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Tea and Green Ribbons: A Memoir by Evelyn Doyle Publisher Comments In the slums of Dublin in 1953, Evelyn Doyle's mother ran off with a lover, abandoning her family and leaving Evelyn's father to care for six children. Already struggling to support his children as a painter and decorator, Desmond Doyle faced the fact... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover 
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For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes by Terry Golway Publisher Comments For the Cause of Liberty is the story of Irish nationalism, from the legendary king Brian Boru, who united the chieftains of Ireland to drive out the Vikings, to the still-unresolved conflict in Northern Ireland. In a fast-paced narrative, Terry Golway... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Green Flag : a History of Irish Nationalism Volumes I-III (72 Edition) by Robert Kee Publisher Comments Covering Irish history from the beginnings of Irish Nationalism through 1973, Robert Kee's treatment ranges from the Protestant Plantations through Wolfe Tone and the Great Famine to the founding of the Fenian Movement and the Irish Free State. His... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland by Moloney Ed Publisher Comments Two opposing leaders of the Troubles in Ireland speak about their roles in the bombings, killings, and shootings.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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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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Mick : Real Michael Collins (06 Edition) by Peter Hart Publisher Comments Few leaders in history have been as mythologized as Michael Collins. Before his death at 31, he had fought in the Easter Rising, organized the IRA and out-spied British intelligence, negotiated the Anglo-Irish Treaty, and run the first independent... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Irish Famine by Cathal Poirteir Publisher Comments The most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney Publisher Comments Filled with disclosures and based on the author's unprecedented access to the Irish Republican Army, this explosive book sparked controversy when it was first published in hardcover. Delving deeply into the inner workings, furtive plots, and deadly... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland: Bishop Bramhall and the Laudian Reforms, 1633?1641 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by John Mccafferty Publisher Comments The first book-length study of the attempted reconstruction of the Church of Ireland in the 1630s.... (read more) List Price $142.75 Your price: $12.97 Sale - Hardcover
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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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 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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The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story by Angela Bourke Publisher Comments In 1895, Bridget Cleary, a strong-minded and independent young woman, disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary. At first her family claimed she had been taken by fairies-but then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave. Bridget's husband,... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland by Malachy Mccourt Publisher Comments In the successful tradition of Thomas Cahill’s modern-day classic, How the Irish Saved Civilization, here is an authoritative and completely engaging one-volume account of Irish history by County Limerick native, gifted storyteller, and bestselling... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland by Cole Moreton Synopsis Moreton delivers this beautiful, haunting, previously untold story of a vanished people from the edge of Ireland and the events that led to the abandonment of their way of life. This book is about home and what that means and a gripping account of the... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Problems and Perspectives in Irish History Since 1800 by Roger Swift Synopsis This volume of essays in honor of Patrick Buckland reflects the making of modern Irish historical writings. It addresses several key issues and topics: Irish emigration and its consequences for the migrants, the host country and the land they left behind;... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Daughters of Maeve: 50 Irish Women Who Changed the World (06 Edition) by Gina Sigillito Publisher Comments From ancient times to the present, Irish women have influenced and changed the course of history, yet their accomplishments remain largely ignored by the historians. Now one indispensable reference allows readers to meet these remarkable women who have... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sinn Fein : Hundred Turbulent Years (03 Edition) by Brian Feeney Publisher Comments Sinn Féin ("ourselves alone") is one of the most controversial political movements in Ireland. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the rise and fall—and rise again—of a party that repeatedly has... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World by Thomas Keneally Publisher Comments In The Great Shame, Thomas Keneally--the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's List--combines the authority of a brilliant historian and the narrative grace of a great novelist to present a gripping account of the Irish diaspora. <BR&... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Killing Rage by Eamon Collins Publisher Comments This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of "killing rage," in which the murder of neighbor becomes thinkable. Over 3,000 people have died in Northern Ireland since 1969... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred by Thomas Gallagher Publisher Comments Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland was... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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