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The Optickal Illusion by Rachel Halliburton
RRP: £8.99£6.68In The Optickal Illusion, Rachel Halliburton's meticulous recreation of Georgian society reveals the sordid details of a genuine scandal that deceived the British Royal Academy. Her debut novel questions the lengths women must go to make their mark... -
For the Liberty of Ireland, at Home and Abroad the Autobiography of J. F. X. O'Brien by J. F. X. O'Brien 9781904558996
RRP: £17.00£16.51James Francis Xavier O'Brien is best known as a Fenian and member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, but his autobiography reveals an exciting life of bohemian travel before he entered nationalist politics. Born in Waterford, the young O'Brien studied in... -
Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World: Perspectives from the Late Medieval through Modern Periods by Lorna G. Barrow 9781743327159
RRP: £26.99£18.44Memory and Foresight in the Celtic World delves deep into the experience of Celtic communities and individuals in the late medieval period through to the modern age. Its thirteen essays range widely, from Scottish soldiers in France in the fifteenth... -
Following in Father's Footsteps: Social Mobility in Ireland by Michael Hout 9780674307285
RRP: £41.95£34.00This is the first systematic study of patterns of social mobility in Ireland. It covers a recent period-the 1960s-when Ireland was undergoing rapid economic growth and modernization. The author thus was able to test the widely accepted hypothesis that... -
The Development of Child Protection Law and Policy: Children, Risk and Modernities by Kieran Walsh
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk. The book traces the evolution of the contemporary child protection system through historical changes,... -
America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History by Francis M. Carroll
RRP: £29.99£24.54Examines how the Irish American community, the American public, and the American government played a crucial role in the making of a sovereign independent Ireland On Easter Day 1916, more than a thousand Irishmen stormed Dublin city center, seizing the... -
Histories of the Irish Future by Professor Bryan Fanning
£30.16Histories 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... -
Becoming Conspicuous: Irish Travellers, Society and the State, 1922-70 by Aoife Bhreatnach 9781904558613
RRP: £22.00£21.05In this first comprehensive and accessible history of Travellers in twentieth-century Ireland, Aoife Bhreatnach describes the people who travelled Irish roads, showing how and why they were distinguishable from settled people. She demonstrates that the... -
The Last Armada: Queen Elizabeth, Juan del Águila, and Hugh O'Neill: The Story of the 100-Day Spanish Invasion by Des Ekin 9781681773520
RRP: £16.95£10.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681773520Author Des EkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm * 33mm -
The College: The Irish Military College, 1930-2000 by Tom Hodson 9781845888992
RRP: £20.00£15.44Since its establishment in 1930 the Irish Military College has had a vital influence on not only the Defence Forces but on the nation. It has formed all of the nation's commissioned officers, many of whom have achieved distinction both within and outside... -
Roscommon: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 by John Burke 9781846828072
£33.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828072Author John BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Precarious Childhood in Post-Independence Ireland by Moira Maguire 9780719087745
RRP: £19.99£17.61This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to cherish and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them. It examines closely the history of childhood... -
Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History by Cormac O Grada 9780691127194
RRP: £65.00£50.91James Joyce's Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother--may have turned the world's literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look to him for history should think again. He could... -
The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745 by Mr. Toby Barnard
RRP: £95.00£84.75Biographical studies of the two Dukes of Ormonde illuminate aspects of the operation of political power in seventeenth-century Ireland, and, on a wider European stage, the predicaments facing the nobility. A valuable insight into the political and... -
'Miserable Conflict and Confusion': The Irish Question and the British National Press, 1916-1922 by Erin Kate Scheopner
£111.51This book investigates the way the British national press covered Ireland and the 'Irish question' from the aftermath of the Easter Rising in 1916 to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in 1922. Bridging the fields of history and media studies, it... -
Whose Mission, Whose Orders?: British Civil-Military Command and Control in Northern Ireland, 1968-1974 by David A. Charters
RRP: £34.00£30.29The 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended the conflict in Northern Ireland left intriguing questions unanswered: who made the crucial decisions about the use of the British Army during the Troubles - the politicians or the generals? And how did these... -
Medieval Dublin XIX by Sean Duffy 9781846829666
RRP: £24.95£24.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829666Author Sean DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 700gDimensions(mm)... -
Antrim: The Irish Revolution series, 1912-23 by Brian Feeney
£35.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828607Author Brian FeeneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 600g -
Land and Liberalism: Henry George and the Irish Land War by Andrew Phemister 9781009202893
RRP: £85.00£77.00Irish land in the 1880s was a site of ideological conflict, with resonances for liberal politics far beyond Ireland itself. The Irish Land War, internationalised partly through the influence of Henry George, the American social reformer and political... -
Political Conflict in East Ulster, 1920-22 - Revolution and Reprisal by Christopher Magill
RRP: £80.00£76.61Reassesses the context in which the state of Northern Ireland was created. Most studies of the Irish Revolution focus on republican violence and on the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. This book, on the other hand, based on extensive... -
Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland by Malachy McCourt 9780762431816
£14.76New York Times best-selling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted storyteller. The pages are populated with figures from... -
Medicine and Charity in Ireland 1718-1851 by Laurence M. Geary 9781904558187
RRP: £24.00£22.87In this illuminating social history of medicine and charity in Ireland over almost 150 years from 1718 until just after the Great Famine, Laurence M. Geary shows how illness and poverty reacted upon each other. The poverty resulting from great population... -
Foxrock Miscellany by Foxrock Local History Club 9781845887346
RRP: £14.99£11.55From a detailed account of a German Spy in South County Dublin, to the great engineer William Dargan whose legacy was the railway system that still traverses the country, this wonderful book by the Foxrock local history society explores the achievements,... -
Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and War by Katrina Goldstone
RRP: £39.99£35.06This original study focusing on four Irish writers - Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers - retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front... -
The Secret Court Martial Records of the Easter Rising by Brian Barton 9780750950633
£24.49Until 1999 official British records of the fifteen trials that followed the Easter Rising of 1916 were kept a close secret. Further material released in 2001 included the trial of Countess Markievicz and important evidence about the 'shoot to kill'... -
Edward Carson QC by Edward Marjoribanks 9780956774507
£20.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956774507Author Edward MarjoribanksFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint The House of EmsliePublisher The House of Emslie -
The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Volume 3: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798) by T. W. Moody 9780198208808
RRP: £43.49£41.58This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the... -
Nineteenth-century Ireland: A Guide to Recent Research by Laurence M. Geary 9781904558286
RRP: £24.00£22.87Interest in nineteenth-century studies has never been greater, and contrasts sharply with previous neglect of many aspects of that century's history and culture. These essays by leading scholars assess and interpret developments from 1990 onwards in the... -
Safety as We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998: 2022 by Declan Warde
RRP: £27.99£23.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934231Author Declan WardeFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell -
Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821a 1824 by James S Donnelly Jr 9780299233143
RRP: £34.95£25.24Named for its mythical leader "Captain Rock," avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821-24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the... -
Global Ireland: Same Difference by Tom Inglis
RRP: £37.99£33.38Global Ireland offers a concise synthesis of globalization's dramatic impact on Ireland. In the past fifteen years, Ireland has transformed from a sleepy and depressed European backwater to the 'emerald tiger', a country with a booming economy based on... -
Wetlands of Ireland: Distribution, Ecology, Uses and Economic Value by Marinus L. Otte 9781900621892
RRP: £25.50£24.22Ireland is famous - or notorious - for its wet and mild climate. Because on average more water precipitates than evaporates, the island is rich in wetlands - marshes, swamps, fens, bogs, lagoons, floodplains and wet meadows, to name but a few. Many place... -
Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture by Stephen Howe 9780198208259
RRP: £102.50£101.35A growing band of historians, political commentators, and cultural critics has sought to analyse Ireland'past and present in colonial terms. For some, including Irish Republicans, it is the only proper framework for understanding Ireland. Others reject... -
Roots: Insights From the Tree Alphabet of Old Ireland by Olivia C Wylie 9781734327113
RRP: £28.00£24.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734327113Author Olivia C WylieFormat HardbackPage Count 114Imprint Olivia WyliePublisher Olivia WylieWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 11mm -
Shifting Sentiment: Press Opinion in Ireland's Revolutionary Decade 1914-23: 2023 by Dermot Meleady
RRP: £20.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934347Author Dermot MeleadyFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell -
Reinventing Modern Dublin: Streetscape, Iconography and the Politics of Identity by Dr Yvonne Whelan 9781900621861
RRP: £24.00£23.27Yvonne Whelan takes the reader from the contested iconography of Dublin as it evolved in the years before Independence through to the contemporary plans for the millennium spire on O'Connell Street, showing how a shift has taken place from an intensely... -
The Lead Mines: Ballycorus and Glendalough in the Nineteenth Century by Rob Goodbody 9781913934873
£24.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934873Author Rob GoodbodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell -
The Irish Boundary Commission and Its Origins 1886-1925 by Paul Murray 9781906359614
RRP: £25.50£24.62In 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... -
Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument by Emily Mark Fitzgerald 9781781381694
RRP: £27.50£24.95Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument presents for the first time a visual cultural history of the 1840s Irish Famine, tracing its representation and commemoration from the 19th century up to its 150th anniversary in the 1990s and... -
A New History of Ireland by Christine Kinealy
RRP: £12.99£9.62Christine Kinealy incorporates some of the most recent scholarship to explore the key developments and personalities that have helped to shape this country over 1500 years. From the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the twelfth century - which began...