The Irish Story: 3 books
by Gillian O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
The story of Ireland's bloody and doomed rebellion of 1798.
The 1798 Rebellion forms a central part of the narrative of modern Irish History. It marks at once the formation of a unified catholic and protestant movement for independence and the beginning of the end for the home rule experiment...
by Michael B. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
If 1916 is the founding myth of the Irish state then the famine is the founding tragedy.
It was a tragedy on a truly epic scale, the events of the famine came to pass not in one of the worlds poorest nations, but in what was at the time part of metropolitan Britain (following...
by Fin Keegan
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The story of Ireland's most famous writer, James Joyce.
James Joyce is one of Ireland’s most celebrated authors, but he spent much of his life in exile from his native country.
In this short, informative biography, Fin Keegan explores the life and times of the...