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Bold Fenian Men :Green Flag Volume 2 by Robert Kee About the Author Robert Kee is the author of twelve books, including The Laurel and the Ivy. He is also a freelance journalist and broadcaster, and has worked for many years in both radio and television.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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Almost There by Nuala Ofaolain Publisher Comments Nuala O'Faolain burst upon the literary scene in 1998 with Are You Somebody?, a fiercely candid account of her youth and adulthood that became a surprise bestseller around the world. Almost There begins at that moment when O'Faolain's life began to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $20.00 Your price: $3.98 Used - Hardcover
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New Ireland by John Hume Publisher Comments Hume recounts the struggle for the nationalist community's rights and presents a blueprint for peace.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Ireland by Maire Macen Obrien Synopsis A history of Ireland. This book concentrates on four events in particular: the Catholic revolt against Elizabeth; the Battle of the Boyne, which established the Protestant Ascendancy; the impact of the French Revolution; and the fall from power of... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Village by Alice Taylor Synopsis Tells the story of the hard life in an Irish village, looking at characters such as the local tailor, the blacksmith and the farm-wife. The book combines laughter, pathos and innocence with the gossip of a closely-knit community.... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Islandman by Thomas Ocrohan Publisher Comments Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, "to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be seen again." This is an absorbing narrative of a now... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History) by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments A delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little known "hinge" of history in which the author shows that the Irish were not only conservators of civilization, but became shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford History of Ireland by R F Foster Publisher Comments Few countries can boast as compelling and stirring a history as Ireland. This volume captures all the varied legacies of the Emerald Isle, from the earliest prehistoric communities and the first Christian settlements, through the centuries of turbulent... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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44: Dublin Made Me by Peter Sheridan Publisher Comments Snow is falling over Dublin. It is almost midnight on New Year's Eve, 1959. On the rooftop of 44 Seville Place, ten-year-old Peter Sheridan clings to the steel rod of a television antenna. When his father urges him to turn the antenna toward England, the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ireland (Nations of the Modern World) by Richard B Finnegan Publisher Comments In one generation, modern Ireland has experienced rapid political, economic, and social transformation. Every aspect of Irish life and public policy has changed. Ireland: Historical Echoes, Contemporary Politics charts and explains the facets of that... (read more) List Price $60.75 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ireland Since 1939: The Persistence of Conflict by Henry Patterson Publisher Comments A compelling narrative of contemporary Ireland from one of its most highly respected historians The Ireland of today is a place poised between the divisiveness of deep-seated conflict and the modernizing pull of material prosperity. Though each state's... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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To School Through the Fields by Alice Taylor Publisher Comments If ever a voice has caputured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone by, it is Alice Taylor's. Her tales of childhood in rural Ireland hard back to a timeless past, to a world now lost, but ever and fondly remembered. The... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman by Nuala Ofaolain Publisher Comments Are You Somebody is a moving and fascinating portrait of both Ireland and one of its most popular and respected commentators. This gem of honesty and insight had its first life as the introduction to a collection of Nuala O'Faolain's Irish Times columns... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Irish Voices 50 Years of Irish Life 19 by Pe Somerville Large Publisher Comments In 1916, Eamon de Valera arrived on the Irish scene and as a result, so we are told, the fairies left. Such combining of fact and folklore is the essence of this fascinating history which describes the tragedies and poverty of those years, yet brims with... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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How to Be Irish: Even If You Already Are by Sean Kelly Publisher Comments 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 now, the secrets of how to be Irish have... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland by R F Foster Publisher Comments Few countries have such a compelling and stirring history as Ireland. This sumptuously illustrated volume captures all of the color of the Emerald Isle, from the earliest prehistoric communities and the first Christian settlements, through centuries of... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rebel Daughters Ireland in Conflict 1798 by Janet Todd Publisher Comments A fascinating story of love, betrayal, murder and political rebellion at the heart of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.... (read more) Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Present by Katie Donovan Publisher Comments This is the first volume of its kind to present a collection of writings by and about Ireland's women. From Queen Maeve of Connaught to President Mary Robinson, this book presents Irish women as their compatriots--men and women both--have described and... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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