Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland's Industrial Schools
by Mary Raftery


Synopsis
Highlights: "Heart-wrenching...Raftery and O'Sullivan perform an important service in recording the ugly story of these institutions."... (read more)

List Price $29.95
Your Price $13.95
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

Shadows of Elisa Lynch
by Sian Rees


Synopsis
By the author of 'The Floating Brothel', this is the equally bizarre and intriguing story of how a 19th century Irish woman came to be the Eva Peron of Paraguay.... (read more)

Your Price $7.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
by Roy Foster


Publisher Comments
Few countries in the world have such a compelling, individual, and stirring history as Ireland. This new volume, the latest in the widely acclaimed Oxford Illustrated Histories series, offers the most authoritative account of Irish history yet published... (read more)

Your Price $9.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Voices of Ireland: Classic Writings of a Rich and Rare Land
by Malachy Mccourt


About the Author
County Limerick native Malachy McCourt is the authority to tell the history of Ireland. He has written several books, including the best-selling A Monk Swimming, Singing My Him Song, Danny Boy, Voices of Ireland, and The Claddagh Ring. Complementing his... (read more)

Your Price $20.74
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration
by Robert Scally


Publisher Comments
Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-48, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic. The human toll of "Black '47," the worst year of... (read more)

Your Price $13.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Dublin: A Cultural History
by Siobhan Kilfeather


Publisher Comments
Europe's most westerly capital city was established by invaders and was for most of its history the locus of colonial administration, the engine room of foreign power, and a major site of indigenous resistance. From The Act of Union through nineteenth... (read more)

Your Price $7.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Mick: The Real Michael Collins
by Peter Hart


Synopsis
An acclaimed historian pens a major new biography of the most gifted, ruthless, and powerful leader in modern Irish history. Two 8-page photo inserts.... (read more)

Your Price $23.00
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

A Fine Place to Daydream: Racehorses, Romance, and the Irish (Vintage)
by Bill Barich


Publisher Comments
Twenty-five years after Laughing in the Hills, his racetrack classic, Bill Barich gives us another--about 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. At venues grand and... (read more)

Your Price $10.95
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

The Phoenix Park: A History and Guidebook
by Brendan Nolan


Synopsis
The Phoenix Park, one of the biggest enclosed parks in the world, provides a breath of fresh air amid the urban sprawl of modern Dublin, Brendan Nolan's comprehensive guide to the Phoenix Park covers its origins and history, buildings and monuments... (read more)

Your Price $12.25
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Rebel Daughters Ireland in Conflict 1798
by Janet Todd


Synopsis
In 1797/8, society was scandalised by a chain of events within the family of the Earl of Kingston, a leading Irish aristocrat: daughter Mary eloped; the Earl murdered her seducer; daughter Margaret arranged a revolution among the United Irishmen; and... (read more)

Your Price $9.98
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

A Traveller's Companion to Dublin (Traveller's Companion To...)
by Thomas Pakenham


Synopsis
This volume splendidly brings to life Dublin's turbulent history, its literary and theatrical character, and its revolutionary ideals and heroes. Illustrations. Maps.... (read more)

Your Price $6.27
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

The I.R.A. at War 1916-1923
by Peter Hart


Publisher Comments
The essays in The I.R.A. at War propose a new history of this Irish revolution: one that encompasses the whole of the island as well as Britain, all of the violence and its consequences, and the entire period from the Easter Rising to the end of the... (read more)

Your Price $11.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

Dublin
by Ingo Latotzki


Publisher Comments
Consolidated by the Norsemen in 841, Dublin became the capital of the Republic of Ireland (Eire) when the country gained formal independence in 1922. It is primarily an industrial city, and boasts distilleries, breweries and flour-mills among the more... (read more)

Your Price $7.00
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

Do Penance or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland
by Frances Finnegan


Publisher Comments
Frances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland's Magdalen Asylums--homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged-and many forcibly prevented... (read more)

Your Price $9.98
(Sale - Trade Paper)

add to wish list

The Same Age As the State
by Maire O'brien


Synopsis
Maire Cruise O'Brien explores the republican and revolutionary connections of her family as she was growing up, the fallout of the Irish Civil War, and life in the Irish-speaking districts of Ireland almost a century ago. Maire spent two years studying... (read more)

Your Price $16.45
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

Don't Wake Me at Doyles: A Memoir
by Maura Murphy


Publisher Comments
"Murphy's skillful storytelling and optimistic spirit give even the grimmest moments of her difficult life story levity in this hopeful, spunky sister to Angela's Ashes."- Publishers Weekly Maura Murphy's memoir of life in Ireland and beyond resonates... (read more)

Your Price $10.98
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

King of Mysteries: Irish Religious Writing, AD 600-1200
by John Carey


Publisher Comments
A collection of texts, translated from both Latin and Irish, which provides a many-faceted view of the religious culture of Ireland in the early Middle Ages. A feature of the anthology is that it attempts to portray this culture in its own terms, rather... (read more)

Your Price $44.00
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list

Letters From Ireland
by Glen Hooper


Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-193) and index.... (read more)

Your Price $45.75
(Sale - Hardcover)

add to wish list