Ireland category: 1364 books

For about 300 years Dubliners have been creating ballads, ‘rec-im-itations’ and parodies – commenting in verse form – with a mischievous disregard for both the laws of libel and the canons of poetry – on everything from social events, public affairs, the city’s monuments and institutions,...

Until recently the military record of Belfast nationalists inWorld War One was a part of this City’s hidden history. The revised edition of this book seeks to assist the renewed and growing interest in this important part of nationalist history that lay for decades in the shaded margins of contemporary...

There is no crime in detecting and destroying in wartime the spy and informer...I have paid them back in their own coin. - Michael CollinsMichael Collins' development of a formidable intelligence network transformed, for the first time in history, the military fortunes of the Irish against the British....

Fills the demand for this rare and long out-of-print title Eyewitness and first-hand accounts of the conflict Introduction by bestselling author and historian Diarmaid Ferriter

A revised, updated and expanded guide to THE tech event of the year: Web Summit, held in Lisbon in November 2017. Simon Cocking brings together his own experiences as well as tips and advice from dozens of previous Web Summit attendees to deliver a practical and useful guide for anyone thinking of attending Web Summit 2017.

‘This is The Good Life meets A Year in Provence’. Sue Collins, The Nualas ‘A luminous, funny and profound reading experience.’ Sebastian Barry First, a dream of escaping the city… and then a century-old cottage to match the dream. Moving to a small village in the heart of the...

When the attacks against Catholics known as the Belfast pogrom erupted in July 1920, Tom Glennon was a 20-year old officer in the IRA. The next three years took him from brutal street fighting in Belfast to organising a flying column in the Glens of Antrim, to a daring escape from captivity in the...

Until 1999 official British records of the 15 trials that followed the Easter Rising of 1916 were kept a close secret. Further material released in 2001 included the trial of Countess Markievicz and important evidence about "shoot to kill" British military tactics. These records, the subject...

On the morning of 15th May, 1922, over 1,000 recruits of the newly established Civic Guard suddenly broke ranks during Commissioner Michael Staines' TD address at Morning Parade in the training depot at Kildare Barracks. The recruits immediately set about raiding the armoury while Staines and his...

A history book that looks at things from a different angle! Come Here To Me discusses everything from punk music and stand-up comedy venues to pirate radio stations and drug use in Dublin city. It talks about fire-fighters, newspaper boys, street gangs, gay bars and footballers, as well as our changing...

Dal 1982 fino ai giorni nostri, Silvia Calamati ha vissuto in prima persona la questione dell'Irlanda del Nord. Un dramma a cui, con "Qui Belfast", l'autrice cerca di dare voce, aprendo una breccia in quel muro di omertà che circonda il conflitto nord-irlandese. Una censura il cui prezzo...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER **T****he page-turning new novel about a marriage, a secret, and a wife's choice, from the bestselling author of The Missing Wife and The Hideaway** 'Brilliantly written and with plot twists popping out like Prosecco corks, this is a devour-over-a-weekend gem' Woman...

"A comprehensive, accessible introduction to Joyce's work and provides the reader glimpses into some of the lesser read corners of his bibliography." — The Lexicon Devil Influential and innovative, James Joyce (1882–1941) led the vanguard of 20th-century fiction. Sooner or later, most...