Ireland

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250032171Author Fellow John KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm *...

Haunted Bray is a series of supernatural accounts of happenings in Bray and the surrounding areas. The stories have been collected by the author over a number of years from local residents, through a series of interviews and investigations. The author...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840333688Author Hugh OramFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

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...

Despite the ease with which scholars have used the term ""memory"" in re cent decades, its definition remains enigmatic. Does cultural memory rely on the memories of individuals, or does it take shape beyond the borders of the individual mind? Cultural...

The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. Each volume is introduced by Fearghal McGarry who sets the scene of this important period in...

The lifeboats of Valentia have been in service since 1946, when the volunteer crew were summoned to action by the firing of maroon flares. Dick Robinson has been associated with the lifeboat station for almost sixty of those years, firstly as a child...

Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to America, Gustave de Beaumont traveled through Ireland in the mid-1830s to observe its people and society. In Ireland, he chronicles the history of the Irish and offers up a national portrait on the...

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

'How do such people, with brilliant members and dull ones, fare when they pass from being a dominant minority to being a powerless one?' So asked the Kilkenny man-of-letters Hubert Butler (1900-1991) when considering the fate of Southern Protestants...

The historian A. T. Q. Stewart once remarked that in Ireland all history is applied history-that is, the study of the past prosecutes political conflict by other means. Indeed, nearly twenty years after the 1998 Belfast Agreement, "dealing with the...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Beggars and begging were ubiquitous features of pre-Famine Irish society, yet have gone largely unexamined by historians. This book...

In the 1870s and 1880s, as the United Kingdom avidly built its empire in Asia and Africa, its rampant expansionism came under the scrutiny of its first and oldest colony, Ireland. Some Irish considered themselves loyal subjects and proud participants in...

Irish Ethnologies gives an overview of the field of Irish ethnology, covering representative topics of institutional history and methodology, as well as case studies dealing with religion, ethnicity, memory, development, folk music, and traditional...

"Military Aviation in Ireland" charts the history of the Air Corps from its early days as the Military Air Service established by Michael Collins in 1922 to the ineffective air operations conducted during the Second World War period. The Air Service came...

An 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...

This book is based on original research into intimidation and violence directed at civilians by combatants during the revolutionary period in Ireland, considering this from the perspectives of the British, the Free State and the IRA.The book combines...

Based on extensive archival research this book situates the Irish civil war in the general process of decolonization in the twentieth century, and explains why divisions over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 proved so formative in the development of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510356Author Oonagh B BreenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829864Author Joseph BradyFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 1200gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952191312Author Matt ClaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint Refora PublicationsPublisher Refora PublicationsWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

These essays by Ireland's leading economic historian range widely over topics associated with the Ireland's Great Famine of 1846-52. The famine was the defining event of nineteenth-century Irish history, and nineteenth-century Europe's greatest natural...

Provides a thorough examination of the role of women in Ascendancy Ireland. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth century was a period of great social and political change within Ireland, as the Protestant Ascendancy gained control of the country,...

This is a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of the Northern Ireland conflict and how they lived out the months, years and decades in Irish and English maximum security prisons.Erupting in...

For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the...

Derry is the second largest city in Northern Ireland and has had a Catholic majority since 1850. It was witness to some of the most important events of the civil rights movement and the Troubles. Derry City examines Catholic Derry from the turn of the...

Between the years 1778 and 1784, groups that had previously been excluded from the Irish political sphere - women, Catholics, lower-class Protestants, farmers, shopkeepers, and other members of the labouring and agrarian classes - began to imagine...

All they wanted was land: land for crofting and land on which to build a house. In 1908, ten desperate men from the islands of Barra and Mingulay in the Western Isles were imprisoned in Edinburgh for refusing to leave the island of Vatersay, where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846827556Author Ciaran J. DevlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

In this comprehensive history of the Irish Boundary Commission, Paul Murray looks at British attempts from 1886 on to satisfy the Irish Nationalist demand for Home Rule, Ulster and British Unionist resistance to this demand, the 1920 partition of Ireland...

The present-day Irish Republic was created by a revolutionary elite which developed between 1858 and 1900. This book analyses the social origins of the revolutionaries who became rulers of Ireland after 1921, and examines their political ideologies and...

Wars of Words is the first comprehensive survey of the politics of language in Ireland during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Challenging received notions, Tony Crowley presents a complex, fascinating, and often surprising history which has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916492226Author Salvador RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780950548869Author Douglas BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 105Imprint Dublin City CouncilPublisher Dublin City Council

Histories of the Irish Future is an intellectual history of Ireland and a history of Irish crises viewed through the eyes of twelve key writers: William Petty, William Molyneux, Edmund Burke, Thomas Malthus, Richard Whately, Friedrich Engels, John...

Winner of the 2021 National University of Ireland's Publication Prize in Irish History.Highly Commended, 2020 British Association for Irish Studies Book prize.This book provides the first detailed analysis of the influence of former Irish Parliamentary...

Take a trip along the Dodder and see the two suburbs nestling on its banks. The growth and development of both Rathgar and Churchtown, on opposite banks of the river, given an intimate view on the development of Dublin and Ireland through the centuries:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934347Author Dermot MeleadyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell