Ireland category: 1364 books
The Civil War in Dublin
The Fight for the Irish Capital, 1922–1924
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
The start of the Irish Civil War was signalled by the artillery bombardment of the Four Courts in Dublin on 28 June 1922. A week later, the Four Courts was gutted and O’Connell Street a smouldering ruin, but the anti-Treaty IRA was driven from the city. Most accounts of the fighting in Dublin end...
by Maurice Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
The Little Book of Rathmines is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about Rathmines, one of the oldest and most vibrant parts of Dublin.Here you will find out about Rathmines past, its proud sporting heritage, its arts and culture and its famous (and occasionally infamous)...
by Dr Tim Horgan
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
This book tells the story of the lives and deaths of 162 Kerrymen who died for the ideal of an independent Irish republic of 32 counties. Many were killed in action but others were executed or died while in captivity as a result of brutality or neglect. In telling their stories Tim Horgan has provided...
Family Trip
I BigStrhypes alla scoperta dell'Irlanda (sulle tracce della Coppa del Mondo di rugby femminile)
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 30, 2017
Quando Beatrice, giocatrice della nazionale italiana di rugby femminile, annuncia alla famiglia che sarà in Irlanda per la Coppa del Mondo 2017, i Rigoni non potrebbero essere più eccitati. Viaggiatori provetti e tifosi inarrestabili, organizzano nel dettaglio l’epica vacanza che li porterà a...
City of Streams
Galway Folklore and Folk Life in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
On the eve of the Second World War in Europe, the senior pupils in the National Schools of the West of Ireland were engaged in an important, if somewhat unusual, task. With the aid of a questionnaire supplied by the Irish Folklore Commission, and under the direction of their teachers, the children...
by Insight Guides
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Find the craic in Dublin with this Berlitz Pocket Guide, a concise, full-colour guide to Ireland's fast-paced capital. It tells you everything you need to know about the best places to visit in the city, from the party district Temple Bar, to the grand boulevard O'Connell Street and the ever-popular...
by Tim Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
Author is considered one of England’s most brilliant nonfiction writers
Winner of the Irish Book Award
Author’s previous work has been reviewed by the Guardian, the New York Times, the Times (London), the Los Angeles Times, and the London Review of Books
Strong blurbs from...
by James Joyce
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Although James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904, when he was 22, and had completed them by the end of 1907, they remained unpublished until 1914 — victims of Edwardian squeamishness. Their vivid, tightly focused observations of the life of Dublin's poorer classes, their unconventional...
Ollam
Studies in Gaelic and Related Traditions in Honor of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Ollam (“ollav”), named for the ancient title of Ireland’s chief poets, celebrates the career of Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University, who is one of the foremost interpreters of the rich and fascinating world of early Irish saga literature....
by P.M. Terrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
When Detective Ryan O'Clery receives a phone call from a noted historian claiming to have information about his family, he is certain she is mistaken but agrees to meet with her. When he arrives, however, he finds she's been murdered and her computer stolen. His investigation will take him back to...
Prelude to the Easter Rising
Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Prelude to the Easter Rising casts light upon the clandestine activities of Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany from 1914 to 1916.
German military intelligence and the Imperial Foreign Office had far-reaching plans to use the Irish in the war against Britain. Radical Irish-American leaders...
by D.E. Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2000
The English Civil Wars and Revolution remain controversial. This book develops the theme that the Revolution, arising from the three separate rebellions, was an English phenomenon exported to Ireland and then to Scotland. Dr Kennedy examines the widespread effects of years of bloody and unnatural...
The Great Famine
Ireland's Agony 1845-1852
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846...
Pathway to Rebellion:
Galway 1916
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
In 'Pathway to Rebellion' Willie Henry traces the origins of the rebellion of 1916 in Co. Galway back over a century. He argues that the country's rebellious past encouraged the Galway Volunteers to take a stand during the Rising, when many other parts of the country failed to do so. While Galway's...