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The Irish-American Dynamite Campaign
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 49.95In the 1880s, Clan-na-Gael, an extremist Irish-American organization that succeeded the Fenian Brotherhood, initiated a dynamite campaign against Britain in a bid to bring about Irish independence. Throughout England, explosions rocked government, military and police targets, including the Tower of London, London Bridge and the Houses of Parliament.... more...
A Case Study of Ireland and Galicias Parallel Paths to Nationhood
The Edwin Mellen Press 2004; US$ 149.95This is an important original study that contributes new knowledge in the field of Celtic Studies as it offers serious consideration to the connections between Ireland and Galicia Dr. White traces the connections between these two Celtic lands through literature, history, mythology and science. White shows that Ireland and Galicia had parallel cultural... more...
Wolfe Tone
The Lilliput Press 1985; US$ 7.28An important study of the dynamics behind Tone's ideal, which disentangles the roots of racialism and nationalism in Ireland, and questions the causes of division between North and South. Butler contends - with precision and passion - that the way forward lies through an understanding of the past and a return to the world of small-scale and personal... more...
Escape from the Anthill
The Lilliput Press 1996; US$ 14.57Opening 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...
Humanity Dick Martin
The Lilliput Press 1989; US$ 18.94This finely detailed and amply illustrated biography recreates the life and times of one of Ireland's earliest environmentalists, founder of the world movement for the protection of animals. A loveable Galwayman, Volunteer colonel, landlord-eccentric, lawyer-duellist, parliamentarian and champion of Catholic emancipation, his colourful, humorous personality... more...
Cross-Border Cooperation in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 148.00Tannam examines the cross-border relationship between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, through analysis of politicians, civil servants and business communities and highlighting the impact of European Union membership and Anglo-Irish policy on this subject. more...
Across the margins
Manchester University Press 2002; US$ 95.00Contributors to this text discuss what it is to be British or Irish, and how people come to describe themselves as such. The study offers a comparative, theoretically informed analysis of the cultural formation of the Atlantic Archipelago, working across the disciplines of history, geography, literature and cultural studies. It also includes specific... more...
Social change and everyday life in Ireland, 1850-1922
Manchester University Press 2007; US$ 95.00Men and women who were born, grew up and died in Ireland between 1850 and 1922 made decisions - to train, to emigrate, to stay at home, to marry, to stay single, to stay at school - based on the knowledge and resources they had at the time. This, the first comprehensive social history of Ireland for the period 1850-1922 to appear since 1981, tries... more...
Insubordinate Irish
Manchester University Press 2011; US$ 95.00This book traces a number of common themes relating to the representation of Irish Travellers in Irish popular tradition and how these themes have impacted on Irelands collective imagination. A particular focus of the book is on the exploration of the Traveller as Other, an "Other" who is perceived as both inside and outside... more...
The Rising: Easter 1916
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 18.99The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history. But how did it achieve this? What role did people from ordinary backgrounds play in the making of the Irish revolution and what motivated them to take part in it? What did the rebels think they could achieve? And what kind of a republic... more...









