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Bullfighting is Roddy Doyle's eagerly anticipated second collection; a series of bittersweet tales about men and middle age, revealing a panorama of Ireland today.
The men in Bullfighting are each concerned with...
Criminal incidents, accidents, whippings, beatings, jail escapes and hangings were all part of Dublins brilliant parade in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, including actors, clergymen, scientists, politicians...
Two journalists with inside knowledge of the events and extensive experience of politics over many years have joined their talents to write this gripping story of how Fianna Fáil came to demolish itself.
(An Irish-language title) Aoife Nic Dhiarmada runs a holiday business on the enchanting Beara peninsula in the southwest. When Tessa, one of her guests, is found unconscious on a lonely road, Aoife's life takes...
'The Tay is Wet' is a compilation of sixteen humourous stories about farm life in eastern Co Meath, Ireland, set mostly in the 1950's. The goings on in the fictional Roggart community featuring the Deery family...
Paddy--the caricature of the heavy-drinking, hardbrawling Irishman born in Vaudeville acts and nativist cartoons-- remains, unfortunately, a vivid feature of the American national imagination. But as this stereotype...
Brian Boru is a half-mythical Viking era figure chiefly remembered as the man 'who drove the Danes from Ireland', and who died at the Battle of Clontarf on Good Friday 1014. But there was far more to his life...
An evaluation of the contribution made by Michael Collins to the making of the Irish state. A series of specially commissioned essays, written by some of Ireland's leading historians (academic and popular),...
The stories of these conflicts, with their scores of killings, torture, reprisals and long lasting bitterness are told concisely in this book. Easter 1916 - the rebellion which took place in Ireland 90 years...
What was a mark? Livery of seisin? Letters patent? This remarkable Dictionary of Irish Local History will be able to tell you. Entries are fully cross-referenced and come replete with full biographical paraphernalia...
The all but forgotten history of Dublin's shipbuilding yards. To the vast majority of people, when shipbuilding in Ireland is mentioned, they think only of Belfast, the Harland & Wolff shipyard and the tragic...
What is it about a sign or a notice that often provokes hilarity? The message is condensed, space is at a premium, and the sign or notice often loses its meaning, or indeed acquires a whole new meaning, sometimes...
A collection of thought-provoking historical pieces by a leading player in North-South relations and the peace process. Our history has had a profound influence on us as a people. It has certainly shaped the...
(An Irish-language title) The short story has flourished as a literary form in Ireland, not least amongst Irish-language writers. This lively anthology will be enjoyed by all and will be cherished by those with...
An account of Irish history since the earliest times. This concise and even-handed account gives the history of Ireland since the earliest times. Based on up-to-date research, the book covers political, social...
"Poems For All Occasions" is a collection of poetry from the pen of Mairead Tuohy Duffy. In it, she captures all the old traditional practices in her native Kerry, intermingled with her good humoured experiences...
(An Irish-language title) A collection of short stories from Padraic O Conaire which includes some stories not in print for many years. Diarmuid de Faoite chose the stories for this collection.
In the tradition of Maeve Binchy, The Lane paints a clear and poignant picture of Dublin in the Fifties? its people, their hardships and their humor. The Lane draws a sharp line under the restrictions on Irish...
Examines the role and experiences of the women of Cumann na mBan and the Irish Citizens Army, who marched out with the Rebels to challenge the might of the British Empire on Easter Monday 1916. Renegades is...
The GAA can boast some great dynasties and 'Brothers in Sport' is a fascinating examination of the game's rich family relations. The GAA's tradition is rooted in families. Since its foundation in 1884 many sets...
Re-issue of the classic text on the struggle for independence in Ireland, covering battles in Monaghan, Meath, Longford, Roscommon, Dublin, Clare, Mayo, Galway, Tipperary, Limerick and Cork. With the IRA in...
They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century-and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and...
For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its monasteries and its wars. The artistic flourishing of the monasteries has received a good deal of attention, but the violent and varied...
Luck has nothing to do with it!
Of course you want to be Irish. Look what it did for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sinead, Maeve Binchy, Roddy Doyle, JFK, Seamus Heaney, Angela's Ashes, and all those Riverdancers. But until...
The story of how Patrick Kavanagh, The Leader magazine and the former and soon to be Taoiseach Liam Costello held the attention of Dublin in one of the most exciting and revealing Irish literary trials of the...
A collection of some of Cork's most interesting historical characters and incidents. In this collection, Michael Lenihan delves into the rich tapestry of Cork history to reveal some of its most bizarre events...
In 1919, Michael Collins conceived of a scheme to knock out the eyes and ears of the British Administration at Dublin Castle by undermining and terrorising the police so that the British would react blindly...
Discover some of the most colourful secrets of Belfast's history.Hidden Belfast highlights some of the unique and quirky elements of the city's past, and tells the stories of some fascinating rogues and scoundrels...
A complete history of Irish international soccer managers, from Johnny Carey to Giovanni Trapattoni. Did you know that an Irish manager did not pick the Irish football team until 1969? Do you know who that manager...
(An Irish-language title) Inis Mor artist Sean O Flaithearta has teamed up with publishers Clo Iar-Chonnacht to produce a new collection of Mairtin O Direain's poetry to mark the centenary of the Aran poet's...
An exploration of the sources of Ireland's constitution. This meticulously researched book draws on extensive primary sources to put the Irish constitution in a clear historical perspective. Using accessible...
Over three thousand years ago, the legendary Celtic champion Cuchulainn was killed by order of the evil Queen Meadhbh. His wife, who had just given birth to twin boys, died of grief and a broken heart. To protect...
The story of a female outlaw like no other in history - by the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author. Legend says that May was tall with red-gold hair and big blue eyes, compellingly attractive to men....
(An Irish-language title) Powerful, artistic, articulate writing, apt and effective in exploring the type of material in question ... if good short story writing was lagging in recent times this should awaken...
Poems I have penned from dreams I have dreamt And love that I meant, From faraway places away over the foam, Of some unforgettable people I have known. I have written of waltzing at Fleadhs and the dancing of...
(An Irish-language title) A strong confident Northern voice. The Irish language is used here with classical precision and assurance. He evokes the mystique of his Donegal landscape with passion and gusto . ....
This short novel describes the lives of several teenagers from a Working-class Irish Catholic background, growing up in rural Northern Ireland during an eleven-month period in the early 1970's. The strong family...
As a mid life change of career, it would be hard to imagine the gulf that Gerry Cooney spanned: addiction counsellor to owner/ manager of a safari type lodge 10,000 miles from home. Not alone did he do that...
(An Irish-language title) Joe Steve O Neachtain was born and reared in An Cre Dubh, Spiddal, Co. Galway, where he still resides. He is well-known throughout the country for his part in the TG4 soap opera Ros...
These memoirs record the life of a Cobh, Co. Cork boy born in 1927 from infancy to adulthood in the millennium. Amongst the happy memories are the games and tricks played on each other and his schooling from...
This is the story of County Mayo singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and teacher John Hoban. From the Plain of the Yew Tree takes the reader on a journey through music and time across the five continents....
Paddy FitzGibbon's latest work, The Second Mister, is a joyous encounter with the wit and wisdom of a writer in full satirical flow. It is a snappy collection that resuscitates some sleepy dragons of history...
A Son of Aran portrays, in fictional mode, the life of an islander during the 1930s and subsequent decades. On winter nights, the hearth fire was a popular arena for gossip, storytelling and ancient sagas. Fables...
In Paul Quarrington's favorite childhood recording, a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, pluckily sets off for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the...
Built around impressions of life in Ireland in the decades between 1930 and 1960, this book contains musings on a rich variety of life's aspects.
The author, drawing on a lifetime of experience, makes a direct appeal to our senses in his poetry. He writes of love, pain, sorrow, regret and deep longings. He uniquely combines this sensuality with humorous...
A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916' is a comprehensively illustrated guide to the Rising of Easter Week 1916, based on the significant locations of the rebellion. Dealing separately with thirty buildings and sites...
A collection of the most popular proverbs in the Irish language, selected by the editor and accompanied by translations or equivalents in English, Spanish (by Carmen Rodriguez Alonso) and Polish (by Anna Paluch)....
Story of the assassination of the Number One administrator of the British government in Ireland and his Number Two. 06 May, 1882, the Number One administrator of the British government in Ireland and his Number...
An interpretation of the events of Easter Week 1916 as the central defining event of a long revolution in Irish history. Introduction by Garret Fitzgerald. This book seeks to interpret the events of Easter Week...
Anyone who ever bought anything from a salesman needs to read this book. When Tom Murphy loses his job selling washing machines he tries his hand at selling 'clocked' cars. With the law on his heels he moves...
The true story of a fascinating manhunt launched to track down the Fenian assailants of two Dublin Metropolitan Policemen in Temple Bar, 1867. When a gunman disappears into the Dublin fog, they leave two seriously...
Bobby Beasley was a champion jockey. By 26, he had won a Cheltenham Gold Cup, a Champion Hurdle and a Grand National. But when he was 24, Bobby took his first drink and soon succumbed to alcoholism. He turned...
A decade of easy living or a decade of broken dreams? Brenda Power chronicles the defining issues of the Noughties, covering a breadth of social, political and public interest issues. Her comments are frequently...
(An Irish-language title) A strong confident Northern voice. The Irish language is used here with classical precision and assurance. He evokes the mystique of his Donegal landscape with passion and gusto . ....
Sceal bleachtaireachta e Sceon na Mara a bhaineann go dluth leis an bhfarraige ar an gcosta thoir, agus a thugann leargas ar straice comhaimseartha de shaol na hEireann. Ta dunmharfoir ban amuigh ansin, e ag...
The final novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Are You Somebody? Like many a modern, well-travelled woman, Rosie has lived a fascinating life, full of adventure and the pleasure of many lovers...
Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant?
Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from...
At the heart of Maurice Riordan's third collection is a sequence of eighteen dramatic idylls set in rural Cork in the 1950s, in which the subdued microcosm of farm and smallholding - of boundary, townland and...
Inspector Helmes and his trusty sidekick, Watkins, know they have their work cut out for them in solving the murder of Paddy O'Toole, the Grand Leprechaun. However, nothing can prepare them for the strange lineup...
For Jeremy, trying to be live a life outside of the "family business" isn't easy. First, there was the Thanksgiving dinner disaster of A MOBSTER'S GUIDE TO CRANBERRY SAUCE, followed by the Valentine's Day nightmare...
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. from 'Digging' With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century's finest poets....
A considered look at the current state of the Irish language in the wider context of endangered languages. Our understanding of the particular situation of Irish is greatly enhanced by the world, linguistic...
Cuireann Amy sios ar eachtrai an tsaoil ina dialann phearsanta Oscail agus scaoilfear an run.An chead saothar Gaeilge ag an udar mor-rachairte seo. Oiriunach do dheagoiri oga. (Aois 12-15) / Amy Ni Chonchuir's...
An Irish pilgrim's perspective on this ancient journey. A personal contemporary account of the physical and human landscape which he encounters along the way. NOTE: this eBook is in the Irish language only;...
Utoipe nua-aoiseach is ea Dun an Airgid - go dti go dteann an leabharlannai Laoise Ni Bhroin ar iarraidh... / An Irish-language novel about the utopian housing development Dún an Airgid which seems perfect...
Rebekka Vogelzang, a young Dutchwoman, is fighting to save the Irish language, which she has learnt on the job in an Irish-speaking café in Galway. She puts her heart and soul into every scone she bakes and...
This pioneering, autobiographical fiction in the Irish language describes a youth growing up in an Irish-speaking families in Dublin before it became prevalent and with all the tension between his conservative...
Sraith nua teilifise an dushlan leirithe agus eachtraiochta faoin aer ata roimh Bhrian agus Lise. Fiche-aoisigh, agus iad aclai, dathuil. Eatarthu beirt, na treithe agus na buanna acu chun dul i ngleic le guaisbhearta...
The first collection of short stories from this award-winning author, and a varied collection at that. From the human drama in the corporate world of technology and high-finance, through airports and television...
In this novel in the Irish language Natasha and friends prepare for their Leaving Cert, but she finds herself facing even bigger challenges at home when her mother smashes the kitchenware and her father takes...
In this novel in the Irish language, Mara celebrates her thirteenth birthday. Her mother, however, gives her a present of Matrioshka dolls from Russia, more a gift for a younger girl - and even then, one of...
June 1997 Sean Flanagan is a Dublin born motorbike enthusiast living and working as a computer technician in Ballinasloe Co. Galway. His whole world falls apart when he loses his girlfriend, the love of his...
Peeling Oranges tells the story of how Derek Foley, while sifting through his late father's diaries and his mother's correspondence with an IRA man, discovers that Patrick Foley, a diplomat in Franco's Spain,...
This book is about a group of friends in modern Ireland who meet occasionally for drinks. It is about accident and emergency departments in hospitals, the social services, scams, the Internet, civil servants...
McAllister hoped that the pressures bearing down on his opponent would cause him to make further mistakes...but there was no denying that he had never experienced such numbing helpless fear. John McAllister's...
When the fairies abduct a young girl from the town of Creel, there begins a series of events that will ultimately shape the future of the land of Lissendel. Old foes must face each other in a deathly struggle:...
As an entertaining well written, dip in for a shot kind of book, this publication does not disappoint. So many tastes and flavours, none of them likely to give anybody indigestion. I take my hat off to Mattie...
In a book like no other, All for Grace is an entirely new perspective on spirituality. A light-hearted, fictional journey through birth, death and rebirth - it is easily digested through subtle, Irish humorous...
Two new comedy fantasy stories featuring Dandaboy and his alter ego, Ozzy. Conna in Crisis The good people of Connemara are curious and intrigued by the arrival of a most unusual order of nuns! They are not...
Verses to empower and awaken your senses. Genevieve Farrell has a background in Finance, Education and Life Coaching and works with individuals to empower them to unlock their potential and to support them in...
We are working towards developing one of the most advanced networks of radiation oncology in the world' National Cancer Control Programme press office But in a revealing chapter entitled Big business: behind...
Conor was diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive form of liver cancer in April 2009 when he was just five years of age. He required high risk chemotherapy treatment in Dublin's Crumlin Children's Hospital,...
A. J. S. (Stephen) Brady, the son of a Protestant clergyman, was born in Cork city on Saint Stephen's Day 1899. He had a rebellious nature with an imaginative yet critical mind coupled with a cutting sense of...
Part war story, part murder mystery, this subtle but savage thriller evokes a time, a place and a breed of men which have all been airbrushed out of Ireland's history.' - Ed O'Loughlin, author of the Booker...
Our Grannies' Recipes is a collection of traditional favourites handed down from generation to generation. We all have recipes that are dear to our hearts, passed on to us from our grannies, grandads, great...
A Mystery of Medieval Ireland - Christmas, 1509. Mara, the investigating judge of the Burren, has accepted the offer of marriage made by King Turlough. But on the eve of the marriage festivities, a man kneeling...
A Mystery of Medieval Ireland - 1510. A great feast is being held. Into a crowd listening to the story of Balor, the one-eyed god, come two strangers. The younger of the two, Iarla, bears a letter that claims...
Yes, I am a singer. But I am also a horseman, an athlete, and a doctor. I am a son, a brother, and a friend. I can sing as I do only because of the life that I've led. With each decade, I've found myself in...
The four pieces that make up this work are taken from Muldoon’s Oxford Clarendon Lectures of 1998. Together, they take the form of an A-Z, or abecedary of Irish literature, in which his imagination forges...
?Ireland's War of Independence generated a wealth of published material but very little from a British perspective. Yet many British servicemen left accounts of their time in Ireland from 1918 to 1921. They...
Hugh O'Flaherty, a cheerful Kerryman who loved sport, was in Rome in 1939 when the Second World War broke out. Unable to watch from the safe haven of the Vatican as people were arrested and sometimes killed,...
A guide to 20 of popular walking routes on the MacGillycuddy's Reeks contains full-colour maps specially commissioned from the Ordnance Survey, photographs and map references. This guide also encompasses the...
This illustrated guide to Ireland's garden birds provides information on the 60 birds most likely to be seen from your window. It features all the main gardening issues and planting schemes to make your garden...
During the German occupation of Rome from 1942 to 1944, Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty ran an escape organisation for Allied POWs and civilians, including Jews. Safe within the Vatican state, he regularly ventured...
Name the five Great Trees of Ireland? What trees are most often found beside holy wells or cemeteries? Which tree gave the Red Branch Knights of Ulster their name? Ireland was once so heavily wooded it was said...
In ancient Ireland there were 365 different parts to the body, and a different plant to cure each part. So the wild plants of Ireland are bound up in our culture and folklore from the earliest times. To arry...
A guide to several walking routes in Northern Ireland. From rugged mountain peaks to spectacular coastal scenery, from challenging hill walks to shorter woodland and waterside excursions, this selection aims...
While many agree Ireland can become a world leader in clean energy, there's little agreement on how. John Travers captures the challenge from an Irish perspective. He assesses, in clear terms, practical energy...
Dispossessed and oppressed for so long, it is no surprise that many Irish ended up fighting in other people's wars. For many, a career as a soldier was the last hope for a better life. Courage and Conflict is...
Taking his backdoor as a starting point, Joseph Horgan explores the natural world. The book spans one autumn and one winter, framed by the departure of the swallows from the author's backyard and concluding...
On St Stephen's Day 1960 Dónal Donnelly made his dramatic escape from the prison known as 'Europe's Alcatraz'. Three years earlier, the teenage Dónal had been convicted of membership of the IRA in the first...
In 1957, Sheila Cloney, Protestant wife of a Catholic farmer, fled from her home near the Wexford village of Fethard-on-Sea with her young daughters after refusing to bow to the demands of the local Catholic...
?Michael Collins is one of the most famous figures in Irish history. He became the most wanted man in the British Empire, a minister in the first Irish government and Commander-in-Chief of the army. This is...
A guide to some of the best walking routes in the region, with lucid descriptions and additional information to enhance the walkers' enjoyment and appreciation of the place. Each route, prefaced with a quick-reference...
Sean Hughes is an award-winning Irish comic turned bestselling writer whom the British Independent has compared to the likes of Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, and Will Self. Now, the popular comedian delivers It's...
They all hide secrets that won't go away....
From the outside, the welcoming, garden-adorned houses of Summer Street are the picture of Irish charm. But on the inside, unexpected and heartbreaking secrets...
Dublin PI Ed Loy is trying to escape his past-a task easier said than done—in this new novel from Shamus Award-winning author Declan Hughes
Shortly after moving from his childhood home on the outskirts of...
Introduction by Russell Banks.
The legendary book about writing by the legendary writer is back!
Frank O’Connor was one of the twentieth century’s greatest short story writers, and one of Ireland’s greatest...
Food tourism in Ireland enters an exciting new phase with this complete user guide to finding and buying the best Irish foods - and how to enjoy them at their best, both when eating out and at home. Of equal...
If Bill Bryson set off for Ireland to discover his roots, then you'd have MIDLIFE IRISH--an illuminating, entertaining, and heartwarming look at one man's search for where--and who--he came from. Irish-American....
Starting with the death of his father and chronicling backwards, the author examines their relationship in order to understand his dad, not just as a father, but as a man.
Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Myths and Folklore of Ireland is the first of many works published by the renowned American translator Jeremiah Curtin. The volume is comprised of twenty-three Irish myths, in which the the legends of Fin MacCumhail...
Paul Campbell was one of Dublin's most dynamic and successful businessmen. He had a loving family and lived in a beautiful home. Yet in only three months he lost it all. He found himself living alone in a bedsit....
From Ashbourne to Killmallock the events of the War of Independence are well known. In this book, the actual participantsand eyewitnesses to events describe the planning, the action and the outcomes.Some remain...
Whispers of 'the Lord Mayor is dead' spread over the city of Cork. What began as a rumour became a confirmed fact as the morning came. Armed men had broken into the Lord Mayor's home, pushed his pregnant wife...
Ireland is the only place in the world where procrastination takes on a sense of urgency. Dave Allen A little Dublin boy in school was asked to use the word 'bewitches' in a sentence. He said, 'You go on ahead;...
This book introduces the reader to the origins and effects of the Irish Famine, focusing on Galway and the surrounding areas of Tuam, Loughrea, Ballinasloe, Athenry, Gort, Oranmore, Clifden and more. Being a...
- anyone be satisfied at the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this early this morning I signed my death warrant. I thought at the time how odd, how ridiculous - a bullet may just as well have done the job five...
The translated autobiography of Colm O'Gaora, a leading figure in the first generation of nationalist figures who defined the emergence of the Irish state. The Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) consisted...
The selection of the Mayo county librarian in 1930 should have been uneventful. It was hardly a crucial post and should have been a routine appointment, yet the choice led to a conflict that had national consequences....
The story of Ireland has been told many times but never quite in this form. Sarah Healy's book begins with a comprehensive historical portrait which presents the whole fabric of three thousand years of Irish...
The story of the fierce battle at the South Dublin Union during the 1916 Rising by the author of Blood On The Streets. Easter Monday, 1916: Éamonn Ceannt and 120 men of the 4th Battalion of the Irish Volunteers...
Why riot? Against whom? For what? Riotous Assemblies is an account of Irish riots, urban and rural, across the island from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Ireland has seen many acts of violent protest....
"Billy O'Callaghan's writing evokes a sense of longing for place and the familiar. His characters are rendered with a lyrical stoicism that lends dignity to all our struggles." Suzanne McConnell - Bellevue Literary...
One of Ireland's greatest unsung heroines. In the late nineteenth century, before women even had the vote, a group of respectable ladies operated outside the law to fight for the rights of the poor in Ireland....
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890) is one of Ireland's most remarkable and least known historical figures. An undercover Fenian while ostensibly a proud member of the British army, he was convicted of treason in...
The story of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family is a remarkable one. His parents, the brilliant Sir William and flamboyant Lady Jane, also led amazing lives and experienced triumph and tragedy. His wife...
In Secret Victory, Liam & John E. Nolan examine the largely forgotten role Ireland, and in particular Cobh, played in keeping the seas open for Allied shipping and thereby helping the Allies to win the First...
Donegal was one of the counties used to launch this offensive against the newly established government in the six counties. The bulk of the anti-Treaty IRA men who took part were from the southern counties including...
Many people who know the story of the 1916 Rising have heard the harrowing account of the wedding of Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol, on the day before his execution for his part in leading...
Putrid while living, damned when dead', has been the epitaph of Diarmait Mac Murchada (Dermot MacMurrough), King of Leinster, the man credited with inflicting 800 years of strife on Ireland. Diarmait ruled in...
William Henry delves into the rich tapestry of Galway's past to reveal a totally new history of the city and county, exploring the stories of people and events that have been forgotten or were never well known....
On Christmas night of 1998, Maria Meyers learns that her twenty-year-old daughter, Pearl, has chained herself outside the American embassy in Dublin, where she intends to starve herself to death. Although Maria...
'The Tay is Wet' is a compilation of sixteen humourous stories about farm life in eastern Co Meath, Ireland, set mostly in the 1950's. The goings on in the fictional Roggart community featuring the Deery family...
(An Irish-language title) A reprint of the 1949 classic edition. A strange arresting book . . . O Cadhain shows in this book that he has in him the makings of a really great writer . . . the first serious challenge...
(An Irish-language title)Winner of Gradam Ui Shuilleabhain, Book of the Year Award 2010. In 1994 the army officer, Frank Reidy was sent to eastern Africa to assist the United Nations effort that was assembled...
(An Irish-language title) Inis Mor artist Sean O Flaithearta has teamed up with publishers Clo Iar-Chonnacht to produce a new collection of Mairtin O Direain's poetry to mark the centenary of the Aran poet's...
Forget about shamrocks, leprechauns, and all that blarney, 101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History dispels the myths and tells the true stories of the Irish. Inside, you'll learn about about:
Synopsis: Me Father Was a Hero and Me Mother Is a Saint is the true story of a large working-class family from North Dublin. "It begins with the period of my father's service with 'E' company 1st Battalion Dublin...
The 1950s was a decade of international economic recovery after the disasters of World War II. There was just one exception. The Irish economy actually contracted in those years, and over four hundred thousand...
Reprinted November 2007; first published 2003. It is widely accepted that no understanding of modern Irish history is complete without an awareness of events in the 17th century. This is true in particular of...
Patrick Geoghegan's biography concentrates on O'Connell's glory period, culminating in 1829. A radical new interpretation of O'Connell's reckless youth, his career as a lawyer, and his titanic struggle to win...
The history of the Irish in baseball is much richer than anyone realizes. From early discrimination to later domination, from Mike Kelly, a society star in the 1880s, to the managerial fame of Connie Mack (nÉ...
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