Ireland category: 1364 books
by Damian Corless
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Kerrygold butter. The Dublin Spire. The Buntús Cainte booklet. The DeLorean sports car. All of these things are an indisputable part of Irish history, yet never quite made the school curriculum. Damian Corless uses his trademark wit to trawl through our past and capture fleeting moments on the way...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
In the 1940s and 1950s Ernie O’Malley interviewed survivors of Ireland’s struggle for independence. These interviews, now being made available to the public for the first time, give a fascinating insight into the times and the people who fought. The West Cork interviews detail IRA intervention...
Joyce's Ghosts
Ireland, Modernism, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
For decades, James Joyce’s modernism has overshadowed his Irishness, as his self-imposed exile and association with the high modernism of Europe’s urban centers has led critics to see him almost exclusively as a cosmopolitan figure.
In Joyce’s Ghosts, Luke Gibbons mounts a powerful argument...
by Bruce Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2012
This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no races. He...
The Doctor's Wife Is Dead
The True Story of a Peculiar Marriage, a Suspicious Death, and the Murder Trial that Shocked Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
A mysterious death in respectable society: a brilliant historical true crime story
In 1849, a woman called Ellen Langley died in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. She was the wife of a prosperous local doctor. So why was she buried in a pauper's coffin? Why had she been confined to the grim attic of the...
A Short History of the Irish Revolution, 1912 to 1927
From the Ulster Crisis to the formation of the Irish Free State
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
The years of the Irish revolution were the crucible of modern Ireland. Richard Killeen's authoritative survey of the period is an ideal introduction to this tumultuous time.
The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage...
The '98 Reader
An Anthology of song, prose and poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 1998
Seventeen ninety-eight saw French and American revolutionary ideals converge with popular rebellion in Ireland. The rebellion ended in bloody failure, but 1798 was kept alive in folk memory by a nascent literature added to by succeeding generations of nationalists and cultural revivalists. This wide-ranging...
Wherever Green is Worn
The Story of the Irish Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
The population of Ireland is five million, but 70 million people worldwide call themselves Irish. Here, Tim Pat Coogan travels around the globe to tell their story.
Irish emigration first began in the 12th century when the Normans invaded Ireland. Cromwell's terrorist campaign in the 17th century...
by Tim Fanning
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
In 1957, Sheila Cloney, Protestant wife of a Catholic farmer, fled from her home near the Wexford village of Fethard-on-Sea with her young daughters after refusing to bow to the demands of the local Catholic clergy to educate them as Catholics. In response, the priests launched a boycott of Fethard’s...
On the Blanket
The H-Block Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The H Block protest is one of the strangest and most controversial issues in the tragic history of Northern Ireland.
Republican prisoners, convicted of grave crimes through special courts and ruthless interrogation procedures, campaigned for political status by refusing to wear prison clothes...
by Lord Ernest Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 was a conflict between Irish Catholics and English and Scottish Protestants. The organized Irish Catholics created a de facto government called the Catholic Confederation and the ensuing war between Ireland and Protestants would be known as the Irish Confederate Wars. The...
by Susan McKay
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
'A moving and timely work, which captures the lasting pain and grief of those who lost loved ones during the Troubles.' Eoin McHugh, Sunday Independent
Nearly 4,000 people were killed during the Troubles.
Susan McKay's book explores the difficult aftermath of the violence for families,...
Haughey’s Millions – On the Trail of Charlie’s Money
The Bestselling Exposé of the Life and Debts of an Irish Taoiseach
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2001
Untangle the financial history of Charlie Haughey, Taoiseach and leader of Fianna Fáil, in Haughey’s Millions, the must-read, bestselling exposé of one of Ireland’s most controversial politicians
Colm Keena, acclaimed Irish Times investigative journalist, examines the extraordinary...
Memory Ireland
Volume 3: The Famine and the Troubles
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Volume 3 focuses on the impact of the Famine and the Troubles on the
formation and study of Irish cultural memory. Topics considered include
hunger strikes, monuments to the Famine, trauma and the politics of memory
in the Irish peace process, and Ulster Loyalist battles in the twenty-first
century....