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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. From ancient Celtic tales to modern-day events, this collection captures the essence of Ireland’s heritage and culture. Whether you’re exploring historical figures, key battles, or social movements, these books provide in-depth insights and compelling narratives. Discover the best of Irish history at Chapters Bookstore today!

    Donal Mccraxken: Nicholson [2018] paperback

    €9.99

    BORN in Dublin in 1822, Lieutenant-General John Nicholson was raised and educated in Ireland. He joined the East India Company's Bengal Army as 16-year old boy-soldier and he saw action...

    Brian Barton: The Secret Court Martial Records of the Easter Rising [2010] paperback

    €8.99 – €9.99

    Until 1999 official British records of the fifteen trials that followed the Easter Rising of 1916 were kept a close secret. Further material released in 2001 included the trial of...

    Colin Cousins: Armagh and the Great War [2011] hardback

    €4.99

    In 1914, County Armagh represented a microcosm of Ireland, with an industrialised, urban north, and a largely rural, agricultural south. It was also the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland and the...

    Anne Holland: The Secret of Kit Cavenaugh: A Remarkable Irishwoman and Soldier [2013] hardback

    €9.99 – €19.99

    Christian - `Kit' - Cavenaugh, born in 1667 in Dublin, grew up on a Leixlip farm. A dragoon in the Marlborough Wars, Kit led an adventurous life, courting women, fighting...

    Liam Gaul: Wings Over Wexford [2017] paperback

    €6.99 – €7.99

    In 1918, during the final year of the First World War, the USN had a force of over 400 sailors and 22 officers and 4 Curtiss H16 seaplanes based in...

    Richard Aldous: We Declare [2008] hardback

    €5.99 – €7.99

    Great Irish Documents presents the most momentous and stirring documents in the history of Ireland. From St Patrick's confession, via the harrowing reports of the Famine Relief Commission, the dramatic...

    Albert Reynolds: ALBERT REYNOLDS AUTOBIOGRAPHY H/B [2009] hardback

    €3.99 – €20.00

    I was a businessman, a risk taker.' - Albert Reynolds. 'Albert was a trader and Albert was a dealer - he was a bottom-line man.' - John Major. Albert Reynolds...

    Mary Mcaleese: President Mary McAleese [2011] hardback

    €4.99 – €7.99

    From 1997 to 2011, Mary McAleese has served as President of Ireland, and become one of the most popular Presidents Ireland has ever has known.Representing Ireland on the world stage...

    James Quinn: Ulster Political Lives, 1886-1921 [2016] hardback

    €4.99 – €9.99

    Ulster Political Lives, 1886-1921 examines the lives of 50 of Ulster's most significant political figures in the turbulent period from the first Home Rule Bill of 1886 to the foundation...

    Brendan Kelly: Custody, Care & Criminality [2014] paperback

    €5.99 – €6.99

    In this fundamentally important work, Professor Brendan Kelly explores the background to Irish psychiatry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, charting its progress and development. Using detailed case studies...

    Anne Chambers: The Great Leviathan [2017] hardback

    €8.99 – €9.99

    From Ireland, England, France, Austria, Greece, Turkey and Italy to America and the West Indies, overflowing with historic events, from the French Revolution to the Great Irish Famine, with a...

    James Durney: The War of Independence in Kildare [2013] paperback

    €3.99 – €4.99

    The Kildare IRA was heavily outnumbered by crown forces and had neither the manpower nor weaponry to seriously challenge them. With about 300 activists in County Kildare, and only about...

    Conor Reidy: MUTINY OR MURDER Z22 [2018] paperback

    €6.99

    On 15 March 1817 the convict ship the Chapman departed from Cork with 200 male prisoners on board. When it dropped anchor off Sydney Cove four months later, its prison...

    Colin Cousins: Armagh and the Great War [2014] paperback

    €6.99

    In 1914, County Armagh represented a microcosm of Ireland, with an industrialised, urban north, and a largely rural, agricultural south. It was also the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland and the...

    Gary Granville: Dublin 1913: Lockout & Legacy [2013] paperback

    €5.99 – €6.99

    The Dublin 1913 lockout is often viewed as the most severe and significant industrial dispute in Irish history, between approximately 20,000 workers and 300 employers. Central to the dispute was...

    George B Clark: Irish Soldiers in Europe [2010] paperback

    €5.99 – €6.99

    Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a dangerous place. Religious strife and unstable politics saw war stretch across the centre of the continent for long periods of time....

    Huw Bennett: Uncivil War [2023] hardback

    €32.50

    When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish Sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how...

    Shane Coleman: Scandal Nation [2010] paperback

    €7.99 – €19.99

    We are where we are has become one of the great truisms of the current crisis facing the country. But how did we get here and can an inspection of...

    Peter Hart: Mick [2005] hardback

    €9.99 – €35.71

    Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, assassinated by a...

    Pat Liddy: History of Ireland in Maps [2023] hardback

    €29.99

    Explore Ireland's fascinating story with more than 100 maps. From the early history of the Emerald Isle to the modern day, Ireland has evolved rapidly - along with the ways...

    Sinead McCoole: Hazel [1996] hardback

    €9.99 – €35.71

    This biography tells the story of Hazel Lavery, one of London's most influential and beautiful women in the 1920s, a popular society hostess and fervent supporter of Ireland's independence. It...

    Sinead McCoole: Hazel [1996] paperback

    €15.00

    This biography tells the story of Hazel Lavery, one of London's most influential and beautiful women in the 1920s, a popular society hostess and fervent supporter of Ireland's independence. It...

    Tim Pat Coogan: Michael Collins [1991] paperback

    €4.99 – €19.99

    When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' And in...

    Marianne Elliott: Wolfe Tone [1992] paperback

    €14.99

    "Marianne Elliott ...is better qualified than anyone to crack the Tone conundrum. Her meticulously documented Wolfe Tone balances a narrative of well-judged pace-accelerating as it reaches the climax of Tone's...

    Marianne Elliott: Wolfe Tone [1992] paperback

    €24.99

    "Marianne Elliott ...is better qualified than anyone to crack the Tone conundrum. Her meticulously documented Wolfe Tone balances a narrative of well-judged pace-accelerating as it reaches the climax of Tone's...

    Marianne Elliott: Wolfe Tone [1992] paperback

    €39.29

    "Marianne Elliott ...is better qualified than anyone to crack the Tone conundrum. Her meticulously documented Wolfe Tone balances a narrative of well-judged pace-accelerating as it reaches the climax of Tone's...

    Marie O'Connor: Emergency [2007] paperback

    €7.99

    Have you - or anyone you know - ever waited for an operation? Queued in casualty? Had a baby in hospital - or on the side of the road? Been...

    Marie O'Connor: Emergency [2007] paperback

    €6.99 – €17.86

    Have you - or anyone you know - ever waited for an operation? Queued in casualty? Had a baby in hospital - or on the side of the road? Been...

    Martin J Dougherty: Celts [2023] paperback

    €26.00

    "They cut off the heads of enemies slain in battle and attach them to the necks of their horses... They embalm the heads... [and]... display them with pride to strangers."...

    Therese Caherty: Road to Repeal [2022] paperback

    €9.99 – €25.00

    Road to Repeal: 50 Years of Struggle in Ireland for Contraception and Abortion opens in 1970 when the Irish Women's Liberation Movement burst onto the streets and screens of a...

    Ed Moloney: SECRET HIST OF THE IRA CL [2002] hardback

    €12.99

    An epic portrayal of one of the twentieth century's longest warsbased on unprecedented access to all the players. Delving deeply into the inner workings, furtive plots, and deadly rivalries of...

    Ed Moloney: SECRET HIST OF THE IRA CL [2002] hardback

    €10.00 – €19.99

    An epic portrayal of one of the twentieth century's longest warsbased on unprecedented access to all the players. Delving deeply into the inner workings, furtive plots, and deadly rivalries of...

    Eamonn Doyle: Eamonn Doyle: Made In Dublin [2019] hardback

    €45.50

    Made in Dublin winner of Photography category in the British Design and Production Awards'A singular new vision and an original contribution to the development of street photography' Martin Parr Focused...

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