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Irish: The Remarkable Saga of a Nation and a City by John Burrowes
RRP: $15.47$11.17Irish is the story of the mass migration from Ireland to Glasgow that took place in the wake of the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century. It is an epic account of the coming together of a nation and a city. This is the tale of those who escaped a... -
Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks
RRP: $16.76$11.44As liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy for the world through their far-sighted vision and inspired action, and cast a... -
The Stuart Image: English Portraiture 1603 to 1649 Roy Strong 9781783277209
RRP: $38.70$32.56Based on a lifetime's work in the field, Sir Roy Strong offers an expert and engaging new look at portrait painting in Stuart England, studying the sitters as much as the artists. Sir Roy Strong has been writing for over half a century on the painters... -
The Islander: Complete and Unabridged by Garry Bannister 9780717157945
RRP: $15.47$11.00This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read. ... -
Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain by Simon Garfield
RRP: $24.50$17.56In 1936 anthropologist Tom Harrison, poet and journalist Charles Madge, and documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings set up the Mass Observation Project. The idea was simple: ordinary people would record, in diary form, the events of their everyday lives... -
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic by Ruth Dudley Edwards
RRP: $12.89$9.44On 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... -
Roscommon Folk Tales by Pat Watson 9781845887841
RRP: $16.76$12.73Legend has it that the magical Tuatha De Danann came on the wind from Tir na nOg (The Land of Youth) and landed in Roscommon, on the Curlew Mountains. It was from here that they spread throughout Ireland and some say that it is they who created the soul... -
Ireland's War of Independence 1919-21: The IRA's Guerrilla Campaign by Lorcan Collins
RRP: $19.34$15.27An accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 January 1919 to the truce in July 1921, the IRA carried out a huge range of attacks on all levels of British... -
Rewriting the Troubles: War and Propaganda, Ireland and Algeria by Patrick Anderson 9783949573026
RRP: $23.22$20.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783949573026Author Patrick AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 379Imprint Greenisland PressPublisher Elsinor Verlag e.K.Weight(grams) 539g -
The 1950s: Ireland in Pictures by Lensmen Photographic Archives
RRP: $19.34$15.79Ireland's premier photographers, The Lensmen, captured the essence of life in Ireland during the 1950s in their stunning and thought provoking images. A beautiful and evocative collection of photographs, capturing a simpler decade in our country's... -
Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death by Eunan O'Halpin
RRP: $19.34$16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785373497Author Eunan O'HalpinFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Partition of Ireland: 1918-1925 by Robert Lynch
RRP: $30.95$24.56Partition represents the most fundamental revolution in modern Irish history. By 1925 the country had been divided into two states embodying rival religious and political identities, an outcome unthinkable only a decade before. While often analysed... -
Ballymurphy and the Irish War Ciaran de Baroid 9780745315096
RRP: $38.69$25.41'One of the most remarkable books to emerge from the Northern conflict. I can't recall any other book which gives the reader the same accessibility to the streets of Belfast.' Irish Post 'A thrilling people's history of Belfast's most famous housing... -
Ireland: The Autobiography: One Hundred Years of Irish Life, Told by Its People by John Bowman
RRP: $16.76$12.05Ireland in its own words: a dazzling compendiumOver the past hundred years, Ireland has undergone profound political, social and cultural changes. But one thing that has not changed is the Irish genius for observation and storytelling, invective and... -
The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland by Crawford Gribben 9780198868262
RRP: $21.92$18.98The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland describes the emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples. Throughout its long history,... -
Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922 by Ronan Fanning 9780571297405
RRP: $16.76$11.35This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the... -
The Flame and the Candle by Dominic Price
RRP: $16.76$15.21This is the story of Mayo men and women active during the War of Independence and the Civil War, a story largely untold or forgotten. Throughout, there is an attempt at real insight into the lives of participants. The establishment and acceptance of the... -
Cork Folk Tales by Kate Corkery 9781845885182
RRP: $16.76$12.73As the home of the famous Blarney Stone it is perhaps not surprising that the stories of County Cork could fill many libraries. Among its vast archive of myth and legend are tales of the Goddess Cliona, The Hag of Beara and the Giant Mac Mahon and the... -
Irish History For Dummies Mike Cronin (De Montfort University) 9781119995876
RRP: $24.50$17.21From Norman invaders, religious wars-and the struggle for independence-the fascinating, turbulent history of a tortured nation and its gifted people When Shakespeare referred to England as a "jewel set in a silver sea," he could just as well have been... -
Aberdeen FC: European Nights: Stories from Aberdeen's Greatest European Games by Ally Begg
RRP: $23.21$15.74Aberdeen have competed on the European stage since season 1967/68 and have enjoyed some epic encounters along the way, culminating in the club's greatest ever victory - beating Real Madrid 2-1 in the 1983 Cup Winner's Cup final. Ally Begg charts a path... -
A Victorian Christmas by Brenda Williams 9781841658056
RRP: $7.74$5.93At the darkest moment of the year, when the nights seem endless and the days very short, comes that most joyful of festivals. Christmas is a truly magical season, bringing families and friends together to share the much-loved customs and traditions that... -
A Pocket History of Scotland by Tony Potter
RRP: $9.02$6.84From prehistoric times to the present day this comprehensive history presents the story of Scotland in bite-size chunks. With full colour illustrations throughout this is an attractive and practical guide to Scotland's colourful history. ... -
The Irish Defence Forces, 1922-2022: Servants of the Nation by Eoin Kinsella
$35.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801510363Author Eoin KinsellaFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd -
Mixing It: Diversity in World War Two Britain by Wendy Webster 9780198735762
$49.38During the Second World War, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war-chiefly from Europe, America, and the British Empire. Between 1939 and 1945, the population in Britain... -
The Treaty: The gripping story of the negotiations that brought about Irish independence and led to the Civil War by Gretchen Friemann
RRP: $19.34$16.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374203Author Gretchen FriemannFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics by Diarmaid Ferriter
RRP: $11.60$8.58Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019 'Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. I can think of several MPs who ought to.' The Times For the past two decades, you... -
Around Derry: Ireland in Old Photographs by Northern Ireland Library Authoritty 9780752456270
RRP: $20.63$16.03Derry is one of Ireland's most historic walled cities. It is also renowned for its picturesque location, straddling the River Foyle and having as its backdrop the magnificent Donegal hills. Having withstood three sieges in the seventeenth century, today... -
Sport and Ireland: A History by Paul Rouse
RRP: $38.04$35.02This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland demonstrates that there are aspects of Ireland's sporting history... -
When the Clock Struck in 1916 by Derek Molyneux
RRP: $20.63$18.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848892132Author Derek MolyneuxFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint The Collins PressPublisher The Collins PressWeight(grams) 502g -
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend
RRP: $14.18$10.31A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021'A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book tells a painful story that is probably not yet over' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph A compelling history of the turbulent journey to Irish... -
A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913-23 by Diarmaid Ferriter
RRP: $19.34$14.33Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-1923 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in response, the Irish Volunteers, who would later evolve into the IRA... -
Henry VIII's Last Victim: The Life and Times of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Jessie Childs 9780712643474
RRP: $16.76$12.05Henry 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... -
Historopedia - The Story of Ireland From Then Until Now by Kathi Burke
RRP: $33.53$25.25It's A Time-Travelling Journey Through Ireland ... It's A Historopedia! Buckle up and get ready to travel back in time with John and Fatti Burke's new adventure through Ireland's history. This breathtakingly exciting book discovers Ireland, era by... -
The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower
RRP: $25.80$17.21An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water 'Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.' Roddy Doyle 'Remarkable. Lively ... Gower writes beautifully... -
W. B. Yeats, A Life I: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914 by R. F. Foster
$45.81In the first authorized biography of W. B. Yeats for over 50 years, Roy Foster brings new light to one of the most complex and fascinating lives of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Working from a great archive of personal and contemporary... -
Dublin Then and Now (R) by Lisa Marie Griffith
RRP: $21.92$16.32Dublin Then and Now matches archival images with contemporary views to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city.Dublin's rich architectural heritage ranges from medieval castles and cathedrals to a wealth of elegant Georgian townhouses... -
Here's the Story: A Memoir by Mary McAleese
RRP: $12.89$9.44The groundbreaking two-term President of Ireland tells the stories of her lifeWhen a young Mary McAleese told a priest that she planned to become a lawyer, the priest dismissed the idea: she knew no one in the law, and she was female. The reality of what... -
Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary, Queen of Scots by Rosemary Goring
RRP: $28.38$19.49One of the most famous queens in history, Mary Stuart lived in her homeland for just twelve years: as a dauntless child who laughed at her friends' seasickness as they sailed to safety in France and later, on her return as a 18-year-old widow to take... -
No Middle Path: The Civil War in Kerry by Owen O’Shea
RRP: $19.34$17.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785374531Author Owen O'SheaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merrion PressPublisher Merrion Press -
Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew 9780198755210
RRP: $15.47$11.17Winston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career. He took Ireland very seriously - and not only because of its significance in the...