Ireland category: 1364 books

Covering the period from the re-establishment of the Irish militia during the Crimean War until the disbandment of the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1992, this book examines the Irish amateur military tradition within the British Army, distinctive from a British amateur military tradition. Irish men...

W. B. Yeats's most difficult poetry, and how it was edited to remove all traces of his Catholic lover, Lily O'Neill, and an illegitimate son. He was not writing about his wife George, or about Maud or Iseult Gonne. despite the insistence of present-day critics. Find out how Yeats's wife manipulated him into denying all knowledge of his 'most exalted lady' and his first-born son.

In this short book we visit St Patrick's Church Saul, near Downpatrick Co Down.  The townland lies to the east of Downpatrick.

Balmoral Cemetery

On Saturday night 22 April 1916, a tense meeting in Dublin went on into the small hours to decide whether or not the Easter Rising would go ahead. Present at that meeting were Pádraig Pearse, Tomás MacDonagh, Joseph Plunkett and Seán MacDiarmada. The fifth man present at the all-night session,...

The Little Book of Donegal is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange, and entertaining facts about County Donegal. Here you will find out about Donegal's myth and legend, its proud sporting heritage, its castles and great houses, and its famous (and occasionally infamous) men and women. Through...

Nineteenth-century England witnessed the birth of capitalist consumerism. Early department stores, shopping arcades and provision shops of all kinds proliferated from the start of the Victorian period, testimony to greater diffusion of consumer goods. However, while the better off enjoyed having more...

The story of John Devoy’s 1876 Catalpa rescue is a tale of heroism, creativity, and the triumph of independent spirit in pursuit of freedom. The daily log on board the whaling ship Catalpa begins with the typical recount of a crew intact and a spirit unfettered, but such quiet words deceive the...

Accounts of Irish racialization in the United States have tended to stress Irish difference. Famine Irish and the American Racial State takes a different stance. This interdisciplinary, transnational work uses an array of cultural artifacts, including novels, plays, songs, cartoons, government reports,...

Camarades, je ne suis pas Irlandais, et cependant j’ai de la sympathie pour vous. J’espère qu’il ne se trouvera parmi vous personne pour lire cet appel avec prévention ou avec dédain, parce que son auteur est un Anglais ; certes je crois que pas un de vous ne pensera de la sorte. Les Irlandais...

This book brings together a series of articles which provide an overview of the Irish Diaspora from a global perspective. It combines a series of survey articles on the major destinations of the Diaspora; the USA, Britian and the British Empire. On each of these, there is a number of more specialist...

In Between Raid and Rebellion, William Jenkins compares the lives and allegiances of Irish immigrants and their descendants in one American and one Canadian city between the era of the Fenian raids and the 1916 Easter Rising. Highlighting the significance of immigrants from Ulster to Toronto and from...

J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928. He was a Liberal Radical who worked with Labour, gave his name to the industrial councils of the First World War, was Speaker of...