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  • Field Of Bones

    The Gallipoli Campaign

    by Philip Orr ...
    During August and September 1915 almost three thousand young volunteer Irish soldiers died on the killing fields of Gallipoli on the Turkish Aegean. A division of Kitchener's Army, at Suvla Bay they fell to gunshot-wounds and shellfire, while thirst, sunstroke and dysentery reduced their chances of survival. Hundreds were burned alive in raging bush-fires. In post-war Ireland political revolution ... Read more

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  • Field Of Bones

    The Gallipoli Campaign

    by Philip Orr ...
    During August and September 1915 almost three thousand young volunteer Irish soldiers died on the killing fields of Gallipoli on the Turkish Aegean. A division of Kitchener's Army, at Suvla Bay they fell to gunshot-wounds and shellfire, while thirst, sunstroke and dysentery reduced their chances of survival. Hundreds were burned alive in raging bush-fires. In post-war Ireland political revolution ... Read more

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  • The Brothers' Lot

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    A "mordantly funny" novel set in a Dublin educational institution known as the Brothers of Godly Coercion School for Young Boys of Meager Means ( Publishers Weekly).Combining the spirit of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim with a bawdy evisceration of hypocrisy in old-school Catholic education, The Brothers' Lot is a comic satire that tells the story of the Brothers of Godly Coercion School for Young ... Read more

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  • Tom Gilmartin

    The Man Who Brought Down a Taoiseach and Exposed the Greed and Corruption at the Heart of Irish Politics

    A successful property developer in England, the Sligo-born Tom Gilmartin had ambitious plans for major retail developments in Dublin in the late 1980s. Little did he know that in order to do business in the city, senior politicians and public officials would want a slice of the action … in the form of large amounts of cash. Gilmartin blew the whistle on corruption at the heart of government and ... Read more

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  • Tattie Howkers and Paddy Lowpers

    by Harold Slight ...
    A book detailing the lives and occupations of itinerant Irish immigramts in the north of England during the last two centuries.It tells the story of how the Irish helped to build the North of England and of the many characters who left theirmark. It is written with the conviction of personal experience, enhanced by memories which go back much further through the generations, giving the readera ... Read more

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  • The City of Lies

    Series Book 4 - Stefan Gillespie
    Dublin 1940.An IRA attack leaves two guards dead on the streets of Dublin. Two days later, a battle between warring gangs erupts at a race meeting, and on Ireland's east coast the cremated bodies of a wealthy family of five are found in their shuttered, burned-out villa.Dispatched from Special Branch to investigate, Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie soon finds himself caught in a web of Irish, ... Read more

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  • King Dan Daniel O'Connell 1775-1829

    The Rise of King Dan

    Daniel O'Connell, often referred to as The Liberator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century. One of the most remarkable historical figures in Irish history, he campaigned for Catholic Emancipation, including the right for Catholics to sit in the Westminster Parliament, and repeal of the Act of Union which combined Great Britain and Ireland. Famous in his day as the ... Read more

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  • Haunting Cries

    Stories of child abuse in Catholic Ireland

    by Karen Coleman ...
    'I hear people say now, "Oh, this is an historical thing." It's not historical for me. I can reach out my hand and touch it.' Survivor of child abuse at Daingean reformatory In their own words, survivors of institutional abuse outline how they suffered years of mistreatment while incarcerated in industrial schools throughout Ireland. Their experiences reflect what happened to thousands of children ... Read more

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  • The Huguenots Come To Ballyronan, Northern Ireland

    The story of how the French Huguenots came to Ballyronan, Northern Ireland, in the late seventeenth century, what they achieved, and the local connections they established.Of interest social historians and lovers of Ireland and her history. ... Read more

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  • The Downfall of the Spanish Armada in Ireland

    The Grand Armada Lost on the Irish Coast in 1588

    by Ken Douglas ...
    The English navy inflicted a narrow defeat on the Armada, but it was the Irish coast that encompassed its downfall. 'Heed that coast!' The Duke of Medina Sidonia wanted only to guide La Felissima Armada home safely. In the North Sea he issued sailing instructions, which, if they had been followed, would have given the Armada a safety margin of at least 300 miles. He particularly ordered them to '. ... Read more

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  • Seventeenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 3)

    Making Ireland Modern – The Quest For a Settlement

    Series Book 3 - New Gill History of Ireland
    In Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Professor Raymond Gillespie, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, tries to understand Ireland in the seventeenth century in a new way. Most surveys of seventeenth-century Ireland approach the period using war, conquest, plantation and colonisation as their organising themes. It does not see Ireland as a passive receptor of colonial ideas imposed from above. In ... Read more

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