Gill Books: 392 books
Twentieth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 6)
Revolution and State-Building – The Partition of Ireland, the Troubles and the Celtic Tiger
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Professor Dermot Keogh’s Twentieth-Century Ireland, the sixth and final book in the New Gill History of Ireland series, is a wide-ranging, informative and hugely engaging study of the long twentieth century, surveying politics, administrative history, social and religious history, culture and censorship,...
Sixteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 2)
The Incomplete Conquest – Irish Landlords and the Extension of English Royal Power
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Colm Lennon’s Sixteenth-Century Ireland, the second instalment in the New Gill History of Ireland series, looks at how the Tudor conquest of Ireland by Henry VIII and the country’s colonisation by Protestant settlers led to the incomplete conquest of Ireland, laying the foundations for the sectarian...
Eighteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 4)
The Isle of Slaves – The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009
The eighteenth century is in many ways the most problematic era in Irish history. Traditionally, the years from 1700 to 1775 have been short-changed by historians, who have concentrated overwhelmingly on the last quarter of the period. Professor Ian McBride’s survey, the fourth in the New Gill History...
Medieval Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 1)
The Enduring Tradition – Ireland from the Coming of Christianity to the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Medieval Ireland – The Enduring Tradition, the first instalment in the New Gill History of Ireland series, offers an overview of Irish history from the coming of Christianity in the fifth century to the Reformation in the sixteenth, concentrating on Ireland’s cultural and social life and highlighting...
Seventeenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 3)
Making Ireland Modern – The Quest For a Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006
In Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Professor Raymond Gillespie, one of Ireland’s most eminent historians, tries to understand Ireland in the seventeenth century in a new way.
Most surveys of seventeenth-century Ireland approach the period using war, conquest, plantation and colonisation as their...
Inside Man
Life As An Irish Prison Officer
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2008
In 1977, Philip Bray joined the Irish prison service, working in Limerick Prison. At the time, prisons were places where pillows, blankets and even food were scarce. Most prisoners were illiterate and luxuries such as televisons and books were unheard of. Over the following thirty years, Philip bore...
Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), A Life
The Definitive Short Biography of the Founding Father of Irish Republicanism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
The definitive short biography of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), the founding father of Irish republicanism
Originally published in 1981 as part of the groundbreaking Gill’s Irish Lives series, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), A Life remains the most concise, accessible and authoritative...
The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848 - 1918
From the Great Famine to Independent Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
The Modernisation of Irish Society surveys the period from the end of the Famine to the triumph of Sinn Fein in the 1918 election and argues that during that time Ireland became one of the most modern and advanced political cultures in the world.
Professor Lee contends that the Famine death-rate,...
Stress: The Lazy Person’s Guide!
How You Can Use Stress to Your Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
There are hundreds of books on stress and stress management, so why read Stress: The Lazy Person’s Guide!? Because it’s the only lazy guide!
In other words, it promises that you won’t have to plough through pages and pages of interesting – but often useless – information. You’ll...
by Daniel Corkery
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1979
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1979
Daniel Corkery’s classic book The Hidden Ireland is a study of Irish language poetry and culture in eighteenth-century Munster. The ‘Hidden Ireland’ of the title is literary Ireland: Corkery’s famous book is an attempt to reclaim Munster’s Irish language poets from the hands of grammarians...
Conduct Unbecoming – A Memoir by Desmond O’Malley
The Story of One of Ireland’s Most Extraordinary and Influential Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Conduct Unbecoming is a landmark political memoir from one of Ireland’s most outspoken and respected public figures, Desmond O’Malley.
Born in Limerick in 1939, Desmond O’Malley went on to become the youngest Minister for Justice in Irish history and the founder of the Progressive Democrats,...
The Glorious Madness – Tales of the Irish and the Great War
First-hand accounts of Irish men and women in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
From tragic generals to nuns on the run – the extraordinary stories of the Irish on the frontlines of the First World War that you’ve never heard before
Based on first-hand accounts of the First World War, The Glorious Madness is a collection of character portraits and stirring anecdotes...
Self-esteem: The Lazy Person’s Guide!
Quick and Simple Ways to Change How You Feel About Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Change how you think and feel about yourself – and change your life.
You’ve had a glance at the vast array of self-esteem books on the shelves and been thoroughly daunted. It all seems so complicated. You don’t have time to wade through pages and pages of technical jargon, therapeutic...
Exercise: The Lazy Person's Guide!
Relax Your Way to Better Health and Fitness
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Fed up with feeling guilty about not doing those regular workouts you’ve been promising to start? We know that exercise is good for us, but why does it have to be such hard work?
Helen Graham is here to tell you it doesn’t have to be: it’s possible to achieve results with a much more...