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  • With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom: 1919 to the Truce

    The Red Path of Glory

    Edited by Gabriel Doherty ...
    With the IRA in the Fight for Freedom offers eyewitness and first hand accounts of Ireland's struggle for independence in various parts of the country. It presents a representative picture of the fight by the IRA for independence and of the reign of terror endured by the civilian population. Only idealism and courage on the part of the freedom fighters and the steadfast support of the Irish people ... Read more

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  • For Ireland and Freedom: Roscommon and the fight for Independence 1917-1921

    by Micheal O'Callaghan, Christine Tierney (copyright holder) ...
    This classic text, first published in 1964, opens with an account of the victory of Count Plunkett, father of the executed 1916 leader, Joseph Plunkett, in the February 1917 bye-election in North Roscommon. This was the first opportunity the Irish people had to show their support for the ideals of the 1916 leaders electorally. The book concludes with an account of the asassination of Seargent King ... Read more

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  • The Home Rule Crisis 1912–14

    Edited by Gabriel Doherty ...
    Series series Cork Studies in the Irish Revolution
    The Home Rule Bill, passed by the British parliament in 1912, was due, when it came into effect in 1914, to give Ireland some control over her own affairs for the first time since the Act of Union in 1800. However, this was postponed when the First World War broke out and by the time the war had ended the political landscape in Ireland had changed irrevocably. The nationalist movement split into ... Read more

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  • The Coming Revolution

    Political Writings of Patrick Pearse

    by Patrick Pearse ...
    Pearse's skill as an orator is indisputable. His fiery idealism was one of the key motivators that brought the rebels to the GPO in 1916. This collection of his wrting showcase's this skill, but also the complex philosophy that underpinned it. Ranging from his theories of education articulated in 'The Murder Machine' (1912), through his orations on the great Fenian leaders of the past: Wolfe Tone, ... Read more

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  • A Modest Proposal and Other Writings

    by Jonathan Swift ...
    The political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of puns . . . This selection gathers together some of Swift's most brilliant prose, from high politics to social gossip, from savage tirades to lighthearted social satire. In addition to his classic essays, the collection includes several of Swift's letters to Alexander Pope and other ... Read more

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  • The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vols. 1-3 (of 3)

    by John Morley ...
    This edition features• three complete books• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked IndexCONTENTSVOL. IBook I (1809-1831)Book II(1832-1846)Book III (1847-1852)Book IV (1853-1859)AppendixChronologyVOL. IIBook V. 1859-1868Book VI. 1869-1874AppendixFootnotesVOL. IIIBook VIII. 1880-1885Book IX. 1885-1886Book X. 1886-1892Chronology<br /... ... Read more

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  • The Strange Laws Of Old England

    by Nigel Cawthorne ...
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  • The Member and the Radical

    by John Galt ...
    Series series Canongate Classics
    Two novels by the 18th-century Scottish author that "focus on the foibles and fumbles, the humor and waste of people . . . of political ambition" ( The National).Galt's two great political novels date from around the passing of the Reform Act of 1832. The Member has claims to be the first political novel in the English language and is a tour de force of wit, observation, and a devastating critique ... Read more

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    1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty

    by Peter Kellner ...
    Democracy is Britain's gift to the world. Most of the ideas and ideals that have shaped the world's democracies can be traced back to arguments and reforms that first erupted here.Democracy tells the thousand-year story of the bitter battles over those arguments and reforms, in the words of those who shaped our democracy, fought for it and resisted it. It includes the major documents of the past ... Read more

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  • Roads to Ruin

    The Shocking History of Social Reform

    by E. S. Turner ...
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