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'No Surrender Here!' The Civil War Papers of Ernie O'Malley 1922-1924
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J U S T OVER a month after the 1921 truce that ended Ireland's fight with England, Ernie O'Malley longed for a return to war. Ten months later he was waging civil war against many of the men he had once fought with, against those who accepted the new I...
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A Flame Now Quenched Rebels & Frenchmen In Leitrim: 1793-1798
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'A fine study with an exemplary apparatus... A Flame Now Quenched represents
a significant addition to the publications which have marked the
bicentenary of 1798.'
- Daire Keogh, Studies
The Irish rebellion of 1798 comprised a scattered ser...
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Ancestral Voices The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature
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The Big House motif has long been prominent in Anglo-Irish literature, but
a comprehensive study of the subject is still awaited. Ancestral Voices
brings together new essays on relevant work by Maria Edgeworth, Charles
Lever, George Moore, Somerville a...
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As By Law Established The Church of Ireland since the Reformation
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'As the churches decline, interest in their history paradoxically
increases.' These sixteen essays in ecclesiastical history, selected from
research papers presented at the 1993 UCD Conference on the Church of
Ireland, constitute the best of recent and
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Champagne & Silver Buckles, The Viceregal Court at Dublin Castle 1700-1922
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Dublin Castle was the headquarters of British rule in
Ireland, both literal and symbolic. There, the Viceroy, chief representative of the Crown in Ireland, presided, a conduit and image of power. Around him gathered a privileged elite who represented the ...
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Field of Bones: An Irish Division at Gallipoli
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‘Masterly and moving … Philip Orr enhances his already high reputation as a military historian for not only illuminating and meticulous command of detail but for a sense of balance and a fair-mindedness too rare in work on the long-neglected h...
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Forgotten Stones
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This guide to the 'forgotten stones' of early ecclesiastical sites and buildings is a lovingly detailed record of 82 churches secreted in the hundred-odd square miles of the Burren, a primeval limestones region of north County Clare, one heavily populated,...
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Franciscan Ireland
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Franciscan Ireland tells the story of the arrival and spread of the Order of Friars Minor in Ireland from 1226 to present day. It encompasses the work of foreign missions, other Orders within the Franciscan family, and the rich legacy of Franciscan art an...
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Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages
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When the first edition of this book appeared in 1972 it was acclaimed as a revolutionary breakthrough in the study of late medieval Ireland and of the autonomous lordships into which it was divided. Since then it has repeatedly and extensively cited as an ...
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Goodly Barrow: A Voyage on an Irish River
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'Not so much a book to be read as a wine to be savoured. ... The blend of scholarship and imaginative sensibility is rare.' - Sean O'Faolain
Goodly Barrow is a long-unavailable classic that charts the history and character of Ireland's second-longe...
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Grattan:A Life
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'Grattan's Parliament' has a permanent place in Irish historical lore, but who was Henry Grattan? R.B. McDowell's biography traces the varied career of this elusive figure whose political fortunes were as tempestuous as his own character.
McDowell begi...
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High Tension: Life on the Shannon Scheme
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High Tension lends an entirely different dimension to the history of the great hydro-electric Shannon Scheme of 1925-1929. Hitherto the story has been told from an engineering viewpoint. Now historian Michael McCarthy brings new perspectives to bear on the...
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Historical Essays 1938-2001
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'No one alive has waded through more collections of correspondence, legislation, administrative records, ecclesiastical and collegiate fasti, than Professor McDowell. His knowledge of the fine print of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is truly aweso...
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Ideology and the Historians
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Exaggerated reports have been heard of history's demise, with sociology or postmodernism as suspected killer. At the heart of this debate lies the notion of Ideology, addressed here in a wide-ranging series of papers by Irish and international histori...
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Ireland and the European Union: The First Thirty Years
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Ireland, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, has changed enormously since 1973 when the Irish electorate's decision to join the then European Economic Community was put into effect. The country is different and so too are its people. Ireland in t...
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Land & Learning: Two Irish Clubs
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This is the tale of two Dublin gentlemen's clubs, Kildare Street (founded
in 1782) and University (founded in 1849), which united in 1975 to become
the Kildare Street and University Club. Since their formation each has done
much to nurture, and to conta...
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Life of Colman
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This work, whose full title is Life of Colman, son of Luachain, or Betha
Colmain maic Luachain, is a thirteenth-century Life of a seventh-century
saint Colman (who first gave Mullingar ...
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Longford Essays in County History
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'A very valuable addition to our understanding of one county... any native
of the county or anybody interested in history generally will find that it
illuminates a hidden corner of the past.'
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Longford, Ess...
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Men, Women and War
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Military conflict is a perennial feature of human society. These essays by leading historians from Belgium, Canada, England, France, Ireland, Norway and the USA share an appreciation that war is central to historical experience in the modern world. R...
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Refiguring Ireland: Essays in Honour of L.M. Cullen
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This collection of essays has been specially commissioned in order to mark the quite exceptional contribution that Louis Cullen has made to historical studies in Ireland and abroad over the last forty-five years, spanning economic, social, cultural and pol...
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The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage
Foreword by Barry Cunliffe, Professor of European Archaeology
Irish identity is best understood from a maritime perspective. For eight millennia the island has been a haven for explorers, settlers, colonists, navigators, pirates and traders, absorbing ...
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The Hidden Ireland: Reassessment of a Concept
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Daniel Corkery's The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century, has had sustained appeal since its publication in 1925. There Corkery used literary evidence to sustain a picture of relieved poverty and oppression, spiritual c...
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The Hist & Edmund Burke's Club
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'An admirable and varied anthology.'
- Frank Callanan, The Irish Times
The College Historical Society has been a microcosm of the politics of
Ireland since the first discus...
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The Irish Art of Controversy
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'The Irish Art of Controversy is what serious scholarship should be: meticulously informed, lucid, original. I enjoyed every page.' - Samuel Hynes, Princeton University
North American customers should order from Cornell University Press.
'Lucy McDi...
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The Irish Brandy Houses of Eighteenth-Century France
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The Irish traders in beef and butter who settled in the Charente area moved
on to the rapidly growing brandy trade by the mid-eighteenth century. As
world demand for brandy grew with ur...
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The Irish Women's Movement
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'Ireland's first book-length study of this transformative social movement . . . Linda Connolly not only charts a tradition but lays down a challenge.'
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This superbly incisive, comprehensive history of the Irish women's mo...
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The Shannon Navigation HB
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‘A magnificent book … extremely well illustrated and produced. Rush out now and buy a copy.' - Afloat
The Shannon Navigation traces the history of the River Shannon as a navigation up to the present day from the 1750s when the earl...
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The Shannon Navigation PB
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‘A magnificent book … extremely well illustrated and produced. Rush out now and buy a copy.' - Afloat
The Shannon Navigation traces the history of the River Shannon as a navigation up to the present day from the 1750s when the earl...
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The United Irishman
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The 1790s, coloured by revolutions in France and North America, were to see the birth of republicanism in Ireland and the emergence of radical Presbyterianism in the north. The decade is increasingly being considered as one of the most formative in modern...
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The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart 1942- 1944
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THIS BOOK IS OUT OF PRINT
'It has taken Brendan Barrington's superbly scholarly edition of Stuart's
broadcasts to show us how such crucial moral and cultural debates ought to
be conducted: calmly, rigorously and on the basis of real evidence. If
Stuart c...
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The World of Mary O'Connell 1778-1836
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In 1800 Daniel O'Connell, a young Kerry barrister who had just made his
first forays into national politics, began a clandestine correspondence
with his distant cousin Mary O'Connell of...
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Two Brothers, Two Wars
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The author's namesake uncle, Tom McAlindon, joined the Royal Irish Rifles in 1908 aged seventeen and fought on the Western Front from August 1914 until late 1918. He died agonizingly from dysentery in a military hospital in the south of England, to which h...
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Vanishing Kingdoms: The Irish Chiefs and Their Families HB
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Vanishing Kingdoms combines an account of aristocracy and its history in Ireland with an interview-based description of twenty recognized Irish chiefs of the name and their family backgrounds. Three of them, The O'Brien, O'Conor Don and The O'Neill, have l...
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Vanishing Kingdoms: The Irish Chiefs and Their Families PB
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'A lasting memorial to those ancient families ... ably chronicled in Mr Curley's timely book.' - The Kinght of Glin, Sunday Independent
Vanishing Kingdoms combines an account of aristocracy and its history in Ireland with an interview-based descriptio...
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