Ireland

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 LtdDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788551731Author Catherine KilBrideFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510899Author Jane FenlonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Ireland's Easter Rising of 1916 is one of the handful of modern historical events that instantly created its own mythology and changed millions of lives forever. Charles Townshend's remarkable new book vividly re-creates this extraordinary time when a...

In 1919, Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland noted that "there is a path of fatality which pursues the relations between the two countries and makes them eternally at cross purposes." For better or worse,...

Protecting the Empire's Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial period from 1767 through 1776. The Royal Irish was one of...

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...

This book is the product of Donald Akenson's decades of research and writing on Irish social history and its relationship to the Irish diaspora - it is also the product of a lifetime of trying to figure out where Swedish-America actually came from, and...

This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration...

This is a comprehensive and scholarly study of socialist republicanism in independent Ireland between the wars. The 1934 Republican Congress movement exemplified the socialist republican stance, holding that `a Republic of a united Ireland will never be...

Nature in Ireland is an indispensable reference source, containing definitive histories of Irish botany, mammalogy, entomology, fish and fisheries, geology, meteorology, ornithology, woodlands, demesnes, and bogs. The essays reclaim the study of nature...

Winner: Joseph Brant Award (2014), Ontario Historical Society Winner: Clio Prize (Ontario) (2014), Canadian Historical Association Winner: The James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize (2014), American Conference for Irish Studies Winner: Geographical Society of...

Colonel Edward Saunderson, the original leader of Irish Unionism, and the most prominent defender of Irish landlords in the late nineteenth century, has suffered undue neglect. This book, the first detailed account of his life to appear since the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198217442Author T. W. MoodyFormat HardbackPage Count 602Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884836978Author David R.C. HudsonFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint The University of Akron PressPublisher The University of Akron PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250056597Author Peter HarbisonFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Thomas Dunne BooksPublisher Thomas Dunne BooksWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm) 282mm...

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

In 1728, in the wake of his father's death, the twelve-year-old heir to five aristocratic titles and the scion of Ireland's mighty house of Annesley was kidnapped by his uncle and shipped to America as an indentured servant. Only after twelve more years...

Was pre-Famine and Famine Ireland a violent society? The dominant view among a range of commentators at the time, and in the work of many historians since, is that violence was both prevalent and pervasive in the social and cultural life of the country...

The focus of this study is the poor law system, and the people who used it. Introduced in 1838, the Irish poor law established a nationwide system of poor relief that was administered and financed locally. This book provides the first detailed,...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.The theme of this book is cultural encounter and exchange in Irish women's lives. Using three case studies: the Enlightenment, emigration and...

Since the onset of the troubles in the late 1960s, people in Northern Ireland have been working together to bring about a peaceful, non-violent end to the conflict. In doing so, they have used their efforts as a means to support the transition to a...

This book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the city's greatest growth, between the 1830s and the 1880s. Using extensive primary material including personal correspondence, memoirs, diaries and...

This is a comprehensive and nuanced historical survey of the death penalty in Ireland from the immediate post-civil war period through to its complete abolition. Using original archival material, this book sheds light on the various social, legal and...

This volume of essays explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. This century saw a dramatic transition in literacy levels and in the education and language practices of the Irish population, yet the...

The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s left a profound impact on Irish culture, as recent ground-breaking historical and literary research has revealed. Less well documented and explored, however, is the relationship of the Famine and related experiences...

Urban spaces in nineteenth-century Ireland is a wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays, which offers new insights on the Irish urban experience. Adopting a spatial approach, the essays presented in this collection move beyond study of events...

This is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 1790s to the latter part of the century when the remnants of the Ribbon tradition found solace in a new...

Maeve O'Riordan opens the doors of the country house (or the big house as it is often referred to) in Ireland to reveal the lives of women among the Irish ascendancy. Drawing on personal records from twelve different families, the reader is provided with...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Moving Histories is an original and enlightening book which details the lives of women who left Ireland after independence. Drawing on a wide...

The study of crime and violence in all its multifarious forms remains one of the most productive areas of enquiry for Irish historians. Considered an inordinately violent and unruly society by many contemporaries, nineteenth-century Ireland was notorious...

This book is the first comprehensive history of medical student culture and medical education in Ireland from the middle of the nineteenth century until the 1950s. Utilising a variety of rich sources, including novels, newspapers, student magazines,...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. This book represents the first interdisciplinary study of how memory has driven and challenged the political transition of...

Two Irelands beyond the Sea: Ulster Unionism and America, 1880-1920 uncovers the transnational movement by Ireland's unionists as they worked to maintain the Union with Great Britain during the Home Rule era of Irish history. Overshadowed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780722352946Author Michael SheaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Arthur H.Stockwell LtdPublisher Andrews UK Limited

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

It has often been argued that 'modern' leisure was born in the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War One. Then, it has been suggested, that if leisure was not 'invented' its forms and meanings changed. Despite the recent...

First published in 1975. In 1869 the Church of Ireland, until then part of the Church of England, was disestablished and partially disendowed. The author traces the changes in the Church of Ireland's organization and function and the decline of its...

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...