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Iron, Steam & Money
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 33.36In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes,... more...
Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 33.37Harold Nicolson called her 'the greatest Queen since Cleopatra', while Cecil Beaton called her 'a marshmallow made on a welding machine'. Stephen Tennant said: 'She looked everything that she was not: gentle, gullible, tenderness mingled with dispassionate serenity, cool, well-bred, remote. Behind this veil she schemed and vacillated, hard as nails.'... more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Irish History and Culture
Penguin Group US 1999; US$ 17.95This "Complete Idiot's Guide" contains exhaustive, easy-to-follow coverage of all of Irish history--from the Celts to the Dark Ages to the crucial role of Christianity to conflicts with England to vital Irish assimilation into American culture. more...
Making Peace
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 24.00Fifteen minutes before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998, Senator George Mitchell was informed that his long and difficult quest for an Irish peace accord had succeeded--the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland, and the governments of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, would sign the agreement. Now Mitchell, who served as independent... more...
Beauty and Atrocity: People, Politics and Ireland?s Fight for Peace
HarperCollins Publishers 2010; Not AvailableAn ambitious and powerful account of modern Irish history through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand. more...
Everybody Matters
Hodder & Stoughton 2012; Not AvailableMoving memoir from the first female President of Ireland, and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson. more...
Bunker Hill
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 33.36What lights the spark that ignites a revolution? Lost in the story of America's path to independence is the tumultuous nature of that nation's origins: the interplay of ideologies and personalities that provoked a group of merchants, farmers, artisans, and sailors to take up arms in pursuit of liberty . . . A city of 15,000 inhabitants... more...
Steaming to Victory
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 33.36In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare, prodded and examined from every perspective of military and social history. But there is a story that has hitherto been largely overlooked. It is a tale of quiet heroism, a story of ordinary people... more...
Twenty Years A-Growing
J.S. Sanders books 1998; US$ 17.99O?Sullivan?s memoir of growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited Gaelic-speaking island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland. ?The only book I have ever reviewed which simply had to be praised without reservation.??Sean O?Fáoláin, The Listener . Introductory Note by E. M. Forster. more...
The Fighting Irish
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 25.99"Tells the story of the Irish fighting man with wit, clarity, and scholarship." ?Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War For hundreds of years, Irish soldiers have sought their destiny abroad. Wherever they've traveled, whichever side of the battlefield they've stood, the tales of their exploits have never been forgotten. Leaving his birthplace,... more...









