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  • Rebellions

    Memoir, Memory and 1798

    by Tom Dunne ...
    This is a new, extended edition of an unusual book, which generated considerable interest and controversy when it was first published in 2004, and won the Ewart Biggs Memorial Prize the following year. In its original form it had three elements, a memoir giving the author's intellectual and political formation and his family connection to 1798 in Wexford, a critique of the bicentenary of the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rebellions

    Memoir, Memory and 1798

    by Tom Dunne ...
    This is a new, extended edition of an unusual book, which generated considerable interest and controversy when it was first published in 2004, and won the Ewart Biggs Memorial Prize the following year. In its original form it had three elements, a memoir giving the author's intellectual and political formation and his family connection to 1798 in Wexford, a critique of the bicentenary of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Nation and Not a Rabble

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  • The Road Not Taken

    How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution, 1381-1926

    by Frank McLynn ...
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  • The Irish Story

    Telling Tales and Making it Up in Ireland

    by Professor R F Foster ...
    Each of Foster's books has generated vigorous discussion, but in THE IRISH STORY he breaks fresh ground even by his own standards. Driven by his sense of the seriousness of history and a fascination with those who distort it, THE IRISH STORY examines how key facets of Ireland's past have been tampered with to serve a multiplicity of purposes.THE IRISH STORY is endlessly varied, surprising and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 4, 1880 to the Present

    Edited by Thomas Bartlett ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Ireland
    This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scholarship and research, the many contributions from experts in their field offer detailed and fresh perspectives on key areas of Irish social, economic, religious, political, demographic, institutional and cultural history. By situating the Irish story, ... Read more

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  • Buried Lives

    The Protestants of Southern Ireland

    by Robin Bury ...
    The early twentieth century saw the transformation of the southern Irish Protestants from a once strong people into an isolated, pacified community. Their influence, status and numbers had all but disappeared by the end of the civil war in 1923 and they were to form a quiescent minority up to modern times. This book tells the tale of this transformation and their forced adaptation, exploring the ... Read more

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  • Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928

    Patriots, Priests and the Roots of the Irish Revolution

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    The present-day Republic of Ireland was created by a revolutionary elite which developed between 1858 and 1914. Here, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, Professor Tom Garvin, considers the social origins of the revolutionary politicians who became the rulers of Ireland after the 1916 Rising and examines their political preconceptions, ideologies and prejudices. In many cases they were not ... Read more

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  • Burning the Big House

    The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution

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