Ireland 68

From the acclaimed author of the “wonderfully funny and openhearted” (NPR) Drinking with Men comes a poignant, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful bookーequal parts memoir and social historyーthat fol……続きを見る

Lia Dàn - Stone of Destiny Revised Edition II Her gods demand a sacrifice. Dark powers have joined. Yet time has no mercy. Breanna Ban Morna has freed her Chief and escaped the Norse stronghold of D……続きを見る

Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries. As a cultural history of Ir……続きを見る

In Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964), Polish critic Jan Kott defines one purpose of scholarship in the humanities that summarises the chief aim of this project: ‘The writing of history and, above ……続きを見る

The Irish contribution to Australian history goes both deep and wide. Originally published in 1986 the essays in this collection contribute both to the understanding of Ireland’s place in Australian……続きを見る

Sir Jeremiah Fitzpatrick (c.1740-1810) was the first inspector general of prisons and lunacy inspector in Ireland and the first and only inspector of health to HM land forces in Great Britain. He al……続きを見る

The developments and achievements of the Irish administration, overshadowed by the more spectacular aspects of Irish history have received comparatively little attention. But Irish conditions in the……続きを見る

Although largely regarded as a failure, the Irish Convention of 1917, might, had it been successful, have resulted in a totally different Ireland to the one which has emerged. It was an attempt to s……続きを見る

Originally published in 1983 and slightly revised in 1985, joint winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, States of Mind is an exploration of the ideas underlying Anglo-Irish conflict o……続きを見る

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Geschichte Schottlands, eine Geschichte voller legendärer Persönlichkeiten, dramatischer Konflikte und kultureller Traditionen, die die Identität dieser außergewöhnli……続きを見る

The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland From Stonehenge and the Ring of Brogdar to the Rollright Stones and Avebury, the British and Irish Isles are scattered with the stone……続きを見る

"A fine, fast and very funny meditation" from the notable British intellectual ( Washington Post). If you're looking for a field guide to leprechauns, T he Truth About the Irish is not the book for ……続きを見る

"A profoundly personal and chilling close-up of the IRA and its effects on those it wounds and is wounded by. A riveting read." ー Booklist For ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the I……続きを見る

A hill that cars roll up. A bridge that plays music. A chair to cure madness. An underworld gateway. Bizarre foods, films, phrases and creatures. Welcome to weird Ireland. In a journey across the is……続きを見る

The Orange Lodges, originally a powerful agency for the defence of loyalist and protestant interest in Ireland, have flourished as fraternal societies in the British Army in nearly every part of the……続きを見る

When this book was originally published in 1960 no full-length study of the Parnell ‘split’ had been made, despite it being such a landmark in Irish history. The book treats the eleven months betwee……続きを見る

Publishing to coincide with St Patrick’s Day, we arrive in Dublin with the next installment in the Literary Landscapes series. Take a photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary locati……続きを見る

At 1.20 a.m. on 24 March 1922, five men, four dressed in British police uniforms, broke into the North Belfast house of Owen McMahon, a well-known Catholic publican. They fatally shot McMahon, four ……続きを見る

Nine tales of early Irish literature beautifully retold in a modern, evocative style A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince and sings to him until he falls sick with love for ……続きを見る

The Ballad of Thomas Patrick Downing is a true story. Downing was born into post famine Ireland. Living in the famous and picturesque village of Adare, his life started well but then at the age of t……続きを見る

Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Chapters are contr……続きを見る

The funeral of Paddy Dignam in James Joyce’s Ulysses serves as the pivotal event of the ‘Hades’ episode. This volume explores how Dignam’s interment in Glasnevin Cemetery allowed Joyce the freedom t……続きを見る

In 1983 an off-duty prison officer was shot by the IRA in cold blood on a Dublin street. Over 40 years later, no one has been convicted of his murder. In this book, his son outlines why justice must……続きを見る

The eleven years of conflict that engulfed Ireland (1641-53) can be seen as a drama in three acts, each of which drew Ireland into progressively closer alignment with the Civil Wars (1642-52) in the……続きを見る

في كتابه المتميز "تاريخ غزوات العرب في فرنسا وسويسرا وإيطاليا وجزائر البحر المتوسط"، يأخذنا شكيب أرسلان في رحلة استكشافية إلى قلب الأحداث التاريخية التي شكلت ملامح الصراعات والفتوحات العربية في أورو……続きを見る

This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland. It focuses on one phenomenon that became hotly contested and di……続きを見る

Fifty years after the Guildford bombings, the case remains profoundly relevant today. This new edition is completely updated and revised with startling new material. The Guildford Four endured 15 ye……続きを見る

Did You Know? On 6 February 1961, Danny Blanchflower became the first, and only, person to refuse to appear as the subject of This is Your Life when he turned down Eamonn Andrews live on BBC TV. Fr……続きを見る

It is a little-known fact that Ernie O’Malley, renowned for his role in Ireland’s revolutionary struggle, was also a passionate collector of Irish folklore. Centred on O’Malley’s native Clew Bay and……続きを見る

Everyone knows where they were when Ray Houghton outfoxed the Italian goalkeeper in the 1994 World Cup finals. Every television in the country was tuned in to the match, and The Heights Bar in Lough……続きを見る