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We Fought on D-Day: Ulstermen in Normandy, in Their Own Words by Mark Scott 9781780733876
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €14.02In 2003, eight Ulstermen - some of the last surviving veterans of the 1944 D-Day invasion of France - were interviewed for the film documentary We Fought on D-Day by DoubleBand Films in Belfast. The... -
Lisburn, Past and Present: People, Places and Things by Fredrick Gilbert Watson
Booksplease Price: €14.77Lisburn town and environs contain a treasure trove of local history. This book explores a wide range of topics as we visit the Maze, Kilwarlin, Lissue, Hillsborough, Glenavy, Lambeg, Hilden and... -
Captured by a Vision: A Memoir by Ken Newell
Booksplease Price: €19.58"...we are more than capable of transforming our own country." These are the words of an Irish Presbyterian minister who participated in some of the most important events in the recent history of... -
The Ulster Covenant: An Illustrated History of the 1912 Home Rule Crisis by Gordon Lucy 9781780730394
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €9.20On the 28th September 1912, over 470,000 men and women signed Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant. By signing they proclaimed that they would surrender neither their 'civil and religious freedom' nor... -
From Scapa to Jutland: The Story of HMS Caroline at War from 1914-1917 by John Allison
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €15.04Amid the twists and turns of her survival to this day, the story of the light cruiser HMS Caroline spans a century and more. This book focuses on her early career, the role she played as just one of... -
Chasing the Flying Snail by Anthony Burges 9781904242512
RRP: €17.79Booksplease Price: €12.94In the 1950s, the railways operated by Coras Iompair Eireann (CIE) were more like a working museum rather than a state-owned railway. The vintage coaches and life-expired locomotives were part of the... -
What You See is What You Get: Stiff Little Fingers 1977-1983 by Roland Link
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.23Fan, musician and writer Roland Link has compiled a wealth of images of the legendary Belfast band through the 1970s and 80s. It includes many previously unseen photographs of the members on the... -
The County Donegal Railways by E. M. Patterson
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €20.81This is a new edition of Dr EM Patterson's first volume on the history of the narrow-gauge railways of North-West Ireland, originally published in 1962. The County Donegal Railways had a route of 124... -
The Chocolate Soldiers: The Story of the Young Citizen Volunteers and 14th Royal Irish Rifles During the Great War by Steven Moore
Booksplease Price: €24.68From an interest sparked by a family involvement in the Young Citizen Volunteers and the First World War, author Steven Moore has crafted an extensive, revealing and sympathetic account of the... -
The Irish on the Somme: A Battlefield Guide to the Irish Regiments in the Great War and the Monuments to Their Memory by Steven Moore
Booksplease Price: €23.99At 7.30am on 1st July 1916, some 60,000 men climbed out of their trenches and walked across No-Man's-Land and into the history books. The Battle of the Somme, which was to rage for another four... -
Colonel Paddy: The Man Who Dared by Patrick Marrinan
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.23This, the original biography of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO (3 Bars), Legion d Honneur, Croix De Guerre and Colonel Paddy to his contemporaries, is a lively account of his life and... -
For the Sins of My Mother Marie Therese Rogers-Moloney 9781780730653
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €13.57In rural Ireland in 1950, a respectable widow has an affair with a visiting stranger. To conceal her pregnancy, she travels to Belfast, where she gives birth to a baby girl called Marie Therese. She... -
Nutts Corner: In War and Peace, 1941-1963 Guy Warner 9781780733951
RRP: €19.04Booksplease Price: €18.14Nutts Corner airfield was conceived and built during the Second World War, constructed for military use before evolving into a new civil airport for Northern Ireland in December 1946. Written by...