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Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language by Darach O Seaghdha 9781788545266
RRP: £9.99£7.11From the author of the bestselling Motherfocloir, Non-fiction Irish Book of the Year. A TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR. What do we talk about when we talk about Irish? When we talk about saving or supporting a language do we mean the musical combination of... -
Life of St Columba by Adomnan of Iona
RRP: £12.99£9.09Founding father of the famous monastery on the island of Iona, a site of pilgrimage ever since his death in 597, St Columba was born into one of the ruling families in Ireland at a time of immense expansion for the Irish Church. This account of his life,... -
A Century of Belfast: Events, People and Places Over the 20th Century by Vivienne Pollock
RRP: £14.99£11.55This fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Belfast during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader... -
Diaries Volume Three: Power and Responsibility by Alastair Campbell
RRP: £16.99£12.28POWER AND RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government. It begins amid conflict in Kosovo, and ends on September 11, 2001, a day which immediately wrote itself into the... -
The Wisest Fool: The Lavish Life of James VI and I by Steven Veerapen 9781780278162
RRP: £25.00£16.99James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man behind... -
Galloglass 1250-1600: Gaelic Mercenary Warrior by Fergus Cannan 9781846035777
RRP: £14.99£11.75Galloglass, from the Gaelic galloglaigh for 'foreign warriors', were mercenaries from the Western Isles of Scotland who fought in the retinues of Irish magnates from the mid-13th century until the early 17th century. This work looks at the clan and... -
An Irish Folklore Treasury: A selection of old stories, ways and wisdom from The Schools' Collection by John Creedon
RRP: £23.99£17.34In this people's history of Ireland, John Creedon introduces a fascinating collection of stories from the Schools' Collection. This treasure trove of old stories, ways and wisdom, which could have been lost for ever, was collected by schoolchildren as... -
Inheritance: The Story of Knole and the Sackvilles by Robert Sackville-West 9781408809686
RRP: £14.99£10.95Since its purchase in 1604 by Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, the house at Knole, Kent, has been inhabited by thirteen generations of a single aristocratic family, the Sackvilles. Here, drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters, archives and... -
The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum by Sarah Wise 9781844133314
RRP: £10.99£7.77'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of urban living that respond to no design or directive... This is a book about the nature of London itself' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesA powerful exploration of the seedy side of Victorian London... -
Ulysses Unbound: A Reader's Companion to James Joyce's Ulysses by Terence Killeen
RRP: £10.99£7.77Ulysses is one of the foundational texts of modern literature, yet has a reputation for complexity and controversy. In Ulysses Unbound, Joyce expert Terence Killeen untangles this seemingly knotty classic to reveal the wonders beneath, in a clear and... -
The Great Book of Ireland: Interesting Stories, Irish History & Random Facts About Ireland by Bill O'Neill 9781798649596
RRP: £13.38£11.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781798649596Author Bill O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Annals of the Famine in Ireland, in 1847, 1848, and 1849 by Asenath Nicholson 9781015491809
RRP: £26.95£23.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015491809Author Asenath NicholsonFormat HardbackPage Count 348Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 662g -
A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney
RRP: £18.99£13.61For decades the British and Irish had 'got used to' a situation without parallel in Europe: a cold, ferocious, persistent campaign of bombing and terror of extraordinary duration and inventiveness. At the heart of that campaign lies one man: GerryAdams... -
The Plantation of Ulster by Jonathan Bardon 9780717154470
£23.25The Plantation of Ulster was the most ambitious scheme of colonisation ever attempted in modern Europe, and one of the largest European migrations of the period. It was a pivotal episode in Irish history, sending shock waves reverberating down the... -
Sweeney Astray by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £10.99£9.09Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at... -
Rosslyn Chapel Decoded by Alan Butler
RRP: £18.99£12.75In the 15th century a new home was built for the priceless holy relics taken from Jerusalem centuries before - a building that, to the initiated, would explain everything about what had gone before and a structure that would be a recreation of the... -
Modern Ireland: A Very Short Introduction by Senia Paseta
RRP: £8.99£6.45This is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically about Irish Questions. The term has become something of a catch-all, a convenient way to encompass numerous issues and developments which pertain to the political, social, and economic history... -
The Easter Rising: Revolution and Irish Nationalism by Alan J. Ward
RRP: £19.95£17.67In 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... -
Dear Gay: Letters to The Gay Byrne Show – a handwritten history of Ireland by Suzy Byrne 9780717195633
RRP: £25.99£23.89For 25 years, Gay Byrne received thousands of letters from listeners all over Ireland. Some of these letters were light-hearted and innocent, but others were more challenging. While many people didn't feel comfortable sharing their issues with their... -
Northern Protestants: 20 Years on by Susan McKay
RRP: £24.95£14.10Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, Susan McKay talks again to the people she 'uneasily' called 'her own', those from a Protestant background in Northern Ireland. Against the backdrop of... -
Ten Men Dead by David Beresford
RRP: £14.99£9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780586065334Author David BeresfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins PublishersWeight(grams) 230gDimensions(mm)... -
An Old Woman's Reflections by Peig Sayers
RRP: £7.99£5.79Storytelling kept alive the myths, legends and history of the Blasket Islands. In her old age, Peig Sayers, recounted her life to her son who recorded the tale in this book. She recalls the events of her life and her simple philosophy in a moving poetic... -
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic by Ruth Dudley Edwards 9781786070739 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99£2.53On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... -
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic by Ruth Dudley Edwards
RRP: £9.99£7.11On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of... -
Girl in the Tunnel: My Story of Love and Loss as a Survivor of the Magdalene Laundries by Maureen Sullivan 9781785374524
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374524Author Maureen SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
1415: Henry V's Year of Glory by Ian Mortimer
RRP: £16.99£12.28Henry V is regarded as the great English hero. Lionised in his own day for his victory at Agincourt, his piety and his rigorous application of justice, he was elevated by Shakespeare into a champion of English nationalism for all future generations. But... -
The 17 Irish Martyrs by Mary McAleese
RRP: £14.99£12.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782183785Author Mary McAleeseFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Columba PressPublisher Columba Books -
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans by Francis Pryor
RRP: £14.99£9.70An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds. British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to... -
Old Ireland in Colour by John Breslin
£28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Irish Published Book 2020 (Ireland).Book InformationISBN 9781785373701Author John BreslinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion... -
CCEA A2-level History Student Guide: Partition of Ireland (1900-25) by Henry Jefferies
£12.13Build, reinforce and assess students' knowledge throughout their course; tailored to the 2016 CCEA specification and brought to you by the leading History publisher, this study and revision guide combines clear content coverage with practice questions... -
Sean McLoughlin: Ireland's Forgotten Revolutionary by Charlie McGuire 9780850367058
RRP: £15.95£14.44This 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... -
: Medieval Ireland (2005): An Encyclopedia by Sean Duffy
RRP: £49.99£43.50Through violent incursions by the Vikings and the spread of Christianity, medieval Ireland maintained a distinctive Gaelic identity. From the sacred site of Tara to the manuscript illuminations in the Book of Kells, Anglo-Irish relations to the Connachta... -
Operation Chiffon: The Secret Story of MI5 and MI6 and the Road to Peace in Ireland by Peter Taylor
RRP: £22.00£19.69On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland. 'A gripping exploration of how MI5 and MI6... -
The Crooked Branch by Jeanine Cummins
RRP: £9.99£6.80'Rich and intricately drawn... luminous prose' Carolyn ParkhurstAfter the birth of her daughter Emma, the usually resilient Majella finds herself feeling isolated and exhausted. Then, at her childhood home, Majella discovers the diary of her maternal... -
Making Sense of a United Ireland by Brendan O'Leary
RRP: £20.00£14.69'Should be required reading for everyone - including unionists - who are interested in and concerned about the fate of this island' Dublin Review of Books'Compelling' Financial TimesWill Ireland really reunite?A century ago the resolution to Ireland's... -
The Preacher and the Prelate: The Achill Mission Colony and the Battle for Souls in Famine Ireland by Patricia Byrne 9781785371721
RRP: £12.99£11.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785371721Author Patricia ByrneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Crackin' Castles by Terry Deary 9780702325168
RRP: £6.99£4.64Discover all the foul facts about the history of fortresses with history's most horrible headlines: Crackin' Castles edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to 50 foul castles... -
Wexford: Ireland in Old Photographs by Nicky Rossiter 9781845882167
RRP: £16.99£12.94The historic town of Wexford has a rich and vibrant history, which is uniquely encapsulated in this selection of archive images taken from the John Scanlon Collection, curated by Dominic Kiernan and preserved by Paddy Donovan. A native of Wexford, the... -
The King Over the Water: A Complete History of the Jacobites by Desmond Seward
RRP: £14.99£9.80Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award Few causes have given rise to such dramatic tales of loyalty, passion and betrayal as the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the British throne. Although its failure brought... -
The History of England by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay
RRP: £12.99£9.09One of the greatest figures of his age, Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59) was widely admired throughout his life for his prose, poetry, political acumen and oratorical skills. Among the most successful and enthralling histories ever written, his...