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by Fintan Otoole Synopsis O'Toole shows how this small country has created itself anew, put forth a new image, and become a "global" player. But at what price? O'Toole feels that there is indeed a sense that Ireland might be about to drown itself in a flood tide of blandness and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ed Moloney Publisher Comments An epic portrayal of one of the twentieth century's longest warsbased on unprecedented access to all the players. Delving deeply into the inner workings, furtive plots, and deadly rivalries of the Irish Republican Army, Ed Moloney, who has covered... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by George J Mitchell Publisher Comments Fifteen minutes before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998, Senator George Mitchell was informed that his long and difficult quest for an Irish peace accord had succeeded--the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland, and the governments of the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mcauley Finbarr Book News Annotation This volume collects 12 previously published articles on the history of criminal justice in Ireland prior to the foundation of the State in 1922. All deal with broad questions relating to crime and society rather than narrower issues of criminal law... (read more) Your price $38.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jon Michael Riley Publisher Comments While Ireland has always been a perennial favorite among travelers, with some 6 million visitors last year, Irish culture has a stronghold in the United States: of the 70 million people of Irish descent worldwide, 44 million are American. Ireland-its... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by R F Foster Publisher Comments Few countries have such a compelling and stirring history as Ireland. This sumptuously illustrated volume captures all of the color of the Emerald Isle, from the earliest prehistoric communities and the first Christian settlements, through centuries of... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Harkness Publisher Comments Using early photographs and prose extracts from writings of the time, this book gives an insight into the attitudes, opinions and habits of the Irish at the beginning of the 20th century, and brings their ordinary concerns and activities back to life... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by R F Foster Publisher Comments Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. <BR> Foster... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lisa M Bitel Publisher Comments The first book on Irish monasticism to recreate the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jill Freedman Publisher Comments In describing his beloved land, the late Irish short story writer Sean O'Faolain wrote: There is some alchemy of climate in Ireland that bedews the countryside with an unmistakable personality: it is in the softness of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $12.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Janet M Todd Publisher Comments They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century—and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael Mays Publisher Comments This book examines the cultural formations of Irish nationalism, and the corollary processes of decolonization, postcolonialism, modernity, and globalization, that have been instrumental in the creation of the modern Irish state. In mapping the contested... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Bill Cullen Publisher Comments Tis better to be born lucky than rich....There are many ways to confront tragedy and hard times. Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt's tragic--and ultimately uplifting--tale of how one man overcame adversity and found happiness in the New World is a compelling... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Stella Tillyara Publisher Comments Citizen Lord is the enthralling story -- as Stella Tillyard has recreated it from personal letters and other sources -- of a headstrong young aristocrat who died a martyred rebel for the cause of Irish independence. Son of a duke, heir to estates and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $6.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Ulick Oconnor Publisher Comments When Asquith introduced his bill for Home Rule for Ireland in 1912, he sparked a decade of turbulence and violence for Ireland and her people. Michael Collins played a crucial role in rekindling Ireland's aspirations for freedom. A leading figure in the... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mike Abrahams Publisher Comments Documentary photography at its best--imaginative, comprehensive, confident and concerned.--Independent... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert W White Publisher Comments A revealing biography of a major figure in the Irish Republican Movement.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert James Scally Publisher Comments Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-1848, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic. The human toll of "Black '47", the worst year... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $36.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Patrick Osullivan Book News Annotation Addressing the question of how religion and identity have been renegotiated as the Irish diaspora spread throughout the world, this volume presents ten contributions covering topics including a study of the first Catholics in Australia; the Protestant... (read more) Your price $22.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Fintan Otoole Synopsis The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland's fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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