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The Tilson Case: Church and State in 1950s' Ireland by David Jameson 9781782055600
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.57David Jameson's The Tilson Case: Church and State in 1950s' Ireland tells the story of one the most extraordinary causes celebre of twentieth-century Ireland, which followed the marriage of Ernest... -
Walter Macken: Critical Perspectives by Heinen Sandra
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782054917Author Heinen SandraFormat HardbackImprint Cork University PressPublisher Cork University... -
Music Education for the Twenty-First Century: Legacies, Conversations, Aspirations by John O'Flynn 9781782055792
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.63The 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... -
Ina Boyle (1889-1967): A Composers Life by Ita Beausang 9781782052647
Booksplease Price: £26.16The 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... -
Wise's Irish Whiskey: The History of Cork's North Mall Distillery by Barry Crockett 9781782055754
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.63The 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,... -
Neil Jordan: Works for the page Val Nolan, Jr. 9781782054955
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.87Hailed 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: £29.57This 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... -
The Ogam Stones at University College Cork by Damian McManus
Booksplease Price: £9.26The 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: £26.83This 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: £8.95Booksplease Price: £7.35This 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... -
Of War and Wars Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing by Gerald Dawe 9781782051763
Booksplease Price: £42.38Of 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... -
Famine Pots: The Choctaw-Irish Gift Exchange, 1847-Present by LeAnne Howe
Booksplease Price: £24.89The 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... -
Staged Folklore: The National Folk Theatre of Ireland by O'Connell John
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorJohn M. O'Connell is an ethnomusicologist from County Kerry with a specialist interest in cultural history... -
Essays on John McGahern: Assessing a literacy legacy by Derek Hand 9781782053293
Booksplease Price: £42.38This 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... -
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine by John Crowley 9781859184790
Booksplease Price: £58.59The 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... -
Ireland Through a Critical Lense: A Miscellany of Life-Writing on Politics, Culture and Film by Desmond Bell 9781782055778
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.63This 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... -
![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: £29.57Apologies 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... -
Wexford Castles: Environment, Settlement and Society by Billy Colfer 9781859184936
Booksplease Price: £41.68Billy 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... -
Stillbirth and Miscarriage, a Life-Changing Loss: 'Say My Baby's Name' by Anne Tracey 9781782055273
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £11.12Apologies 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... -
Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives Helene O'Keeffe 9781782055921
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £44.50This 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... -
Crime and Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1921-2021: Stability, Conflict, Transition by Aogan Mulcahy 9781782055730
Booksplease Price: £20.70The 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... -
The Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century by Connie Kelleher 9781782053651
Booksplease Price: £29.61In 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,... -
Trade Union Renewal by Adrian Kane 9781782055846
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £12.68The 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... -
Protestant and Irish: The minority's search for place in independent Ireland: 2019 by Ian D'Alton 9781782053811
Booksplease Price: £21.27In 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
Booksplease Price: £16.99The 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 Book of the Skelligs by John Crowley
Booksplease Price: £48.33This 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 Birds of County Cork by Smiddy Patrick
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.79This 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,... -
Tornadoes and Waterspouts in Ireland: Ancient and modern by John Tyrrell 9781782054597
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.19People 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: £29.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782055433Author Gearoid O CrualaoichFormat HardbackImprint Cork University PressPublisher Cork... -
Republicanism, Crime and Paramilitary Policing, 1916-2020 Brian Hanley 9781782055471
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £11.12Apologies 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... -
The Tourist's Gaze: Travellers to Ireland, 1800-2000 by Glenn Hooper 9781859183236
Booksplease Price: £33.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859183236Author Glenn HooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Cork University PressPublisher... -
Finnegans Wake, Ulster and Partition: The Sanguine Boundary Limit by Donal Manning 9781782055877
Booksplease Price: £45.93This 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... -
Perspectives on the Teaching of English in Post-Primary Education by Kevin Cahill 9781782055563
Booksplease Price: £45.93This 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... -
Newgrange by Geraldine Stout 9781859184318
Booksplease Price: £19.09Newgrange 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 First National Museum: Dublin's Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth-century by Sherra Murphy 9781782054559
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.57Dublin'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... -
Setting the Stage: Transitional playwrights in Irish 1910-1950 by Philip O'Leary 9781782054580
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.57There 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... -
Atlas of the Irish Revolution by John Crowley 9781782051176
Booksplease Price: £58.59The 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... -
Sean O'Casey: Political Activist and Writer by Paul O'Brien 9781782053415
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £31.78On 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... -
The Informer, The by Patrick F. Sheeran 9781859182888
Booksplease Price: £11.22To 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... -
Poetics and Polemics: Reading Seventeenth-Century Irish Political Verse by Michelle O'Riordan
Booksplease Price: £46.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMichelle O Riordan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Celtic Studies in the Dublin Institute for...