Ireland category: 1364 books
Grace O'Malley
The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530–1603 with a Forward by Mary McAleese
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Grace O’Malley is unique as the only woman recorded on the famous Baptista Boazio map of Ireland (1599), a tribute to the status she achieved as a leader on land and at sea in the 16th century. In 1979 Anne Chambers’ original biography of this famous Irishwoman, who over the centuries had been...
When God Took Sides
Religion and Identity in Ireland - Unfinished History
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
The struggle between Catholic and Protestant has shaped Irish history since the Reformation, with tragic consequences up to the present day. But how do Catholics and Protestants in Ireland see each other? And how do they view their own communities and what these communities stand for? Tracing the...
by Jack Jewers
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Though it has largely recovered from its economic crisis of 2008, Ireland's price structure is still among the most moderate in Europe, and its public is still eager to attract additional tourism. And thus they welcome the visitor with the warmest reception of perhaps any country. The author of this...
The West
Stories from Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The West: Stories from Ireland
A collection of short fiction by Eddie Stack
Eddie Stack's first collection of short stories received immediate critical acclaim both in the U.S. and in Ireland. The seven stories in this collection are set in the West of Ireland. From the opening...
by Thomas Austin
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
On the west coast of Ireland is the beautiful county of Galway with its famous Connemara mountains and rocky coastline. The university city of Galway is a typical Irish city of music and merriment with an atmosphere of culture and sport and is known as Ireland’s cultural heart.
TABLE...
Ireland
1001 Things You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
In this enthralling celebration of the places and people that make the country unique, Richard Killeen takes the reader on a tour of Ireland that reveals its rich and surprising history, including its heroes and villains, legends and folklore. As well as exploring the nation's rich literary and sporting...
After Ireland
Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Political failures and globalization have eroded Ireland’s sovereignty—a decline portended in Irish literature. Surveying the bleak themes in thirty works by modern writers, Declan Kiberd finds audacious experimentation that embodies the defiance and resourcefulness of Ireland’s founding spirit—and a strange kind of hope for a more open nation.
by Goldwin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Of all histories the history of Ireland is the saddest. For nearly seven centuries it was a course of strife between races, bloodshed, massacre, misgovernment, civil war, oppression, and misery. Hardly even now have the troubles of Ireland come to a close, either for herself or for her partner. Unrest...
The Society of St. Vincent De Paul in Ireland
170 Years of Fighting Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is Ireland’s largest and best-known voluntary charitable organisation. For the first time, this book records the details of the Society’s origins in Ireland and its work in communities all over the country, through the personal recollections of members of the Society and an overview of the services provided to those in need.
This is Charlie Bird
The Autobiography of one of Ireland's Best-Known Journalist
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2006
Charles "Charlie" Bird has had a long and distinguished career in Irish Journalism. He joined RTE – The National Broadcaster– in 1974. He has been at the heart of every big news event for over thirty years, breaking exclusive stories and interviewing presidents and prime ministers. He...
by Hazlett Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
The story of how the French Huguenots came to Ballyronan, Northern Ireland, in the late seventeenth century, what they achieved, and the local connections they established.
Of interest social historians and lovers of Ireland and her history.
Memory Ireland
Volume 4: James Joyce and Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
In the fourth and final volume of the Memory Ireland series, Frawley and
O’Callaghan explore the manifestations and values of cultural memory in
Joyce’s Ireland, both real and imagined. An exemplary author to consider
in relation to questions of how it is that history is remembered and recycled,
Joyce...
Destiny of the Soldiers – Fianna Fáil, Irish Republicanism and the IRA, 1926–1973
The History of Ireland’s Largest and Most Successful Political Party
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Incisive, engaging and thought-provoking, Destiny of the Soldiers charts Fianna Fáil’s political and ideological evolution from its revolutionary origins through extended periods in office.
Fianna Fáil is Ireland’s largest political party and one of the most successful parties in any...
by Desmond Keenan
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
This book presents a picture of Ireland in Tudor times, between 1509 and 1603 It deals with Europe in the sixteenth century, England, Irish Society, and Irish history of that period. This enables the reader to place Tudor Ireland in it proper context. The traditional distortions of nationalist propaganda are weeded out.