Ireland

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312294168Author Tim Pat CooganFormat PaperbackPage Count 864Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 1202gDimensions(mm)...

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

This book is a definitive examination of higher education: locating it in a wider neo-liberal context involving the state and the market, with a specific focus on recent higher policy and on the elite group of senior managers in universities. Written in...

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...

Since 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 partition of Ireland created two states embodying rival ideologies and representing two hostile peoples. This book concerns the revolution which prompted partition, and the legacies of that revolution for the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. ...

The partition of Ireland created two states embodying rival ideologies and representing two hostile peoples. This book concerns the revolution which prompted partition, and the legacies of that revolution for the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. ...

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...

The actions of Irish nationalists in Britain are often characterised as a 'sideshow' to the revolutionary events in Ireland between 1912 and 1922. This original study argues, conversely, that Irish nationalism in Britain was integral to contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995663046Author David Leahy M ScFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint David LeahyPublisher David LeahyWeight(grams) 1520g

Cork Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in the world. It is a historical wonder, surrounded by villages, forts, towers and churches, all of which combine to tell the colourful story of Ireland's largest county. A reliable reference book and a...

Taking the years 1800-1920, the book considers the four Home Rule Bills and discusses the role of leading figures such as Charles Stewart Parnell and Isaac Butt. This is a careful study of the rise in political consciousness- it addresses the...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375280Author Derek a RowlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Books UlsterPublisher Books UlsterWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

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The French revolution had an electrifying impact on Irish society. The 1790s saw the birth of modern Irish republicanism and Orangeism, whose antagonism remains a defining feature of Irish political life. The 1790s also saw the birth of a new approach to...

Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) was the founder of Irish Republican nationalism. As such his political ideas and the circumstances of his life and early death have become powerful political weapons in the hands of later nationalists. Today his name still...

This fascinating book provides a detailed account of the history of maternity and child welfare in Dublin between 1922 and 1960. In so doing it places maternity and child welfare in the context of twentieth-century Irish history, offering one of the only...

In this pioneering study of the material culture of Stuart and Hanoverian Ireland, Toby Barnard reveals a hitherto unsuspected richness and diversity of lifestyle, habitat and mentality. Like its much-praised predecessor, 'A New Anatomy of Ireland', it...

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...