The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (O'Donoghue Martin)(Paperback)

The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (O'Donoghue Martin)(Paperback)

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the influence of former Irish Parliamentary Party members and methods in independent Ireland and the place of the party's leaders in public memory. Previous studies of the party have concluded with its dramatic fall in 1918 and shown littleinterest

The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 (O'Donoghue Martin)(Pevná vazba)

This book provides the first detailed analysis of the influence of former Irish Parliamentary Party members and methods in independent Ireland and the place of the party's leaders in public memory. Previous studies of the party have concluded with its dramatic fall in 1918 and shown little interest

Guerilla Days in Ireland - New Edition (Barry Tom)(Paperback)

First published in 1949, 'Guerilla Days in Ireland' is an extraordinary story of the Irish War of Independence and the fight between two unequal forces, which ended in the withdrawal of the British from twenty-six counties. Seven weeks before the Truce of July 1921, the British presence in County

White Elephants - The Country House and the State in Independent Ireland, 1922-73 (Crooke Emer)(Pevná vazba)

In post-independence Ireland, the country house was not regarded as an integral part of the national heritage. Despite this, the relationship between the Irish state and the country house has not been examined in detail to date. White Elephants illustrates the complex nature of attitudes to the

Police Casualties in Ireland 1919-1922 (Abbott Richard)(Paperback)

The Royal Irish Constabulary are often portrayed as the villains of the War of Independence in Ireland, Irishmen who betrayed their country by serving the British regime. No memorial has been raised in Ireland to those who died during the conflict and their names are largely forgotten, apart from a

Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (English Richard)(Paperback)

The Wild Laughter: Winner of the 2021 Encore Award (Hughes Caoilinn)(Paperback)

AN IRISH TIMES, IRISH SUNDAY TIMES, IRISH INDEPENDENT & SUNDAY INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020 NOMINATED FOR NOVEL AT THE YEAR AT THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARDS, 2021 'Extraordinary... A book of wicked intelligence and tender heart.' - Max Porter, author

The End of the Small Party?: Change UK and the Challenges of Parliamentary Politics (Thompson Louise)(Pevná vazba)

The first book to uncover how small groups like Change UK/The Independent Group exert influence in the British Parliament, based on first-hand interviews with the MPs themselves

Protestant and Irish: The Minority's Search for Place in Independent Ireland (D'Alton Ian)(Paperback)

In 1989 Edna Longley remarked that if Catholics were born Irish, Protestants had to 'work their passage to Irishness'. With eighteen essays by scholars with individual perspectives on Irish Protestant history, this book explores a number of those passages. Some were dead ends. Some led nowhere in

Sport and Ireland: A History (Rouse Paul)(Paperback)

This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport. Sport and Ireland demonstrates that there are aspects of Ireland's sporting history that are uniquely Irish and are defined by

Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland (Moore Cormac)(Paperback)

The 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for almost all aspects of Irish life and was directly responsible for hundreds of deaths and injuries, with thousands displaced from their homes and many more forced from their jobs. Two new justice systems were created; the effects on the major

Voices from the Desert: The Lost Legacy of the Skelligs (Macmahon Hugh)(Paperback)

The legacy of Skelligs and other famous monastic settlements in Ireland is remarkably brought alive in the writings of a young monk who traveled the deserts of Egypt to discover the origins and practices of the movement which inspired them. In 384 AD, John Cassian began his 24 interviews with

Reading in the Dark (Deane Seamus)(Paperback / softback)

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal

Battle of the Four Courts: The First Three Days of the Irish Civil War (Fewer Michael)(Paperback)

The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder artillery piece commanded by soldiers loyal to Michael Collins and the new Irish government began to fire on the Four Courts--a beautiful 18th-century complex of buildings that housed Ireland's highest

Family rhythms: The changing textures of family life in Ireland (Gray Jane)(Paperback)

'Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and

The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising (Hegarty Shane)(Paperback)

This heavily illustrated book focuses on the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, rather than the background and the consequences. In a widely expanded version of the supplement that appeared in The Irish Times in March to commemorate the 90th Anniversary, The 1916 Rising recreates the

After Ireland - Writing the Nation from Beckett to the Present (Kiberd Declan)(Paperback / softback)

A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish

Irish Dancing: The Festival Story (King Angeline)(Paperback)

The festival tradition of Irish dancing has played a significant part in Ulster's culture over the past century. This historical account takes the reader on a journey from courtly ballrooms and cottage firesides across a landscape of barn dances, harvest homes, fancy dance classes, feiseanna and

The Mint: Lawrence After Arabia (Lawrence T. E.)(Paperback)

In 1922, his dreams of an independent Arabia shattered, T.E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the assumed name John Hume Ross. Though methodical and restrictive, life there seemed to suit Lawrence: 'The Air Force is not a man-crushing humiliating slavery, all its days. There is sun & decent

Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Hatfield Mary)(Pevná vazba)

One of the most enduring tropes of modern Irish history is the MOPE thesis, the idea that the Irish were the Most Oppressed People Ever. Political oppression, forced emigration and endemic poverty have been central to the historiography of nineteenth-century Ireland. This volume problematises the

Irish Anglicanism, 1969-2019: Essays to Mark the 150th Anniversary of the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland (Harron Paul)(Paperback)

For three centuries following the Reformation the Church of Ireland was the 'Established Church' (the state Church) of the country. This status was removed by the Irish Church Act of 1869 as part of Prime Minister Gladstone's policy to meet the grievances of Irish nationalists and thereby win their

Earth Voices: An Anthology of Irish War Poetry 1914-1945 (Dawe Gerald)(Paperback)

In the first half of the 20th century, the men and women of Ireland experienced the brutal realities of a succession of wars - from the unrelenting casualties of WW1, to the domestic upheavals of the 1916 Rising and the Irish Civil War; from the romantic idealism of the Spanish Civil War, to the

Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland: From the Medieval to the Modern (Tuomi Ilona)(Paperback)

An authoritative collection of studies of Irish charms, and the first to cover both the medieval and the modern

An Irish Childhood (McCann Mary)(Paperback)

Mary McCann was born in the 1920s into the harsh and deprived countryside life of Northern Ireland. Growing up, she took care of her siblings, wearing clothes that her mother made out of flour sacks.This is her story as she journeyed from rural Ireland to eventually find work in London, acting as a