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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

The history of Guinness, one of the world’s most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business. It began in Ireland in the mid 1700s. The water……続きを見る

This book draws together essays on modern British history, empire, liberalism and conservatism in honour of Trevor O. Lloyd, Emeritus Professor of Modern British history at the University of Toronto……続きを見る

This book examines the origins of Ireland in its first independent incarnation, the Irish Free State (1922-1937). It explores how contemporary public relations and propaganda techniques were used to……続きを見る

Covering three centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic changes, this textbook is an authoritative and comprehensive view of the shaping of Irish society, at home and abroad, from the fam……続きを見る

Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mheara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an ari……続きを見る

Nominated for 4 awards... Readers Favorite says, "The narrative is lyrical and the voice is irresistible. Yes, the prose sings in the reader's ears like beautiful music and it is peppered with wonde……続きを見る

When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, many proclaimed the start of a new Elizabethan Age. Few had any inkling, however, of the stupendous changes that would take place over the next 50 years,……続きを見る

THE GREEN FLAG stands as the most comprehensive and illuminating history of Irish Nationalism yet published. For many years available as three separate volumes (THE MOST DISTRESSFUL COUNTRY, THE BOL……続きを見る

The first, intimate portrait of the Orange Order. If there is any more controversial body of men (and, with the exception of Ruth Dudley Edwards, who has been admitted to an honorary position in her……続きを見る

With the unforced eloquence of a born storyteller, Irish traditional singer Packie Manus Byrne recounts his eventful life. After painting a fascinatingly detailed picture of growing up in an isolate……続きを見る

Below Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh was surrounded by a giant defensive wall. Unabl……続きを見る

Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies reprinted here, however, focuses on the other end of Eurasia, where dwelled ……続きを見る

The 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended the conflict in Northern Ireland left intriguing questions unanswered: who made the crucial decisions about the use of the British Army during the Troubles ……続きを見る

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dubl……続きを見る

The biography Bloodless Revolution considers the period 1878 -1885 in Sligo, Ireland, through the editorials and articles of Edward Gayer proprietor and editor of the Sligo Champion newspaper. Edwar……続きを見る

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish middle class life in and around Dubl……続きを見る

Luis Antonio Sierra nos propone en esta edición revisada y actualizada de su libro Irlanda del Norte. Historia del conflicto un análisis descriptivo y pormenorizado tanto de las causas y factores qu……続きを見る

Para cubrir el hueco que deja la "gran historia" sobre Irlanda, esta obra -en la medida en que las fuentes lo permiten- intenta dar a conocer el modo de vida y la idiosincrasia de los habitantes de ……続きを見る