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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII by David Starkey 9780099437246
RRP: £18.99£14.01Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survivedCATHERINE OF ARAGON: the pious Spanish Catholic who suffered years of miscarriages and failed to produce a male heir... ANNE BOLEYN: the pretty, clever, French-educated Protestant whose marriage to... -
Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland: A history of amiable excess by Patricia McCarthy
£35.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510134Author Patricia McCarthyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Oxford Companion to Irish History by S. J. Connolly
RRP: £17.49£12.61'A companion to be cherished', 'judicious and authoritative', 'informative and entertaining', an 'invaluable work of reference' - these are just some of the phrases used by reviewers to describe the Oxford Companion to Irish History. The history of... -
Brits: The War Against the IRA by Peter Taylor
RRP: £16.99£12.28The third part of the trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author of Provos and Loyalists In the final part of his trilogy exploring 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, Peter Taylor talks to undercover agents of the British state... -
Edward VI: The Lost King of England by Chris Skidmore
RRP: £10.99£7.40The struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIIIIn the death of Henry VIII, the crown passed to his nine-year-old son, Edward. However, real power went to the Protector, Edward's uncle, the Duke of Somerset. The court had been a hotbed... -
The Hales Brothers and the Irish Revolution by Liz Gillis 9781781173756
RRP: £16.99£16.31The story of the Hales family from Bandon epitomises the whole revolutionary period in Ireland. They were involved from the establishment of the Irish Volunteers in West Cork and were closely associated with well-known revolutionary figures, including... -
Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered by Henry McDonald
RRP: £17.99£15.87To look at Martin McGuinness' life is to follow Northern Ireland's own transition from conflict to peace. Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered tells the remarkable story of McGuinness' journey from IRA leader to deputy first minister of Northern Ireland,... -
Henry VIII: King and Court by Alison Weir
RRP: £14.99£10.95Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never before has a detailed, personal biography of this charismatic monarch been set... -
Michael Collins: The Man and the Revolution by Dr. Anne Dolan
RRP: £27.99£23.27`It was the most providential escape yet. It will probably have the effect of making them think that I am even more mysterious than they believe me to be, and that is saying a good deal.' Michael Collins knew the power of his persona, and capitalised... -
Parliament: The Biography (Volume I - Ancestral Voices) by Chris Bryant
RRP: £16.99£12.28The history of Parliament is the history of the United Kingdom itself. It has a cast of thousands. Some were ambitious, visionary and altruistic. Others were hot-headed, violent and self-serving. Few were unambiguously noble. Yet their rowdy... -
The Chessmen Thief by Barbara Henderson
RRP: £7.99£5.51Win. Lose. Survive. I was the boy with a plan. Now I am the boy with nothing. From the moment 12-year-old Kylan hatches a plan to escape from his Norse captors, and return to Scotland to find his mother, his life becomes a dangerous game. The... -
Masterpieces of Irish Crochet Lace: Techniques, Patterns, Instructions by Therese de Dillmont 9780486250793
RRP: £8.99£6.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486250793Author M.Digby WyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Year Of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1789 by Thomas Pakenham 9780349112527
RRP: £14.99£9.80This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, THE YEAR OF LIBERTY is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a... -
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll 9780008476663
RRP: £14.99£11.93A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2023 A Spectator Book of the Year 2023 The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller 'As taut as a... -
The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day by Roy Hattersley
RRP: £16.99£12.28The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy - which, by making Henry VIII head... -
My Life in Loyalism by Billy Hutchinson
RRP: £17.99£15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373459Author Billy HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion by Charles Townshend 9780141982472
RRP: £14.99£10.95Now with a new preface for the centenary of the Easter Rising, a compelling interpretation of the rebellion that launched Ireland into a new world.Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or... -
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey by Jessie Childs
RRP: £12.99£9.09Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey was one of the most flamboyant and controversial characters of Henry VIII's reign. A pioneering poet, whose verse had a profound impact on Shakespeare, Surrey was nevertheless branded by one contemporary as 'the most foolish... -
Irish Crochet: Technique and Projects by Priscilla Publishing Company 9780486247052
RRP: £10.99£7.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486247052Author Priscilla Publishing CompanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Making Of The British Army by Allan Mallinson
RRP: £14.99£11.35Edgehill, 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell realizes that war can no longer be made in the old, feudal way: there has to be system and discipline, and therefore -... -
Walled Gardens: Scenes from an Anglo-Irish Childhood by Annabel Davis-Goff 9781906011024
RRP: £12.99£8.60"Walled Gardens" is a brilliant portrait of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy, struggling through the post-war depression aided by drink, horse-racing and religion, and their own idiosyncratic adaptations to modern life. Seen from the troubled perspective of... -
The Uncivil Wars by Padraig O'Malley 9780807002230
£39.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807002230Author Padraig O'MalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press -
A Pocket History of the Irish Famine by Tony Potter 9780717179442
RRP: £6.99£5.13The Great Famine, an Gorta Mor in Irish, was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. Often referred to as the Irish Potato Famine, particularly outside Ireland, as around forty percent of the population were... -
Brian Boru: Warrior King: Little Library 2 by John Burke
RRP: £9.99£7.11Learn about the life and times of Brian Boru in the second book in John & Fatti Burke's Little Library Get ready to make your knowledge a bit bigger by learning all about the warrior king that was Brian Boru. Brian Boru grew up in a large warrior... -
Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 by R. F. Foster
RRP: £12.99£9.09OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016'The most complete and plausible exploration of the roots of the... -
Bear in Mind These Dead by Susan McKay
RRP: £12.99£8.56Nearly 4,000 people were killed over the thirty or so years of the Northern Irish Troubles. And the killings were as intimate as they were brutal. Neighbours murdered neighbours. Susan McKay's book explores the difficult legacy of this conflict for... -
Parliament: The Biography (Volume II - Reform) by Chris Bryant
RRP: £14.99£10.95Over the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change. Political parties rose - and fell. The old aristocratic order passed away. The vote was won for the working classes and, eventually, for women... -
Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558 by Alison Weir
RRP: £10.99£7.77When Henry VIII died in 1547, he left three highly intelligent children to succeed him in turn, to be followed, if their lines failed, by the descendants of his sister, Mary Tudor.Picking up from the point that The Six Wives of Henry VIII left off,... -
A History of Britain - Volume 1: At the Edge of the World? 3000 BC-AD 1603 by Simon Schama
RRP: £30.00£21.35Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is the dynamic of Simon Schama's unapologetically personal and grippingly written history of Britain, especially the changes that wash over custom and habit, transforming our... -
The Celts: A Very Short Introduction by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £8.99£6.45Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. From the ancient Romans to the present day, their real nature has been obscured by a tangled web of... -
Belfast: The Story of a City and its People by Feargal Cochrane 9780300264449
£20.00A lively and inviting history of Belfast-exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation, and cultural achievement. But the city's many... -
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.09The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British... -
The Tribes of Britain by David Miles
RRP: £14.99£10.20Who are we? The story of the peoples of Britain and Ireland, drawing on new genetic discoveries, language, buildings and landscape.The diverse peoples of Britain and Ireland are revealed not only by physical characteristics but also through structures... -
Annie of Ainsworth's Mill: A moving and dramatic Victorian saga of star-crossed lovers by Katie Hutton
RRP: £7.99£5.60A gripping and emotional cross-cultural love story for readers of Dilly Court and Glenda Young.1897Young Annie Maguire is leaving the only home she has ever known, the family farm in County Down, Ireland. Driven away by poverty and the death of Annie's... -
How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors 3rd Edition: An Essential Guide to Researching and Documenting the Family Histories of Ireland's People by Ian Maxwell
RRP: £12.99£8.60Whether you're eager to hold on to EU citizenship post-Brexit or simply interested in exploring your family's past, learn how to research and document your Irish ancestry with this essential guide, newly updated to include the latest genealogy tools.The... -
Ireland The Best 100 Places: Extraordinary places and where best to walk, eat and sleep by John McKenna
RRP: £14.99£10.10Explore 100 extraordinary locations in Ireland. Sally and John McKenna, travel and food writers and authors of IRELAND THE BEST, have selected 100 extraordinary places that epitomize what is truly great about Ireland. This personal and diverse... -
The Penguin Illustrated History of Britain and Ireland: From Earliest Times to the Present Day by Barry Cunliffe
RRP: £25.00£18.62Compiled by a team of leading historians, this is a wonderfully rich, lavishly illustrated history of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The reader is taken on a journey from prehistoric times to the present day, examining such topics as the spread... -
Forgotten Voices Of The Second World War: A New History of the Second World War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There by Max Arthur
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Imperial War Museum holds a vast archive of interviews with soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians of most nationalities who saw action during WW2. As in the highly-acclaimed Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Max Arthur and his team of researchers... -
In Search of the Irish Dreamtime: Archaeology & Early Irish Literature by J. P. Mallory 9780500051849
RRP: £18.95£13.12Following his account of Irish origins as evidenced by archaeology, genetics and linguistics, J. P. Mallory returns to the subject to interrogate what he calls the 'Irish Dreamtime': the native Irish retelling of their own origins, as related by medieval... -
The Story of Wales by Jon Gower 9781849903738
RRP: £14.99£10.95The Story of Wales is a vibrant portrait of 30,000 years of power, identity and politics. Revisiting major turning points in Welsh history, from its earliest settlements to the present day, Jon Gower re-examines the myths and misconceptions about this...