Ireland category: 1364 books
Ma, I'm Gettin Meself a New Mammy
A Memoir of Dublin at the Turn of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
After numerous arrests for shoplifting, Martha is sent to the convent where, the judge rules, she is to get an education. Martha is relieved to be out of the clutches of her horrible drunken stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally, but anxious about what awaits. Her days in the convent...
The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach
An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
This superb account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry, written as the nineteenth century draws to its close and the dawn of a new era trespasses on the lives of its small community, is both a shocking and captivating read.
Here is the first complete translation...
by R.J. Hunter
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The Muster Roll of the province of Ulster is a large, leather-bound volume in the British Library. The volume consists of 283 folio sheets on which are recorded the names of 13,147 males from the nine counties of Ulster. Each county forms a seperate section of the volume and the men who mustered are...
GAA Abroad A Parish Far From Home
The Stockholm Gaels
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Even today none of us takes the decision lightly to leave our family and friends and go and try our hand in another country. But if we do; thanks to those who have gone before us, there is often a community ready and waiting to help us out on our arrival.
All over Europe, Irish ex-pats are...
A Flame Now Quenched
Rebels & Frenchmen In Leitrim: 1793-1798
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 1998
The Irish rebellion of 1798 comprised a scattered series of local uprisings and desperate incursions that, tragically for the rebels, failed to cohere. This fascinating portrait of County Leitrim in the 1790s provides important insights into the rebellion in Connaught. In Leitrim, the spirit of rebellion...
Crowns in a Changing World
The British and European Monarchies, 1901-36
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
At the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, almost every European nation was a monarchy, most linked by close family ties to her and Edward VII, the "uncle of Europe". Prior to the outbreak of World War I, the personal relationships of Edward, and of his successor and son, George V, flourished...
Setting the Truth Free
Inside the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
In 1992, twenty-eight families came together in the pursuit of truth and justice. Eighteen years later, they moved a mountain. Setting the Truth Free captures, for the first time, the remarkable story of the Bloody Sunday families of Derry. The wounds of Bloody Sunday cut deep and have spanned generations;...
Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge
A Companion to Early Irish Saga
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty-one previously published essays by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular.
Ó Cathasaigh has been called “the father of...
Theatre in Dublin, 1745–1820
A Calendar of Performances
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Theatre in Dublin,1745–1820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin’s many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan’s becoming the manager at...
by Jon Gower
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
The Story of Wales is a vibrant portrait of 30,000 years of power, identity and politics. Revisiting major turning points in Welsh history, from its earliest settlements to the present day, Jon Gower re-examines the myths and misconceptions about this glorious country, revealing a people who have...
by Chris Dicker
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Mary Queen of Scots was dazzlingly beautiful queen of Scotland. She was crowned at birth, but her destiny was quite different. Mary never had control over her life and somebody else was making choices for her. She followed blindly someone else's agenda without giving any critical thought on the...
by Sir Charles Oman
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
THE BEST ACCOUNT OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY WARFARE BY THE AUTHOR OF A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR
This is an unrivalled account of sixteenth-century warfare, in which Sir Charles Oman traces the dramatic, far-reaching changes in the military strategy, tactics and organization of the period.
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by John Bryson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
A novella sized piece covering the Ulster troubles, called the Stormont Riots, the street battles and intrigues of Ulster Protestants and IRA.
"John Bryson has the skills of literary journalism, and abundant luck" a Penguin Books copywriter wrote for a back cover, and this was the...
by Jacques de La Tocnaye
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2014
APRES deux ans et plus de séjour en Ecosse, pays fameux des Cakes, (galettes d’avoine) bien traité de tout le monde, quoique comme le bon-homme Pardrige, often in great danger of starving, in the middle of my compassionate friends : Feu Lord Dreghorn, qui avait eu la bonté...