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Oliver Cromwell has been the subject of books, learned journals, less learned articles, TV and radio programmes, countless times. He has had proponents and opponents. He has been revered and reviled……続きを見る

This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement. Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the s……続きを見る

By drawing on social movement theories, this book explains how terrorist movements decline, using the case of Irish Republicanism. The continuity of terrorism and political violence from generation ……続きを見る

This is the story of Ireland – not just her History, but her story. Her Music, her Poetry and Theatre, her ancient Brehon laws. How people lived in the times of Brian Boru, what they wore and what t……続きを見る

This is a Litebite Book, a little more than 7,000 words long. The Great Famine which afflicted Ireland between 1846 and 1851 is perhaps the most studied, the most commented upon, the most reviled, a……続きを見る

Daniel O'Connell had an exciting life, spiced with duelling, Revolution, and girls galore until his marriage. That marriage astonishingly for the times, was a love match, far from the norm in those ……続きを見る

In the wake of the EU referendum, the United Kingdom's border with Ireland has gained greater significance: it is set to become the frontier with the European Union. Over the past year, Garrett Carr……続きを見る

This book addresses provides a series of in-depth portraits of men and women who have been labelled ‘terrorists’, from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Bridging historical methodologies and theore……続きを見る

In 1969 the once peaceful Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland degenerated into widespread violence between the nationalist and unionist communities. The conflict, known as the Trouble……続きを見る

Focusing on the era in which the modern idea of nationalism emerged as a way of establishing the preferred political, cultural, and social order for society, this book demonstrates that across diffe……続きを見る

Cuchulain Of Muirthemne By Lady Augusta Gregory This is Lady Gregory's collation of the Cuchulain cycle. Cuchulain was a mighty warrior, 'the Hound of Ulster', the hero of 'the Red Branch', a band ……続きを見る

This e-book has been published specifically as a gift for my father, Paul McAlpine. This is not a scholarly work and should not be used for research purposes. 続きを見る

A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland – now James I of England – came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival poli……続きを見る

A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, ‘Netherland’. Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers – one Irish, one Turkish – were both i……続きを見る

Siege at Jadotville is Declan Power’s acclaimed book on the men of A Company, 35th Battalion of the Defence Forces, who were deployed to protect the inhabitants of the village of Jadotville in the C……続きを見る

Renowned industrial expert Geoffrey Owen analyses the complex reasons behind the delayed modernisation of British industry. In 1945, following the economic hardship of the war years, British industr……続きを見る

Accounts of Irish racialization in the United States have tended to stress Irish difference. Famine Irish and the American Racial State takes a different stance. This interdisciplinary, transnationa……続きを見る

A rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver’s Travels, by a “vivid, ardent, and engaging” (New York Times Book Review) author. One of Europe’s most important literary figures, Jonathan S……続きを見る

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Northern Ireland Conflict provides an accessible and comprehensive study of the conflict and peace process in Northern Ireland from the 1960s t……続きを見る

Ce livre raconte l'histoire d'un peuple indomptable De la mythologie celte aux légendes gaéliques; de la fabrication du whiskey à la description des paysages de landes où se confondent parfois terre……続きを見る

The Irish Classical Self considers the role of classical languages and learning in the construction of Irish cultural identities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing in particular on……続きを見る

Irish Book Awards Shortlist Library Journal Best Indie Fiction of the Year Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book Staff Pick Concord Monitor/Concord Insider Book of the Week Chatelaine magazine Book Clu……続きを見る

Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of Bloody Sunday in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of Bloody Sunday. In J……続きを見る

This book provides the first biographical study of Charles Pelham Villiers (1802-1898), whose long UK parliamentary career spanned numerous government administrations under twenty different prime mi……続きを見る

This provocative new history of Ireland during the long 1960s exposes the myths of Ireland's modernisation. Mary E. Daly questions traditional interpretations which see these years as a time of pros……続きを見る

This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats’s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, preci……続きを見る

In September '95 Michael Sheridan began to collaborate with Veronica Guerin on a screenplay: the story of a woman journalist who takes on the crime bosses of the Dublin underworld. Here, with that s……続きを見る

A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modes……続きを見る

The debut of Ireland’s greatest author and one of the most influential voices in modern literature Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce. By portraying successively incid……続きを見る

Beginning with the death of legendary IRA figure Sean South of Garryowen on New Year's Day 1957, the book describes the background to what we have now come to call 'the troubles' and paints vivid po……続きを見る