Ireland category: 1364 books
Freedom and the Fifth Commandment
Catholic priests and political violence in Ireland, 1919–21
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of the Catholic clergy
The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre
Beyond O'Casey
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Ireland’s Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904. Under the guidance of W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory it became instrumental to the success of many of the leading Irish playwrights and actors of the early twentieth century.
Conventional wisdom holds that the playwright Sean O’Casey was the first...
by Cathal Coyle
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Here you will find out about the Giant's Causeway, Bunratty Castle, Blarney Castle, Newgrange, Cliffs of Moher, GPO Dublin, Grianan of Aileach, Skellig Micheal and many more. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage and the secrets of this ancient country.
1916 in Global Context
An anti-Imperial moment
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
The year 1916 has recently been identified as "a tipping point for the intensification of protests, riots, uprisings and even revolutions." Many of these constituted a challenge to the international pre-war order of empires, and thus collectively represent a global anti-imperial moment,...
The Race for the Áras 2012
Presedential Election 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Political intrigue, high drama and farce characterised Ireland s presidential campaign of 2011.
Consistent opinion poll-topper David Norris was the first to declare and the first to crash out after it was revealed he had appealed for clemency for his former lover who was convicted of statutory...
The Irish Classical Self
Poets and Poor Scholars in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
The Irish Classical Self considers the role of classical languages and learning in the construction of Irish cultural identities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on the "lower ranks" of society. This eighteenth century notion of the "classical self"...
Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism
From Galway to Cloyne and beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope’s address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland’s most charismatic clerics, Bishop...
Comrades
Inside the War of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The period leading up to Ireland gaining independence remains a hugely popular with readers both at home and abroad. The success of the film 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' serves to further ignite interest in those turbulent years. Comrades - Inside the War of Independence follows on from hugely...
Smashing H-Block
The Popular Campaign against Criminalization and the Irish Hunger Strikes 1976-1982
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Smashing H-Block is a political history of the Irish republican struggle against criminalization from 1976 to 1982. This struggle, which culminated in the historic hunger strikes of 1980 and 1981, is widely regarded as a turning point in Ireland's 'Troubles', marking the 'last great wave of activism...
God-Provoking Democrat
The Remarkable Life of Archibald Hamilton Rowan
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
‘I have seen many, very many United Irishmen, and with a few exceptions they are . . . the most God-provoking Democrats on this side of Hell.’ Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class of Co. Down, Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751–1832) led a colourful life. Heavily influenced by the celebrated...
The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921
Ideology and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1994
The Gaelic Revival has long fascinated scholars of political history, nationalism, literature, and theater history, yet studies of the period have neglected a significant dimension of Ireland's evolution into nationhood: the cultural crusades mounted by those who believed in the centrality of the...
The Anglo-Irish War
The Troubles of 1913–1922
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Anglo-Irish War has often been referred to as the war 'the English have struggled to forget and the Irish cannot help but remember'. Before 1919, the issue of Irish Home Rule lurked beneath the surface of Anglo-Irish relations for many years, but after the Great War, tensions rose up and boiled...
Galloping Green
From Dear Distant Damp Dublin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2004
[Book Summary] Emigration seemed the only path to the future in 1962 when Marita OConnell left Ireland for America with two bulging suitcases and $10 to finance her new life. Based on childhood diaries, Galloping Green: From Dear Distant Damp Dublin tells her engaging and humorous story of growing...
by Doreen McBride
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Fermanagh's culture, heritage, characters and stories sets it apart from other places. Every mountain, tree, lake, stream, rock, stone and character tells a tale. There are the stories about "educated" ancient Irish pigs who understood three languages (Irish, Latin and English) and monsters...