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
Quick view Nicholson by Donal McCracken Now: €9.99 MSRP: €25.00 Was: Born in Dublin in 1822, Lieutenant-General John Nicholson was raised and educated in Ireland. He joined the East India Company's Bengal Army as 16-year old boy-soldier and he saw action in Afghanistan, the two Anglo-Sikh wars and … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view No Middle Path: The Civil War in Kerry by Owen O'Shea Now: €16.99 MSRP: Was: The Civil War in Kerry was more brutal, divisive, violent and protracted than in any other county leaving physical, psychological and emotional scars which have lasted for generations. No Middle Path tells the story of this most t… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Old Ireland in Colour 3 by John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley Now: €24.99 MSRP: Was: Often imitated but never equalled, John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley are back with the third instalment of their bestselling Old Ireland in Colour series. Beloved by Irish readers at home and abroad, for this new volume the auth… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Old Ireland in Colour by John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley (PB) Now: €19.99 MSRP: Was: Old Ireland in Colour celebrates the rich history of Ireland and the Irish through the colour restoration of stunning images of all walks of Irish life, and the Irish abroad, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA by Daniel Finn Now: €7.99 MSRP: €21.25 Was: The conflict in Northern Ireland was one of the most devastating in post-war Europe, claiming the lives of 3,500 people and injuring many more. This book is a riveting new history of the radical politics that drove a unique insurg… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace to Ireland. April 1998: the Good Fr… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Our Struggle for Independence: Eye-witness Accounts from the Pages of 'An Cosantóir' by Terence O'Reilly Now: €5.99 MSRP: €16.99 Was: From Ashbourne to Killmallock the events of the War of Independence are well known. In this book, the actual participants and eyewitnesses to events describe the planning, the action and the outcomes. Some remain controversial eve… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Pádraig Ó Laoghaire (1870–1896): an Irish scholar from the Béarra Peninsula by Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail Now: €30.00 MSRP: Was: The focus of this book is an utterly neglected, important figure from the period leading up to the foundation of the Gaelic League and the early years of that movement, Pádraig Ó Laoghaire (1870–1896) from the Béarra Peninsula in … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Police Casualties in Ireland 1919–1922 by Richard Abbott Now: €7.99 MSRP: €23.75 Was: The Royal Irish Constabulary are often portrayed as the villains of the War of Independence in Ireland, Irishmen who betrayed their country by serving the British regime. No memorial has been raised in Ireland to those who died du… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Reporting the Troubles 2 : More Journalists Tell Their Stories of the Northern Ireland Conflict Now: €19.99 MSRP: Was: In this follow-up to their landmark first book, Deric Henderson and Ivan Little have gathered new stories from seventy journalists who have worked in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. These contributors write powerfully about … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Revolution: A Photographic History of Revolutionary Ireland 1913-1923 by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc Now: €7.99 MSRP: €16.99 Was: The period from 1913 to 1923 in Ireland's history of rebellion, is undoubtedly the most significant. The period takes in the revival of interest in all things Irish around 1913, the heroic Easter Rising of 1916, the bloody War of … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Road to Repeal by Therese Caherty & Pauline Conroy & Derek Speirs (editors) Now: €25.00 MSRP: Was: Road to Repeal: 50 Years of Struggle in Ireland for Contraception and Abortion opens in 1970 when the Irish Women's Liberation Movement burst onto the streets and screens of a society bewildered by women demanding equal status in … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Rough Beast by Mairia Cahill Now: €21.25 MSRP: Was: Rough Beast is Mairia Cahill's harrowing story of her life and of what she went through at the hands of what is now Ireland's largest and richest party. That story is told here for the first time in full detail and with unsparing … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe Now: €13.75 MSRP: Was: One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of the brutal crime and a whole … Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Sean Treacy and the Tan War by Joe Ambrose Now: €5.99 MSRP: €14.99 Was: A ground-breaking new book that looks back on Ireland's struggle for freedom with a refreshingly new perspective and attitude. This is a journey into a turbulent period in Ireland's past and covers the exploits of charismatic guer… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Stair na Síochána in Eirinn le Ristéard Mac Annraoi Now: €20.00 MSRP: Was: Níl aon dabht ach gur mhinic cogaíocht, ár agus sléacht le fáil i stair na hÉireann, agus is iomaí scéal ar a léithéid. Ach bhíodar ann i gcónaí a mhol slí eile don tír, slí na síochána. Má bhí uaireanta ann nár tugadh cluas dóibh… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Ten Men Dead by David Beresford Now: €7.99 MSRP: €18.75 Was: In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one soldier after another slowly went to his death in an… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view Terror, Tears and Tragedy by Noel Howard Now: €14.99 MSRP: Was: At the Dublin Matrimonial Court in the blistering summer heat of 1876, mother of three, 43-yeard old Catherine Louisa Moore, Lady Mount Cashell, sits alone in an all-male courtroom of 'gentlemen'. Her husband, Captain Richard Spre… Add to Cart The item has been added
Quick view The Abbey Rebels of 1916: A Lost Revolution by Fearghal McGarry Now: €9.99 MSRP: €29.99 Was: The Abbey Theatre played a leading role in the politicisation of the revolutionary generation that won Irish freedom, but comparatively little is known about the men and women who formed the lifeblood of the institution: those who… Add to Cart The item has been added