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  • Anglo-Irish Relations

    1798–1922

    by Nick Pelling ...
    Series series Questions and Analysis in History
    Providing essays, sources with questions and worked answers, together with background to each topic within Irish history, Nick Pelling provides a good foundational text for the study of Anglo-Irish relations.For centuries the relationship between Ireland and England has been difficult. Anglo-Irish Relations, 1798–1922 explores the tempestuous events from Wolfe Tone's failed rising to Michael ... Read more

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  • Irish History For Dummies

    by Mike Cronin ...
    From Norman invaders, religious wars—and the struggle for independence—the fascinating, turbulent history of a tortured nation and its gifted peopleWhen Shakespeare referred to England as a "jewel set in a silver sea," he could just as well have been speaking of Ireland. Not only has its luminous green landscape been the backdrop for bloody Catholic/Protestant conflict and a devastating famine, ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Missing and Unsolved: Ireland's Disappeared

    The Unsolved Cases of Ireland's Missing Persons

    by Barry Cummins ...
    They are some of Ireland's most famous names, for all the wrong reasons. They are Ireland's missing women, many of them murdered and their bodies hidden by evil killers who remain at large. They include Annie McCarrick, who was murdered in the Dublin-Wicklow mountains; Jo Jo Dullard, who was abducted and murdered while hitching a lift in Co. Kildare; and Fiona Pender, who was seven months pregnant ... Read more

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  • All Standing

    The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, The Legendary Irish Famine Ship

    by Kathryn Miles ...
    All Standing The Remarkable Story of the Jeanie Johnston, the Legendary Irish Famine Ship recounts the journeys of this famous ship, her heroic crew, and the immigrants who were ferried between Ireland and North America. Spurred by a complex web of motivations—shame, familial obligation, and sometimes even greed—more than a million people attempted to flee the Irish famine. More than one hundred ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Haunting Cries

    Stories of child abuse in Catholic Ireland

    by Karen Coleman ...
    'I hear people say now, "Oh, this is an historical thing." It's not historical for me. I can reach out my hand and touch it.' Survivor of child abuse at Daingean reformatory In their own words, survivors of institutional abuse outline how they suffered years of mistreatment while incarcerated in industrial schools throughout Ireland. Their experiences reflect what happened to thousands of children ... Read more

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  • Portrait of an Industrial City: 'Clanging Belfast' 1750-1914

    by Stephen A Royle ...
    Clanging: Belfast in its industrial pomp must have been noisy: shipyards manipulating sheets of metal, the constant riveting being only one source of racket; the endless clatter from linen mills, the screeching of trams on unyielding rails, sirens and hooters marking time at the factories. There were steam trains and steam engines in addition to horses' hooves beating on the streets. The ... Read more

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  • The Italian Boy

    A Tale of Murder and Body-snatching in 1830s London

    by Sarah Wise ...
    A thrilling history of England's great metropolis at a point of great change, told through the story of a young vagrant murdered by "resurrection men."Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was one of thousands of orphans on the streets of London, moving among the livestock, hawkers, and con men, begging for pennies. When his body was sold to a London medical college, the suppliers were ... Read more

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  • Michael Collins: The Lost Leader

    A biography of Irish politician Michael Collins

    by Margery Forester ...
    In print continuously for more than thirty years, this book is long established as a reliable and affectionate portrait of Michael Collins.First, published in 1971, its great strength is that the author was able to interview Collins' surviving contemporaries and was offered unrestricted access to personal and family material.Michael Collins: The Lost Leader has been praised by authorities such as ... Read more

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  • What If? Alternative Views of Twentieth-Century Irish History

    An Entertaining and Thought-Provoking Counter-History of Twentieth-Century Ireland

    by Diarmaid Ferriter ...
    What If? is an entertaining, thoughtful, provocative and original look at some of the milestones of twentieth century Irish history that offers a glimpse of what might have been. We all know that there was nothing inevitable about much of modern Ireland's history. Things could have turned out very differently, so it is natural to wonder what would have happened if certain events had never occurred ... Read more

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  • Pursuit of the Heiress: Aristocratic Marriage in Ireland, 1740-1840

    by Anthony Malcomson ...
    The Pursuit of the Heiress is a new, greatly enlarged and more widely focused version of what the late Lawrence Stone described as ‘a brilliant long essay or short book on the subject of the role of heiresses among the Irish aristocracy’, which was published by the Ulster Historical Foundation under the same title in 1982 and has long been out of print.The new book comes to the same broad ... Read more

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  • 16 Dead Men: The Easter Rising Executions

    by Anne-Marie Ryan ...
    Sixteen men were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland, 1916: fifteen were shot and one was hanged. Their deaths changed the course of Irish history. But who were these leaders who set in motion events that would lead to the creation of an independent Ireland? The executed leaders of the Easter Rising were a diverse group. This book contains fascinating accounts of the life ... Read more

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  • The Great Famine - a Survey

    by Brian Igoe ...
    This is a Litebite Book, a little more than 7,000 words long. The Great Famine which afflicted Ireland between 1846 and 1851 is perhaps the most studied, the most commented upon, the most reviled, and yet the most formative event in modern Irish History. Many books have been written about the famine, most recently The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy (2012) by Tim-Pat ... Read more

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