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Irish History
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The Deadly Game : A British Army Secret Agent Handler in the Troubles£22.39Will Britten provides a unique insight into one of the most successful intelligence units of all time, and the part they played in ultimately bringing Republican terror to the negotiating table.
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The Big Book of Celtic Gods and Goddesses (Hardback)Special Price £7.57 Regular Price £9.47
Beautifully illustrated this fascinating book is full of ancient Celtic wisdom and folklore.
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Eamonn Mallie : Eyewitness to War and Peace£17.22An unflinching testament to the power of investigative reporting and the enduring pursuit of peace, this is a must-read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Northern Ireland’s troubled past and its hopeful future.
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The Disappeared : Forced Disappearances in Ireland 1798-1998£17.22This 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)£21.52How 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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Two Lives of Saint Brigid£17.22St Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at Kildare which became one of the most powerful and influential centres of the Church in early Ireland.
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Bad Bridget : Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women (Paperback)£11.19Ireland 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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The Little Book of Antrim (Paperback)£11.19A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped into time and again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage and the secrets of this ancient county.
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Coolfore, west Farney and the National School System, 1826–1968£17.23Throughout 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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The Fenian Rising : James Stephens and the Irish Republican Brotherhood, 1858-1867£25.83Fenianism was the Irish separatist movement committed to winning Irish freedom through revolution. Defeated often, its tremendous resilience enabled it to rise time and again, phoenix-like, until it eventually inspired the 1916 Easter Rising, soon followed by an Irish War of Independence that finally established an Irish Free State.
