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Irish History
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The Big Book of Celtic Gods and Goddesses (Hardback)Special Price €8.79 Regular Price €10.99
Beautifully illustrated this fascinating book is full of ancient Celtic wisdom and folklore.
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Eamonn Mallie : Eyewitness to War and PeaceSpecial Price €16.99 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 1798-1998€19.99This 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 (Irish Memoir Hardback)€24.99How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. . .
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Two Lives of Saint Brigid€19.99St 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.€20.99The 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)€12.99Ireland 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)€12.99A 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€20.00Throughout 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€29.99Fenianism 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.
