Ireland category: 1364 books
Ireland and the Problem of Information
Irish Writing, Radio, Late Modernist Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Though the work of Irish writers has been paramount in conventional accounts of literary modernism, Ireland itself only rarely occupies a meaningful position in accounts of modernism’s historical trajectory. With an itinerary moving not simply among Dublin, Belfast, and London but also Paris, New...
by Dr Robert Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Revolutionary Ireland, 1912-25 analyses the main events in Ireland from the initial crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill in 1912 to the consolidation of partition Ulster with the settling of the boundary issue in 1925.
Written with particular reference to the needs of students in further and...
Luck and the Irish
A Brief History of Change from 1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Roy Foster is one of Ireland's leading historians, the author of the much acclaimed two-volume biography of Yeats as well as the definitive history Modern Ireland, which has been hailed as "dazzling" (New York Times Book Review) and "elegant, erudite, wise, witty" (Irish Times)....
Imagining Ireland's Independence
The Debates over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2006
The key turning point in modern Ireland's history, the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 has shadowed Ireland's political life for decades. In this first book-length assessment of the treaty in over seventy years, Jason Knirck recounts the compelling story of the nationalist politics that produced the Irish...
Ireland
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
This fourth edition of Joseph Coohill’s best-selling book has been fully updated to include the latest political, economic, and social developments in Ireland. Starting with the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island, Ireland takes readers right up to the present day through the Great Famine,...
by Sean Duffy
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland’s medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination.
Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his...
by Thomas Cahill
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A selection from How The Irish Saved Civilization, everything you need to know about the historical St. Patrick, the extraordinary Iron Age man who became Ireland’s patron saint.
The real St. Patrick neither dressed in green nor chased the snakes from Ireland; instead, he was a kind and...
by Breandán Ó hEithir, Brendan O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
A short, accessible and entertaining history from one of Ireland's best-loved writers, now updated to bring our country's story right up to date.
It deals with prehistory, the Celts, Christianity, the Vikings, the Normans. The various conquests and rebellions are covered, including Cromwell,...
Preventing the Future
Why was Ireland so poor for so long?
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
Between the years of the mid-thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances account for much of the stagnation – especially the depression of the thirties...
Ireland's History
Prehistory to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Ireland's History provides an introduction to Irish history that blends a scholarly approach to the subject, based on recent research and current historiographical perspectives, with a clear and accessible writing style. All the major themes in Irish history are covered, from prehistoric times right...
by John Harington
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A Short View of the State of Ireland, Written in 1605 is a fascinating collection of letters describing Ireland in the early 17th century.
by Francis Barnard
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Strongbow’s Conquest of Ireland is an amazing history of the Invasion of Ireland by the Normans.
The Glorious Madness – Tales of the Irish and the Great War
First-hand accounts of Irish men and women in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
From tragic generals to nuns on the run – the extraordinary stories of the Irish on the frontlines of the First World War that you’ve never heard before
Based on first-hand accounts of the First World War, The Glorious Madness is a collection of character portraits and stirring anecdotes...
The Great Shame
And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
"Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us in The Great Shame a people despised and rejected to the point of death, who in the face of...