Ireland category: 1364 books

Cover of 46 Men Dead: The Royal Irish Constabulary in County Tipperary, 1919–22
by John Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

IN JANUARY 1919, AT SOLOHEADBEG IN COUNTY TIPPERARY, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) were killed by the IRA. In the four bloody years that followed, nearly 500 RIC men were killed and hundreds more wounded. In Tipperary alone, 46 policemen were killed, making it one of most violent...
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Belfast '69

Bombs, Burnings and Bigotry

by Andrew Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017

August 1969, Belfast. A campaign for civil rights in Northern Ireland that had begun less than two years previously degenerates into inter-communal violence. The three days of 13, 14 and 15 August changed the course of Northern Irish history by radicalising a whole generation of Catholic youths. On...
Cover of The Irish War of Independence in Kildare
by James Durney
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013

The Kildare IRA was heavily outnumbered by crown forces and had neither the manpower nor weaponry to seriously challenge them. With about 300 activists in County Kildare, and only about a third of them ready to take to the field at one time, they faced nearly 6,000 troops and hundreds of police and...
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The Walk Home

A Novel

by Rachel Seiffert
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

Stevie comes from a long line of people who have cut and run. Just like he has.   Only he’s not so sure he was right to go. He’s been to London, taught himself to get by, and now he’s working as a laborer not so far from his childhood home in Glasgow. But Stevie hasn’t told his family—what’s...
Cover of The Insurrection in Dublin
by James Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017

"The Insurrection In Dublin" is account of the Easter Rising by the poet and novelist James Stephens, first published in 1916. The event was an attempt by Irish nationalists to insight a full-blown rebellion against British rule with the intention of securing Ireland's independence. It was...
Cover of Funny Feckin' Irish Jokes: Humorous Jokes About Everything Irish...sure tis great craic!
by S Daly
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016

Did ya hear the one about the Irish boomerang?It doesn’t come back it just sings songs about how much it wants to!Do you Like funny feckin’ Irish jokes? Well then, you’ve come to the rite place! In this humorous eBook the author has made an epic collection of the funniest Irish jokes,...
Cover of Celtic Mythology
by John Arnott MacCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012

This classic study by a distinguished scholar recounts the ancient tales of Ireland and Wales. Written in a highly readable style, it will delight neophytes as well as those well versed in Celtic folklore with its lively tales of romance and love, of war and carnage, and of deeds both noble and villainous. Illustrations...
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The Book of Celtic Myths

From the Mystic Might of the Celtic Warriors to the Magic of the Fey Folk, the Storied History and Folklore of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales

by Adams Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016

Hear the tales of Gods, monsters, magic, and more! Warriors, poets, scholars, and visionaries--from the depths of time the ancient Celts have fascinated us. Their rich heritage lives on today. But who were they? From the Druids and fairies to King Arthur and Celtic Christianity, there...
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Irish Customs And Beliefs

Gentle places, simple things

by Kevin Danaher
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012

'Irish Customs and Beliefs' is a book of stories and beliefs of all kinds of things to do with old Ireland: highwaymen and travelling people, the Irish whiteboys, lost and hidden treasures. Beliefs associated with birds, insects, animals, plants, bushes, trees and stones, dwarfs and fabulous water monsters, ghosts, witches, castles and drowned cities.
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The Truth About the Irish

A Frank and Funny Look

by Terry Eagleton
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014

If you're looking for a field guide to leprechauns, The Truth About the Irish is not the book for you. But if you can handle a frank and funny look into the minds and hearts of Irish people, you've been touched by that fabled Irish luck. Covering all things Irish from Blarney to Yeats, renowned literary...
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Wonder Wisdom and War

Essays on early Ireland

by Brendan Halligan
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2015

This work by Brendan Halligan is comprised of four essays that explore areas of early Irish society and Old Irish, and were written as part of the author's undergraduate studies in Trinity College Dublin. The pieces cover four main themes:  the beginnings of writing in Old Irish; an examination...
Cover of Lonely Planet Dublin
by Lonely Planet, Fionn Davenport
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Dublin is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Sample a Guinness in a genuine Irish pub; soak in the academic atmosphere at Trinity College;...
Cover of Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity
by Lauren Onkey
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011

Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a "black"...
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Till the Cows Come Home

Memories of a Rural Childhood

by Lorna Sixsmith
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

One farm. Two worlds. Three generations. Fuelled by dreams of a rural idyll, Lorna Sixsmith and her husband swap the 9 to 5 for a return to her family's ancestral farm at Garrendenny. They love the fields and lanes of their corner of Ireland where their black and white herd flourishes,...
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