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  • The Famine Irish

    Emigration and the Great Hunger

    Edited by Ciaran Reilly ...
    From a range of leading academics and historians, this collection of essays examines Irish emigration during the Great Famine of the 1840s. From the mechanics of how this was arranged to the fate of the men, women and children who landed on the shores of the nations of the world, this work provides a remarkable insight into one of the most traumatic and transformative periods of Ireland's history. ... Read more

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  • The Brothers' Lot

    by Kevin Holohan ...
    A "mordantly funny" novel set in a Dublin educational institution known as the Brothers of Godly Coercion School for Young Boys of Meager Means ( Publishers Weekly).Combining the spirit of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim with a bawdy evisceration of hypocrisy in old-school Catholic education, The Brothers' Lot is a comic satire that tells the story of the Brothers of Godly Coercion School for Young ... Read more

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  • The Bloodied Field

    Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920

    by Michael Foley ...
    On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiancé to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of ... Read more

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  • Missing and Unsolved: Ireland's Disappeared

    The Unsolved Cases of Ireland's Missing Persons

    by Barry Cummins ...
    They are some of Ireland's most famous names, for all the wrong reasons. They are Ireland's missing women, many of them murdered and their bodies hidden by evil killers who remain at large. They include Annie McCarrick, who was murdered in the Dublin-Wicklow mountains; Jo Jo Dullard, who was abducted and murdered while hitching a lift in Co. Kildare; and Fiona Pender, who was seven months pregnant ... Read more

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  • Collection of Celtic Folklore Of Ireland

    by NETLANCERS INC ...
    Collection of Celtic Folklore Of IrelandIn this collection we have merge 11 books. They are :-A Book Of Saints And Wonders :- Irish Christian folklore, including Brigit, Columcille, St. Patrick, and the Voyage of Brendan.Cath Maige Tuired The Second Battle Of Mag Tuired :- This Irish saga, from before the ninth Century A.D., is an account of the epic battle between the mythical Tuatha De Danann ... Read more

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  • Who Killed Rosemary Nelson?

    At last, the full story of the conspiracy behind the assasination of Northern Ireland's top human ri

    by Neil Root ...
    In March 1999, just months after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson was assassinated when a bomb exploded under her car. The attack was claimed by a loyalist paramilitary group but, over the last ten years, there have been several government enquiries into Nelson's murder. The latest one, which has been ongoing since 2005, has dramatically alleged that ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A City in Wartime – Dublin 1914–1918

    The Easter Rising 1916

    by Pádraig Yeates ...
    This fascinating history looks at how the lives of ordinary Dubliners were affected by these three major events Why did so many working-class Dublin men join the British Army? How did the city's 92,000 Protestants fare in this turbulent time? Dubliners fought on both sides in the Easter Rising. What were their motivations? How did Sinn Féin and the Catholic Church marginalise Labour in the battle ... Read more

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  • The Seven

    The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

    by Ruth Dudley Edwards ...
    On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood’s military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of Dublin, the Seven were arrested, court-martialled and executed.Cutting through the layers of veneration that have seen them regarded unquestioningly ... Read more

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  • Sins of the Father

    Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy

    by Conor McCabe ...
    The questions surrounding how the Irish economy was brought to the brink – who was to blame, and who should pay for these mistakes – have been rightly debated at length. But beyond this very legitimate exercise, there are deeper questions that need to be answered.These questions relate to why we made the decisions we did, not just in the last 10 years, but over the last 80. How did certain ... Read more

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  • Van Diemen's Women

    A History of Transportation to Tasmania

    by Joan Kavanagh, Dianne Snowden ...
    On 2 September 1845, the convict ship Tasmania left Kingstown Harbour for Van Diemen's Land with 138 female convicts and their 35 children. On 3 December, the ship arrived into Hobart Town. While this book looks at the lives of all the women aboard, it focuses on two women in particular: Eliza Davis, who was transported from Wicklow Gaol for life for infanticide, having had her sentence commuted ... Read more

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  • Seventeenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 3)

    Making Ireland Modern – The Quest For a Settlement

    by Raymond Gillespie ...
    Series Book 3 - New Gill History of Ireland
    In Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Professor Raymond Gillespie, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, tries to understand Ireland in the seventeenth century in a new way. Most surveys of seventeenth-century Ireland approach the period using war, conquest, plantation and colonisation as their organising themes. It does not see Ireland as a passive receptor of colonial ideas imposed from above. In ... Read more

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  • Children of the Troubles

    Our Lives in the Crossfire of Northern Ireland

    by Laurel Holliday ...
    In this remarkable second book in the Children of Conflict series, Laurel Holliday presents a powerful collection of young people's memories of growing up in the midst of the violence in Northern Ireland known as "The Troubles.""All my life I have been afraid. When it would get dark I would lie in bed and be frightened to move in case men would be outside who were going to smash the doors in with ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD