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by Paul Bew Publisher Comments The Northern Ireland Peace Process 1993-1996: A Chronology records the developments of those hopeful years, charting intergovernmental talks, seemingly minor incidents whose significance became apparent only months later and dramatic political shifts and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Padraig Omalley Publisher Comments A universally praised account of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, The Uncivil Wars illuminates the beliefs, words, and actions of people on all sides of the debate: Protestants and Catholics, paramilitary groups and parties committed to non-violence... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $5.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Waters Publisher Comments In this unsentimental account of the recent history of his native country, John Waters defines the nature of the ideology which fuelled the drive to modernization, charts the progress of the policies which brought it to fruition, and reveals how Ireland... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas Keneally Publisher Comments "Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us in The Great Shame a people despised and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Terry Golway Publisher Comments In 1871, John Devoy, a young Irishman fighting for Irish independence, came to the United States in exile. Yet even while across the ocean, this Fenian greatly influenced Irish affairs. Terry Golway's assiduously researched biography of Devoy chronicles... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Liam Swords Synopsis When some ninety-nine persons, led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Rory O'Donnell. Earl of Tyrconnell, sailed from Rathmullen County Donegal on 14 September 1607, it was destined to be probably the most momentous event in the history of the island of... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Maurice Osullivan Publisher Comments In tellng the story of his youth, Maurice O'Sullivan uses a style derived from the folk tales he learned from his grandfather, and sharpened by his own lively imagination. Though he wrote simply for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Hugo Hamilton Synopsis This is the memoir of a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.... (read more) Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by W J Mccormack Publisher Comments Arguments about the Irish Union provided an unprecedented opportunity for the exploitation of the print medium in shaping public opinion. Pamphlets became the principal weapons in a struggle for ideological advantage. Parliamentary speeches, satirical... (read more) Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Maria Tymoczko Publisher Comments Essays on the relationship between language and culture in Ireland from the early Middle Ages to the present.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Carmel Mccaffrey Publisher Comments A history of Ireland from the twelfth century to the present, following on the author's highly successful In Search of Ancient Ireland. In addition to plumbing the historical record, Ms. McCaffrey discusses the leading Irish families and their social... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $20.55 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Chris Ryder Publisher Comments A hard-hitting investigation into the history, politics and personalities behind the annual Drumcree stand-off, a conflict at the heart of the problems still facing Northern Ireland.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Maire O'brien Publisher Comments Maire Cruise O'Brien explores the republican and revolutionary connections of her family as she was growing up, the fallout of the Irish Civil War, and life in the Irish-speaking districts of Ireland almost a century ago.<BR> Maire spent two years... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomsen B Publisher Comments Irish is more than a nationality-it's a state of being. What other cultural background allows you to demand a kiss, celebrate the wearing of a color, toast the wee folk, and take pride in one's readiness to fight? What other land is celebrated by parades... (read more) Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Berresf Ellis Publisher Comments Through sources ranging from ancient forsundun (praise songs) and the hero kings to newspaper accounts, public decrees, and even graffiti, this book offers vivid portraits of major events and everyday life in Ireland through the centuries--beginning with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Helen Litton Publisher Comments A concise history of the rebellions, using newspaper reports, speeches, eyewitness accounts and a mass of photographs and illustrative material.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Siobhan Kilfeather Publisher Comments Europe's most westerly capital city was established by invaders and was for most of its history the locus of colonial administration, the engine room of foreign power, and a major site of indigenous resistance. From The Act of Union through nineteenth... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Mark Cooper Book News Annotation Cooper, a veteran and historian of the Irish fertilizer industry, and Davis (agricultural and food economics, Queen's University Belfast) analyze changes in the raw material used by the industry, the quantity and range of products made and imported... (read more) Your price $44.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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