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The great famine :Ireland's potato famine, 1845-51
by John Percival  Publisher Comments The Irish famine of 1845-51 was the greatest tragedy of its day. A million Irish men, women and children died, mostly from disease resulting from months of slow starvation. Hundreds of thousands were evicted and left destitute. One and a half million...
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A new Ireland :politics, peace, and reconciliation
by John Hume Publisher Comments The views of Irish peace activist John Hume on politics and the future of his country, with a foreword by Senator Edward M. Kennedy -- Reveals the inside story of the author's meetings with Gerry Adams, which led to the Irish Peace Initiative and the...
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The Phoenix Park: A History and Guidebook
by Brendan Nolan Publisher Comments 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...
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Death on a Country Road
by Desmond Fahy Synopsis The story of how two Derry GAA supporters returning from Croke Park were killed by loyalist paramilitaries operating an illegal check-point on a country road in South Armagh....
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No News at Throat Lake
by Lawrence Donegan Publisher Comments Lawrence Donegan's dream is a modest one, really. An intrepid journalist, acclaimed author, erstwhile pop-music star, and drolly anthropological social critic, Donegan longs for the quiet life, far from the crowds, filth, and all-around dreariness of...
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Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland
by Conor Cruis Obrien Publisher Comments Scholar and statesman Conor Cruise O'Brien illuminates why peace has been so elusive in Northern Ireland. He explains the conflation of religion and nation through Irish history into our own time. Using his life as a prism through which he interprets...
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Cistercian Abbeys of Tipperary
by Colmci Oconbhuidhe Publisher Comments In the period 1142-1272 thirty-seven Cistercian monasteries were founded in Ireland. Of these, four were situated in Tipperary. They were: Inislaunaght, near Clonmel, founded 1147-8; Holy Cross, near Thurles, 1180; Kilcooley, near Urlingford, 1184; Hore...
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Hunger Strike: Reflections on the 1981 Republican Hunger Strike
by Danny Morrison Book News Annotation The 54 writings collected here recollect the writers' experiences during the 1981 hunger strike by Irish Republican prisoners protesting British oppression in Northern Ireland. The strike killed its initiator Bobby Sands and nine other men, brought...
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The Church and the Two Nations in Medieval Ireland (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series, Volume 3)
by J A Watt Publisher Comments This book examines the way in which the central English government dealt with Irish ecclesiastical matters from the time of the invasion and partial conquest of Ireland by Henry II in 1171 up to the Statute of Kilkenny. The struggle involved the king...
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Englishmen & Irish Troubles British Publ
by D G Boyce Publisher Comments In October 1968, a problem which the British people thought vanished forever re-emerged. For the first time in nearly half a century, Irish questions began to make headlines in the British press, and a catalog of expressions with which past generations...
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The Irish Spirit: Proverbs, Superstitions, and Fairy Tales
by Laurence Flanagan Publisher Comments This unique blend of the best of Ireland's oral tradition includes proverbs, folklore, and superstitions of the Emerald Isle. Culled by some of Ireland's most popular writers, it includes proverbs in both English and Gaelic, retellings of beloved Irish...
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Graziers & Grasslands: Portrait of a Rural Meath Community, 1854-1914
by Jim Gillligan Publisher Comments In the rural eastern counties in the Famine the dominant figure was parts of many post years the grazier, a farmer who concentrated on fattening cattle of large tracts of land he owned, or more often leased. County Meath was the heartland of the grazier...
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Cattle Lords & Clansmen: The Social Structure of Early Ireland
by Nerys Tho Patterson Book News Annotation Winner of the 1992 American Conference for Irish Studies Prize for a first book (with a different subtitle), and here augmented with a chapter on season rhythm, additional material, and an updated bibliography. Examines Irish society before the...
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No Tears in Ireland
by Sylvia Couturie Publisher Comments On a cool, end-of-July morning in 1939, eleven-year-old Sylvia Couturié and her eight-year-old sister, Marguerite, escorted by their Irish nanny, "Wally," left their family's elegant French château for a fantastically ill-timed vacation...
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Nervous Peace
by David Mckitterick Publisher Comments David McKittrick is one of Northern Ireland's most respected journalists. In this work he brings together the pieces he wrote as the Ireland correspondent for the London Independent. These articles not only record the ceasefires themselves and the...
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That's Cork
by Tom Galvin Publisher Comments Find out everything you ever wanted to know about the city of Cork - and everything you thought you didn't want to know! From the past to the present, acquire unusual, odd, interesting and fascinating facts about Cork. This book answers the questions...
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Northern Ireland and the Politics of Reconciliation (Woodrow Wilson Center Series)
by Dermot Keogh Publisher Comments A comprehensive analysis of the issues surrounding the conflict in Norther Ireland by leading academic and political figures....
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The Gold Sun of Irish Freedom: 1798 in Song and Story
by Danny Doyle Publisher Comments 1998 is the 200th anniversary of the 1798 rebellion, the last popular rebellion against British rule in Ireland until this century. Tie Golden Sun of Irish Freedom threads together the history, songs, and poetry of the events of 1798. Stirring...
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Chasing Progress in the Irish Republic: Idealogy, Democracy & Dependent Development
by John Kurt Jacobsen Publisher Comments The Republic of Ireland shares some of the economic problems of the Third World, and the political structures of the First World. This book investigates the political causes and consequences of the economic policy choices made in Ireland since...
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Course of Irish History Revised Edition
by T W Moody Publisher Comments This is the best-selling history of Ireland ever published. Originally published in 1967, and several times since then updated and revised, it is still in demand all over the world. The book provides a rapid short survey, with a geographical introduction,...
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