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  • Unapproved Routes

    Histories of the Irish Border, 1922-1972

    by Peter Leary ...
    The delineation and emergence of the Irish border radically reshaped political and social realities across the entire island of Ireland. For those who lived in close quarters with the border, partition was also an intimate and personal occurrence, profoundly implicated in everyday lives. Otherwise mundane activities such as shopping, visiting family, or travelling to church were often complicated ... Read more

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  • The Bloodied Field

    Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920

    by Michael Foley ...
    On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiancé to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of ... Read more

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  • Bloody Sunday

    The Story of the 1920 Irish Rebellion

    by Joseph Murphy ...
    To thousands of fans, the wait is over. The sequel to the highly acclaimed The Mystery of the Angels, this epic volume continues one of historys greatest fictional journeys. This is the second in what hopes to play out as an extraordinary series of novels by Joseph Murphy. A riveting tale of suspense and illusion, the provocative story line centers on four United States Marines who return to ... Read more

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  • James Larkin: Lion of the Fold

    The Life and Works of the Irish Labour Leader

    by Donal Nevin ...
    This book is a detailed compilation of writings and lectures about the life of James Larkin. It reviews his influence in history and on various movements across the country and abroad. James Larkin: Lion of the Fold includes writing by James Larkin and is a timely reminder of the long road that the Irish people have travelled together. The book considers much of the history of the early Irish ... Read more

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  • The Story of Beatrix Potter

    “Sumptuous…a fitting legacy for a pioneering conservationist who helped save thousands of acres of the Lake District” – The Mail on Sunday, August 2016To this day, Beatrix Potter’s tales delight children and grown-ups around the world. But few people realise how extraordinary her own story is. She was a woman of contradictions. A sheltered Victorian daughter who grew into an astute modern ... Read more

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  • A History Of The British Army – Vol. VII – (1809-1810)

    Series series A History of the British Army
    Sir John Fortescue holds a pre-eminent place amongst British military historians, his enduring fame and legacy resting mainly on his life's work "The History of the British Army", issued in 20 volumes, which took him some 30 years to complete. In scope and breadth it is such that no modern scholar has attempted to cover such a large and diverse subject in its entirety; but Sir John did so and with ... Read more

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  • Isle of Wight

    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—the Wight, as it is sometimes called by old writers—has for the first fact in its history that it was not always an island. ... Read more

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  • Celtic & Ireland in Song and Story

    For the first time a detailed and comprehensive songbook surrounding key events in Ireland’s political, social and sporting history has been compiled. The stories and issues impacted upon the recent Irish immigrant communities in Scotland, noticeably prevalent amongst the supporters of Celtic Football Club, are focused on in particular. Few cultures have a musical heritage to equal that of the ... Read more

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  • Irish Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities since 1750

    This collection of essays demonstrates in vivid detail how a range of formal and informal networks shaped the Irish experience of emigration, settlement and the construction of ethnic identity in a variety of geographical contexts since 1750. It examines topics as diverse as the associational culture of the Orange Order in the nineteenth century to ... Read more

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  • Goodly Barrow

    A Voyage on an Irish River

    by T Sullivan ...
    Goodly Barrow is a long-unavailable classic that charts the history and character of Ireland's second-longest river, from the Slieve Bloom Mountains to the sea in Waterford. T.F. O'Sullivan's riverine narrative embraces legend and song, literature and anecdote, viewing Irish history through the prism of the waterway: from the early tribal kingdoms of the Celts, to the Vikings and Normans who made ... Read more

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  • Eamonn Ceannt

    16Lives

    Series series 16Lives
    The son of a Head Constable in the Royal Irish Constabulary, by the age of twenty-five, Éamonn Ceannt was married with a young son. He played the uilleann pipes and was passionate about the Irish language. His commitment to a politically independent, Gaelic-speaking Ireland led him from the classrooms of the Gaelic League to the National Council of Sinn Féin and the senior ranks of the Irish ... Read more

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  • Patrick Pearse

    16Lives

    Series series 16Lives
    On 24 April 1916, as President of the Provisional Government, Patrick Pearse appeared under the GPO Grand Portico on Dublin's O'Connell Street and read aloud the Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Nine days later, he was the first of the rebel leaders to be executed.Pearse was born in Dublin on 11 November 1879, to an English father and an Irish mother. Considered the face of the 1916 Easter ... Read more

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