Quick view In Ordinary Time by Carmel Mc Mahon Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and pres… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Independence Memories by Valerie Cox Now: €12.50 MSRP: Was: Independence Memories is a fascinating social history, from living and inherited memory, of the period surrounding Irish Independence and the Civil War. It was a time of violence, of death, of emigration, of families divided into … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Interned: The Curragh Internment Camps in the War of Independence by James Durney Now: €6.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: During the War of Independence, faced with an armed insurrection it couldn’t stop, the British government introduced increasingly harsh penalties for suspected republicans, including internment without trial. This led to the incar… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ireland and the Monarchy by John Gibney Now: €9.99 MSRP: €25.00 Was: In the twenty-first century there are two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, and two very different heads of state represent the populations of Ireland and Northern Ireland respectively: the elected presidency of the republic… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ireland's Hidden Histories by Frank Hopkins Now: €14.95 MSRP: Was: If you are looking for happy, positive or uplifting stories then this might not be the book for you. If, on the other hand, tales of human tragedy, executions, wars, grave-robbing, rioting, man-eating Kerry eagles, rat-eating Belf… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Irish sporting lives ed by Terry Clavin and Turlough O'Riordan Now: €19.95 MSRP: Was: Serial winners and glorious losers, heroes andvillains, trailblazing women, role models and rogues,all are here; so too are audacious sporting founders,enduring legends and forgotten or overlookedgreats. Through a selection of six… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Irish Thatched Cottages: A Living Tradition by Emma Byrne Now: €12.99 MSRP: Was: Beautiful examples of this still-living craft can be found all over the island, from bustling urban centres and quiet country roads to the wild coasts of the west. Since moving into a thatched cottage several years ago, Emma Byrne… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Irish Women's Speeches: Voices That Rocked The System by Sonja Tiernan Now: €24.99 MSRP: Was: Thirty-two inspiring speeches by women of Ireland from the nineteenth century to the present. Rallying cries for trade union action, denunciations of apartheid, calls for independence, unionism, peace and gender equality: Irish wo… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Joseph Plunkett: 16 Lives by Honor O Brolchain Now: €6.99 MSRP: €19.99 Was: Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916) from Dublin was one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, the designer of the military plan and the youngest signatory of the Proclamation. A recognised poet, he was already dying of TB when, aged 28,… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet – an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles a… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Last Voices of the Irish Revolution by Tom Hurley Now: €27.99 MSRP: Was: The Irish Civil War ended in 1923. Eighty years on, documentary-maker Tom Hurley wondered if there were many people left from across Ireland who experienced the years 1919 to 1923, their prelude and aftermath. In early 2003, he re… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Lincoln and the Irish by Niall O'Dowd Now: €18.75 MSRP: Was: From the founder of IrishCentral, a fascinating piece of Civil War history: Lincoln's relationship with the immigrants arriving in America to escape the Irish famine. "If you're a Lincoln fan like me, you'll love this book." -Liam… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Máirín de Burca: Activist, Feminist, Socialist by Brian Kenny Now: €15.00 MSRP: Was: The first biography of one of Ireland’s most prominent political activists, social campaigners and lifelong feminists. Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view May, Lou and Cass: Jane Austen's Nieces in Ireland by Sophia Hillan Now: €6.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: Marianne, Louise and Cassandra Knight were nieces of the great 19th century novelist who gave us Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them as they grew up, and they were … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Michael Collins: Ireland's Rebel Son by David Butler & Mario Corrigan Now: €16.99 MSRP: Was: A thrilling tale of passion, courage and determination. Michael Collins became a hero: a soldier, a freedom-fighter, a ghost: Ireland's Rebel Son. In life, in death, a legend.Raised on songs and stories of Irish heroes and the str… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Michael Mallin: 16 Lives by Brian Hughes Now: €6.99 MSRP: €19.99 Was: Executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, Michael Mallin had commanded a garrison of rebels in St Stephen's Green and the College of Surgeons during Easter Week. He was Chief-of-Staff and second-in-command to James Connolly in th… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills Now: €22.50 MSRP: €25.00 Was: How far would you go for the missing?When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and Baby Home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up in an institution not far from the farm wh… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Murder Most Local: Historic Murders of Mid Cork by Peter O'Shea Now: €14.99 MSRP: Was: From near Bantry to Inchigeelagh, on to Macroom, Dripsey and Coachford, all the way north to Millstreet and almost as far as Mallow. Like anywhere else in Cork and Ireland for that matter it’s dotted with murder. Some murders are … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die by Kevin Toolis Now: €5.00 MSRP: €11.25 Was: Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, it has a louder voice. The local radio station runs a thrice-daily roll-call of the recently departed.The islanders keep vigil with… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view My Uncle Dennie by Linda Keohane Now: €10.00 MSRP: Was: "This book is my attempt to get to know my Uncle Dennie, born in the Mealagh Valley, Bantry in 1901, died in Dublin 1967. The child raised by his grandparents. The older brother who was a sort of uncle to his 16 younger siblings. … Add to Cart The item has been added