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Celebrated for their unique poetic sensibility and wondrous way with words, the Irish have produced a rich heritage of great poetry. This volume attests to the Irish love of language, spanning fourteen centuries of literary history and featuring works by more than 60 of the Emerald Isle's most distinguished...

Legends of Maui by W. D. Westervelt This is a collection of tales of Maui, the culture-hero of the Polynesian people. Retold by W. D. Westervelt at the turn of the 20th century, the lore is authentic, and this is a very readable and enjoyable introduction to the deep mythology of the islands.

W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet who was one of the biggest contributors to the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  In 1923, Yeats became the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.  This edition of A Book of Irish Verse includes a table of contents.

For eight months following the Easter Rising over 1,800 Irish rebels were imprisoned in Frongoch, a former whiskey distillery in North Wales. It soon became a University of Revolution and among its notable alumni were Michael Collins and Richard Mulcahy. By December 1916 all the Irish prisoners had...

Ce livre raconte l'histoire d'un peuple indomptableDe la mythologie celte aux légendes gaéliques; de la fabrication du whiskey à la description des paysages de landes où se confondent parfois terre et mer; des chants et de la littérature aux tragédies qui secouèrent l'île; des passions et luttes...

This is the story of men from either side of West Belfast's sectarian divide during the Great War. Richard S. Grayson follows the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines, recovering the forgotten West Belfast men throughout the armed forces, from...

The careers of these unhappy women have almost invariably been considered, nevertheless, from a purely personal point of view. It is true that the many historians of the Reformation have dwelt upon the rivalry between Katharine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn, and their strenuous efforts to gain their respective...

Taking the years 1800-1920, the book considers the four Home Rule Bills and discusses the role of leading figures such as Charles Stewart Parnell and Isaac Butt. This is a careful study of the rise in political consciousness- it addresses the relationship between nationalism and the Catholic faith,...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Little Book of Kildare is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange, and entertaining facts about County Kildare. Here you will find out about Kildare's great houses and historic towns, its monastic heritage, its literary traditions, and its famous (and occasionally infamous) men and women....

In October 1932, the streets of Belfast were gripped by vicious and widespread rioting that lasted the best part of a week. Thousands of unarmed demonstrators fought extended pitched battles against heavily-armed police. Unemployed workers and, indeed, whole working-class communities, dug trenches...

  Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Manchester in the northwest of England, about equidistant between Liverpool and Leeds. Manchester once had a negative reputation derived from its industrial past. Things have dramatically changed in the last decade and now the...

Newcastle, england, edinburgh, geordie, scotland, hadrians wall, romans =========== Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Newcastle, a lively and diverse city, known for its nightlife, art, music and sports. Compact, attractive and friendly, it is one of England's core cities and is a centre...

I found a picture of a man who reminded me of my father and realised that if they looked alike, they were alike. They had the same chin, the same black hair turning streaky white, the same hairline, the same colouring. Their muscular jaw and their lips were the same. The shapes of their faces and...