Ireland

The issue of personal insolvency, how individuals can address its various aspects, what steps they can take and what options are available to them, is one of the most pressing issues in Irish society at the present time. This aim of this book is to...

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...

In 1842 a small group of Irish nationalists, who would later be known as Young Ireland, founded the Nation newspaper. They saw their mission as awakening the Irish people to the fact that they were an historic nation that should determine its own future...

This very vivid memoir describes the prison experiences of a Cork Fenian activist, John Sarsfield Casey. 'The Galtee Boy' was a name used by Casey when he sent letters for publication to newspapers, one of which was used against him at his trial in 1865...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846827020Author Jim HerlihyFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Open AirPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

This 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...

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)...

The 1950s and 1960s were a transformative phase in modern Irish history. In these years, a conservative society dominated by the Catholic Church, and a state which was inward-looking and distrustful of novelty, gradually opened up to fresh ideas. This...

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)...

Michael Collins played a crucial role in rekindling Ireland's aspirations for freedom. A leading figure in the nation's bitter and bloody resistance to British Rule, he played a key part in reshaping Ireland's history as we know it today. Ulick O'Connor...

The crisis that befell Ireland in the 1640s has always fascinated historians. This volume of essays presents cutting-edge research on various aspects of the Irish wars, notably regionalism, the nature of English interventions, popular politics and the...

The Little Book of Irish Landmarks is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about some of Ireland's most iconic landmarks and popular tourist attractions. Here you will find out about the Giant's Causeway, Bunratty Castle,...

Apologies 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

Civilised by beasts tells the story of nineteenth-century Dublin through human-animal relationships. It offers a unique perspective on ordinary life in the Irish metropolis during a century of significant change and reform. At its heart is the argument...

An in-depth analysis of the key contribution made by the women members of this important ruling family in maintaining and advancing the family's political, landed, economic, social and religious interests. This book examines the lives of aristocratic...

Discover the truth behind the myths of the Emerald Isle Forget about shamrocks, leprechans, and all that blarney; 101 Things You Didn't Know about Irish History dispels the myths and tells the true story of the Irish. Inside, you'll learn about: Lives of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511131Author Cormac MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Four Courts PressPublisher Four Courts Press

In Restoration Ireland the law primarily served the interests of the English state and the Anglo-Protestant community. This book is the first to explore how Irish Catholics experienced a legal system which was inimical to their interests. It does so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802063028Author Clair WillsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350346390Author Tim MC InerneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829659Author Bernadette WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846828683Author Raymond GillespieFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 700g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829840Author Brian HodkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Long recognized as Ireland's greatest demographic disaster in recent memory, the Great Famine of 1845–1851 has shaped Irish identities around the world. From the monuments erected to commemorate its victims to the political rhetoric involving it to the...

Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate about abortion, the status of women and same-sex marriage...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829642Author Maire HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint 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 9781846826146Author Daithi O CorrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 367g

Long recognized as Ireland's greatest demographic disaster in recent memory, the Great Famine of 1845–1851 has shaped Irish identities around the world. From the monuments erected to commemorate its victims to the political rhetoric involving it to the...

The Orange Lodges, originally a powerful agency for the defence of loyalist and protestant interest in Ireland, have flourished as fraternal societies in the British Army in nearly every part of the English-speaking world. Although founded by Irish...

When this book was originally published in 1960 no full-length study of the Parnell ‘split’ had been made, despite it being such a landmark in Irish history. The book treats the eleven months between the verdict on the O’Shea divorce case the death of...

Originally published in 1951, this study of the Irish nationalist movement examines social forces behind the ceaseless agitation in Ireland from the 18th to the 20th Century and gives an account of the influence of the Irish question on the political...

Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a...

Originally published in 1936, The Government of Northern Ireland examines the practical operation of devolution which was granted to Northern Ireland in 1920. The later phases of the Ulster Question, interacting with a theoretic conception of devolution,...

If history were music, then the genre of this book would be punk. For nearly 400 years, it has been widely accepted that Oliver Cromwell committed civilian atrocities at Drogheda and Wexford in 1649, thus adversely infecting Anglo-Irish relations for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511292Author Amy BoylanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

An original and fascinating history of Dublin that tells the story of the city through its bridges.Dublin started life on the south bank of the River Liffey and for six or seven centuries that is more or less where the town stayed. In all that time,...

This book looks at the activities of the Vikings in the Irish Sea, a band of water that has been important since prehistoric times in the history of maritime cultural exchange between Britain and Ireland as well as the Scandinavian countries. The Vikings...

The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce’s Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the “Hades” episode. This volume explores how Dignam’s interment in Glasnevin Cemetery allowed Joyce the freedom to consider the conventions, rituals and superstitions...

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times Bestseller From the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder. In A Lethal Legacy, Fin Dwyer charts 200 years of Irish history, opening up our past as never...