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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... -
The Tourist's Gaze: Travellers to Ireland, 1800-2000 by Glenn Hooper 9781859183236
Booksplease Price: £34.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859183236Author Glenn HooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Cork University PressPublisher... -
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: £44.62This 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... -
Georgian Dublin: The Forces That Shaped the City by Diarmuid O. Grada 9781782051473
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.19It is the Georgian heritage that most strongly defines Ireland's capital city. However, Diarmuid O Grada now shows us a Dublin quite unlike that depicted in the conventional histories of grand... -
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... -
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
Booksplease Price: £29.75When 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
Booksplease Price: £44.26This 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... -
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](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/96808/96526/9781782055037__37176.1686690242.jpg?c=1 "The Theatre and Ideology of Terence Macswiney: "Caught in a Living Flame" by Gabriel Doherty")
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... -
Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives Helene O'Keeffe 9781782055921
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £45.03This 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... -
Wexford Castles: Environment, Settlement and Society by Billy Colfer 9781859184936
Booksplease Price: £40.73Billy 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... -
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... -
Sean O'Casey: Political Activist and Writer by Paul O'Brien 9781782053415
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £33.17On the hundredth anniversary of the production of Sean O'Casey's Dublin plays at the Abbey Theatre, this timely book, Sean O'Casey: Political activist and writer situates O'Casey in the literary and... -
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... -
The First National Museum: Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth-century by Sherra Murphy 9781782054559
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.59Dublin's Natural History Museum is a uniquely preserved sliver of the past, an intact example of a nineteenth-century natural science collection. While its polished cases and stuffed animals show us... -
Newgrange by Geraldine Stout 9781859184318
Booksplease Price: £18.24Newgrange is simply the best example of a passage tomb in Western Europe and its solstice phenomenon, in particular, has made it famous throughout the world. It is also conveniently located only an... -
The Informer, The by Patrick F. Sheeran 9781859182888
Booksplease Price: £12.23To date there have been four film versions of "The Informer". The hardman and the gunman have provided dramatists and film-makers with a compelling way of staging political conflict. This is a study... -
Atlas of the Irish Revolution by John Crowley 9781782051176
Booksplease Price: £57.20The Atlas of the Irish Revolution is a landmark publication that presents scholarship on the revolutionary period in a uniquely accessible manner. Featuring over 200 original maps and 300 images, the... -
Protestant and Irish: The minority's search for place in independent Ireland: 2019 by Ian D'Alton 9781782053811
Booksplease Price: £20.41In 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... -
Flann O'Brien: Acting Out by Paul Fagan
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782055358Author Paul FaganFormat HardbackImprint Cork University PressPublisher Cork University... -
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... -
JG Farrell in His Own Words: Selected Letters and Diaries by J.G. Farrell
Booksplease Price: £18.37The 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
Booksplease 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,... -
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... -
Equality in Community: Sexual Equality in the Writings of William Thompson and Anna Doyle Wheeler by Dolores Dooley 9781859180051
Booksplease Price: £36.68Apologies 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
Booksplease Price: £67.09Examines 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... -
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... -
Of War and Wars Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing by Gerald Dawe 9781782051763
Booksplease Price: £44.60Of 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... -
The Good Boy by Tom Dunne 9781782055938
Booksplease Price: £35.45In part one of this memoir, Tom Dunne revisits his early life, first explored in the award-winning Rebellions: memoir, memory and 1798 (2004). The author attempts to understand the causes and...