Ireland

The history of the Irish republican movement is dominated by the story of the men who took up arms in Ireland's fight for freedom against the British. The names of men like Pearse, Connolly, Collins and Barry still resonate today as heroes who won...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846827020Author Jim HerlihyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Open AirPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780716525035Author Lawrence J. ArnoldFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

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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...

The Norman invasion of Ireland (1169) did not result in a complete conquest, and those native Irish chieftains who retained independent control of their territories achieved a recovery of power in the later middle ages. Katharine Simms studies the...

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...

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...

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

Jamie Moynihan had the unique distinction of being officer commanding the group of Volunteers who carried out the FIRST armed attack on crown forces in Ireland during the War of Independence, at the Mouth of the Glen, in Muskerry, on 7 July 1918, and...

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...

The remarkable story of how modern Irish music was shaped and spread through the brash efforts of a Chicago police chief. Irish music as we know it today was invented not only in the cobbled lanes of Dublin or the green fields of County Kerry but in...

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 Irish battle for legal contraception was a contest over Irish exceptionalism: the belief that Ireland could resist global trends despite the impact of second-wave feminism, falling fertility, and a growing number of women travelling for abortion. It...

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 9781955835367Author Sara DayFormat HardbackPage Count 610Imprint New Academia Publishing, LLCPublisher New Academia Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 962g

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...

A significant body of scholarship addresses pre-Norman Irish life and history, including the archaeology, art, and architecture from the time of St. Patrick (d. 493) to the arrival of the Normans in the twelfth century. While the place of the church and...

In this, the first fully documented study of British and Irish popular reactions to the outbreak of the First World War, Catriona Pennell explores UK public opinion of the time, successfully challenging post-war constructions of 'war enthusiasm' in the...

Until surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the...

Bobby Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze. He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special...

Newgrange is simply the best example of a passage tomb in Western Europe and its solstice phenomenon, in particular, has made it famous throughout the world. It is also conveniently located only an hour from Dublin. While it is the best-known ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916742673Author Las FallonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

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...

Scholar and statesman Conor Cruise O'Brien illuminates why peace has been so elusive in Northern Ireland. He explains the conflation of religion and nation through Irish history into our own time. Using his life as a prism through which he interprets...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773526709Author Richard KilleenFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University Press

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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,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510912Author Daniel Patrick CurleyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541601543Author Padraic X ScanlanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm *...

Conflict is a well-trod theme in the study of nineteenth-century Ireland and 'the Irish'. While this is especially clear in the more traditional fields of politics, religion and the military, conflict was equally manifest in every arena of Irish people's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785375477Author Jonathan TriggFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780901510969Author Liam Mac MathunaFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint National University of IrelandPublisher National University of Ireland

How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of contemporary fourth wave feminism? Women's Troubles sets out to answer these questions using rich empirical data and...