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P. S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955)
Anthem Press 2010; US$ 99.00P.S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955)' provides an informative and lively biography of the Irish nationalist P.S. O'Hegarty, a major historical figure in the modern separatist movement. more...
President Mary McAleese
The History Press 2011; US$ 32.07From 1997 to 2011, Mary McAleese has served as President of Ireland, and become one of the most popular Presidents Ireland has ever known. Representing Ireland on the world stage through the highs of the Celtic Tiger and the lows of recent years, she has sounded a voice that is trusted and respected and has become one of the finest examples of what... more...
Rebellions
The Lilliput Press 2011; US$ 14.57REVISED AND EXTENDED SECOND EDITION ?Rebellions is an autobiography, an astonishingly clear-sighted and lucid account of a tragic and disputed episode in Irish history and a polemic. The book's importance, originality and real value arise from the way the personal, the political and the scholarly are each offered as passionate witness and not separated.... more...
Ireland
NYU Press 2007; US$ 55.00What 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...
Wales and the Welsh in the Middle Ages
University of Wales Press 2011; US$ 100.00This is a major contribution to the study of medieval Wales by a group of outstanding British historians, writing in honour of one of Waless most distinguished scholars and the biographer of Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd. The essays reflect exciting trends in the study of both Wales and the Middle Ages, including church building, chronicle writing,... more...
Ireland and Britain, 1798-1922
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2012; US$ 14.95The clash between Britain and Irelandand between Catholics and Protestants within Irelandis among the oldest and most enduring nationalist, ethnic, and religious conflicts in the modern world, rooted in the colonization of Ireland by English and Scottish Protestants in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. more...
Irische Geschichte für Dummies
Wiley 2012; US$ 29.95Die 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...
Pleitiers und Bankrotteure
Campus Verlag 2012; US$ 37.46Hauptbeschreibung Krisen und Konkurse sind Begleiterscheinungen der Wirtschaftsgeschichte - mit zum Teil weitreichenden Konsequenzen für Unternehmer, Mitarbeiter und die Volkswirtschaft. Ursachen und Folgen eines solchen ökonomischen Scheiterns werden hier aus wirtschafts-, sozial- und kulturhistorischer Perspektive in den Blick genommen. Dabei zeigt... more...
Kerry and the Royal Munster Fusiliers
The History Press 2011; US$ 18.94Ballymullen Barracks in Tralee was the regimental depot of the Royal Munster Fusiliers prior to the establishment of the Irish Free State. It was through the barracks gates that Kerrymen enlisted for a career in the Munsters. Kerry and the Royal Munster Fusiliers examines the reasons why Kerrymen enlisted during the Great War, and how these citizens-turned-soldiers... more...
Everyday Life in Nineteenth Century Ireland
The History Press 2011; US$ 27.69To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes - luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter). This thorough and engaging social history of Ireland offers new insights into the ways in which ordinary people lived during this dramatic moment in Ireland's history from 1800-1914. It covers a wide... more...









