Search Results: Authors starting with R from The Irish History Bookshop

William Collins, 2019 Book. New. Soft cover. WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019 TIME's #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A must read' Gillian Flynn One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of the brutal crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades. Through the unsolved case of Jean McConville's abduction, Patrick Radden Keefe tells the larger story of the Troubles, investigating Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA, who bombed the Old Bailey; Gerry Adams, the politician who helped end the fighting but denied his IRA past; and Brendan Hughes, an IRA commander who broke their code of silence..

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 Book. New. Soft cover. The Policing of Belfast, 1870-1914 examines the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) in late Victorian Belfast in order to see how a semi-military, largely rural constabulary adapted to the problems that a city posed. Mark Radford explores whether the RIC, as the most public face of British government, was successful in controlling a recalcitrant Irish urban populace. This examination of the contrast in styles between urban and rural policing and semi-rural and civil constabulary offers an important insight into the social, political and military history of Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century. The book concludes by showing how governmental neglect of the force and its failure to comprehensively address the issues of pay and conditions of service ultimately led to crisis in the RIC..

Blackwater Press, 1993 Book. Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers. Mark on the end paper..

Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1906 Book. Good. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt titles and illustration. The spine is bumped at the head and tail and a little sunned. Slight lean to the spine. Rough cut page edges. Undated but believed to have been published in 1906. Includes speeches by Hon. H.B. Higgins and Hon. Alfred Deakin on Home Rule for Ireland in the Commonwealth Parliament..

University College, 2006 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Light wear to the card covers..

Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S., 2002 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers..

The History Press, 2015 Book. New. Soft cover. Offering a unique insight into the habitual inebriate offender class in Ireland, this book examines the inebriate reformatory system in Ireland from its foundation in 1900 until its closure in 1920 and the three institutions charged with punishing or rehabilitating habitual drunkards: The State Inebriate Reformatory, The Certified Inebriate Reformatory and The Voluntary Inebriate Retreat. Using registers of inmates, annual reports, court cases and institutional records, Conor Reidy presents a stark account of the ways in which alcohol addiction and lack of opportunity condemned countless Irish victims to lives of poverty, misery and crime in the early twentieth century. The author also looks at the ways in which institutional staff sought to exact reform over the inmates through education, training, religion and discipline. This book profiles a hitherto little-known system, giving it a place within the historiography of Ireland's complex web of… Read More

THP Ireland, 2007 Book. New. Soft cover. The north east Offaly market town of Edenderry is examined in this study by Edenderry native, Ciaran Reilly. The author reconstructs one hundred years of the towns history, charting Edenderry from before the famine, through the Home Rule crisis and the emergence of nationalism, culminating in the break up of the Downshire estate after the War of Independence and Civil War. Edenderry's involvement in WW1, the role of Edenderry in the War of Independence are recorded for the first time in one volume. 'Edenderry 1820-1920: Popular Politics and Downshire Rule' will provide a long-awaited history of Edenderry and also help to dispel many long held local myths..

O'Brien Press Ltd, 2023 Book. New. Hardback. This book commemorates the first fifty years of the Sam Maguire. Since its inception in 1928, it has become a cherished symbol in Irish sport. Dermot Reilly and Colm Keys provide thrilling accounts of each final and player details. A captivating read for GAA enthusiasts, "Chasing Sam Maguire" explores the highs and lows of pursuing Ireland's premier sporting honour..

Buvinda Historical Publications, 1990 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Light wear to the card covers. Old photographs of Drogheda..

Beyond the Pale Publications, 1999 Book. Good. Soft cover. Some wear to the card covers. The end papers are lightly foxed. The story of the Garvaghy Road as told by the residents..

The Collins Press, 2015 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the edge of the card covers. A unique history of the Irishmen who fought for the English in Ireland's April 1916 Easter Rising. History remembers the Rising as Irish rebel against English soldier, but the truth is more complicated. Thousands of British army soldiers in the Rising were Irishmen. Many enlisted to fight for Irish Home Rule or Ulster Unionism, to find adventure or escape from poverty. None imagined they would find themselves on the streets of Dublin, killing - and being killed by - fellow Irishmen. Forty-one Irishmen in the British army died in action during the Rising, 106 were wounded. These men became a forgotten part of their country's history. ""These men became a forgotten part of their country's history until their stories were told in this fascinating book.""--Irish Gazette ""In Neil Richardson's utterly absorbing new book he looks at the Irishmen who fought for the… Read More

Gill & Macmillan Ltd, 2005 Book. New. Soft cover. Medieval Ireland: The Enduring Tradition is an overview of Irish society from the coming of Christianity in the fourth century to the Reformation in the sixteenth. Such a broad survey reveals features otherwise not easily detected. For all the complexity of political developments, Irish society remained basically stable and managed to withstand the onslaught of both the Vikings and the English. The inherent strength of Ireland consisted in the cultural heritage from prehistoric times, which remained influential throughout the centuries discussed here. Irish history has traditionally been described either in isolation or in the manner in which it was influenced by outside forces, especially by England. This book strikes a different balance. First, the time span covered is longer than usual, and more attention is paid to the early medieval centuries than to the later period. Secondly, less emphasis is placed in this book on the political or… Read More

The Author, 1986 Book. Good. Soft cover. Some marks to the card covers..

Privately Printed., 1932 Book. Good. Hardcover. Bumped at the head and tail of the spine. Slight lean to the spine. The spine titles are faded..

Heron Books, 2016 Book. New. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 'Informed, impeccably researched and written' Neil Oliver 'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling' Brian Cox The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and their enduring legacy today. What emerges is not a wild people, but a highly sophisticated tribal culture that influenced the ancient world - and even Rome. It is the story of a multicultural civilization, linked by a common language. It is the story of how ideas travelled in prehistory, how technology and art spread across the continent. It is the story of a five-hundred year fight between two civilizations that came to define the world we live in today. It is the story of a culture that changed Europe forever. 'Roberts's lightness of… Read More

The Custodians of Knock Shrine, 1977 Book. Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. The card covers are a little rubbed. Crease at the bottom edge..

Margaret Robins, 2023 Book. New. Soft cover. Maggie Barrett is my great grandmother. She died where she lived, in Ballina, on the west coast of Ireland. My mother, Maureen, is likely the only person still living who knew Maggie. At 89 years of age, and having lived nearly seven decades in New Zealand, Maureen's childhood memories of her grandmother remain crisp and detailed. I was brought up on stories of Maggie, who was the kindest and loveliest grandmother a child could wish for. Two decades ago, I resolved to find Maggie's grave, to erect a headstone and to chronicle Maggie's life for her descendants. Despite my best efforts, my great grandmother still lies lost somewhere in the soil of Old Leigue Graveyard so, without a grave or a headstone, this book is, for now, the only tangible declaration that Maggie Barrett lived and died. I have remained, in this book, faithful to every discovered document and to every family memory. Where these 'snapshot' sources have fallen short, I… Read More

England: Faber & Faber, 2008 Book. New. Paperback. Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage is, as Robert Macfarlane says in his introduction, 'one of the most sustained, intensive and imaginative studies of a place that has ever been carried out'. That place is one of the most mysterious and oldest inhabited landscapes in the world, the islands of Aran off the west coast of Ireland. Tim Robinson's epic exploration of the desolate, storm-lashed, limestone rocks, which have already haunted generations of Irish writers, takes the form of a clockwise journey around the coast. Every cliff, inlet and headland reveals layers of myth and historical memory, and Robinson makes beautifully crafted observations about the habits of birds, plants and the humans who lived there and endured, leaving records in stone - on the walls, cairns and ancient forts - in story and in oral tradition. 13/11/2008.

Crown Publications, 1988 Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. A little wear to the dust jacket. Previous owner has written on the end paper..