Ireland category: 1364 books
Forcibly Without Her Consent
Abductions in Ireland, 1700-1850
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Why do men abduct women? Are their motives sexual, economic, or social? How crucial is the use of violence? How important is the participation of others? What are the societal consequences of abduction?
Answers to these questions can usefully be found in a historical case study of abductions...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
The study of Irish history, once riven and constricted, has recently enjoyed a resurgence, with new practitioners, new approaches, and new methods of investigation. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History represents the diversity of this emerging talent and achievement by bringing together 36...
by Arthur Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This ebook contains a detailed history of the Briscoe & Conyngham families of Co. Meath, Ireland, from the time of their arrival in Ireland to the present day. There are also some delightful anecdotes relating to both families. The images used are generally originals.
Dublin, Cork & Galway Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Ireland's capital city of Dublin is a thriving international centre of culture, music, food and nightlife. In Dublin you can drink Guinness at its source, bask in the splendour of ancient cathedrals and enjoy the lively spirit at a local pub in Temple Bar. Cork is Ireland’s southern-most and...
A State in Denial:
British Collaboration with Loyalist Paramilitaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This meticulously researched book uses previously secret official documents to explore the tangled web of relationships between the top echelons of the British establishment, incl Cabinet ministers, senior civil servants, police/military officers and intelligence services with loyalist paramilitaries...
Foundation Stone
Notes Toward a Constitution for a 21st-Century Republic
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
A critical evaluation of the changes the Irish constitution needs to bring radical reform to Ireland. "In 1949, almost offhandedly, we declared our State a Republic. Remarkably nobody seems to have thought that this should have prompted a long, cold hard look at the Constitution. I say remarkably,...
Conflict, peace and mental health
Addressing the consequences of conflict and trauma in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focusing on the work undertaken following the Omagh...
by S. G. Bayne
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
This vintage book contains Samuel G. Bayne's 1902 account of a trip through Donegal and Connemara, Ireland. “On an Irish Jaunting-Car Through Donegal and Connemara” offers the reader a unique and fascinating insight into Ireland in the early twentieth century, and it is not to be missed by collectors...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
In the midst of World War I, the Easter Rising took place in Dublin and throughout Ireland in April, 1916. The revolutionary movement faced many problems from the beginning, including splintered leadership, disorganized support, opposition from moderate supporters of home rule, and prepared retaliation...
by Alice Green
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Here is collected a series of lectures collected in to this rich history of Ireland. Chapters included the way of history, the trade routes of Ireland, a great Irish lady and much more. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...
Freedom to Achieve Freedom
The Irish Free State 1922–1932
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
There is a huge library of books on the Irish revolutionary period but a dearth of material on the first ten years of independent Ireland. This book fills that gap in the literature.
Freedom to Achieve Freedom reviews the processes of state-building and the policies adopted in all the major...
by Oonagh Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Power Play
The Rise of Modern Sinn Féin
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This is the first comprehensive analysis of how Sinn Féin has transformed itself from ‘political wing’ of the Republican movement to a mainstream force in Irish politics. In this book by one of Ireland’s leading political journalists, Deaglán de Bréadún provides an incisive account of how...
by Jack Jewers
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Selling for a lower price than any similar guidebook, and deliberately limited to a short 256 pages, this EasyGuide is an exercise in creating easily-absorbed travel information. It emphasizes the authentic experiences in each destination:the most important attractions, the classic method of approaching...