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Irish Political History
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Girls Like You : The Long Road Back from Bessborough€15.00
Written with pathos and humour, Girls Like You, is a reflection on growing up in the early 1970s in the Irish Midlands.
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Northern Protestants: On Shifting GroundSpecial Price €16.99 Regular Price €19.99
Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, 'Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People', Susan McKay talks again to the Protestant community in Northern Ireland. Based on almost 100 brand-new interviews, and told with McKay's trademark passion and conviction, this is essential reading.
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The Partition : Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend (Author)Special Price €24.99 Regular Price €29.99
A compelling history of the turbulent journey to Irish independence, published for the centenary of the Partitioning the aftermath of the horrors of the Irish Famine, the grim, distrustful relationship between Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom deteriorated into a generations-long argument about 'Home Rule'.
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Saving the State : Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar€26.99
When Fine Gael entered a coalition government with Fianna Fail in 2020 the party did what would have been unthinkable for its forefathers who fought and won a bitter civil war to establish the institutions of an independent Irish state almost a century earlier.
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Republic of Shame : How Ireland Punished 'Fallen Women' and Their Children€14.99
Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish state, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of 'fallen women'. In the Magdalene laundries, girls and women were incarcerated and condemned to servitude.
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Building the Irish Courthouse and Prison : A Political History, 1750-1850€39.99
This book is the first national history of the building of some of Ireland's most important historic public buildings.
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Real Irish New York : A Rogue's Gallery of Fenians, Tough Women, Holy Men, Blasphemers, Jesters, and a Gang of Other Colorful Characters€18.99
As they entered their 600th year of British occupation, the Irish looked to America.
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Richard Mulcahy : From the Politics of War to the Politics of Peace 1913-1930 (Hardback)Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €24.99
Chief of Staff of the IRA, successor to Michael Collins as Commander in Chief of the National Army, founding member of Cumann na nGaedheal and later leader of Fine Gael.
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Liam Mellows : Soldier of the Irish Republic ~ Selected Writings, 1914-1924€18.99
This landmark study of the life of republican leader Liam Mellows brings together letters, speeches, political writings and captured IRA documents to explore his short but dramatic life.