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Irish Social History
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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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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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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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William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism€45.99
William 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€50.00
Moygara 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.
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Pilgrim Soul : W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time€17.99
Marking the centenary of Yeats’s Nobel Prize, a timely guide to the work of Ireland’s national poet and the changing Ireland he lived through.
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Milltown: A History (Hardback)€49.99
Recover the lost history of Milltown, County Dublin in this first stand-alone history of the old village of Milltown, County Dublin.
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Lives Less Ordinary: Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Square, 1798–1922€19.99
Fitzwilliam Square on the south side of Dublin provides the setting and a true-life cast of characters for Lives Less Ordinary, which examines how the people of this Georgian square impacted on the history of Dublin and the wider world.