Ireland category: 1364 books
by Brendan Mac Evilly
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Sea swimming is the great leveller; we’re all the same in a pair of togs. No one minds who you are or what you’ve done; the question is ‘are you getting in?’ Popular for centuries, sea swimming has had a recent surge in interest, with a growing community now taking the plunge. Brendan Mac...
The economics of disability
Insights from Irish research
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
This book brings together research relating to the economics of disability in Ireland. It addresses a range of issues of relevance to the economic circumstances of people with disabilities, considering topics such as social inclusion, poverty, the labour market, living standards and public policy....
Other People's Diasporas
Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish-American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
With the economic rise of the "Celtic Tiger" in the 1990s, Irish culture was deeply impacted by a concurrent rise in immigration. A nation tending to see itself as a land of emigrants now saw waves of newcomers. Moynihan takes as her central question a formulation by sociologist Steve Garner: "What...
A Mirror to Kathleen's Face
Education in Independent Ireland 1922-60
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
First published in 1975, Donald Akenson’s book was at the forefront of a radically new approach to the study of Irish educational history. Instead of investigating the evolution of the schools as an isolated process, he explores the complex interrelations of Irish education, institutions and society,...
Education and Enmity (Routledge Revivals)
The Control of Schooling in Northern Ireland 1920-50
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
First published in 1973 Professor Akenson’s book traces the series of religious and political controversies which have battered the state schools of Northern Ireland. After the government’s admirably intentioned, but muddled, attempt to create a non-sectarian school system in the early 1920s,...
Bloody Sunday
The Bogside Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of Bloody Sunday in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Bloody Sunday. In January 1972, tensions between Catholic nationalists and Protestant unionists in Northern Ireland were at...
Israelites in Erin
Exodus, Revolution, and the Irish Revival
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
From the late nineteenth century through the early twentieth century, the story of the Israelites’ liberation from bondage in Egypt served as the archetypal narrative for the birth of the Irish nation. Exodus was critical to both colonial and anticolonial conceptions of Ireland and Irishness. Although...
From Partition to Brexit
The Irish Government and Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
From Partition to Brexit provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of how successive Irish governments have tried to overcome the challenges presented by the division of Ireland, including the decades-long conflict that claimed thousands of lives.
The Treaty
Debating and Establishing the Irish State
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
What exactly did the split over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 actually mean? We know it both established the independent Irish state and that Ireland would not be a fully sovereign republic and provided for the partition of Northern Ireland.
The Treaty was ratified 64 votes to 57 by the Sinn...
Battle of the Four Courts
The First Three Days of the Irish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
A meticulous, compellingly readable reconstruction of those three summer days that ignited the civil war – the defining event of modern Irish politics.
The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder artillery piece began to fire on the thick...
Ornament to the City
Holy Trinity and the Capuchin Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
The planning of Holy Trinity church in Cork City began in 1825, and the building was finally completed some 60 years later. The story of its completion mirrors the turbulent history of Ireland of the time, and the development of the cultural and civic life of the community, particularly in charting the life of its patron, Father Thobald Matthew, and the important role of the Capuchin Order.
by Ian Montgomery, Joe Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
When Muckamore Abbey Hospital first admitted patients in 1949, services in Northern Ireland for people with learning disability lagged far behind those in the rest of Ireland and the United Kingdom. By the 1960s, however, this had been replaced by what was considered to be a model service. From Special...
by P.M. Terrell
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Nominated for 4 awards... Readers Favorite says, "The narrative is lyrical and the voice is irresistible. Yes, the prose sings in the reader’s ears like beautiful music and it is peppered with wonderful dialogues, which are well-composed to read naturally and to deepen the plot and conflict. P.M....
Ireland’s Call
Irish Sporting Heroes Who Fell in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
In Ireland's Call BBC journalist Stephen Walker charts the fascinating stories of 40 Irishmen who swapped the sports field for the battlefield - household names who gave up their blossoming careers to volunteer for the Great War.
Using rare archive letters, memoirs and newspaper reports, this...