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Irish Social History
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The First Great Charity of This Town: Belfast Charitable Society and its Role in the Developing City€29.95This book explores the establishment and the developing role of Belfast Charitable Society in the emerging city of Belfast.
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The Guardians: 100 Years of An Garda Síochána 1922-2022 (Hardback)€29.99Richly illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs, this is the official book of An Garda Síochána in its centenary year.
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Ireland’s Special Branch€19.99The inside story of their battle with the IRA and other groups 1922-1947
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Sisters: Nine Families of sisters who made a difference€25.00Nine writers trace the public and private lives of nine sets of sisters. Artists, publishers, writers, educationalists, philanthropists, revolutionaries, suffragists - thinkers all.
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A History of the Fastnet Lighthouse€39.99The Fastnet Lighthouse is one of the most exposed lighthouses in the world. It is also a truly exceptional feat of design, engineering and construction, the 'jewel in the crown' of Irish lighthouses.
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The Irish Garden : A Cultural History (Paperback)€25.00This book is a rhapsody on themes of Irishness, as if the spirit and soul of Ireland itself were sometimes more visible in these places than in the more conventionally visited locations of battlefields, breweries and bars.
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Her Keys to the City: Honouring the Women who made DublinSpecial Price €17.99 Regular Price €19.99
Just four women were among the 83 people given the Freedom of the City of Dublin since the award was inaugurated in 1876 to June 2022. The genesis of this book lies in wanting, in some way, to address this very obvious gender imbalance and to showcase a variety of the very many accomplished women who lived before us.
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The Least of These : The Tragic Story of Dublin's Foundling Hospital€24.99Lying at the very edge of the eighteenth-century city, behind high walls and forbidding gates, the Dublin Foundling Hospital was long viewed with horror and suspicion.
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Guardians of the Peace: The Early Years of the Irish Police ForceSpecial Price €16.99 Regular Price €19.99
As the force approaches one hundred years since its founding, it is hoped that this history will evoke the ideals and the founding principles adopted in 1922 and perhaps help to re-interpret and re-apply them in a 21st Century context.
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Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland: A history of amiable excess (Hardback)Special Price €36.99 Regular Price €39.99
So much red wine from Bordeaux was being consumed by Ireland’s nobility and gentry that Jonathan Swift referred to it as ‘Irish wine’, in the full knowledge that his correspondent would understand that he meant claret.
