Ireland category: 1364 books
A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes – Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Irish History
Fascinating Snippets of Irish History from the Ice Age to the Peace Process
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
**THE ONLY BOOK ON IRISH HISTORY YOU’LL EVER NEED!
From invasions to rebellions, heroic martyrs to pragmatic politicians, industrial development to mass emigration, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by renowned Irish historian Jonathan Bardon will take you on a sweeping journey through...
by Brian Igoe
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Daniel O'Connell had an exciting life, spiced with duelling, Revolution, and girls galore until his marriage. That marriage astonishingly for the times, was a love match, far from the norm in those days. Dan was born in 1785 into the family of what was really a smuggler baron. At the age of 15 he...
by Michael J. Winstanley
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This pamphlet makes use of the most recent revisionist literature to reassess the view, much propagated by nationalist sources, that Ireland was a land of impoverished peasants oppressed by English laws and absentee English landlords.
The land question has always been closely linked to the development...
by Brian Igoe
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
This is the fourth in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. It covers the time of the Nineteenth Century, to my mind one of the most stimulating times in Ireland’s history. The Great Famine was not in itself, of course, stimulating, but it’s results were surprising. The title...
The Seven
The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
On the morning of Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven men who made up the Military Council of the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood gathered in Dublin’s Liberty Hall. By noon, the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, in which they declared themselves to be the provisional government of an entity...
by S. Reynolds Hole
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
A Little Tour In Ireland
The view from the hill of Killiney is one of the loveliest in this land of loveliness. Seated among the purple and golden flowers, you look over its rocks and trees upon the noble Bay of Dublin with its waters "bickering in the noontide blaze," and the stately ships...
Flight from Famine
The Coming of the Irish to Canada
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop,...
Cromwell in Ireland
A History of Cromwell’s Irish Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
First published in Ireland only in 1883, this book is a fascinating account of the Irish campaign of 1649-1650 led by Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), the English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, as told by the Irish Rev. Denis...
Ireland's Pirate Trail
A Quest to Uncover Our Swashbuckling Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Bloodthirsty buccaneers and buried treasure, fierce sea battles and cold-blooded murders, Barbary ducats and silver pieces of eight.
Des Ekin embarks on a roadtrip around the entire coast of Ireland, in search of our piratical heritage, uncovering an amazing history of swashbuckling bandits,...
by George Richards
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
It has been the belief of the Irish people that St. Patrick was the missionary that brought Christianity to Ireland, however this may have been the case. From ancient writings it would appear that Christianity was well established in Ireland hundreds of years before the purported arrival of St. Patrick...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Discover the fascinating lives of the figures that have shaped Ireland from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Explore the rich history of the island’s cultural, social and political landscape, with more than 100 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. The Irish have contributed...
The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848 - 1918
From the Great Famine to Independent Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
The Modernisation of Irish Society surveys the period from the end of the Famine to the triumph of Sinn Fein in the 1918 election and argues that during that time Ireland became one of the most modern and advanced political cultures in the world.
Professor Lee contends that the Famine death-rate,...
Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography
The Definitive Biography of the Uncrowned King of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
In this masterly biography, F.S.L. Lyons tackles the life and times of one of the greatest Irish statesmen of modern times. One of modern Irish biography’s great triumphs, Charles Stewart Parnell has never been approached or surpassed.
Charles Stewart Parnell, an enigmatic, icy aristocrat,...
Castles, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers
Adventures along Ireland's St Declan's Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Rich in history, castles and larger-than-life characters, St Declan's Way is one of Ireland's best kept secrets.
Rosamund's adventures begin when she is lent a map of the ancient highway and pilgrim route St Declan's Way. Intrigued she returns to Ireland. Setting off from the famous Rock of...