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The Evolution of the GAA brings together leading writers and academics to examine the history of the GAA over 125 years and Gaelic games over previous centuries. This collection outlines the progres……続きを見る

Newly updated on the hundredth anniversary of the tragedy by Titanic expert Dave Gittins to reflect the latest facts and theories about the ship's sinking, Titanic: The Death and Life of a Legend wi……続きを見る

Combining over 100 beautifully crafted maps, charts and graphs with a narrative packed with facts and information, An Atlas of Irish History provides coverage of the main political, military, econom……続きを見る

An ethereal collection of long-lost fairy tales and folk stories from Ireland, collated and edited by one of the most sensational Irish poets, W. B. Yeats. This anthology of Irish myths and folklore……続きを見る

'…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Depa……続きを見る

A timely work of major historical importance, examining the whole spectrum of events from the 1916 Easter Rising to the current and ongoing peace process, fully updated with a new afterword for the ……続きを見る

This is not a boring history book. Instead, it takes a sympathetic look at some very  ordinary people in a very extraordinary time.  Of interest to anyone whose forefathers left Ireland i……続きを見る

(This ebook does not include illustrations.) This social history records the daily life of the English people from the time of the Norman Conquest to our own. Based on diaries, letters, memoirs, off……続きを見る

Footless! Legless, in fact, and armless too. Nothing to do with a state of intoxication, though - Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh was was born with no legs or arms, and yet was a husband and father, an ……続きを見る

Priompallán a thug Seathrún Céitinn ar na staraithe frith-Ghaelacha, feithidí ar fearr leo a bheith ag únfairt sa bhualtrach ná aird a thabhairt ar na blátha áille os a cionn. Ta siad ann fós i meas……続きを見る

When Muckamore Abbey Hospital first admitted patients in 1949, services in Northern Ireland for people with learning disability lagged far behind those in the rest of Ireland and the United Kingdom.……続きを見る

The astonishing story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Kidnapped. In 1728, in the wake of his father’s death, the twelve-year-old heir to five aristocratic titles and the scion o……続きを見る

This book clears up and answers some of the myths generated by those who oppose the link with Britain and who are trying to re-write Irish history. Who were the original planters in Ulster? Were the……続きを見る

A comprehensive look at the history of the land of Ireland from ancient times all the way through to the 1930s. 続きを見る

This is a Litebite Book, about the equal of forty or so pages of a Paperback or Pocket Book. 'The Daniel O'Connell story ‒ Book One: Youth'is the first in a series telling the story of Daniel O'Conn……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged list) Chapter I, Introduction; Chronology of the Irish Bronze Age. Chapter II, Transitional Copper Period; Local……続きを見る

The struggle between Catholic and Protestant has shaped Irish history since the Reformation, with tragic consequences up to the present day. But how do Catholics and Protestants in Ireland see each ……続きを見る

A book detailing the lives and occupations of itinerant Irish immigramts in the north of England during the last two centuries. It tells the story of how the Irish helped to build the North of Engla……続きを見る

Some of the most creative of human expression has originated in the collision of cultures. So it is with this extraordinary archive. The Corporal and the Celestials publishes for the first time a tr……続きを見る

Abysmal weather, slag heaps, funny accents; the bleak uplands of a landscape carved out of millstone grit; townscapes of abandoned mills and shipyards; the detritus of an industrial revolution well ……続きを見る

In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. A Book of Migrations portrays in microcosm a histor……続きを見る

The Origins of the Irish is the first major attempt in nearly eighty years to deal with the core issues of how the Irish people came into being. Written as an engrossing detective story, this author……続きを見る

Belmore: The Lowry-Corry Families of Castle Coole, 1646-1913 tells the fascinating story of two families who left Dumfries in the mid 17th century to settle in Fermanagh and Tyrone. The marriage of ……続きを見る

With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out……続きを見る

First published in 1975, Donald Akenson’s book was at the forefront of a radically new approach to the study of Irish educational history. Instead of investigating the evolution of the schools as an……続きを見る

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W.Y. Evans-Wentz A serious study of Fairy folklore and mythology, with an ethnographic approach. "This is one of the most in-depth and scholarly attempts to ex……続きを見る

Foofer, the Pooka & St. Patrick is Book #4 in the Short Tales Collection by Deborah O'Toole. Read how Foofer learns the true history of St. Patrick, Ireland's patron saint. The history lesson is rel……続きを見る

A new vision of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present. The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative view of the Irish ……続きを見る

If 1916 is the founding myth of the Irish state then the famine is the founding tragedy. It was a tragedy on a truly epic scale, the events of the famine came to pass not in one of the worlds poores……続きを見る

Icelandic Sagas, Vol. III: The Orkneyingers Saga by George W. Dasent The two groups of islands, in which the events narrated in the Orkneyingers’ Saga for the most part happened, are widely differen……続きを見る