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Staged Folklore: The National Folk Theatre of Ireland by O'Connell John
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782055310Author O'Connell JohnFormat HardbackImprint Cork University PressPublisher Cork... -
The Iveragh Peninsula: A Cultural Atlas of the Ring of Kerry by John Crowley 9781859184301
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.46The Iveragh Peninsula, often referred to as the 'Ring of Kerry', is one of Ireland's most dramatic and beautiful landscapes. This cultural atlas, comprising over fifty individual chapters and case... -
Famine Pots: The Choctaw-Irish Gift Exchange, 1847-Present by LeAnne Howe
Booksplease Price: £24.00The remarkable story of the money sent by the Choctaw to the Irish in 1847 is one that is often told and remembered by people in both nations. This gift was sent to the Irish from the Choctaw at the... -
Pearse's Patriots: St. Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood by Elaine Sisson 9781859183953
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £28.98When Patrick Pearse founded an Irish language school for boys in 1908 his aim was to create a modern, Irish male citizen from the ancient models of masculinity. Pearse's Patriots explores how the... -
Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a literacy legacy by Derek Hand 9781782053293
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.39This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reasons for why the Leitrim writer has assumed canonical status since his premature death in 2006, an... -
The Book of the Skelligs by John Crowley
Booksplease Price: £47.02This book explores the Skelligs, Ireland's most dramatic and beautiful Atlantic islands, and focuses particularly on Skellig Michael, a famous UNESCO World Heritage Site. It considers why the... -
Republicanism, Crime and Paramilitary Policing, 1916-2020 Brian Hanley 9781782055471
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorBrian Hanley is Assistant Professor in Twentieth Century Irish History at Trinity College Dublin. He is the... -
Finnegans Wake, Ulster and Partition: The Sanguine Boundary Limit by Donal Manning 9781782055877
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.26This book explores the rich seam in Finnegans Wake of references to Ulster, to its geography, myth and history: a subject which has received relatively little attention in Joyce studies. Joyce... -
Tornadoes and Waterspouts in Ireland: Ancient and modern by John Tyrrell 9781782054597
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.36People living in Ireland do not expect to encounter a tornado. But, why not? They have been part of the Irish climate and have tracked across the land for hundreds of years. Indeed, during the last... -
Engaging with Irish Vernacular Worldview: Narrative and Ritual Expression of Native Cultural Tradition by Gearoid O Crualaoich
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782055433Author Gearoid O CrualaoichFormat HardbackImprint Cork University PressPublisher Cork... -
The Birds of County Cork by Smiddy Patrick
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.96This is book is a history of the birds of County Cork from the earliest times to the present. It provides a comprehensive account of the ecology of all species known to have occurred in the county,... -
The Tourist's Gaze: Travellers to Ireland, 1800-2000 by Glenn Hooper 9781859183236
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £34.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859183236Author Glenn HooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Cork University PressPublisher... -
Neil Jordan: Works for the page Val Nolan, Jr. 9781782054955
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.22Hailed in the Irish Times as a 'great Irish novelist', Neil Jordan is, in the words of Fintan O'Toole, 'a peculiarly emblematic figure of cultural change'. Yet, extraordinarily, such critical acclaim... -
Navigating Historical Crosscurrents in the Irish Atlantic: Essays for Catherine B. Shannon Mary Kelly 9781782054993
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.82This volume takes inspiration from Professor Catherine Shannon's scholarship on Modern Irish and Irish American history and her advocacy for peace in Northern Ireland and features original research... -
Walter Macken: Critical Perspectives by Heinen Sandra
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782054917Author Heinen SandraFormat HardbackImprint Cork University PressPublisher Cork University... -
Wise's Irish Whiskey: The History of Cork's North Mall Distillery by Barry Crockett 9781782055754
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.45The book narrates the story of three generations of the Wise family as they became Cork-based merchant princes. It is also the story of their North Mall distillery, the then largest in Cork city,... -
Ina Boyle (1889-1967): A Composers Life by Ita Beausang 9781782052647
Booksplease Price: £25.26The Irish composer, Ina Boyle (1889-1967), was born in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, where she enjoyed a sheltered childhood as a member of an Anglo-Irish family with roots in the medical, military and... -
Music Education for the Twenty-First Century: Legacies, Conversations, Aspirations by John O'Flynn 9781782055792
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.45The series, and inaugural volume, uniquely celebrates what is by now a substantial corpus of academic work on a field of practice that has been thriving for several decades -- in spite of the many... -
Ireland and Argentina in the Twentieth Century: Diaspora, Diplomacy, Dictatorship, Catholic Mission and the Falklands Crisis by Keogh Dermot
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.59This is a ground-breaking book on Irish diplomatic relations with Argentina/Latin America from the nineteenth to the twenty first century. Written in an accessible style, the contents will appeal to... -
The Ogam Stones at University College Cork by Damian McManus
Booksplease Price: £9.23The collection of 28 Ogam stones at UCC represents the largest collection of Ogam inscriptions on open display in Ireland. In this guide Damian McManus places the stones in their literary, linguistic... -
The Book of the Cailleach: Stories of the Wise Woman Healer by Gearoid Crualaoich 9781859184127
Booksplease Price: £26.02This powerful analysis of the 'wise women healer' from the oral traditions of Ireland's rural communities, is unique in its depth and perspective. Stories, told and retold, embedded in the texture of... -
Self by Eilis Ward 9781782054870
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £7.78This book argues that we have got it wrong in the West with our belief in a 'self' that is autonomous and separate from others, exemplified by the entrepreneurial self: always on, always positive and... -
Equality in Community: Sexual Equality in the Writings of William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler by Dolores Dooley 9781859180051
Booksplease Price: £36.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859180051Author Dolores DooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Cork University PressPublisher... -
Yeats: The Irish Literary Revival and the Politics of Print by Yug Chaudhry 9781859182604
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £66.23Examines the relationship between Yeats, Irish literary nationalism and the publishing industry during the Irish Literary Revival in the late Nineteenth Century. It highlights the factors that shaped... -
Of War and Wars Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing by Gerald Dawe 9781782051763
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £43.39Of War and War's Alarms is a unique study of war and revolution and their impact on the writing lives of Irish poets and novelists from WW1 and the Easter Rising through the War of Independence to... -
Ireland Through a Critical Lense: A Miscellany of Life-Writing on Politics, Culture and Film by Desmond Bell 9781782055778
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.45This compendium gathers together his published work and films produced over the last forty years. This material is refashioned for a contemporary readership and supplemented with a number of original... -
Stillbirth and Miscarriage, a Life-Changing Loss: 'Say My Baby's Name' by Anne Tracey 9781782055273
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £11.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDr Anne Tracey is a registered counselling psychologist with the Health Care Professions Council and a... -
The Theatre and Ideology of Terence Macswiney: "Caught in a Living Flame" by Gabriel Doherty
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorGabriel Doherty Is a College Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork, and Is the Editor... -
Crime and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1921-2021: Stability, Conflict, Transition by Aogan Mulcahy 9781782055730
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.63The book analyses the relationship between crime and conflict in Northern Ireland since the establishment of the Northern Irish state in 1921. Despite the vast research literature that focuses on... -
Wexford Castles: Environment, Settlement and Society by Billy Colfer 9781859184936
Booksplease Price: £40.10Billy Colfer's Wexford Castles expands the IRISH LANDSCAPES series by taking a thematic approach, while still staying loyal to the central landscape focus. Rather than adapting a narrowly... -
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine by John Crowley 9781859184790
Booksplease Price: £56.76The Great Famine is possibly the most pivotal event/experience in modern Irish history. Its global reach and implications cannot be underestimated. In terms of mortality, it is now widely accepted... -
Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives Helene O'Keeffe 9781782055921
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £51.76This newest volume in the award-winning Atlas Series offers fresh perspectives and a comprehensive picture of the military and political history of the Irish Civil War. The centenary of the war... -
Trade Union Renewal by Adrian Kane 9781782055846
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.63The book argues that trade unionism must break into the new worlds of work by radically transforming contemporary trade union structures and culture which renders the movement largely alien to... -
Flann O'Brien: Acting Out by Paul Fagan
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782055358Author Paul FaganFormat HardbackImprint Cork University PressPublisher Cork University... -
Protestant and Irish: The minority's search for place in independent Ireland: 2019 by Ian D'Alton 9781782053811
Booksplease Price: £20.25In 1989 Edna Longley remarked that if Catholics were born Irish, Protestants had to 'work their passage to Irishness'. With eighteen essays by scholars with individual perspectives on Irish... -
JG Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries by J.G. Farrell
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.06The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early... -
The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century by Connie Kelleher 9781782053651
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £29.81In the early part of the seventeenth-century, along the southwest coast of Ireland, piracy was a way of life. Following the outlawing of privateering in 1603 by the new king of England,... -
Perspectives on the Teaching of English in Post-Primary Education by Kevin Cahill 9781782055563
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.98This book focuses on the teaching of English in post-primary classrooms. Each chapter approaches an element of the teaching of English from theoretical and practical perspectives where the reader... -
Setting the Stage: Transitional playwrights in Irish 1910-1950 by Philip O'Leary 9781782054580
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.82There was no native tradition of theatre in Irish. Thus, language revivalists were forced to develop the genre ex nihilo if there was to be a Gaelic drama that was not entirely made up of... -
Culture, Contention and Identity in Seventeenth-Century Ireland: Antonius Bruodinus' Anatomical Examination of Thomas Carve's Apologetic Handbook by Fedeli Giacomo
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.59This is the first English translation of an important 17th century contention between two Irish clerics. The detail uncovered reveals much about Gaelic Irish culture and society at this turbulent...