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  • The Carlow War Dead

    A History of the Casualties of the Great War

    by Tom Burnell ...
    Series series
    Following on from the success of the War Dead series in counties Tipperary, Wexford, Wicklow ,and Offaly, Tom Burnell now turns his attention to County Carlow and the unfortunate soldiers from this area who lost their lived during the First World War. After tireless research Tom Burnell has put together a comprehensive record of the soldiers, officers, sailors, airmen and nursing sisters, who ... Read more

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  • Irishmen in the Great War

    Reports from the Front 1915

    by Tom Burnell ...
    In a quest to to discover the forgotten Irishmen in twenty-seven Irish newspapers, many of which are now obsolete, the author uncovered unbelievable and forgotten newspaper articles, cast aside since the 1920s until now. Following the success of the first book in the series covering 1914, Irishmen in the Great War: Reports from the Front 1915 is a labour of love from author Tom Burnell, containing ... Read more

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  • Irishmen in the Great War

    Reports from the Front 1914

    by Tom Burnell ...
    Twenty-seven Irish newspapers for the period covering the Great War have been trawled through to deliver the amazing stories of those years which changed the world for ever. These are the accounts of local men at the front; of torpedoed ships; drunken wives; final letters and requests from the trenches. Also eye-witness accounts of the slaughter as it was happening; battle reports from officers ... Read more

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  • The Clare War Dead

    A History of the Casualties of the Great War

    by Tom Burnell ...
    Series series
    The Clare War Dead is a comprehensive record of those men from County Clare who died during the Great War, and is the next instalment in this prolific author's series on the subject. His tireless research has been undertaken to honour those who died in service, and to shine a light on an aspect of Irish history which has for too long gone unexamined and unrecognised. Such a list, combined as it is ... Read more

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    The Irish Army’s Forgotten Battle

    by Declan Power ...
    The Irish soldier has never been a stranger to fighting the enemy with the odds stacked against him. The notion of charging into adversity has been a cherished part of Ireland’s military history. In September 1961, another chapter should have been written into the annals, but it is a tale that lay shrouded in dust for years.The men of A Company, Thirty-Fifth Irish Infantry Battalion, arrived in ... Read more

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  • Who's Feckin' Who in Irish History

    by Colin Murphy ...
    Series series The Feckin' Collection
    Did an Irish monk discover America? Which rebel died of having a feckin' tooth pulled? And who in the name of Jaysus was responsible for the Pledge? If you've ever wondered how much of our rabble-rousing history is true, and how much a load of wojus oul' bull, then look no further. From the great to the gormless, this book is a hilarious parade of the life stories of Ireland's favourite heroes and ... Read more

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  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    by James S Donnelly ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

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  • Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine

    An Oral History of Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

    by Cathal Poirteir ...
    Famine Echoes is a groundbreaking oral account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845–52, telling the stories of its victims for the first time ever in their own words and those of their descendants. 'When the potato crop failed no other food was available and the people perished by the hundreds of thousands, along the roadside, in the ditches, in the fields from hunger and cold, and what was ... Read more

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  • The Luck of the Irish

    by Joan Larson Kelly ...
    The Luck of the Irish introduces you to blarney; leprechauns and fairies; Irish humor, proverbs, and toasts; and St. Patrick. ... Read more

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  • The Fethard-on-Sea Boycott

    Ireland 1957 …The Catholic Church … A Small Village … A Mixed Marriage

    by Tim Fanning ...
    In 1957, Sheila Cloney, Protestant wife of a Catholic farmer, fled from her home near the Wexford village of Fethard-on-Sea with her young daughters after refusing to bow to the demands of the local Catholic clergy to educate them as Catholics. In response, the priests launched a boycott of Fethard's Protestant shopkeepers and farmers. Tim Fanning tells the story of one of the ugliest sectarian ... Read more

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  • The Wreck of the Neva: The Horrifying Fate of a Convict Ship and the Women Aboard

    by Cal McCarthy, Kevin Todd ...
    The 'Neva' sailed from Cork on 8 January 1835, destined for the prisons of Botany Bay. There were 240 people on board, most of them either female convicts or the wives of already deported convicts, and their children. On 13 May 1835 the ship hit a reef just north of King's Island in Australia and sank with the loss of 224 lives - one of the worst shipwrecks in maritime history. The authors have ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Kilmallock

    Accessible ePub

    by John O'Callaghan ...
    Series series Mercier's History of the Irish Civil War
    When the Free State army captured Limerick city in mid-July 1922, Republican forces retreated south towards Cork and made their next determined stand around Kilmallock. This area barred the way to the heartland of the 'Munster Republic'. In one of the largest and most intense battles of the Irish Civil War, Free State and Republican troops fought for possession of Kilmallock, Bruree and Bruff, ... Read more

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