Ireland category: 1364 books
by Keeran Jacobson
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Dublin is the capital and largest city in Ireland, located in the eastern part of the country at the mouth of the River Life in the Irish Sea. The city has a rich history, as witnessed by archaeological remains dating back several thousand years. Dublin is famous for its Gregorian architecture and...
by Ian Cantwell
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The excellent original introduction to the collection of 800 pieces of Irish wit, which portray life in Ireland and Great Britain, in all its vibrant rough and ready splendour (c. 1760-1810), was written by order of the Lord Chief Joker, Momus Broadgrin, Controller of the Comicals, from his Council...
Tom, Ned and Kitty
An Intimate Portrait of an Irish Family
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
'I am standing in the dining room of my father's house in Ireland, gazing up at ten Pakenham family portraits. What thoughts went on behind those passive, chalky faces? How can I bring them out of the shadows?'
Eliza Pakenham, granddaughter of the seventh Earl of Longford, chronicles the fortunes...
A Fine Place to Daydream
Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Twenty-five years after his racetrack classic Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich tells the story of how he fell in love and found a new life in Dublin, where he was soon caught up in the Irish obsession with horses and luck. Barich travels throughout his adopted country and meets the leading trainers...
by Mr Liam Ó Duibhir
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Ballykinlar Internment Camp was the first mass internment camp to be established by the British in Ireland during the War of Independence. Situated on the County Down coast and opened in December 1920, it became home to hundreds of Irish men arrested by the British, often on little more than the suspicion...
The Men Will Talk to Me (Ernie O'Malley series Kerry)
Interviews from Ireland's Fight for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
County Kerry saw many of the most vicious episodes in both the War of Independence and the Civil War. Many Republican survivors of these events were reluctant to speak about their experiences, even to their own family. However, they were willing to talk to Ernie O’Malley, who was the senior surviving...
On Celtic Tides
One Man's Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A sea kayak battles the freezing Irish waters as the morning sun rises out of the countryside. On the western horizon is the pinnacle of Skellig Michael-700 feet of vertical rock rising out of exploding seas. Somewhere on the isolated island are sixth-century monastic ruins where the light of civilization...
Radical or Redundant?
Minor Parties in Irish Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
While the type of small political party In Ireland has varied, their fate, it seems, has not. Although some enjoy a brief time in the sun, termination is the long-term prospects for all minor parties. The usual pattern is a speedy ascent, an impact on the political system including a time in government,...
Dublin Pub Life and Lore – An Oral History of Dublin’s Traditional Irish Pubs
The Recollections of Dublin’s Publicans, Barmen and ‘Regulars’
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
Dublin is renowned for its amazing profusion of pubs and for its exuberant pub culture. In Dublin Pub Life and Lore, Professor Kevin Kearns examines the history of this phenomenon by speaking to old publicans, barmen and regular customers, relating the story of Dublin pubs and their patrons in an...
by J. M. Synge
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
'Go to the Aran Islands. Live there as if you were one of the people themselves, express a life that has never found expression.' J.M. Synge did exactly as W.B. Yeats suggested and, revisiting these harsh yet beautiful specks of land off Ireland's west coast over a period of five years, created a...
by Michael Foy, Brian Barton
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
An accessible yet scholarly account of the most significant week in modern Irish history, updated with new information only recently released On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, an estimated force of 1,000–1,500 Irish men and women under arms attempted to seize Dublin, with the ultimate intention...
Rebels
Voices from the Easter Rising
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
A vivid chronicle of the first blow in the Irish revolution - by the people who were there
In 1947 the Bureau of Military History was established by the Irish government to record the experiences of those who took part in the fight for independence. In 1959, the results of this research - including...
Michael Collins's Intelligence War
The Struggle Between the British and the IRA 1919–1921
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Michael Collins is often thought of as Ireland's lost leader: a man born into a revolutionary environment who became a skilled statesman and military leader. Michael Foy's new book looks in depth at Collins' key role in the Anglo Irish War. It is based on primary sources which have not been accessed by previous historians.
The Men Will Talk to Me(Ernie O'Malley series Galway)
Interviews from Ireland's Fight for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
For the first time in published form 'The Men Will Talk to Me: Galway Interviews' chronicles the experiences of the Galway-based survivors of the War of Independence and the Civil War, recorded in the hand-written notebooks of Ernie O'Malley. Many of the individuals would not talk about their experiences,...