Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Tom, Ned and Kitty: An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family by Eliza Pakenham
RRP: $23.08$15.54'I am standing in the dining room of my father's house in Ireland, gazing up at ten Pakenham family portraits. What thoughts went on behind those passive, chalky faces? How can I bring them out of the shadows?'Eliza Pakenham, granddaughter of the seventh... -
Working Class Heroines: The Extraordinary Women of Dublin’s Tenements by Kevin C. Kearns 9780717183517
$39.63In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublin's tenements. If it weren't for his work the lives of these everyday heroines would be lost forever. Based on 30 years of research spent... -
A New History of Ireland, Volume IV: Eighteenth Century Ireland 1691-1800 by T. W. Moody 9780199563722
$160.61A 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... -
Haulbowline: The Naval Base & Ships of Cork Harbour by Daire Brunicardi
RRP: $41.98$31.54From the first proposal that Cork Harbour was more suitable as a naval base than Kinsale, development began which would continue for almost 200 years. This book outlines that history, from the development of Haulbowline Island, and covering its many... -
Irish Tweed: History, Tradition, Fashion by Vawn Corrigan 9781788490214
RRP: $25.18$20.35'To be human is to be involved with cloth.' Irish Tweed explores the history, the traditions, the patterns, the fashions and the legacy of Ireland's distinctive, natural woven fabric. Arising from ancient woven traditions of brat (cloak), leine... -
Killasser: Heritage of a Mayo Parish by Bernard O'Hara 9780985075316
$38.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985075316Author Bernard O'HaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Tudor Gate PressPublisher Tudor Gate PressWeight(grams) 178g -
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941): Artist, Social Campaigner and City Councillor by Margarita Cappock 9781838463519
$58.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838463519Author Margarita CappockFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Dublin City Public LibrariesPublisher Dublin City Public Libraries -
From the Grand Canal to the Dodder: Illustrious Lives by Beatrice Doran
RRP: $42.00$31.58The Dublin suburbs situated between the Grand Canal and the River Dodder consist of distinct neighbourhoods, each with their own character and style. It is an area that was, and continues to be, home to poets, writers, artists, politicians and academics,... -
The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary by Sir Roger Casement 9781900621991
RRP: $50.40$47.84In 1903, Roger Casement, then a British consul, left his consular base on the Lower Congo River and made a journey through the regions of the Upper Congo to investigate at first hand reports of alleged atrocities. His subsequent report was a crucial... -
Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland's Patron Saint by Dr. Roy Flechner 9780691184647
$60.61A 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... -
Ireland and the Picturesque: Design, Landscape Painting, and Tourism, 1700-1840 by Finola O'Kane
RRP: $94.50$82.38That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted, and manipulated during the long 18th century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque's development and argues for... -
Frank Aiken's War: The Irish Revolution, 1916-23 by Matthew Lewis 9781906359829
RRP: $50.40$48.03From an adolescent farmer to a local Sinn Fein activist and provincial guerrilla leader, and eventually to chief-of-staff of the IRA, Frank Aiken has an early, hidden history. As with so many of his political generation, Aiken's path to politics began... -
Rosamond Jacob: Third Person Singular by Leeann Lane 9781906359546
RRP: $53.55$50.86Born in Waterford in 1888 Rosamond Jacob, of Quaker background, was in many cases a crowd member rather than a leader in the campaigns in which she participated - the turn of the century language revival, the suffrage campaign, the campaigns of the... -
The I.R.A. at War 1916-1923 by Peter Hart 9780199277865
RRP: $104.98$88.68Between 1916 and 1923, Ireland experienced rebellion and mass mobilization, guerrilla and civil war, partition and ethnic conflict, and the transfer of power from British to Irish governments. The essays in The I.R.A. at War propose a new history of this... -
The Hidden Famine: Hunger, Poverty and Sectarianism in Belfast 1840-50 by Prof. Christine Kinealy 9780745313719
$63.69Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland was devastated by the 'Great Hunger' – the most severe famine in modern European history. The view widely held by historians is that the impact of the Famine on the northern province of Ulster, in particular the largely... -
The Little Book of Merrion and Booterstown by Hugh Oram 9780750987660
RRP: $31.48$24.26Merrion and Booterstown is a noted residential area on Dublin's south side, close to Dublin Bay. Its leafy streets cover a multitude of historical connections. A reliable reference book, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new... -
Terence O'Neill by Marc Mulholland 9781906359751
RRP: $29.40$28.94Terence O'Neill came to power as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1963 with a bold plan to 'literally transform the face of Ulster'. For the next six years O'Neill proved himself to be Stormont's most controversial leader. Though born of the gentry,... -
Intellectual Disability and Ireland, 1947–1996: Towards A Full Life? by David Kilgannon 9781837644414
RRP: $62.98$57.50An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Intellectual Disability and Ireland, 1947-1996 explores the varied experiences of the intellectually disabled during the latter half of the... -
The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History by Eric P. Kaufmann 9780199208487
RRP: $203.70$177.98Based on unprecedented access to the Order's internal documents, this book provides the first systematic social history of the Orange Order - the Protestant association dedicated to maintaining the British connection in Northern Ireland. Kaufmann charts... -
Four Sisters: The History of Ringsend, Irishtown, Sandymount and Merrion by Kurt Kullmann 9780750984355
RRP: $37.78$28.64This book traces the development of the four coastal villages - often referred to as 'the Four Sisters' - that make up the eastern part Dublin 4 from their foundation to the present day. Richly illustrated with modern and historic images, this work looks... -
Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland by Richard Rankin Russell
RRP: $73.50$65.39Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal Northern Review. In Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley,... -
Material Conflicts by Neil Jarman 9781859731291
RRP: $75.58$66.55The deep and abiding sectarian divide splintering Northern Ireland has been the focus of considerable attention recently. In particular, the role parades and visual displays play in underscoring opposition has come into the spotlight with the emergence... -
Ireland and the Great War: 'A War to Unite Us All'? by Adrian Gregory 9780719059254
RRP: $41.98$37.42As the twentieth century drew to a close, people in all parts of Ireland began to recover the memory of the First World War as the last great common experience of the island as a whole. Brings together research whilst re-evaluating older assumptions... -
The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: The 1590s Crisis by John McGurk 9780719080517
RRP: $41.98$36.98This book is about the impact of the Nine Years' War on central and local government and society in the English and Welsh shires in the 1590s. It contains fascinating new insights into the centrality of Ireland to England's problems in the crucial last... -
The Civil Service and the Revolution in Ireland 1912-1938: 'shaking the Blood-Stained Hand of Mr Collins' by Martin Maguire 9780719081941
RRP: $41.98$36.98This book is a history of the Irish civil service and its response to revolutionary changes in the State. It examines the response of the civil service to the threat of partition, World War, the emergence of the revolutionary forces of Dail Eireann and... -
Sport and Ireland: A History by Paul Rouse 9780198745907
RRP: $111.30$76.00This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland demonstrates that there are aspects of Ireland's sporting history... -
Political Violence in Ireland: Government and Resistance since 1848 by Charles Townshend 9780198200840
$83.24In this widely acclaimed study, Charles Townshend reexamines the historical circumstances that generated violence as a habitual part of political dialogue in Ireland. Drawing on an extensive range of original sources, he describes and analyzes the... -
A Labour History of Ireland 1824-2000 by Emmet O Connor 9781906359560
RRP: $50.40$48.03This is a new edition of Emmet O'Connor's classic and pioneering work on Irish labour history, providing an introduction for the general reader and a synopsis for the specialist. The first edition, which covered 1824 to 1960, has been updated to 2000... -
Changing Land: Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War by Niall Whelehan
RRP: $50.38$43.76How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established... -
Bobby Sands: Freedom Fighter by Gerry Hunt
RRP: $29.38$24.23Bobby 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... -
Transhumance and the Making of Ireland`s Uplands, 1550-1900 by Eugene Costello
RRP: $168.00$160.88First full survey of how transhumance operated in Ireland from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. WINNER: American Conference for Irish Studies Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book 2021 Special Commendation,... -
Ireland: The Twentieth Century by Charles Townshend 9780340663356
$82.13Ireland in the twentieth century has had a very different history from that of most other western European countries. The two most profound shocks of the century, the world wars, met Ireland obliquely rather than head-on. Partition and civil war, on the... -
Clan Kinsella's History of Ireland by John Kinsella 9780976115717
$30.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976115717Author John KinsellaFormat PaperbackImprint Old Baldy PressPublisher Old Baldy PressWeight(grams) 680g -
Fighters of Derry: Their Deeds and Descendants, Being a Chronicle of Events in Ireland During the Revolutionary Period, 1688-91 by William R Young 9781910375082
RRP: $48.28$44.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375082Author William R YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Books UlsterPublisher Books UlsterWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *... -
Puck Fair: A History by Sean Moraghan 9781845888008
RRP: $31.48$24.26Puck Fair, Ireland's oldest festival, was established by a royal patent in October 1613, granted to the Welsh planter, Jenkyn Conway, of Killorglin. It first became a famous, however, as a result of the parading and display of a male goat, which is... -
Climate and Society in Ireland by James Kelly
$65.81Can a long-term perspective on human adaptations to climate change inform Ireland's response to the crisis we face today? Climate and Society in Ireland is a collection of essays, commissioned by the Royal Irish Academy, that provides a multi-period,... -
Family histories of the Irish Revolution by Sarah-Anne Buckley 9781846826825
$47.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826825Author Sarah-Anne BuckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Open AirPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 700g -
Moygara Castle, County Sligo, and the O'Garas of Coolavin by Kieran O'Conor 9781846827976
$84.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846827976Author Kieran O'ConorFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Commanders of the British Forces in Ireland, 1796-1922 by Tony Gaynor
RRP: $105.00$104.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510370Author Tony GaynorFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Ireland & Postcolonial Theory by Carroll & King 9780268022877
$56.47This timely volume is a collection of essays by accomplished scholars who convincingly argue for the relevance of postcolonial theory in Ireland. Ireland and Postcolonial Theory fuses scholarship, politics, and culture, generating a forceful and radical...