Ireland

How did Irish and American diplomacy operate in Washington DC and Dublin during the 1930s era of economic depression, rising fascism and Nazism? How did the Anglo-American relationship affect American-Irish diplomatic relations? Why and how did Eamon de...

Since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 - the formal end-point of the thirty-year modern 'Troubles' - contemporary visual artists have offered diverse responses to post-conflict circumstances in Northern Ireland. In Ghost-Haunted Land -...

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...

Covering the period from the re-establishment of the Irish militia during the Crimean War until the disbandment of the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1992, this book examines the Irish amateur military tradition within the British Army, distinctive from a...

This book concerns Lord John Russell's efforts to improve the lot and status of Irish Catholics by changes in the landlord and tenant system and particualarly by improving the status of the Catholic Church. It is the first full scholarly account of the...

This is a revealing account of the family life and achievements of the Third Earl of Rosse, a hereditary peer and resident landlord at Birr Castle, County Offaly, in nineteenth-century Ireland, before, during and after the devastating famine of the 1840s...

Five Irish Women is comprised of five interlinked portraits of exceptional Irish women from various fields - literature, journalism, music, politics - who have achieved outstanding reputations since the 1960s: Edna O'Brien, Sinead O'Connor, Nuala...

Dispossession has a long and tortuous history in Ireland, reaching back to the eleventh century. In the Victorian era, evictions became major social, cultural and political events, especially with the notorious clearances of the Great Famine years. In...

Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together? These questions provoke much contemporary debate, but also have a longer, often-overlooked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911024910Author Noel P. WilkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

Modern Irish history was determined by the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire. And British imperial history, from the age of Atlantic expansion to the age of decolonization, was moulded in part by Irish experience. But the nature of...

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...

This is a study of the constructive side of English policy in Ireland during a formative period. T. C. Barnard relates actions in these years to English policy towards Ireland earlier and later in the seventeenth century, and also uses policy in Ireland...

A reassessment of one of the most devastating episodes in Irish history. WINNER of the NUI Publications Prize in Irish History 2013. Mid-seventeenth century Ireland experienced a revolution in landholding. Coming in the aftermath of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510868Author Toby BarnardFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

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This book provides the first detailed analysis of the influence of former Irish Parliamentary Party members and methods in independent Ireland and the place of the party's leaders in public memory. Previous studies of the party have concluded with its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829765Author Deirdre RafteryFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 700gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979879Author N. C. FlemingFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Clemson University Digital PressPublisher Clemson University Digital Press

This book explores Irish experiences of medicine and health during the First and Second World Wars, the War of Independence and the Civil War. It examines the physical, mental and emotional impact of conflict on Irish political and social life, as well...

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The Irish Establishment examines who the most powerful men and women were in Ireland between the Land War and the beginning of the Great War, and considers how the composition of elite society changed during this period. Although enormous shifts in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780722352779Author Michael SheaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Arthur H.Stockwell LtdPublisher Andrews UK LimitedWeight(grams) 73g

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In 1920, the three Ulster counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan were excluded from Northern Ireland. What happens to an abandoned people? And what is the impact on subsequent generations? At a time of uncertainty over the future of Northern Ireland,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995663008Author David Leahy M ScFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint David Leahy M.SC.Publisher David Leahy M.SC.Weight(grams) 630g

In Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender, Leith Davis studies the construction of Irish national identity from the early eighteenth until the mid-nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on how texts concerning Irish music, as well as the social...

Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually abused or raised in the care of the Church and...

Ireland's Others is a collection of essays by noted literary and cultural critic Elizabeth Butler Cullingford. In this volume, Cullingford assesses attempts by Irish writers to reverse hostile colonial stereotypes by creating analogies between their...

"Riotous Performances is a thorough and daring analysis of the theater as a cultural space. Through this work Burke recovers the voices of the dispossessed Irish and the non-elite members of the Dublin audience. I think it will be essential reading...

This book is the first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. The pivotal importance of the Plantation to the shared histories of Ireland and Britain would be difficult to overstate. It helped secure the English conquest of...

"Riotous Performances is a thorough and daring analysis of the theater as a cultural space. Through this work Burke recovers the voices of the dispossessed Irish and the non-elite members of the Dublin audience. I think it will be essential reading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268018948Author Kevin WhelanFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Atlantic BooksPublisher Atlantic Books

Between 1921 and 1965, Irish and Scottish migrants continued to seek new homes abroad. Using the personal accounts of these migrants from letters, interviews, questionnaires and shipboard journals, together with more traditional documentary sources such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944997109Author William Thomas ThorntonFormat PaperbackImprint Economic Justice MediaPublisher Economic Justice MediaWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788451119Author John P PrendergastFormat PaperbackPage Count 582Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 667g

This ground-breaking biography of Bishop Francis Hutchinson (1669-1739) provides a detailed and rare portrait of an early eighteenth century Irish bishop and witchcraft theorist. Drawing upon a wealth of printed primary source material, the book aims to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986887338Author Alison J KilpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 518Imprint Quercus Arborealis PublicationsPublisher Quercus Arborealis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995928022Author Alan R AchesonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Acheson PublicationsPublisher Acheson PublicationsWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996648479Author Jack BrayFormat HardbackImprint New Academia Publishing/ The SpringPublisher New Academia Publishing/ The SpringWeight(grams) 735g