Search Results: Titles starting with F from The Irish History Bookshop

Bookmart Ltd, 1994 Book. Good. Hardcover. A little wear to the dustjacket..

Lagan Books, 2008 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers..

Duckworth, 1935 Book. Good. Hardcover. Ex college library. The boards and spine are bumped and rubbed. Remnants of label and stamp on the end paper. Light foxing to the edge of the pages..

Colin Smythe Ltd, 1977 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book..

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2015 Book. New. Soft cover. A magical collection of twenty classic Irish fairy tales by one of Ireland's greatest writers, the Nobel Prize-winning W. B. Yeats - with intricate, traditional illustrations throughout by P. J. Lynch. These short, carefully selected stories are told with humour and warmth, drawing on the glorious storytelling tradition of Ireland. With enchanting portrayals of witches, fairies, giants, pixies, hobgoblins and people of the otherworld, plus a notes section that traces the fascinating origin of each story, this book provides the perfect introduction to Irish myths and legends for curious new readers and fans of Yeats alike..

Irish Academic Press Ltd, 2009 Book. New. Hardcover. The Franciscan friar Flaithri O Maolchonaire was a man of many roles: Gaelic scholar and educator, special envoy, and consummate politician with deep religious convictions. Benjamin Hazard has written a fascinating and engaging study of this flawed yet brilliant man and his times. O Maolchonaire left Ireland in the 1590s after Tudor state-building policies had spread from the Pale into regions previously controlled by his family's powerful Gaelic allies. He studied at the University of Salamanca, leaving him ideally placed to act as diplomatic agent between the Ulster earls and the Spanish crown 15 years later. He first gained renown when Spain intervened in Ireland's Nine Years War after which O Maolchonaire used his influence to find employment for battle-hardened Irish veterans in the Spanish armed forces. With the favor this gained for him at the Spanish court, he established St. Anthony's College at the University of Leuven,… Read More

HarperCollins, 1999 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. The dust jacket is creased. The page edges are tanned..

Andalus Press, 2021 Book. New. Hardcover. A brand new book..

Mercier Press, 2011 Book. New. Soft cover. Focusing on the people and the decisons they made, 'The Fall of Dublin' examines the attack on the Four Courts and the subsequent fighting in Dublin in June and July 1922 which signalled the beginning of the Irish Civil War. With the use of new sources the book challenges many of the pre-conceived thoughts on the fighting in Dublin - the role of the leadership on both sides, the personalities of those involved and even the destruction of the Four Courts. These sources not only shed new light on the conflict itself, but more importantly they are invaluable in telling the stories of the ordinary men and women on both sides of the divide who for many years have been forgotten. They include memoirs from people on the ground, military history bureau witness statements, a complete garrison list of people in the Four Courts, a copy of the army constitution and the proposed Free State constitution, and a copy of the republican proclamation..

The Mercier Press Ltd, 1997 Book. Good. Soft cover. The card cover is creased. This is the story of Haughey's controversial career, from the 1960s to date, drawing extensively on personal recollection. The book is a reissue of Ryle Dwyer's "Haughey's Thirty Years of Controversy", with a new updated chapter on recent events in the Haughey saga. Charles Haughey and controversy have always been synonymous. He has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions in four different decades: in the 1960s and 1970s as Fianna Fail minister; and in the 1980s as a Taoiseach minister. When Sean Doherty finally blew the whistle on the "Liffeygate" scandal - the earlier tapping of the telephones of political journalists - Haughey fell from power in 1992. But it was the events of 1997, particularly the Payments to Politicians Tribunal, that finally toppled Charles Haughey. Fired by his prodigious self-belief, reassured by his ability to literally rise from the… Read More

Irish Academic Press, 1998 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers. Previous owners name on the end paper..

Mercier Press, 2010 Book. Good. Soft cover. This book introduces the reader to the origins and effects of the Irish Famine, focusing on Galway and the surrounding areas of Tuam, Loughrea, Ballinasloe, Athenry, Gort, Oranmore, Clifden and more. Being a port town and the main population centre in Connacht, Galway witnessed the daily influx of human wretchedness and the suffering of destitute people seeking 'salvation' in the feared workhouse. The human misery that began appearing in the streets of Galway in 1846 shocked the authorities and terrified its inhabitants. The only escape route for many people was to place themselves at the mercy of the sea and the long perilous voyage on board one of the many dreaded 'coffin ships' which served Galway during those years. The journey was long and hazardous, and proved fatal for many thousands of people such was their weakened state, and for them there was only a 'watery grave.' The rebellion of 1848 and some violent incidents are… Read More

Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 Book. New. Soft cover. During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this sweeping history Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. In what The Boston Globe calls "his greatest achievement," Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration. Unflinching in depicting… Read More

Cork University Press, 2020 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book. The remarkable story of the money sent by the Choctaw to the Irish in 1847 is one that is often told and remembered by people in both nations. This gift was sent to the Irish from the Choctaw at the height of the Great Irish Famine, just sixteen years after the Choctaw began their march on the Trail of Tears toward the areas west of the Mississippi River. Famine Pots honours that extraordinary gift and provides further context about and consideration of this powerful symbol of cross-cultural synergy through a collection of essays and poems that speak volumes of the empathy and connectivity between the two communities. As well as signalling patterns of movement and exchange, this study of the gift exchange invites reflection on processes of cultural formation within Choctaw and Irish society alike, and sheds light on long-time concerns surrounding spiritual and social identities. This volume aims to facilitate a fuller understanding… Read More

Penguin, 1964 Book. Good. Soft cover. The spine is creased and there is wear to the card covers..

Currach Press, 2006 Book. Good. Hardcover. The dust jacket is creased. The text is clean and the binding is tight..

Brandon, 1984 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Light wear to the card covers..

University College Dublin Press, 2019 Book. New. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. This full-length biographical study - substantially rewritten and updated - of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century is now reissued by UCD Press. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, part of a pioneering generation, played a significant role in the early Irish Republic. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was a leading figure in the suffrage movement, she was an activist in the anti-war movement of 1914-18 and was an executive member of Sinn Fein. She opposed the Free State and provided consistent support for women's resistance to anti-women measures enacted by both Cumann na nGaedheal and Fianna Fail. Her later career saw her as an electoral candidate to the Dail in 1943 and she proved herself fearless in her fight for justice, confronting both the British Prime Minister and the President of the United States of America. Incorporating new archival research and featuring an array of newly discovered images,… Read More

O'Brien Press, 2009 Book. New. Hardcover. Forget the boring stuff you learned in school. Here's the REAL skinny on Irish history. Invasions, Emergencies, one Big Rising, all sorts of Troubles; the Siege of Limerick (continuing), Paddy of the Snakes, Niall of the Nine Hostages, The Big Fella, The Long Fella, Aer Lingus and the Flight of the Earls, Daniel O'Connell, Wolfe Tone and other singers, Gun-running at Howth, Wind-surfing at Lahinch; the IRB, the IRA, the EEC, the GAA, the Celtic Tiger, RIP. With illustrations that put the Book of Kells in the ha'penny place..

Cork University Press, 2021 Book. New. Hardcover. This book is the first to explore the archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland, primarily from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Nuns are known from history, but this book considers their archaeology and upstanding architecture through perspectives such as gender and landscape. It discusses the archaeological remains associated with female monasticism in Ireland as it is currently understood and offers insights into how these religious communities might have lived and interacted with their local communities. It briefly includes female religious of the early medieval period, other female religious, such as anchorites, while providing a wider European monastic context. While some nunneries used what is considered a typical monastic layout-of a church and other buildings arranged around a central area-this research has found that in many cases a nunnery was a small church with attached accommodation, or a separate dwelling; particularly… Read More