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Reflects on Scotland’s dramatic transformation since 1945 through personal memories and eyewitness accounts. Since 1945 the world has changed at breakneck speed, and life in post-war Scotland is now……続きを見る

Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-21. Drawing princip……続きを見る

History on your Doorstep by Dublin City Council’s Historians in Residence; Maeve Casserly, Donal Fallon, Cormac Moore, Mary Muldowney, Bernard Kelly & Catherine Scuffil Edited by Maeve Casserly & Be……続きを見る

Vikings began raiding islands and monasteries on the Atlantic fringes of Europe in the 790s. The Irish Sea rapidly became one of their most productive hunting grounds. Attacks, battles and destructi……続きを見る

Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind. Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest and uncertainty, where……続きを見る

Savage and bloodthirsty, or civilized and peaceable? The Celts have long been a subject of enormous fascination, speculation, and misunderstanding. From the ancient Romans to the present day, their ……続きを見る

'The most powerful representation yet of the race which has repeatedly changed history as we know it' - The Scotsman Alistair Moffat's journey, from the Scottish islands and Scotland, to the English……続きを見る

A true story of murder and vengeance, a shattered community and a miscarriage of justice that echoes down the decades October 1971. Nineteen-year-old Una Lynskey vanishes near her home in Co. Meath.……続きを見る

The storied landscapes of Ireland are dotted with holy wellsーhallowed springs, pools, ponds, and lakes credited with curative powers and often associated with Catholic and indigenous saints. While ……続きを見る

Magic, to a sailor, is harnessing the wind – getting something for nothing – the surprise of a gust, the boon of a side-wind and the trial of a headwind and best of all, the moment when a change in ……続きを見る

Stand on any street in Dublin and one is confronted with history. Behind the façades of the ten buildings featured here is the story of Dublin, bringing to life key events and characters from the pa……続きを見る

Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place ……続きを見る

Did you ever see a big house in the countryside and wonder who used to live in such a property? Have you ever wondered about the story behind such an old and historic house? This book reveals the st……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

Distinguished by its intricate interlacings and elaborate spirals, Celtic art has provided needlecrafters with countless motifs for use in varied projects. This intriguing collection of charted desi……続きを見る

Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, through the never-before-told story of how one priory was saved and become Durham's mighty cathedral What happened to the monks, their orders and the com……続きを見る

A history and analysis of the rising that covers the principal players, the strategy and execution of the plan. This new history shows the Uprising from initiation to its aftermath. The uprising cam……続きを見る

The Celtic period was one of tremendous expansion, the last phase of European material and intellectual development before the Mediterranean world spread northwards over the Continent and linked it ……続きを見る

The historic City of Durham is now over 1,000 years old. With its magnificent Norman Cathedral and Castle it has become a world famous tourist attraction, the outstanding importance of which was rec……続きを見る

Completely revised and updated, this rich and readable history of modern Ireland covers the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural dimensions of the country's development from the o……続きを見る

An in-depth analysis of the key contribution made by the women members of this important ruling family in maintaining and advancing the family's political, landed, economic, social and religious int……続きを見る

This book examines the lives of aristocratic Anglo-Irish women in late medieval and early modern Ireland as illustrated by an in-depth cross generational analysis of women born or married into the i……続きを見る

Children of the Rising is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now. Boys, girls, rich, poor, Cath……続きを見る

The Island, as its people are in the way of styling it, while not going so far as to deny existence to the adjacent islands of Great Britain and Irelandーthe Wight, as it is sometimes called by old ……続きを見る

Vivez l'un des nombreux épisodes extraordinaires des guerres de la France Révolutionnaire ! Ce livre plonge le lecteur dans un épisode fascinant du XVIIIème siècle, qui vit la rencontre de deux mond……続きを見る

From 1800 to 1922 the Irish Question was the most emotional and divisive issue in British politics. It pitted Westminster politicians, anti-Catholic British public opinion, and Irish Protestant and ……続きを見る

Irish historians have minimized Daniel O'Connell's role in the Irish liberty movement in favor of later nationalist leaders, largely because of his failure in the 1843 movement for repeal of the Act……続きを見る

A masterful history of Ireland’s Easter Rising told through the lives of ordinary people who forged a revolutionary generation. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin’s streets to p……続きを見る

The guerilla war waged between the IRA and the crown forces between 1919 and 1921 was a pivotal episode in the modern history of Ireland. This book addresses the War of Independence from a new persp……続きを見る

Ireland was conquered and gradually colonized by the Tudors during the sixteenth century. This much is clear but whether or not this was the actual goal of English policy in Ireland at that time has……続きを見る