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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)
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
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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)

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The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849
The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849
by Cecil Woodham Smith
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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)

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Tea and Green Ribbons: A Memoir
Tea and Green Ribbons: A Memoir
by Evelyn Doyle
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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)

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Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland
Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland
by Gerry Adams
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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)

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Farewell To Arms From Long War To Long Peace in Northern Ireland
Farewell To Arms From Long War To Long Peace in Northern Ireland
by Michael Cox
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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)

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For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes
For the Cause of Liberty: A Thousand Years of Ireland's Heroes
by Terry Golway
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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)

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Green Flag : a History of Irish Nationalism Volumes I-III (72 Edition)
Green Flag : a History of Irish Nationalism Volumes I-III (72 Edition)
by Robert Kee
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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)

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Twenty Years a Growing
Twenty Years a Growing
by Maurice Osullivan
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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)

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Irish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity
Irish Poetry and the Construction of Modern Identity
by Stan Smith
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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)

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Mick : Real Michael Collins (06 Edition)
Mick : Real Michael Collins (06 Edition)
by Peter Hart
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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)

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Irish Eccentrics: A Selection
Irish Eccentrics: A Selection
by Pe Somerville Large
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A "rare gallery of human curiosities -- William... (read more)

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Great Irish Famine
Great Irish Famine
by Cathal Poirteir
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The most wide-ranging series of essays ever published on the Great Irish Famine.... (read more)

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Irish History of Civilization Volume 2
Irish History of Civilization Volume 2
by Don Akenson
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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)

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A Secret History of the IRA
A Secret History of the IRA
by Ed Moloney
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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)

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Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Present
Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Present
by Katie Donovan
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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)

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The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story
The Burning of Bridget Cleary: A True Story
by Angela Bourke
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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)

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A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
A Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland
by Rebecca Solnit
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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)

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Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland
Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland
by Malachy Mccourt
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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)

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Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland
Hungry for Home: Leaving the Blaskets: A Journey from the Edge of Ireland
by Cole Moreton
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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)

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Daughters of Maeve: 50 Irish Women Who Changed the World (06 Edition)
Daughters of Maeve: 50 Irish Women Who Changed the World (06 Edition)
by Gina Sigillito
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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)

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