Ireland category: 1364 books
The Irish Empire
The Story of Niall of the Nine Hostages
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Beginning in the late fourth century ad, a rich tapestry of tales was woven, telling of a rakish, handsome king who raised an empire and conquered the hearts of countless women. But over the warp and weft of passing centuries, the threads became worn, fraying the distinction between legend and history....
by Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
Noted French scholar and linguist discusses the gods of the continental Celts, the beginnings of mythology in Ireland, heroes, and the two main categories of Irish deities: mother-goddesses — local, rural spirits of fertility or of war — and chieftain-gods: national deities who are magicians, nurturers, craftsmen, and protectors of the people.
by Mr Patrick Pearse
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1989
Pádraic Pearse, who played a prominent part in the 1916 rebellion, declared Ireland a Republic from the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin. He was executed, along with the other leaders, for his part in the Rising. But he was a gentle warrior at heart. These five stories show us that Pearse...
by Liam Weeks
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017
This book examines the phenomenon of the independent politician, believed to be extinct in most political systems. It is very much alive and well in Ireland, and has experienced a considerable resurgence in recent years. Independents won a record number of seats in 2016 and had three ministers appointed...
by Michael Staunton
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
The Historians of Angevin England is a study of the explosion of creativity in historical writing in England in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and what this tells us about the writing of history in the middle ages. Many of those who wrote history under the Angevin kings of England...
Temple Street Children's Hospital
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Temple Street have kept us going. Their everyday has been to care, to help, to heal, to comfort. We bring our babies into this world and we rely so much on those in the wards to help keep them there...From then to now there are catalogues of evidence of the wonderful, beautiful, magical, heart-lifting...
50 Dáil Debates that Shaped the Nation
Standing by the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
From the debates of the 1950s that were strikingly similar to what we face today – struggles against bankruptcy, emigration and abuse of power by the State – through the wars in the 70s and 80s over divorce and abortion, to the Jacobean dramas surrounding the fall of Haughey in the 1990s, this...
The Abbey Rebels of 1916
A Lost Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The story of the 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath from a new persepective
The Abbey Theatre played a leading role in the politicisation of the revolutionary generation that won Irish freedom, but comparatively little is known about the men and women who formed the lifeblood of the institution:...
by Peter Cottrell
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Anglo-Irish War, Peter Cottrell explores the Irish Civil War, a devastating conflict that tore Ireland apart. This book examines the many factions that played a part in the fighting and the terror and counter-terror operations, focusing on the short bloody battles...
Irish Republican Terrorism and Politics
A Comparative Study of the Official and the Provisional IRA
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This book examines the post-ceasefire evolutions and histories of the main Irish republican terrorist factions, and the interconnected character of politics and militarism within them.
Offering the first comparative study of the two leading Irish republican terrorist movements the Official...
Fatal Path
British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in...
The Great Betrayal
How the Government with the Largest Majority in the History of the Irish State Lost its People
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
From penalty points to water charges, funding cuts to tax hikes, The Great Betrayal is a cutting assessment of the upheavals, egos and scraps that shaped the 31st Dáil by Ireland’s most sagacious political pundit-turned-political operator
As the curtain falls on this government’s term...
About Time
Surviving Ireland's Death Row
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Law and justice are not always one and the same. On November 27, 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: "Peter Pringle, for the crime of capital murder . . . the law prescribes only one penalty, and that penalty is death." The problem was that Peter did...
Up the Republic!
Towards a New Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
In this important book, historians, lawyers, economists and writers come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish economic collapse has resulted in national humiliation, renewed emigration and a decline in living standards for the majority of the population, there is still hope that...