Ireland

This book is about the impact of the Nine Years' War on central and local government and society in the English and Welsh shires in the 1590s. It contains fascinating new insights into the centrality of Ireland to England's problems in the crucial last...

This is a new edition of Emmet O'Connor's classic and pioneering work on Irish labour history, providing an introduction for the general reader and a synopsis for the specialist. The first edition, which covered 1824 to 1960, has been updated to 2000...

Cork Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in the world. It is a historical wonder, surrounded by villages, forts, towers and churches, all of which combine to tell the colourful story of Ireland's largest county. A reliable reference book and a...

In this widely acclaimed study, Charles Townshend reexamines the historical circumstances that generated violence as a habitual part of political dialogue in Ireland. Drawing on an extensive range of original sources, he describes and analyzes the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934392Author Patrick O'Sullivan GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell

How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established...

Can a long-term perspective on human adaptations to climate change inform Ireland's response to the crisis we face today? Climate and Society in Ireland is a collection of essays, commissioned by the Royal Irish Academy, that provides a multi-period,...

This timely volume is a collection of essays by accomplished scholars who convincingly argue for the relevance of postcolonial theory in Ireland. Ireland and Postcolonial Theory fuses scholarship, politics, and culture, generating a forceful and radical...

This book is a history of the Irish civil service and its response to revolutionary changes in the State. It examines the response of the civil service to the threat of partition, World War, the emergence of the revolutionary forces of Dail Eireann and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511308Author Peter DalyFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985075316Author Bernard O'HaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Tudor Gate PressPublisher Tudor Gate PressWeight(grams) 756gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

'Funny, wise, entertaining and illuminating, this book is one of the best things to come out of the Brexit saga' FINTAN O'TOOLE. 'Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, we have been playing with fire. There is no longer any excuse for...

Ulster Since 1600 surveys the history of the province from plantation to partition, and onwards from the formation of the Northern Ireland state to the 'Troubles' of recent decades. It synthesises existing historical knowledge and also brings new...

From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the Windsor Framework for Northern Ireland, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how modern Irish society is the product of a rich, multivalent history. Combining...

Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris. She would become known for her roles as politician and Irish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934729Author Susan RoundtreeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint WordwellPublisher WordwellDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 18mm

The 'Neva' sailed from Cork on 8 January 1835, destined for the prisons of Botany Bay. There were 240 people on board, most of them either female convicts or the wives of already deported convicts, and their children. On 13 May 1835 the ship hit a reef...

This biography rescues from obscurity those in the Irish revolutionary movement who, like Sean McLoughlin, not only envisaged, but fought for, an Ireland very different to the impoverished capitalist neo-colony that would come into being after 1922.Book...

In this expanded edition of a widely praised book, now available for the first time in North America, the renowned journalist Patrick Cockburn looks at his experience of contracting polio as a child in the context of a new pandemic, that of COVID-19. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934323Author Joe CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510370Author Tony GaynorFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Politics in the Republic of Ireland is now available in a fully revised sixth edition. Building on the success of the previous five editions, it continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of the government and politics in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645142297Author Norman PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Perspicuous PressPublisher Perspicuous PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

In this groundbreaking work, Timothy McMahon reexamines the significance of the Gaelic Revival in forming Ireland's national identity. United in their determination to preserve and extend the use of Irish as a spoken language and artistic medium, members...

"A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist political analysis that consistently draws the reader into the narratives of the author and those of the people of violence in Northern Ireland to whom he talked. . . . Simply put, this book is a feast for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916137585Author Patrick O'Sullivan GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Eastwood BooksPublisher Wordwell

Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland was devastated by the 'Great Hunger' - the most severe famine in modern European history. The view widely held by historians is that the impact of the Famine on the northern province of Ulster, in particular the largely...

Thomas Fennell provides an account, previously unpublished, of life in the Royal Irish Constabulary during the turbulent 30-year period, 1875-1905. His early accounts begin during the Land Wars, and continue up to the Irish War of Independence, although...

Renaissance Galway is the next ancillary publication from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. The subject of the book is the remarkable 'pictorial map' of Galway, which was produced in the mid-seventeenth century. It offers a bird's eye view of Galway city...

The deep and abiding sectarian divide splintering Northern Ireland has been the focus of considerable attention recently. In particular, the role parades and visual displays play in underscoring opposition has come into the spotlight with the emergence...

During the First World War approximately 210,000 Irish men and a much smaller, but significant, number of Irish women served in the British armed forces. All were volunteers and a very high proportion were from Catholic and Nationalist communities...

IRA Jailbreaks 1918-1921 features the factual accounts of 25 daring rescues, rescue attempts and jailbreaks which raised the morale of nationalist Ireland and brought world-wide ridicule and discredit on the prison and internment camp systems in Britain...

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 -...

This is a study of religion, politics and society in a period of great significance i modern Irish history. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw the consolidation of the power of the Protestant landed class, the enactment of penal laws...

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

Do you know why it is considered unlucky to meet a barefooted man? Start a journey on the tenth of November? Get married on a Saturday? Irish country people believed that fairies were always present among them and that around the next corner...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250110596Author Tim Pat CooganFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780716532637Author Anne MarkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Irish Academic Press LtdPublisher Irish Academic Press Ltd

Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-48, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic. The human toll of "Black '47," the...

The Carolingian period represented a Golden Age for the abbey of St Gall, an Alpine monastery in modern-day Switzerland. Its bloom of intellectual activity resulted in an impressive number of scholarly texts being copied into often beautifully written...