saw a fundamental redefinition of the role of the state in Ireland. Many of the most pervasive and enduring forms of official intervention and regulation date from this period, such as a permanent centralised police force, a system...

This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the...

This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the...

This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the...

The latter decades of the eighteenth century were for Ireland an era of momentous political development. This book surveys the social, economic, and intellectual background; indicates the links between Ireland and Great Britain and the rest of the...

This is the first full account of the role of the Irish Catholic Church in the Great Famine of 1846 and its aftermath. Donal Kerr shows how the Famine and the subsequent evictions led to rural violence and a spate of assassinations culminating in the...

Eighteenth-century Dublin contained the largest concentration of Protestants (c.70,000) in Ireland. Freemen of the guilds alone - who were entitled to a parliamentary vote - were almost as numerous as the entire landed class. These merchants, master...

When Patrick Pearse founded an Irish language school for boys in 1908 his aim was to create a modern, Irish male citizen from the ancient models of masculinity. Pearse's Patriots explores how the idea of a modern Irish boyhood was created at St. Enda's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780716525059Author W. J. McCormackFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

The Royal Historical Society's Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of books and articles on historical topics published in a single calendar year. It is available before the end of the...

An important text for scholars and students on an aspect of Irish society that has been inadequately covered elsewhere. Ireland is one of the nations of the western world in which industrialization was longest delayed. In these papers, sociologists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510783Author Gerard HanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510844Author Niamh HowlinFormat 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 9781801510950Author Denis CaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Drawing on over 150 interviews with former IRA, INLA, UVF and UFF prisoners, this is a major analysis of why Northern Ireland has seen a transition from war to peace. Most accounts of the peace process are 'top-down', relying upon the views of political...

The late nineteenth-century city acted as a magnet for the poor of rural Ireland, attracting them with the promise of employment and economic independence. For many, however, urban life meant economic precarity, marginalisation and destitution, with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465093953Author Sean ConnollyFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 152g

A towering figure in the history of Irish Quakerism, and friend of William Penn and William Edmundson, Anthony Sharp left England in 1669 to settle in Dublin and carve a place for himself in the woolen trade. As a businessman he succeeded brilliantly,...

This book represents the first study of the art of rhetoric in medieval Ireland, a culture often neglected by medieval rhetorical studies. In a series of three case studies, Brian Stone traces the textual transmission of rhetorical theories and practices...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911633266Author Fintan WalshFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII)Publisher Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829697Author Michael HannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 400g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829673Author Sean DuffyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 750g

This book explores advertising and consumer culture as key aspects of everyday life and national culture in twentieth-century Ireland. It makes a particular argument that the presence of anti-materialist rhetoric in some parts of Irish public life after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780950051260Author Ruth McmanusFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Dublin City Public LibrariesPublisher Dublin City Public Libraries

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934163Author Donal MccrackenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

This volume has been produced to mark the retirement of Roy Foster from the Carroll Professorship of Irish history at the University of Oxford, and to mark his extraordinary career as a historian, literary critic, and public intellectual. It consists of...

"This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an...