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  • A Chronicle Of Comber: The Town of Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder 1873-1912

    by Desmond Rainy, Laura Spence ...
    This book paints an intimate picture of Comber, County Down, home town of Thomas Andrews Junior, Shipbuilder, during the thirty-nine years of his short but hugely influential life(1873–1912).It provides an outline of Thomas and the Andrews family; and will be gratefully acknowledged by the many who seek to learn more about this modest man – one of the most iconic, yetrelatively unknown, ... Read more

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  • Mad Dog - They Shot Me in the Head, They Gave Me Cyanide and They Stabbed Me, But I'm Still Standing

    by Johnny Adair ...
    Johnny Adair was born in the Shankhill Road area of Belfast, Northern Ireland. The youngest of seven children he was raised a Protestant. As a teenager Johnny and his gang would roam the streets looking for Catholics for no other reason then religion and he bears many scars and war wounds from endless street battles. A young Loyalist, Johnny earned his reputation as a paramilitary leader long ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

  • Bunker Hill

    A City, A Siege, A Revolution

    by Nathaniel Philbrick ...
    Series Book 1 - The American Revolution Series
    The bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, Mayflower, and In the Hurricane's Eye tells the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution, in this "masterpiece of narrative and perspective." (Boston Globe)**In the opening volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his keen eye to pre-Revolutionary Boston and the spark that ignited the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Just Mary: A Political Memoir From Mary O'Rourke

    by Mary O'Rourke ...
    In this memoir Mary O' Rourke writes, with remarkable candidness and humour, of personal and political events; of the many senior political figures with whom she worked, including Charles Haughey and Bertie Ahern; of her life with her beloved husband Enda; of her two dear Brians, both of whom died before their time; of her successes and disappointments. She does all this with honesty, energy and ... Read more

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  • Guerilla Days in Ireland

    by Tom Barry ...
    First published in 1949, 'Guerilla Days in Ireland' is an extraordinary story of the Irish War of Independence and the fight between two unequal forces, which ended in the withdrawal of the British from twenty-six counties. Seven weeks before the Truce of July 1921, the British presence in County Cork consisted of a total of over 12,500 men. Against these British forces stood the Irish Republican ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine

    The Irish Famine 1845-52

    by Christime Kinealy ...
    The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century.Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood for Blood: The Black and Tan War in Galway

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    by William Henry ...
    William Henry has trawled the archives to produce this meticulous account of the many raids, ambushes, murders and reprisals that took place in the 1919-21 period, and of those who were involved. He details the activities of the dreaded Black and Tans, and the role played by the RIC and the mainstream British Army who were stationed in the county. He also looks at how everyday life was affected by ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Medical Journal of the Emigrant Ship Elizabeth

    by Pierce Power, Paul Allen, Paul Allen ...
    On the 21st of May 1825, the Elizabeth sailed from the Cove of Cork, carrying 45 men, 31 women and 134 children from some of the most distressed districts in the south of Ireland. These people were transported, at Government expense, as part of an experimental emigration that settled over 2000 Irish paupers in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Responsibility for the success of this enterprise fell to ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • True North: In praise of England's better half

    by Martin Wainwright ...
    Abysmal weather, slag heaps, funny accents; the bleak uplands of a landscape carved out of millstone grit; townscapes of abandoned mills and shipyards; the detritus of an industrial revolution well past its sell-by date. These, all too often, are the gloomy perceptions of 'the north', the foundations for the belief that northerners spend their lives battling hardship and misery, and that nothing ... Read more

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  • Old Families of Larne and District

    by RSJ Clarke ...
    Series series Gravestone Inscriptions: Antrim, Vol. 4
    This is the fourth volume for County Antrim in our Gravestone Inscription Series and our thirty-first overall.This volume covers the following burial grounds: Dromain, Kilwaughter, Kilwaughter Old, Larne and Inver Old (St Cedma’s), Larne and Kilwaughter Non-Subscribing Presbyterian, Larne First Presbyterian, McGarel and St McNissi`s Roman Catholic.Additional information is supplied on families ... Read more

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  • The Singing Flame

    by Ernie O'Malley ...
    Series series Ernie O'Malley Series
    On Another Man's Wound, O'Malley's account of his experiences during Ireland's War of Independence, was first published to instant acclaim in 1936 and was followed by his account of his experiences in the Civil War in The Singing Flame. O'Malley had reported directly to Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy during the War of Independence and was appointed OC of the Second Southern Division, the ... Read more

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  • The The Western Front

    The Irishmen Who Fought in World War One

    by William Sheehan ...
    'One of our fellows, while a German flare lit up his trench as it shot over it, saw half a dozen of our raw Irishmen on their knees, praying to the Virgin as if their last hour had come.' Captain Gerald Burgoyne, C Company, 4th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles The Western Front tells the human story at the heart of a war that cost the lives of 35,000 Irishmen. Compiled by one of Ireland's leading ... Read more

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