History:

Stones of Aran: Labyrinth

Written by Tim Robinson
Introduction by John Elder

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $22.95

Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran is one of the most striking and original literary undertakings of our time. Robinson’s ambition is to find out both what it is to know a landscape, know it as extensively and intimately as possible, and what it takes to make that knowledge, the sense of... Read more >

Stalking Irish Madness
Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia
Written by Patrick Tracey

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $24.00

In this powerful, sometimes harrowing, deeply felt story, Patrick Tracey journeys to Ireland to track the origin and solve the mystery of his Irish-American family's multigenerational struggle with schizophrenia.

For most Irish Americans, a trip to Ireland is often an occasion to revisit their family's roots. But for Patrick Tracey, the lure... Read more >

Stalking Irish Madness
Searching for the Roots of My Family's Schizophrenia
Written by Patrick Tracey

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $24.00

In this powerful, sometimes harrowing, deeply felt story, Patrick Tracey journeys to Ireland to track the origin and solve the mystery of his Irish-American family's multigenerational struggle with schizophrenia.

For most Irish Americans, a trip to Ireland is often an occasion to revisit their family's roots. But for Patrick Tracey, the lure... Read more >

Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage

Written by Tim Robinson
Introduction by Robert Macfarlane

Format: Trade Paperback, 316 pages
On Sale: August 5, 2008
Price: $18.95

The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a unique geological and cultural landscape, and for centuries their stark beauty and their inhabitants’ traditional way of life have attracted pilgrims from abroad. The Aran Islands, in Galway Bay off the west coast of Ireland, are a... Read more >

Daughters of Ireland
The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation
Written by Janet Todd

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95

They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century—and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle. Heirs to ancient estates and a vast fortune, Lord and Lady Kingsborough appeared... Read more >

The Rebels of Ireland
The Dublin Saga
Written by Edward Rutherfurd

Format: eBook, 896 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95

The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.
  
The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels... Read more >

The Rebels of Ireland
The Dublin Saga
Written by Edward Rutherfurd

Format: Trade Paperback, 896 pages
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $16.95

The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga.
  
The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The Rebels... Read more >

The Princes of Ireland
The Dublin Saga
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Read by John Keating

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 10, 2006
Price: $19.99

From the internationally bestselling author of London and Sarum -- a magnificent epic about love and war, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of seventeen centuries. Like the novels of James Michener, The Princes of Ireland brilliantly interweaves engrossing fiction and well-researched fact to capture the essence... Read more >

The Princes of Ireland
The Dublin Saga
Written by Edward Rutherfurd
Read by John Keating

Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 29, 2005
Price: $19.95

From the internationally bestselling author of London and Sarum -- a magnificent epic about love and war, family life and political intrigue in Ireland over the course of seventeen centuries. Like the novels of James Michener, The Princes of Ireland brilliantly interweaves engrossing fiction and well-researched fact to capture the essence... Read more >

Daughters of Ireland
The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation
Written by Janet Todd

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $14.95

They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century—and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle. Heirs to ancient estates and a vast fortune, Lord and Lady Kingsborough appeared... Read more >

Everything Irish
The History, Literature, Art, Music, People, and Places of Ireland, from A to Z
Written by Lelia Ruckenstein and James O'Malley

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2005
Price: $17.95

Here, in one complete volume, is the depth and breadth of the great island nation and its people represented in an easily browsed, friendly format. From the Abbey Theatre to the Dublin storyteller Zozimus; from the origin of the Troubles to the origin of the limerick; from the stunning beauty of... Read more >

There You Are
Writings on Irish & American Literature and History
Written by Thomas Flanagan
Introduction by Seamus Heaney

Format: Hardcover, 516 pages
On Sale: November 30, 2004
Price: $27.95

Thomas Flanagan became famous as the author of a trilogy of novels, starting with The Year of the French, about Ireland from the rebellion of 1798 to the civil war of the 1920s. But the novelist who began by reimagining the mental and physical world of eighteenth-century County Mayo had long... Read more >

Wars of the Irish Kings
A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Written by David W. McCullough

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $24.95

For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its wars. Beginning with the legends of ancient battles and warriors, Wars of the Irish Kings moves through a time when history and storytelling were equally prized, into the age when history was as much propaganda as fact. This... Read more >

The Great Shame
And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Written by Thomas Keneally

Format: Trade Paperback, 768 pages
On Sale: September 12, 2000
Price: $19.95

In The Great Shame, Thomas Keneally--the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's List--combines the authority of a brilliant historian and the narrative grace of a great novelist to present a gripping account of the Irish diaspora.

The nineteenth century saw Ireland lose half of its population to famine, emigration, or deportation to... Read more >

How the Irish Saved Civilization
The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
Written by Thomas Cahill
Read by Donal Donnelly

Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $14.95

The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how... Read more >

How the Irish Saved Civilization
The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
Written by Thomas Cahill
Read by Liam Neeson

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 5, 2000
Price: $8.95

The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how... Read more >