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by Ashley Shannon  Publisher Comments A treasury of warmth and exquisite charm, IRISH BLESSINGS provides beautiful full-color photographs of the Irish countryside and more than 60 traditional blessings, including such favorites as "The Traveler's Blessing," "A Blessing for You and Yours... (read more)  List Price $19.98 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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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
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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
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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
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by Peter Sheridan Publisher Comments Snow is falling over Dublin. It is almost midnight on New Year's Eve, 1959. On the rooftop of 44 Seville Place, ten-year-old Peter Sheridan clings to the steel rod of a television antenna. When his father urges him to turn the antenna toward England, the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Terry Golway Publisher Comments A reconstruction of one thousand years of Irish nationalism, covering each benchmark in Ireland's political evolution and presenting a tale of both the famous and the unsung patriots who changed the course of Ireland's history. Patriots who include Wolfe... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eamon Collins Publisher Comments Since the 1970s, people have been murdering their neighbors in Northern Ireland. This book is the true account of the small-town violence and terror which lies behind the headlines.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Thomson Publisher Comments Ghost stories, myths, fairy tales and legends from coastal Scotland and Ireland. Includes an introduction by Seamus Heaney. Advertised in the national press.... (read more) Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Canny Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive study of plantations in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. It examines the arguments advanced by successive political figures for a plantation policy, and the responses that this policy elicited from different segments of... (read more) List Price $145.00 Your price $34.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Pete Mccarthy Publisher Comments "It was half past five in the morning as I lurched through the front door of the B&B. Mrs. O'Sullivan appeared just in time to see me pause to admire the luminous Virgin holy water stand with integral night-light, and knock it off the wall. Politely... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by Thomas Ocrohan Publisher Comments Tomas O'Crohan's sole purpose in writing The Islandman was, he wrote, "to set down the character of the people about me so that some record of us might live after us, for the like of us will never be seen again." This is an absorbing narrative of a now... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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
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by Richard B Finnegan Publisher Comments In one generation, modern Ireland has experienced rapid political, economic, and social transformation. Every aspect of Irish life and public policy has changed. Ireland: Historical Echoes, Contemporary Politics charts and explains the facets of that... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hugo Hamilton Publisher Comments From the author of The Speckled People, one of the most lyrical and powerful memoirs of recent times, comes an exploration of another crucial moment in his early life: the summer he spent working at a harbor close to his home in Dublin, at a time of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Malachy McCourt Publisher Comments New York Times best-selling author Malachy McCourt recounts the story of the Claddagh Ring, a timeless symbol of loyalty, friendship, and love worn by millions in Ireland and around the world. Following the success of his Running Press titles Danny Boy... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Osullivan Book News Annotation Nine contributions examine the causes, perceptions, interventions, and impacts of the most catastrophic event in the history of the Irish people. Themes central to the text are the relationship of immigration to the famine, and the reaction of the... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Henry Glassie Publisher Comments In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts tell of the coming of Christianity, of endless war, of the hardships and delights of rural life.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Moorhouse Synopsis Some eight miles off the coast of Kerry lie the Skelligs, two sheer rocks. The largest of these, Skellig Michael, is where, according to legend, the Archangel Michael appeared to St Patrick and was home, for 600 years, to a monastery. This book tells the... (read more) Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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