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Controversial Issues in Anglo-irish Relations, 1910-1921 by Cornelius Oleary Synopsis This work examines issues on which scholarly opinion is not settled. For example, was there a real danger of civil war in Ireland in 1914? Did Redmond and Carson reach a serious agreement in 1916? Was the new Craig government on a position to wreck the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Story of the Irish Race by Seumas Macmanus Publisher Comments Here is the whole saga of the Irish from earliest times to the present. Learn about Irish history, culture, religion, laws, arts, antiquities, folklore, trade, literature, heroes, and more. Although a work of sound scholarship, it is as easy to read as a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hopkins in Ireland: Pictures and Words by Michael Flecky Publisher Comments This beautiful book is inspired by the poems and literary observations of the Jesuit poet and teacher Gerard Manley Hopkins, particularly during 1884-1889, the final years of his life in Ireland. A companion to Hopkins's important written legacy, it also... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Irish Famine: A Documentary by Colm Tóibín and Diarmaid Ferriter Publisher Comments The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s has been popularly perceived as a genocide attributable to the British government. In professional historical circles, however, such singular thinking was dismissed many years ago, as evidenced by the scathing... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Aran Islands by J M Synge Publisher Comments This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts... (read more) List Price $20.75 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture by Diane Negra Publisher Comments Essays examining how Irish identity is performed and commodified in the contemporary transnational environment, in Frank McCourt?s writing, the explosion of Irish-themed merchandising, the practices of heritage seekers and in the movie <i>The... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Pocket History of Gaelic Culture (O'Brien Pocket Series) by Alan Titley Synopsis A lively journey through ancient and modern Irish culture, this book explores the elements that have shaped the music, language, and arts of the Emerald Isle. From the rich native tradition in pre-Christian times to the changes wrought by the arrival of... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hard Sense in Soft Words: Sayings from the Great Oral Tradition of Ireland by George B Ryan Publisher Comments This is a book of some of the most heartwarming, ancient Irish wisdom, from the original Gaelic. Some tales may be familiar, while others are truly lost Gaelic treasures.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Irish Hunger by Tom Hayden Publisher Comments Renowned Irish and Irish-American contributors actors, activists, poets, journalists, politicians, and historians offer moving commentaries and modern perspectives on the events and aftermath of the 19th century Irish famine, an historical event of such... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When the Luck of the Irish Ran Out: The World's Most Resilient Country and Its Struggle to Rise Again by David Lynch Publisher Comments Few countries have been as dramatically transformed in recent years as Ireland. Once a culturally repressed land shadowed by terrorism and on the brink of economic collapse, Ireland finally emerged in the late 1990s as the fastest-growing country in... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Drumcree by Chris Ryder Publisher Comments The year of 1995 was the first summer of peace in Northern Ireland-except for the small market town of Portadown. There, in defiance of the wishes of the Catholic residents of the Garvaghy Road, the local lodge of the Protestant Orange Order insisted on... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Midlife Irish: Discovering My Family and Myself by Frank Gannon Publisher Comments - MIDLIFE IRISH was published in Warner Books hardcover in 2/03.- The Irish and their experiences continue to captivate readers, as evidenced by Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prizewinning "Angela's Ashes (Scribner, 1996), his brother Malachy's "A Monk... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Speckled People: A Memoir by Hugo Hamilton Publisher Comments The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place: His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who escaped Nazi Germany at the beginning of the war... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Scholars and Rebels by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments Scholars and Rebels must be essential reading for all those concerned to understand not just the complexities of nineteenth-century Irish intellectual culture and the emergent Irish Revival, but the formation also of Irish culture in the twentieth... (read more) List Price $114.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Memoir: My Life and Themes by Conor Cruise Obrien Publisher Comments Known as a diplomat, government minister, historian, biographer, anti-war activist, playwright, editor, political theorist and university president, Conor Cruise O'Brien has brought his unique perspective to such thorny issues as Irish nationalism... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Islands of Ireland by Nutan Publisher Comments A profusely illustrated, revelatory tour of Ireland's little-known islands. <BR>Ireland has long been renowned for its beautiful countryside. But modern Ireland is in the midst of an economic and urban boom, and the peaceful, rural, old-fashioned... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Oxford Companion To Irish History 2ND Edition by S J Connolly Publisher Comments The history of Ireland has long been a topic at the forefront of debate and one that continues to raise emotions and be the cause of much dispute. Interest in Irish culture, politics, and society, both ancient and modern, never seems to falter, not only... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ireland's Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation's Soul, 1500-2000 by Marcus Tanner Publisher Comments Tanner traces the creation of a modern Irish national identity through the popular resistance to imposed Protestantism and the common defense of Catholicism by the Gaelic Irish and the Old English of the Pale. 36 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Citizen Lord Edward Fitzgerald 1763 1798 by Stella Tillyard Synopsis The sequel to "Aristocrats", this tells the story of the Irish revolutionary, Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Son of a duke, heir to estates and influence, Lord Edward died in a Dublin gaol, a rebel and a traitor. The book looks at how this happened, and... (read more) 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 the Rise of Medieval Europe by Thomas Cahill Publisher Comments The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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