Ireland category: 1364 books
by Deborah O'Toole
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2012
Foofer, the Pooka & St. Patrick is Book #4 in the Short Tales Collection by Deborah O'Toole.
Read how Foofer learns the true history of St. Patrick, Ireland's patron saint. The history lesson is related to Foofer by an Irish Pooka, who also leads Foofer down a misty path to meet and...
by Brendan Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
These lively and entertaining traditional folk tales from Ireland's "Garden County" are vividly retold by local storyteller Brendan Nolan. Their origins lost in the mists of time, these 30 stories from across Wicklow reflect the wisdom (and eccentricities) of the county and its people....
by Susie Minto
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Leitrim has a rich heritage of myths and legends which is uniquely captured in this collection of traditional tales from the county. Discover the burial place of the mythical hunter-warrior Fionn Mac Cumhaill, the sites where holy saints once trod, and the places where ordinary people once encountered...
Revolutionary Lives
Constance and Casimir Markievicz
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Constance Markievicz (1868–1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris. She would become known for her roles as politician and Irish revolutionary nationalist. Her husband, Casimir Dunin...
Whose Past Is It Anyway?
The Ulster Covenant, the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
Ireland is on the cusp of what has become known as the "Decade of Centenaries." In this unique book, we gain an insight into three of these centenaries—the signing of the Ulster Covenant, the Easter Rising, and the Battle of the Somme—from across the spectrum of political allegiances...
by Dónal Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
The Kerry Way is Ireland’s longest waymarked trail and one of the most popular. Looping around the Iveragh Peninsula, it follows narrow country roads, forest paths, abandoned coach roads and mass paths, national park land and farmland. This clear and lively guide gives the prospective wayfarer enough...
A Death-Dealing Famine
The Great Hunger in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1997
Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52. *BR**BR*The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants.
Other Famine
The 1822 Crisis in County Leitrim
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
In the summer of 1822 a bad potato crop and limited employment opportunities created famine conditions in the west and south-west of Ireland. The Other Famine is the first book to examine these events, and specifically their implications for County Leitrim. Beginning with an overview of life in the...
by J.M. Synge
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
J.M. Synge was a tireless traveller who, while celebrating the beauties of the Irish landscape, never flinched from describing the harsh, unromantic reality of rural life.
Capturing the embers of a dying culture, the great playwright walks, drinks and talks with a rich assortment of country...
Tom Clarke
The True Leader of the Easter Rising
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Long overshadowed by fellow republicans Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, Tom Clarke was the man who made the Easter Rising possible. During an extraordinary life dedicated to Irish freedom, he rose from humble origins and endured 30 years of struggle, imprisonment, and exile before becoming a master...
Broken Hallelujah
The Making of a Christian Brother
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
A Broken Hallelujah traces a young man's path through the Christian Brothers' regime from Juniorate through the Leaving Certificate year to Teacher Training, and from there to work "on the mission." The author describes in intimate detail the experiences and challenges he faces on the way,...
Taney
Progress of a Parish
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Profile of the growth, evolution and influence of the Parish of Taney in Dublin. 21 June 2018 marks the 200th anniversary of the dedication service in Christ Church Taney, now known colloquially in the neighbourhood as Taney Church. This book is a celebration of the progress of a Parish, it's cultural...
The Fighting Irish
The Story of the Extraordinary Irish Soldier
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
"Tells the story of the Irish fighting man with wit, clarity, and scholarship." —Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War
For hundreds of years, Irish soldiers have sought their destiny abroad. Wherever they've traveled, whichever side of the battlefield they've stood, the tales...
American Slavery, Irish Freedom
Abolition, Immigrant Citizenship, and the Transatlantic Movement for Irish Repeal
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Irish Americans who supported the movement for the repeal of the act of parliamentary union between Ireland and Great Britain during the early 1840s encountered controversy over the issue of American slavery. Encouraged by abolitionists on both sides of the Atlantic, repeal leader Daniel O'Connell...