Ireland

This is an account of the Irish civil war and its aftermath in Co. Sligo. It covers the period from the truce to the end of the Civil War, and includes serious consideration of the social and economic aspects to the conflict.Reviews"a readable,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934644Author Darragh GannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

Examines 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...

Global 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...

Christine 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934194Author Colum KennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

The story of John Devoy's 1876 Catalpa rescue is a tale of heroism, creativity, and the triumph of independent spirit in pursuit of freedom. The daily log on board the whaling ship Catalpa begins with the typical recount of a crew intact and a spirit...

Until 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'...

This 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...

The dawning of peace in Northern Ireland has not brought with it much truth about what happened during'the long war'. Very few of the paramilitary leaders on either side have ever spoken candidly about their role in that bloody conflict. But here, in a...

Biographical 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...

Apologies 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

James 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...

In 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...

The political writings of Eva Gore-Booth brings together a fascinating array of material from this important Irish author and political activist. The volume includes a selection of letters, political pamphlets, newspaper articles and poetry relating to...

Irish 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...

Ireland 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595190157Author William DelanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 155mm * 37mm

Memory 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...

Since 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...

In 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...

In this innovative work, Alan Ward uses the pivotal event in twentieth-century Irish history as a prism through which to survey Irish history from the twelfth century to the present. By asking why the Easter Rising occurred, Ward is able to review the...

What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-seventeenth and the late-eighteenth centuries? In an account filled with entertaining episodes and memorable characters, Toby Barnard scrutinizes social attitudes and structures in every segment of...

This 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510226Author Colman O ClabaighFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934231Author Declan WardeFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell

New 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...

A 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908928313Author Dermot MeleadyFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press

This 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934873Author Rob GoodbodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

In 1956, a group of 548 refugees escaping the violence of the Hungarian Revolution arrived on the shores of Ireland. With its own history shaped by waves of emigration to escape war, famine, and religious persecution, Ireland responded by creating its...

St Patrick is one of the best-known and best-loved saints in the world. His life and legacy is deeply ingrained in Irish history and society, as the annual 17 March celebrations in Ireland and across the globe show. Northern Ireland now has its own St...

This little-known classic is a uniquely valuable insight into the fascinating and complex transitional period between the decline of nineteenth-century constitutional nationalism and the emergence of the modern Irish state, written by John J. Horgan,...

In the 1940s and 1950s Ernie O'Malley travelled around Ireland interviewing survivors of Ireland's struggle for Independence. These interviews, now being made available to the public for the first, time give a fascinating insight into the times and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528770729Author John Drelincourt SeymourFormat HardbackPage Count 26Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies 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

This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On each...