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The Wild Plants of the Burren & the Aran Islands by Charles Nelson
Booksplease Price: £8.42The Burren and the Aran Islands are renowned worldwide for their beautiful wild flowers and plants. Charles Nelson has selected 136 of the most widely occurring plus a number of special plants. By... -
The Great Cover-Up: The Truth About the Death of Michael Collins by Gerard Murphy
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.96Why were both sides of the Civil War divide so evasive when it came to the death of Michael Collins? Why were they still trying to effect cover-ups as late as the 1960s? Determined to find the... -
The Easter Rebellion 1916 by Dr. Conor McNamara
Booksplease Price: £20.90The Easter Rebellion of 1916 was one of the first comprehensively documented political rebellions in the twentieth century. A generation of extraordinary revolutionaries left behind iconic... -
A Guide to Ireland's Mountain Summits by MountainViews 9781848891647
Booksplease Price: £12.47In Ireland there are 269 mountain summits that are 600 metres or higher, and with a prominence of 15 metres or more. These are The Vandeleur-Lynams. And there are 404 summits with an elevation of at... -
Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: A Guide to its Historic Treasures by Neil Jackman
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.66Boasting ancient tombs, atmospheric castles and sacred retreats, the Wild Atlantic Way is alive with treasures to explore. Beginning in Kinsale, Neil Jackman guides us northwards to visit his top... -
Michael Collins: The Man and the Revolution by Dr. Anne Dolan
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.84`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... -
The Vatican Pimpernel by Brian Fleming
Booksplease Price: £8.99During the German occupation of Rome from 1942 to 1944, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. Safe within the Vatican state, he regularly... -
Ireland: A Luminous Beauty by Peter Harbison 9781848892316
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.40Island light is magical. And none more so than Ireland's. Ireland's light floods the landscape, luring the senses with a restless presence. The water surrounding and carving through the island... -
The Loneliest Boy in the World by Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain 9781848892071
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78* `The Loneliest Boy in the World - he has only seagulls as playmates.' 1949 newspaper article * Gearoid Cheaist O Cathain had a unique childhood - he was the last child brought up on the Blasket... -
Dublin & Wicklow: A Walking Guide by Helen Fairbairn
Booksplease Price: £13.16l show you the way! * Also by this author: 'Northern Ireland: A Walking Guide'. For a complete list of walking guides available from The Collins Press, see www.collinspress.ieAbout the AuthorHelen... -
Surplus People by Jim Rees 9781848892040
Booksplease Price: £13.16The Great Famine in Ireland was a catastrophe of immense proportions. Eviction, emigration and death from starvation were widespread. Landlords, eager to dispose of `surplus' tenants, engaged in... -
The Beara & Sheep's Head Peninsulas by Adrian Hendroff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The Beara and Sheep's Head Peninsulas, in the southwest of Ireland, are both unspoilt and hold some of Ireland's most beautiful scenery. These routes range from short hikes to longer treks, coastal... -
Enough Is Plenty by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Booksplease Price: £13.16An emigrant to England in the 1970s, Felicity Hayes-McCoy knew she'd return to Corca Dhuibhne, Ireland's Dingle peninsula, a place she had fallen in love with at seventeen. Now she and her husband... -
Donegal, Sligo & Leitrim: A Walking Guide by Adrian Hendroff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.90The northwest of Ireland provides a diversity of walks, from the wild, untamed landscape of Donegal to the gentler hills and green valleys of Sligo and Leitrim. This guidebook describes 27 walks of... -
Driving the Green by Kevin Markham
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Mark Twain had it all wrong: golf is not a good walk spoiled, golf is a journey. And when Ireland provides the map it becomes an 11,000km odyssey for one man in a camper van. Kevin plays every... -
Frederick Douglass in Ireland by Laurence Fenton 9781848891968
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.02`When we strove to blot out the stain of slavery and advance the rights of man,' President Obama declared in Dublin in 2011, `we found common cause with your struggle against oppression. Frederick... -
From the Great Blasket to America by Michael J. Carney
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Mike Carney was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1920 in that unique, isolated Irish-speaking community. Mike left in 1937 to seek a better future in Dublin and eventually settled in Springfield,... -
The Burren & Aran Islands: A Walking Guide by Tony Kirby
Booksplease Price: £13.16A guide to some of the best walking routes in the region, with lucid descriptions and additional information to enhance the walkers' enjoyment and appreciation of the place. Each route, prefaced with... -
The Kerry Way by Donal Nolan 9781848892354
Booksplease Price: £10.46The Kerry Way is Ireland's longest waymarked trail and one of the most popular. Looping around the Iveragh Peninsula, it follows narrow country roads, forest paths, abandoned coach roads and mass... -
Tom Crean: Ice Man by Michael Smith
Booksplease Price: £7.73Tom Crean ran away from his Kerry home, aged 15, to join the British navy in 1893. He travelled to the Antarctic with the famous explorers, Scott and Shackleton. He explored the unknown, crossed ice... -
Connemara & Mayo Walking Guide by Paul Phelan 9781848891029
Booksplease Price: £13.58Connemara and Mayo form an area known for stunning scenery and this guidebook describes some of the region's best and most spectacular walks. A wide variety of walks and terrains are covered: easy... -
The Dingle Peninsula by Adrian Hendroff 9781848892330
Booksplease Price: £13.32The spectacular Dingle Peninsula in southwest Ireland extends westward into the Atlantic from Tralee to Slea Head. Voted among the Top 100 destinations in the world by TripAdvisor and referred to as... -
Have Ye No Homes To Go To? by Kevin Martin 9781848892750
Booksplease Price: £17.43The pub has been at the centre of Irish life for centuries. It has played many roles: funeral home, restaurant, grocery shop, music venue, job centre and meeting place for everyone from poets to... -
British Idealism: Language, Aesthetics and Emotions by Colin Tyler
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.36Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and other analytic philosophers of the early 20th century claimed to depart from the British idealists who dominated philosophical debate from the 1870s onwards. The... -
Pilgrim Paths in Ireland by John G. O'Dwyer
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.39In recent times the popularity of the Camino de Santiago has prompted renewed interest in pilgrim walks in Ireland. Increasing numbers now follow ancient Irish pilgrim paths to such holy places as... -
Ireland's Animals by Niall Mac Coitir
Booksplease Price: £12.95Niall Mac Coitir provides a comprehensive look at the folklore, legends and history of animals in Ireland, and describes their relations with people, being hunted for food, fur, sport, or as vermin,... -
Northern Ireland: A Walking Guide by Helen Fairbairn
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.39This revised guide presents top-class walking routes in Northern Ireland. From rugged mountain peaks to spectacular coastal scenery, from challenging hill walks to shorter woodland and waterside... -
46 Men Dead: The Royal Irish Constabulary in County Tipperary 1919-22 by John Reynolds
Booksplease Price: £16.60IN JANUARY 1919, AT SOLOHEADBEG IN TIPPERARY, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and... -
Ireland's Ancient East by Neil Jackman
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.54From medieval Carlingford in Louth to Blarney Castle in Cork, discover the top 100 places to visit in Ireland's Ancient East. Wander through time at sites such as Clonmacnoise, Newgrange and the Rock... -
Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way: A Walking Guide by Helen Fairbairn
Booksplease Price: £13.16The Wild Atlantic Way follows the magnificent west coast of Ireland, passing golden beaches, thrusting headlands and soaring sea cliffs. Renowned walking-guide author Helen Fairbairn explores the... -
Ireland's Garden Birds: A Guide to Attracting and Identifying Garden Birds by Oran O'Sullivan 9781848893030
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.95An essential companion for bird lovers and gardeners alike since it was first published, this highly successful guide to identifying garden birds has now been fully updated with the latest... -
Killarney to Valentia Island by Adrian Hendroff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The Iveragh Peninsula, the largest in southwest Ireland, stretches from Killarney to Bolus Head and attracts thousands of visitors annually. The Ring of Kerry coastal road winds along its fringes and... -
Whittled Away by 9781848893108
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.90`Ireland's heritage is being steadily whittled away by human exploitation, pollution and other aspects of modern development. This could represent a serious loss to the nation.' Irish Government... -
Ireland's Best Walks by Helen Fairbairn
Booksplease Price: £12.99In a country richly endowed with wild mountain ranges, secluded valleys and untamed coastlines, the best natural landscapes can only be explored on foot. Here are over sixty of the greatest one-day... -
Cycling Munster: Great Road Routes by Dan MacCarthy
Booksplease Price: £16.75With routes spanning the province, here is everything you need to explore the highways and byways of Munster - on two wheels. This popular guide has now been updated to include the Waterford... -
A Doctor's Sword by Bob Jackson
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.39`There followed a blue flash accompanied by a ver y bright magnesium-type flare ... Then came a frighteningly loud but rather flat explosion, which was followed by a blast of hot air ... All this was... -
Someone Has to Die for This: Dublin: November 1920 -July 1921 by Derek Molyneux 9781781177556
RRP: £17.50Booksplease Price: £14.54Hot on the heels of Killing at its Very Extreme, Dublin: October 1917 - November 1920, Someone Has to Die for This, Dublin: November 1920 - July 1921 wrenches the reader into the final frenetic... -
Killing at its Very Extreme: Dublin: October 1917- November 1920 by Derek Molyneux 9781781177549
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.25Killing at its Very Extreme takes the reader to the heart of Dublin from October 1917 to November 1920, effectively the first phase of Dublin's War of Independence. It details pivotal aspects at... -
Travels with Tom Crean by Aidan Dooley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.46TWO MEN Tom Crean, the Kerryman, whose phenomenal feats of bravery in the unexplored Antarctic earned him a rare medal for valour, pinned on him by King George. Aidan Dooley, the Galway man, who... -
The Templemore Miracles: Jimmy Walsh, Ceasefires and Moving Statues by John Reynolds 9780750990592
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.05In the aftermath of the 1916 Rising, the ensuing guerrilla war reached its peak in August 1920, in the garrison town of Templemore, when a series of extraordinary events occurred. 16-year-old farm...