Ireland category: 1364 books
Into Action
Irish Peacekeepers Under Fire, 1960–2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Into Action is the story of the Irish Defence Forces’ role as international peacekeepers since 1960. While primarily posted to uphold the transition towards peace in overseas conflicts, they have at times inevitably been forced to fight back against often aggressive opposition. Dan Harvey’s fascinating...
Under the Starry Flag
How a Ban of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
In 1867 forty Irish-Americans sailed for Ireland to fight against British rule. Claiming that emigrants to America remained British citizens, authorities arrested the men for treason, sparking a crisis and trial that dragged the U.S. and Britain to the brink of war. Lucy Salyer recounts this gripping tale, a prelude to today’s immigration battles.
Leprechauns
The Myths, Legends, & Lore
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Explore the magic, mischief, and mystery behind Ireland’s most iconic and beloved mythical creature: the leprechaun.
Leprechauns have been at the heart of Irish culture for years, capturing our hearts and minds alike—but how much do we really know about the leprechaun, anyway? Often depicted...
Clare War Dead
A History of the Casualties of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Clare War Dead is a comprehensive record of those men from County Clare who died during the World War I, and is the next instalment in this prolific author's series on the subject. His tireless research has been undertaken to honour those who died in service, and to shine a light on an aspect...
Men on trial
Performing emotion, embodiment and identity in Ireland, 1800–45
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Men on trial explores how the Irish perform ‘the self’ within the early nineteenth-century courtroom and its implications for law, society and nation. Drawing on new methodologies from the history of emotion, as well as theories of performativity and performative space, it emphasises that manliness...
Born Upon the Tide
Stories of Irish Men of the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In this work, maritime and social historian Pat Nolan interviews a wide selection of fishermen, boatbuilders and sailors from across the coastlines of Ireland. What emerges is a picture of a way of life that has changed beyond recognition, and which only lives on in the recollections of these men of the sea.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2017
This volumebrings together academics and judges to consider ideas and arguments flowing from the often complex relationships between law and politics, adjudication and policy-making, and the judicial and political branches of government.
Contributors explore numerous themes, including the nature...
by Marcus Connaughton
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Rory Gallagher is a hero and icon of rock music. He inspired guitar players from The Edge to Johnny Marr, Slash to Gary Moore, Johnny Fean to Philip Donnelly, Declan Sinnott to Brian May. He toured incessantly and sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Acknowledged as one of the world’s leading...
The Fall of the House of Wilde
Oscar Wilde and His Family
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The first biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu--a compelling volume that finally tells the whole story.
It's widely known that Oscar Wilde was precociously intellectual, flamboyant, and hedonistic--but lesser so that he owed...
Time Pieces
A Dublin Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
From the internationally acclaimed and Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and the Benjamin Black mysteries--a vividly evocative memoir that unfolds around the author's recollections, experience, and imaginings of Dublin.
As much about the life of the city as it is about a life lived,...
The Maximalist
The Rise and Fall of Tony O’Reilly
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
I am a maximalist … I want more of everything.’
Tony O’Reilly strode into the twenty-first century an Irishman apart. Strikingly good-looking, athletically gifted, irresistibly charismatic and phenomenally wealthy, he had everything any man could want. For many, he was a hero, the living...
by Lee Henry
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
In Belfast Taxi the city’s taxi drivers – of all ages and from all backgrounds – tell their stories in their own words, covering everything from the beginnings of the public-hire and private-hire industries, to the dark days of the Troubles and the vital role taxis currently play in Belfast’s...
by Declan Burke
Language: Hungarian
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Language: Hungarian
Release Date: December 10, 2015
A kutatási tanácsadóként dolgozó Harry Rigby szeret hátradőlni a székén, rágyújtani egy cigire, és időnként a pohár fenekére nézni. Amikor azonban megbízást kap, hogy derítsen fényt egy simlis kikiáltó feleségének hűtlenségére, ráadásul egy közismert politikus nejét...
Daniel O'Connell
A Graphic Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Daniel O’Connell – ‘The Liberator’ – lived a big, great and graphic life. Born in Kerry in 1775, he witnessed some of the most pivotal events in European history: the Penal Laws, the French Revolution, the 1798 Rebellion and the Great Famine. In his struggle for Catholic emancipation, O’Connell...