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  • Women and the Decade of Commemorations

    by Mary McAuliffe, Diane Urquhart, Laura McAtackney, Dianne Hall, Síobhra Aiken, Sonja Tiernan, Finnuala Walsh, Donna Gilligan, Margaret Ward, Eve Morrison, Roisín Higgins, Maeve Casserly, Brenda O'Connell, Sinéad Kennedy, Eli Davies, Linda Connolly ...
    Series series Irish Culture, Memory, Place
    When women are erased from history, what are we left with?Between 1912 and 1922, Ireland experienced sweeping social and political change, including the Easter Rising, World War I, the Irish Civil War, the fight for Irish women's suffrage, the founding of the Abbey Theatre, and the passage of the Home Rule Bill. In preparation for the centennial of this epic decade, the Irish government formed a ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Under My Thumb

    Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them

    by Rhian Jones, Eli Davies, Tamar Shlaim ...
    Women write about their experiences of loving music that doesn’t love them back – a feminist 'guilty pleasures'.e - a kind of feminist guilty pleasures.In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls, with our own experiences, ideas and arguments dismissed or ignored. But this hasn’t stopped generations of women ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Telling Tennant's Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    by Dean Ashenden ...
    Winner of the 2022 Australian Political Book of the Year Award 'A drily elegant, bracing work from a pained and open heart' —Helen Garner 'Refreshing and original. A unique window on Australia's past and its barbed resonance today … Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of truth-telling.' —Mark McKenna 'A graceful, unostentatiously scholarly, wise (and highly readable) book on a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 4, 1880 to the Present

    Edited by Thomas Bartlett ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Ireland
    This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scholarship and research, the many contributions from experts in their field offer detailed and fresh perspectives on key areas of Irish social, economic, religious, political, demographic, institutional and cultural history. By situating the Irish story, ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Occasions of Sin

    Sex and Society in Modern Ireland

    by Diarmaid Ferriter ...
    Ferriter covers such subjects as abortion, pregnancy, celibacy, contraception, censorship, infanticide, homosexuality, prostitution, marriage, popular culture, social life and the various hidden Irelands associated with sexual abuse - all in the context of a conservative official morality backed by the Catholic Church and by legislation. The book energetically and originally engages with subjects ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The English in Love

    The Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution

    by Claire Langhamer ...
    Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people. It is a story based in England, but informed by America, and covers the period from the end of the First World War until the break ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Sexed

    A History of British Feminism

    by Susanna Rustin ...
    Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism.Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, she introduces the 1830s radicals who demanded “LIBERTY FOR EVER!”, Victorian petitioners who expected to be dead before women won the vote, and rival camps of suffragists who embraced and rejected violence. She considers the contributions of the first ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Belfast

    The Story of a City and its People

    by Feargal Cochrane Y ...
    A lively and inviting history of Belfast—exploring the highs and lows of a resilient cityModern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition of radicalism, industry, architectural innovation, and cultural achievement. But the city’s many qualities are all too frequently overlooked, its image marred by association with the political violence of the Troubles.Feargal Cochrane tells the story ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain

    The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and Its Significance

    by Keith Dockray, Alan Sutton ...
    The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 was ground-breaking in the UK and Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain: The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and its Significance marks the fiftieth anniversary of its successful path to the statute book.The act was not without controversy and was fiercely fought over by the likes of Mary Whitehouse and right-wing reactionary Tories who in typical ... Read more

    $9.54 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Social History of Women in Ireland, 1870–1970

    An Exploration of the Changing Role and Status of Women in Irish Society

    by Rosemary Cullen Owens ...
    A Social History of Women in Ireland is an important and overdue book that explores the role and status of women in Ireland from 1870 until 1970, looking at politics, sociology, marriage patterns, religion, education and work among other topics. It provides a vital missing piece in the jigsaw of modern Irish history. Using a combination of primary research and published works, A Social History of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Dublin Magdalene Laundry

    Donnybrook and Church-State Power in Ireland

    Edited by Mark Coen, Katherine O’Donnell, Maeve O'Rourke ...
    Towards the end of the 20th century, the decades of abuse and neglect perpetrated in Ireland's comprehensive carceral network began finally to be exposed. The mistreatment endured by children and others on the margins of Irish society, notably women, in these orphanages, reformatory schools, industrial schools, psychiatric hospitals, County Homes, Mother and Baby Homes, adoption agencies and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Women and the Irish Revolution

    Edited by Linda Connolly ...
    The narrative of the Irish revolution as a chronology of great men and male militarism, with women presumed to have either played a subsidiary role or no role at all, requires reconsideration. Women and feminists were extremely active in Irish revolutionary causes from 1912 onwards, but ultimately it was the men as revolutionary ‘leaders’ who took all the power, and indeed all the credit, after ... Read more

    $9.99 USD