Secondhand Irish History Books

Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores...

Charles Haughey's political career has spanned the past 35 years of Irish politics and has been controversial throughout much of that time. He rose quickly, fell often. He became leader...

Follow Colm Toibin's lone religious pilgrimage along the Irish border during the tumultuous summer of 1987.In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm...

This is the first definitive history of the UDA and follows its trajectory from mass loyalist movement in the early 1970s to the lethal hotbed of feuding and criminality it...

The defninitive Pictorial record of the Irish civil war. 5 years in the birth of a nation - from the break up of the Irish Parliament into pro - and...

This work is a chronological account of the events and inviduals that have helped shape Ireland. It provides a review of Ireland's experience of this troubled century, juxtoposing impressions of...

Ireland is a country that arouses strong opinions: everyone has a view on its character, its foibles, its charm and its waywardness. It has inspired some of the best poetry...

Visited in these pages are sacred ritual sites, beautiful castles and ancient fortifications, geological formations which have attracted mythological explanations, symbolic statues and architectural masterpieces - all of them representing...

The Event and its Terrors undertakes a critical reimagining of one of the major events of Irish history-the Great Famine of the 1840s-and of its subsequent legacies. Drawing on a...

Ireland is a country of small towns, most of which have fewer than 5000 inhabitants. This book deals with the origin, development and character of selected towns in Ireland, North...

The 1916 Easter Rising and its aftermath changed Ireland for ever. The British government's execution of 14 republican rebels transformed a group hitherto perceived as cranks and troublemakers into national...

The author was brought up in Warrenpoint and in this book describes his family life and the characters involved including his frail delicate mother, his brother who died of pneumonia...

It is a curious paradox that, while for many centuries there has been deep antagonism between the British and the Irish, the latter have fought the former's wars with exemplary...

'An important and necessary volume on the role played by Irish men and women in the emergence of the new, modern and independent republics of Latin America ... a welcome...

Understanding the past - where we have come from and what has moulded us - is important everywhere, and nowhere more so than in Northern Ireland's largest city. For 250...