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Irish History
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Spike Island: The Rebels, Residents and Crafty Criminals of Ireland's Historic IslandSpecial Price €15.19 Regular Price €18.99
A compelling and accessible journey through Irish history, featuring interviews with former Spike Island residents, soldiers and convicts
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A History of Irish Republicanism in Dundee c1840 to 1985€18.99
A History of Irish Republicanism in Dundee is a milestone analysis of Dundee’s role in Irish Republican history and provides an engaging and gripping narrative and insight into a lesser known aspect of Dundee’s past.
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Eamonn Mallie : Eyewitness to War and PeaceSpecial Price €15.99 Regular Price €19.99
An 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 1798-1998Special Price €15.99 Regular Price €19.99
This 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€23.99
How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and Baby Home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up in an institution not far from the farm where Clair spent happy childhood summers. Yet she was never told of her existence.
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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.