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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham Smith Synopsis An account of one of the worst disasters of all time - the Irish potato famine of the 1840`s, during which time more than a million people died. This book traces the suffering, courage, blundering stupidity and tragedy, whose effects on Ireland, the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland by Gerry Adams Publisher Comments The unique inside story of one of the most controversial public figures, Gerry Adams. Here he reveals the truth behind the headlines of how the peace process was begun and how it was brought to fruition. Perhaps the single most important book yet to be... (read more) Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Farewell To Arms From Long War To Long Peace in Northern Ireland by Michael Cox Publisher Comments The last decade has been the most momentous in Northern Ireland's checkered history--a 30 year war finally and painfully began to wind down, starting in August 1994 with the first Republican cease-fire and concluding more than three years later with the... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $5.50 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 $22.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Twenty Years a Growing by Maurice Osullivan Publisher Comments This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelic-speaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life of a society that no longer exists, with a humor and poetry refreshingly remote from the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Irish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity by Stan Smith Synopsis Among its various progenitors, literary Modernism can number two major Irish writers, James Joyce and W. B. Yeats, and a third, Samuel Beckett, who carried the 'revolution of the word' into a second generation. Yet Ireland as a nation came late to... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $8.95 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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Irish Eccentrics: A Selection by Pe Somerville Large Publisher Comments A "rare gallery of human curiosities -- William... (read more) Your price: $3.48 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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Irish History of Civilization Volume 2 by Don Akenson About the Author Don Akenson is the author of numerous books including Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds (nominated for the Governor General's Award) and most recently Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself. He... (read more) List Price $67.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $9.50 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 $15.95 Your price: $5.95 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: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland by Rebecca Solnit Publisher Comments A Book of Migrations is a postcolonial revision of conventional travel literature. In her passage through Ireland, Rebecca Solnit portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Her... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $10.95 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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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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