Ireland category: 1364 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Limerick (Ireland) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
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Being New York, Being Irish
Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Irish America and New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
New York University's Glucksman Ireland House opened a quarter-century ago to foster the study of Ireland and Irish America, and since then has led and witnessed tremendous changes in Irish and Irish-American culture.
Alice McDermott writes about her son's Irish awakening; Colum McCann's Joycean...
The Hidden Famine
Hunger, Poverty and Sectarianism in Belfast 1840-50
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2000
Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland was devastated by the 'Great Hunger' – the most severe famine in modern European history. The view widely held by historians is that the impact of the Famine on the northern province of Ulster, in particular the largely Protestant city of Belfast, was minimal. In the...
The History of the Irish Famine
Fallen Leaves of Humanity: Famines in Ireland Before and After the Great Famine
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence...
The History of the Irish Famine
Volume I: The Great Irish Famine
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence...
That's That
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
A brutally honest and deeply affecting memoir about growing up in the countryside in rebel country in Northern Ireland.
Colin Broderick was born in 1968 and spent his childhood in Tyrone county, in Northern Ireland. It was the beginning of the period of heightened tension and violence known...
The Last Knight
Desmond Fitzgerald, 29th Knight of Glin
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
When Desmond FitzGerald died on 14th September 2011, obituaries paid tribute to his involvement with organizations such as the Irish Georgian Society and the Irish Architectural Archive. Over the previous decades, however, Desmond achieved far more than has yet been acknowledged. Not only did he battle...
The Townshend Moment
The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The captivating story of two British brothers whose attempts to reform an empire helped to incite rebellion and revolution in America and insurgency and reform in Ireland
Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Home Rule Bill, passed by the British parliament in 1912, was due, when it came into effect in 1914, to give Ireland some control over her own affairs for the first time since the Act of Union in 1800. However, this was postponed when the First World War broke out and by the time the war had ended...
Discovery of America by the Irish
Previous to the Ninth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Although the title of this work indicates that Irish people discovered America previous to the ninth century, I will not attempt to show at what particular time that event took place. In such works as have come under my notice, relating to the early discoveries of America, I find no positive evidence...
by Michael J. Hurley
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The story of railway, tram, and bus in this area of North Dublin in Ireland. This book brings together data from the previously published The Train To Howth and chapters from author's other publications. Many photographs, maps, and illustrations add to the depth of information in this book covering the life of the railway companies in the area from 1844 to the present date.
by Rob Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
In an island nation blessed by the warm waters of the gulf stream, the most severe winter in Ireland's history added to the misery, the suffering, starvation and death experienced by Ireland's peasant population. Their main food source, the "lumper" potato had been destroyed for the second...
by Desmond Keenan
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
After I began my researches into Irish history I became more and more dissatisfied with the existing stereotyped model of the supposed centuries old conflict with the English. One day I went into a bookshop to purchase a greatly-hyped History of modern Ireland, and I found that the chapter headings...
Consolidating Conquest
Ireland 1603-1727
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
This groundbreaking and controversial new study tells the story of two nations in Ireland; an Irish Catholic nation and a Protestant nation, emerging from a blood-stained century. This survey confronts the violence and enmity inherent in the consolidation of conquest.
Lenihan contends that...