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Irish Volunteer Soldier 1913-23
Written by Gerry White
Illustrated by Bill Younghusband
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
The political situation in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century was characterised by crisis and change. Armed rebellion against the British Crown, the prosecution of the Anglo-Irish War, the emergence of the Irish Free State, and the eruption of the Civil War over the treaty with Great Britain ensured... Read more >
Written by Gerry White
Illustrated by Bill Younghusband
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $14.95
The political situation in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century was characterised by crisis and change. Armed rebellion against the British Crown, the prosecution of the Anglo-Irish War, the emergence of the Irish Free State, and the eruption of the Civil War over the treaty with Great Britain ensured... Read more >
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On an Irish Island
The Lost World of the Great Blasket
Written by Robert Kanigel
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
The Lost World of the Great Blasket
Written by Robert Kanigel
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: February 26, 2013
Price: $16.00
On an Irish Island tells the remarkable story of a remote outpost nearly untouched by time in the first half of the twentieth century, and of the adventurous men and women who visited and were inspired by it.
In a love letter to a vanished way of life, Robert Kanigel brings to...
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Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
"Not for the faint of heart, Long's story is a gritty, grueling, and heartbreaking testament to one girl's unbreakable spirit."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
When Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is... Read more >
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
"Not for the faint of heart, Long's story is a gritty, grueling, and heartbreaking testament to one girl's unbreakable spirit."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
When Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
When Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her wiles (as a child of 7, 8) are often the only... Read more >
A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
Written by Martha Long
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $26.95
When Martha Long's feckless mother hooks up with the Jackser ("that bandy aul bastard"), and starts having more babies, the abuse and poverty in the house grow more acute. Martha is regularly sent out to beg and more often steal, and her wiles (as a child of 7, 8) are often the only... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Making Peace
Written by George Mitchell
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $19.99
Fifteen minutes before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998, Senator George Mitchell was informed that his long and difficult quest for an Irish peace accord had succeeded--the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland, and the governments of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, would sign the agreement. Now Mitchell... Read more >
Written by George Mitchell
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 8, 2012
Price: $19.99
Fifteen minutes before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998, Senator George Mitchell was informed that his long and difficult quest for an Irish peace accord had succeeded--the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland, and the governments of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, would sign the agreement. Now Mitchell... Read more >
The Irish Defence Forces since 1922
Written by Donal MacCarron
Illustrated by Bill Younghusband
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $13.95
Born in the Civil War of 1922–23, the army of the Republic of Ireland occupied a sensitive place in the national culture for many years. In World War II (1939-1945), it faced the challenge of maintaining Ireland’s integrity as neutral. Post-war, it found a new role in 1960, providing troops for... Read more >
Written by Donal MacCarron
Illustrated by Bill Younghusband
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: February 21, 2012
Price: $13.95
Born in the Civil War of 1922–23, the army of the Republic of Ireland occupied a sensitive place in the national culture for many years. In World War II (1939-1945), it faced the challenge of maintaining Ireland’s integrity as neutral. Post-war, it found a new role in 1960, providing troops for... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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On an Irish Island
Written by Robert Kanigel
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $26.95
On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, renowned... Read more >
Written by Robert Kanigel
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $26.95
On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, renowned... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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On an Irish Island
Written by Robert Kanigel
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $11.99
On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, renowned... Read more >
Written by Robert Kanigel
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 7, 2012
Price: $11.99
On an Irish Island is a love letter to a vanished way of life, in which Robert Kanigel, the highly praised author of The Man Who Knew Infinity and The One Best Way, tells the story of the Great Blasket, a wildly beautiful island off the west coast of Ireland, renowned... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Armies of the Irish Rebellion 1798
Written by Stuart Reid
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton and Samuel Embleton
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $17.95
A stunning exploration of a legendary moment in Irish history. In 1798 with the British Army preoccupied in fighting France in the Caribbean and Mediterranean as well as guarding Southeast England from threatened invasion, a co-ordinated uprising broke out across the water in Ireland. Uniquely this was neither a Catholic nor... Read more >
Written by Stuart Reid
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton and Samuel Embleton
Format: Trade Paperback, 48 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $17.95
A stunning exploration of a legendary moment in Irish history. In 1798 with the British Army preoccupied in fighting France in the Caribbean and Mediterranean as well as guarding Southeast England from threatened invasion, a co-ordinated uprising broke out across the water in Ireland. Uniquely this was neither a Catholic nor... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Armies of the Irish Rebellion 1798
Written by Stuart Reid
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $13.95
A stunning exploration of a legendary moment in Irish history. In 1798 with the British Army preoccupied in fighting France in the Caribbean and Mediterranean as well as guarding Southeast England from threatened invasion, a co-ordinated uprising broke out across the water in Ireland. Uniquely this was neither a Catholic nor... Read more >
Written by Stuart Reid
Illustrated by Gerry Embleton
Format: eBook, 48 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $13.95
A stunning exploration of a legendary moment in Irish history. In 1798 with the British Army preoccupied in fighting France in the Caribbean and Mediterranean as well as guarding Southeast England from threatened invasion, a co-ordinated uprising broke out across the water in Ireland. Uniquely this was neither a Catholic nor... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Northern Ireland Troubles
Operation Banner 1969-2007
Written by Aaron Edwards
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $19.95
No other modern British military campaign evokes as much emotion as the difficult and exceptionally lengthy operational deployment to Northern Ireland. Aaron Edward's new volume on the so-called 'Troubles' considers the strategic, operational and tactical level aspects of the British Army's longest ever campaign: the 38-year Military Aid to the Civil... Read more >
Operation Banner 1969-2007
Written by Aaron Edwards
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $19.95
No other modern British military campaign evokes as much emotion as the difficult and exceptionally lengthy operational deployment to Northern Ireland. Aaron Edward's new volume on the so-called 'Troubles' considers the strategic, operational and tactical level aspects of the British Army's longest ever campaign: the 38-year Military Aid to the Civil... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Northern Ireland Troubles
Operation Banner 1969-2007
Written by Aaron Edwards
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $15.95
No other modern British military campaign evokes as much emotion as the difficult and exceptionally lengthy operational deployment to Northern Ireland. Aaron Edward's new volume on the so-called 'Troubles' considers the strategic, operational and tactical level aspects of the British Army's longest ever campaign: the 38-year Military Aid to the Civil... Read more >
Operation Banner 1969-2007
Written by Aaron Edwards
Format: eBook, 96 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2011
Price: $15.95
No other modern British military campaign evokes as much emotion as the difficult and exceptionally lengthy operational deployment to Northern Ireland. Aaron Edward's new volume on the so-called 'Troubles' considers the strategic, operational and tactical level aspects of the British Army's longest ever campaign: the 38-year Military Aid to the Civil... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Great Shame
And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Written by Thomas Keneally
Format: eBook, 768 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2010
Price: $15.99
"Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us in The Great Shame a people despised and rejected to the... Read more >
And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
Written by Thomas Keneally
Format: eBook, 768 pages
On Sale: September 22, 2010
Price: $15.99
"Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us in The Great Shame a people despised and rejected to the... Read more >
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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: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2010
Price: $19.99
For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its monasteries and its wars. The artistic flourishing of the monasteries has received a good deal of attention, but the violent and varied wars have in recent years gone unremembered. In Wars of the Irish Kings, David Willis McCullough... Read more >
A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Written by David W. McCullough
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2010
Price: $19.99
For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its monasteries and its wars. The artistic flourishing of the monasteries has received a good deal of attention, but the violent and varied wars have in recent years gone unremembered. In Wars of the Irish Kings, David Willis McCullough... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
Written by Thomas Cahill
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2010
Price: $11.99
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 great... Read more >
Written by Thomas Cahill
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2010
Price: $11.99
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 great... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
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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 >
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 >
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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 >
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 >
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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: $11.99
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 Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation
Written by Janet Todd
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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 >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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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 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 >
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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 >
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 >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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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 >
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 >
Also available as an
eBook.
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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: $20.00
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 >
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: $20.00
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 >
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Irish Volunteer Soldier 1913-23
Written by Gerry White
Illustrated by Bill Younghusband
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: November 21, 2003
Price: $18.95
The political situation in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century was characterised by crisis and change. Armed rebellion against the British Crown, the prosecution of the Anglo-Irish War, the emergence of the Irish Free State, and the eruption of the Civil War over the treaty with Great Britain ensured... Read more >
Written by Gerry White
Illustrated by Bill Younghusband
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: November 21, 2003
Price: $18.95
The political situation in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century was characterised by crisis and change. Armed rebellion against the British Crown, the prosecution of the Anglo-Irish War, the emergence of the Irish Free State, and the eruption of the Civil War over the treaty with Great Britain ensured... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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How the Irish Saved Civilization
Written by Thomas Cahill
Read by Donal Donnelly
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $34.95
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 >
Written by Thomas Cahill
Read by Donal Donnelly
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $34.95
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 >
Also available as an
abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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