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The Disabled Detective: Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction by Susannah B. Mintz 9781350215436
Booksplease Price: $73.16The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B. Mintz... -
Ireland in the 1950s: The Lost Decade? by Dermot Keogh 9781856354189
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $33.79This book brings to light the social, cultural, political and economic complexities and contradictions of Ireland in the 1950s. There is a strong emphasis on the development of economic thinking and... -
Network Security Through Data Analysis by Michael S. Collins 9781491962848
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $70.56Traditional intrusion detection and logfile analysis are no longer enough to protect today's complex networks. In the updated second edition of this practical guide, security researcher Michael... -
Dividing Ireland: World War One and Partition by Thomas Hennessey 9780415198806
RRP: $100.78Booksplease Price: $91.37This book provides an original assessment of the First World War in Ireland and its consequences, the key to understanding the complexities of the Irish nation today. Thomas Hennessey explores how... -
Bank of Scotland: 1695 -1995 A History by Richard Saville
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $195.30Awarded the 1996 Wadsworth Prize for British History, by the Business Archives Council. A history of the Bank of Scotland.ReviewsOne of the most important books on Scottish economic and banking... -
101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History: The People, Places, Culture, and Tradition of the Emerald Isle by Ryan Hackney 9781598693232
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $20.87Discover the truth behind the myths of the Emerald IsleForget about shamrocks, leprechans, and all that blarney; 101 Things You Didn't Know about Irish History dispels the myths and tells the true... -
Liam Lynch: The Real Chief by Meda Ryan 9781856359924
Booksplease Price: $33.79Liam Lynch joined the Irish Volunteers after the Easter Rising of 1916 and quickly rose through its ranks. He reorganised the Cork Brigade in 1919 and in 1921 became the commanding officer of the... -
The Salmon of Knowledge Eithne Massey 9781788493895
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $29.27Long ago in Ireland, there lived a boy called Fionn, who wanted to know everything. Fionn goes to live with the wisest man in Ireland, hoping to find answers to his many questions. But Finnegas... -
1921 by Morgan Llywelyn 9780765326935
Booksplease Price: $38.96The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the epic tales of the 20th century. Morgan Llywelyn has chosen it as the subject of her major work, "The Irish Century", a multi-novel... -
My Oedipus Complex: and Other Stories by Frank O'Connor
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from World War II, Larry is resentful and jealous of losing his mother's... -
Clovis Blade Technology: A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas by Michael B. Collins 9780292712355
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Around 11,000 years ago, a Paleoindian culture known to us as "Clovis" occupied much of North America. Considered to be among the continent's earliest human inhabitants, the Clovis peoples were... -
Independence Memories: A People's Portrait of the Early Days of the Irish Nation Valerie Cox 9781529339826
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05A PEOPLE'S PORTRAIT OF A PERIOD OF MOMENTOUS CHANGE IN IRISH HISTORY.Independence Memories is a fascinating social history, from living and inherited memory, of the period surrounding Irish... -
Independence Memories: A People's Portrait of the Early Days of the Irish Nation by Valerie Cox 9781529339857
Booksplease Price: $43.47A PEOPLE'S PORTRAIT OF A PERIOD OF MOMENTOUS CHANGE IN IRISH HISTORY.Independence Memories is a fascinating social history, from living and inherited memory, of the period surrounding Irish... -
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2024 by Lawrence Booth 9781399411844
Booksplease Price: $87.76*Soft cover edition* The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. Highlights from this year's edition include Gideon Haigh on the... -
The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History John Vasquez Mejias 9781454952466
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.13Rendered in gorgeously carved wood blocks and buffeted with historical supplemental material, John Vasquez Mejias's The Puerto Rican War tells the story of the the 1950 insurrection on the island... -
The Battle for Cork: July-August 1922 by Mr John Borgonovo
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $28.35By the sixth week of the Irish Civil War in 1922, all eyes turned to Cork, as the National Army readied its climactic attack on the 'rebel capital'. At 2 a.m. on a Bank Holiday Monday, Emmet Dalton... -
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2024 by Lawrence Booth 9781399411868
Booksplease Price: $131.48*Large format edition* The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. Highlights from this year's edition include Gideon Haigh on... -
Brother Against Brother by Liam Deasy 9781781179376
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $24.74Moving and sensitive account of the Civil War, one of Ireland's greatest tragedies. He recounts in detail the Republican disillunionment with the Truce and later with the Treaty, how the Republicans... -
Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter by Meda Ryan 9781856354806
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $37.40Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter chronicles the action-packed life of the Commander of the Third West Cork Flying Column, including the decisive Kilmichael ambush and the controversy regarding... -
Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922 by Darragh Gannon 9781009158282
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $60.00The actions of Irish nationalists in Britain are often characterised as a 'sideshow' to the revolutionary events in Ireland between 1912 and 1922. This original study argues, conversely, that Irish... -
Irish Myth, Lore and Legend on Film by Dawn Duncan 9783034301404
RRP: $91.25Booksplease Price: $82.80This book examines film versions of Irish myth, lore, and legend, concentrating particularly on stories which encompass the life journey of the hero, as proposed by Carl Jung and adapted by Joseph... -
Ancient Irish Legends by Padraic O'Farrell 9780717131679
RRP: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.36From the Children of Lir to Diarmuid and Grainne to the Salmon of Knowledge and Oisin in Tir na nOg, Padraic O'Farrell reintroduces the classic stories of the Celtic past.About the AuthorThe late... -
The Fight for Dublin, 1919-1921: Urban Warfare in the Irish Struggle for Independence by Joseph McKenna 9781476684413
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14In Dublin, the War of Irish Independence (1919-1921) was an intense and dirty battle between military intelligence agents. While IRA flying columns fought the British Army and the Black and Tans in... -
Building the Apollo Capsules: An Engineer's Memoir of the Moonshot Program and Its Debt to Hispanic Team Members by Jim De La Rosa 9781476687193
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.90This firsthand account of the development of the Apollo 11 mission gives a behind-the-scenes look at the 1969 moon landing mission from an engineer's perspective. The technical problems and... -
Finscealta na hEireann Eithne Massey 9781788494731
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.53FINSCEALTA AS EIRINN An Bradan FeasaConas Mar a FuairCu Chulainn a AinmClann LirLabhrai LoingseachFionn agus an FathachAn Cu Faoil BanOisinAbout the AuthorEithne Massey has had a lifelong... -
Conflict, Diaspora, and Empire: Irish Nationalism in Britain, 1912–1922 by Darragh Gannon 9781009158275
RRP: $178.50Booksplease Price: $170.37The actions of Irish nationalists in Britain are often characterised as a 'sideshow' to the revolutionary events in Ireland between 1912 and 1922. This original study argues, conversely, that Irish... -
Neil Jordan, Author and Screenwriter: The Imagination of Transgression by Bertrand Cardin 9781800799233
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $76.55Neil Jordan is immediately associated with the successful films he has directed (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins...). And yet, he is also a man of letters. His literary... -
Where the Waters Flow: The stories and lore of Ireland’s rivers Eithne Massey 9781788494755
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $28.25'In the stories which follow I hope that the rivers will speak to you.' Flowing from source to sea, our rivers are the life-blood of Ireland. They have shaped the landscape, history, folkore and... -
The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, Volume VIII: Tigrane by Alessandro Scarlatti 9780674640344
RRP: $117.50Booksplease Price: $96.66Donald Jay Grout's widely praised edition of the work of a key figure in the history of opera provides the most reliable version of the score for each opera, appending a translation of the libretto... -
A Moon Watch Story: The Extraordinary Destiny of the Omega Speedmaster by G.R.A.M (Collective) 9782940506613
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.97One small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind and an extraordinary destiny for the watch that accompanied Man's first steps on the Moon, thereby becoming the greatest icon in watchmaking... -
1916 - The Long Revolution by Dermot Keogh 9781856355452
Booksplease Price: $42.80Introduction by Garret Fitzgerald. This book seeks to interpret the events of Easter Week 1916 as the central defining event of a 'long revolution' in Irish history. The origins of the long... -
General Eoin O'Duffy: The Political Life of an Irish Firebrand by Jack Traynor 9781476693262
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $64.64Although most of the prominent figures from Ireland's revolutionary generation have been endlessly profiled and commemorated, the controversial General Eoin O'Duffy remains a pariah. Despite... -
The The IRA on Film and Television: A History by Mark Connelly 9780786447367
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $71.90The Irish Republican Army (IRA) has for decades pursued the goal of unifying its homeland into a single sovereign nation, ending British rule in North Ireland. Over the years, the IRA has been... -
Graham Greene, Ireland and the Honorary Consul: A View from the South of France by Eamon Maher 9781803744230
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.43These reminiscences of a friendship between Graham Greene and the author over two decades offer several original and significant additions to the knowledge of Greene's beliefs, experiences and... -
Well-Remembered Days by Arthur Matthews 9780230763432
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $18.80Eoin O'Cellaigh: writer, poet, nationalist, playwright, civil servant, commentator (non-sport) - above all a defender of the traditional values of Ireland. The 'land of saints and scholars' has... -
Police Casualties in Ireland 1919-1922 by Richard Abbott 9781781176344
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.53The Royal Irish Constabulary are often portrayed as the villains of the War of Independence in Ireland, Irishmen who betrayed their country by serving the British regime. No memorial has been raised... -
The Making of a Marxist Philosopher: A Memoir Sean Sayers 9781032827452
RRP: $86.08Booksplease Price: $77.99The Making of a Marxist Philosopher is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from renowned Marxist philosopher Sean Sayers.His father was the son of a Jewish-Irish businessman... -
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan 9781137278838
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $23.98During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the... -
The Fifth Knight E.M. Powell 9781611099331
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.11To escape a lifetime of poverty, mercenary Sir Benedict Palmer agrees to one final, lucrative job: help King Henry II's knights seize the traitor Archbishop Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. But... -
Legends of the Cliffs of Moher by Eithne Massey 9781788494137
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $28.96Meet a secret mermaid and a grumpy saint, a greedy prince and the magical foals that became a famous wave. Beware slippery, slidey monsters and lovestruck hags! In these stories, you will find...