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Irish Social History
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So Once Was I : Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin CemeterySpecial Price €15.99 Regular Price €19.99
Warren Farrell, having immersed himself in the cemetery’s history as a tour guide for the past seven years, set out to celebrate the lesser known figures and their contributions to the Irish state.
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The Disappeared : Forced Disappearances in Ireland 1798-1998€19.99This book, the first of its kind, uncovers the extent to which ‘forced disappearances’ were part of the violent political conflicts that blighted Ireland for 200 years.
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Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets (Irish Memoir Hardback)€24.99How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. . .
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Bad Bridget : Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women (Paperback)€12.99Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety.
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Coolfore, west Farney and the National School System, 1826–1968€20.00Throughout rural Ireland, small single-storey stone buildings can be found, several bearing ‘national school’ on a stone plaque above the door. These are the schoolhouses that were a common feature of the built environment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The local national school was and still remains an essential institution in the social life of each parish.
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Endgame (Hardback)€27.99The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy.
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Dear Gay: Letters to The Gay Byrne Show (Hardback)€26.99The story of a nation, a handwritten history of Ireland – as seen through the letters written to Gay Byrne
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The Bill Gates Problem : Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire€20.99You know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world. But there's another side to Bill Gates.
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William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism€45.99William Sharman Crawford (1780-1861) was the leading agrarian and democratic radical active in Ulster politics between the early 1830s and the 1850s. William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism is the first full biography of his life.
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Moygara Castle, County Sligo, and the O'Garas of Coolavin€50.00Moygara Castle, with its four towers, gatehouse, and high curtain walls, is one of the most impressive masonry-built monuments in north Connacht. Constructed in the late fourteenth/early fifteenth century by the O'Garas, the castle functioned as a centre of their lordship of Coolavin.
