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Voices from the Grave
PublicAffairs 2010; US$ 21.99Shocking testimony and unprecedented truth-telling from both sides of Northern Ireland?s long and violent Troubles. more...
Building Peace in Northern Ireland
Liverpool University Press 2011; US$ 125.00Since the onset of the troubles in the 1960s, people in Northern Ireland have been working together to bring about a peaceful, non-violent end to the conflict. This collection is the first to examine the different forms of peace and reconciliation work that have taken place. It brings together an international group of scholars to examine initiatives... more...
Land and Popular Politics in Ireland
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 66.00A study of the Irish county of Mayo, from Elizabethan times to the late nineteenth century. more...
Daggers Drawn
The History Press 2011; US$ 13.11Thirty vivid stories, including some new and previously unpublished, supported by an updated selection of rare archive and action photographs, explore the larger-than-life escapades of the Special Air Service in the Second World War. From an SAS Jeep patrol in France, outnumbered fifty-to-one, who shot their way out to safety in their bullet-riddled... more...
Stones of Aran: Pilgrimmage
The Lilliput Press 2012; US$ 14.57'Stone of Aran: Pilgrimmage' is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, 'one of the msot sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out.' That place is one of the most mysterious and oldest inhabited landscapes in the world, the islands of Aran off the west coast of Ireland. Dsolate, storm-lashed limestone... more...
Stones of Aran: Labyrinth
The Lilliput Press 2012; US$ 14.57Like J.M. Synge almost a century before him, Tim Robinson portrays the inner and outer life of a landscape and its inhabitants. Encyclopedia of myth and reality, herbal, love-letter, missal, jest-book, anthology of cultural responses - Stones of Aran juggles modes from page to page. Its apparent inexhaustibility is borrowed from just one scrap of... more...
Connemara After the Famine
The Lilliput Press 2012; US$ 7.28In the aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845-52, the Martin Estate in the West of Ireland, 200,000-acres of bog and mountain, was put up for sale. Its mortgagees, the London Law Life Insurance Society, evicted many of the tenants, and in February 1853 sent Thomas Colville Scott to conduct a survey of their property. This is his journal, recently discovered... more...
Mary Carbery's West Cork Journal
The Lilliput Press 2012; US$ 7.28This is the remarkable journal of an Enlishwoman in her early thirties abroad in Ireland, recently widowed and sole mistress of the vast neo-medieval Castle Freke overlooking a remote headland in west Cork, where she raised her young family in the company of servants, dependants and occasional visitors. Reflective and sensitive, Mary Carbery was deeply... more...
Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara
The Lilliput Press 2012; US$ 10.19Islands and Images' describes the Aran Islands themselves; 'Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara', the title-essay, elevates the map-maker's craft into art; 'The View from Errisbeg' integrates the landscapes of Galway Bay, the Burren and Connemara by way of topography, botany and geology; 'Space, Time and Connemara', centrepiece to the collection,... more...
O'Brien Pocket History of The Troubles
The O'Brien Press 2004; US$ 10.19From the first symptoms of serious unrest - the Divis Street riots of 1964 - to the tortuous political manoeuvrings culminating in the 2003 Assembly elections, the book traces the reality of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It details the motivation behind the IRA 'armed struggle', the Civil Rights movement, the murder campaigns of various... more...









