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    From major Irish writers to lesser-known Irish authors, find the perfect book on Irish history to dive into the fascinating past of the Emerald Isle.

    Paul Bew: Enigma: A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell [2012] paperback

    €19.99

    Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished and long-established Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable. None...

    Susan McKay: Bear in Mind These Dead [2009] paperback

    €14.30

    Nearly 4,000 people were killed over the thirty or so years of the Northern Irish Troubles. And the killings were as intimate as they were brutal. Neighbours murdered neighbours. Susan...

    John Gibney: SHORT HISTORY OF IRELAND 1500-2000 [2019] paperback

    €9.99€16.90

    A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative...

    Cecil Woodham-Smith: The Great Hunger [1991] paperback

    €6.99€16.90

    The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America....

    Dan Breen: My Fight for Irish Freedom: Dan Breen's Autobiography [2021] paperback

    €9.99€16.99

    In 1919 a group of young men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight, begun in 1916, to drive the British...

    Sean O'Callaghan: To Hell or Barbados: The ethnic cleansing of Ireland [2001] paperback

    €7.99€10.99

    A vivid account of the Irish slave trade: the previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia.

    David Mckittrick: Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict [2012] paperback

    €9.99€22.10

    COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION -- THE ESSENTIAL HISTORY OF THE TROUBLES'Compellingly written and very even-handed. By far the clearest account of what happened in the Northern Ireland conflict and...

    Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered [2021] paperback

    €13.00

    Why did the Romans never try to conquer Ireland? Why did the King of Spain give his name to an Irish county? And how did brandy change the course of...

    Julieann Campbell: On Bloody Sunday [2023] paperback

    €12.99

    *****'There have been many books written about the events of Bloody Sunday, however, none has wrenched the reader as violently back to those CS gas-choked streets, dumping them right in...

    Dermot Somers: Endurance [2005] paperback

    €7.99€12.84

    Kidnap, jailbreak, power, faith, murder, betrayal, scholarship, survival and above all, sheer endurance -- all are themes in Dermot Somers' stories of heroic and historic travels from the mythic legends...

    Raymond O'Regan: Hidden Belfast [2010] hardback

    €14.99

    Hidden Belfast highlights some of the unique and quirky elements of the city's past, and tells the stories of some fascinating rogues and scoundrels that history has overlooked. Discover the...

    Peter Taylor: Operation Chiffon [2024] paperback

    €12.99

    On the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Taylor tells for the first time the gripping story of Operation Chiffon, the top-secret intelligence operation that helped bring peace...

    Dan O'Brien: Ireland, Europe and the World [2009] paperback

    €14.99

    Can Ireland return to prosperity and full employment? How do we make the Irish political system more effective and less prone to the sort of catastrophic errors that led to...

    Henry Hemming: Four Shots in the Night [2024] paperback

    €20.99

    'A truly page-turning, compulsive and also profoundly moving narrative. Superb.' JAMES HOLLAND'Gripping, urgent, superbly reported and brilliantly written' DAN JONES'A gripping and pacey book that reads like a thriller. I...

    Charles Townshend: Easter 1916 [2005] hardback

    €24.99

    Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's...

    Lynne Kelleher: The Green & White House [2022] paperback

    €13.00

    'Fascinating' - Eamon Dunphy'Meticulously researched' - Sunday Independent'A wonderful account of the special relationships between Ireland and the USA' Bertie AhernThe links between Ireland and US presidents extend much further...

    Sean Connolly: On Every Tide [2023] paperback

    €9.99

    An immensely impressive, authoritative history of the Irish diaspora'A richly detailed, scholarly and challenging history' Sunday Times'Impressive, provocative and perception-tilting... it's indispensable' Irish Independent'Essential reading for understanding how the people...

    Maire Cruis O'Brien: Ireland: A Concise History [1985] paperback

    €8.99

    There is a tragic inevitability about Irish history: "hatred answering hatred", as Lady Gregory wrote. Four events in particular, Yeats' "four deep, tragic notes", ring through Irish history: the Catholic...

    John Cooney: John Charles McQuaid [2003] paperback

    €14.99€27.99

    An in-depth study of the most significant Irish clergyman in the history of the stateFor three decades, 1940-72, as Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, John Charles McQuaid imposed...

    Liz Gillis: FALL OF DUBLIN P/B Z56 [2023] paperback

    €6.99

    Focusing on the people and the decisons they made, 'The Fall of Dublin' examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July...

    Bunbury Turtle: The Irish [2024] paperback

    €16.90

    Explore the lives of over forty men and women - great and otherwise - whose pioneering journeys beyond the Irish shore played a profound role in world history. The Irish...

    Robert M. Young: Town Book Of Belfast [2008] paperback

    €8.99

    Foreword to the 2008 edition- The original of the "Town Book" of the corporation of Belfast is a 400 page manuscript recording decisions of the corporation and listing freemen from...

    Tom Burke: Shooting The Darkness [2019] hardback

    €12.99

    Based on the acclaimed RTE documentary, 'Shooting the Darkness', this landmark book presents the stories of leading photographers - Alan Lewis, Paul Faith, Martin Nangle, Stanley Matchett, Trevor Dickson, Hugh...

    Guy Warner: U-boats Around Ireland [2018] paperback

    €9.99

    In 1914 Ireland was a naval backwater with only one base of any size in Co Cork. However, by the end of World War I, there were 18 naval bases...

    Henry Mcdonald: Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered [2017] hardback

    €9.99

    To look at Martin McGuinness' life is to follow Northern Ireland's own transition from conflict to peace. Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered tells the remarkable story of McGuinness' journey from...

    Ian Adamson: The Cruthin [2014] paperback

    €5.99

    The Cruthin were the earliest inhabitants of both Britain and Ireland to whom a definite name can be given. This book examines their contentious history, from distant origins to their...

    Sarah Poyntz: Burren Villages:Tales of History and Imagination [2010] paperback

    €8.99

    The villages written aout in this book all have thier own character and Burren Villages takes readers on a journey which they will want to repeat again and again. The...

    Sarah Poyntz: Burren Villages:Tales of History and Imagination [2010] paperback

    €10.99

    The villages written aout in this book all have thier own character and Burren Villages takes readers on a journey which they will want to repeat again and again. The...

    Damien Tiernan: Souls of the Sea [2007] paperback

    €6.99

    In January 2007, in the space of six days, three large fishing boats sank off the south east coast of Ireland. Seven men were claimed by the sea, four survived....

    Brian Lalor: The Encyclopaedia of Ireland [2003] hardback

    €39.99

    With more than 5,000 original articles written by over 900 different contributors and in excess of 700 illustrations, mainly in colour, "The Encyclopaedia of Ireland" is unique. Unique in scope,...

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