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Lives Less Ordinary
The Lilliput Press 1999; US$ 10.19The people who talk about their lives in this book represent a creative, dissident Ireland. They are artists, writers, map-makers, weavers, water-diviners, teachers, environmentalists, farmers, wood-cutters, gardeners, travellers and monks. Some continue ways of life that have existed for generations; others have chosen to live and work in ways that... more...
Wacky Eire
Liberties Press 2012; US$ 13.11Welcome to Wacky Eire ? it?s stranger than fiction. Imagine RTÉ?s Nationwide crossed with the cult series Eurotrash, or BBC?s Country File mixed with Father Ted . . . Now imagine it as a book of true stories, written by an insider who has travelled the length and breadth of Ireland seeking out the weird, the wacky, the raunchy and the downright shocking... more...
Grandmother and Wolfe Tone
The Lilliput Press 1990; US$ 14.57The finest and most penetrating essayist this country has produced this century ... there is not a dull page in this civilized and witty book.' - The Irish Times A third volume of essays - autobiographical, polemical, political, exploratory - by the most distinctive Irish writer of the age, in the highest tradition of Swift and Shaw. Hubert Butler's... more...
Global citizen and European republic
Manchester University Press 2007; US$ 95.00This book offers a new and innovative way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity. Many debates within contemporary International Relations focus on the relative benefits of taking a traditional interest-based approach to the study of foreign policy as opposed to the more recently developed... more...
The IRA 1956-69
Manchester University Press 2011; US$ 95.00While there have been many books written about the IRA since 1916, comparatively little attention has been paid to the organisation during the 1960s, despite the fact that the internal divisions culminating in the 1969 split are often seen as key to the conflict which erupted that year.This book rederesses that vacuum and through an exhaustive survey... more...
Ireland's Independence: 1880-1923
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 29.95This timely introduction presents a clear, balanced account of the rapid and complex events from 1880 leading up to the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922. more...
Prelude to Restoration in Ireland
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 44.00This study fills a major gap in the mainstream narrative of Irish history by reconstructing political developments before the restoration of Charles II. It explains how colonists and Cromwellian newcomers combined uneasily to ensure that Charles's return was not accompanied by the return of previously-confiscated land to its Catholic owners. more...
Modern Ireland
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 9.99This title explores the notion of the 'Irish Question' and argues that there were in fact many Irish Questions which were continually articulated and reassessed according to the particular social, political, and economic conditions in which they developed. more...
The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 99.95This collection of essays brings together the main historians of the Irish Revolution, 1913-1923. Through detailed research and wide-ranging analysis of key themes, they provide answers to, and debate on, the fundamental questions concerning this period. more...
Wars of the Irish Kings
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 25.99For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its monasteries and its wars. The artistic flourishing of the monasteries has received a good deal of attention, but the violent and varied wars have in recent years gone unremembered. In Wars of the Irish Kings , David Willis McCullough has turned back to the earliest accounts of... more...









