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  • 101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish Historyby Ryan Hackney

    F+W Media 2010; US$ 9.95

    Forget about shamrocks, leprechauns, and all that blarney, 101 Things You Didn't Know About Irish History dispels the myths and tells the true stories of the Irish. Inside, you'll learn about about: Lives of the ancient Celts until the British invasions; Famous Irish including Michael Collins, Charles Parnell-and Bono!; The Potato Famine and Immigration... more...

  • A Brief History of Irelandby Richard Killeen

    Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 13.11

    From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. more...

  • Enduranceby Dermot Somers

    The O'Brien Press 2005; US$ 11.65

    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 of prehistory to the dawn of modern Ireland. With the aid of maps and photographs, Dermot Somers -- mountaineer, Gaelic scholar, TV presenter, and... more...

  • Escape from the Anthillby Hubert Butler

    The Lilliput Press 1996; US$ 14.57

    Opening Hubert Butler's book of essays is like discovering gold. He has all the essayists's gifts: a clear, strong prose, a fascination with everyday affairs and their significance sub specie aeternitatis, a readiness to generalize, the ability to digress without wondering from the point, to inform without pedantry and enlighten without condescension,... more...

  • Feckers: 50 People Who Fecked Up Irelandby John Waters

    Constable & Robinson 2011; US$ 11.65

    Which 50 People turned Ireland into the fecked-up country she is today? Bono? Haughey? Louis Walsh? de Valera? It's time to name and shame the great, the good and the gobshites...Conventional wisdom has it that Ireland, after a violent and tragic history, had began to get things right. But when the ill wind of recession cruelly snatched that self-satisfied... more...

  • A History of Irelandby Edmund Curtis

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 34.95

    Edmund Curtis's remarkable survey of Ireland, from its earliest origins to the twentieth century, is a classic introduction to Ireland's fascinating history. Reaching from St Patrick's Mission in 432 to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1922, this authoritative text explores the formative events of Ireland's past and encompasses the Norman invasion, Gaelic... more...

  • The IRA and Armed Struggleby Rogelio Alonso

    Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 45.95

    The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years. Now deeply enmeshed in the Northern Ireland peace process, Rogelio Alonso asks why one of the bloodiest terrorist movements of our time decide to swap weapons for the ballot box? Based on over seventy interviews... more...

  • Irelandby Jim Pipe

    Andrews UK 2011; US$ 9.49

    Great Britain can be accused of many things; a proliferation of queuing, a fondness of the demon drink; but it's not without more than its fair share of important historical and modern people. 'Great Britons: A Very Peculiar History' looks at a myriad brillliant Britons and their influence on the world. The book features a short potted... more...

  • Irelandby Hugh F. Kearney

    NYU Press 2007; US$ 55.00

    What is the Irish nation? Who is included in it? Are its borders delimited by religion, ethnicity, language, or civic commitment? And how should we teach its history? These and other questions are carefully considered by distinguished historian Hugh F. Kearney in Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History . The insightful essays collected... more...

  • Irische Geschichte für Dummiesby Mike Cronin; Tina Kaufmann

    Wiley 2012; US$ 29.95

    Die Iren erzählen gerne Geschichten; ihre Geschichte ist es auch wert, erzählt zu werden. Mythische Könige, Invasoren und Missionare, auf der Insel ging es schon früh hoch her. Später kamen die Engländer, der lange Kampf der Iren gegen die Invasoren, Hunger, Auswanderung, Freiheit und Teilung. Mike Cronin erzählt... more...