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Irish History
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Two Lives of Saint Brigid€19.99
St 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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Charles III : New King. New Court. The Inside Story.€20.99
The death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was a moment of profound shock and grief for the nation. She had been a steadfast presence for seventy years but now, suddenly, the future of the monarchy rested on the shoulders of her son, then aged seventy-three.
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Bad Bridget : Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women (Paperback)€12.99
Ireland 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)Special Price €10.39 Regular Price €12.99
A 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€20.00
Throughout 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€29.99
Fenianism 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.
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Endgame (Hardback)€27.99
The 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)€26.99
The 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€20.99
You 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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Christmas and the Irish : A Miscellany€25.00
Following the success of the three-volume series, Birth, Marriage and Death and the Irish (2016-2021), this collection examines the celebration of Christmas among the Irish, from the seventh century to the present day.