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Books
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Fatherland : A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets€12.99
What do we owe the past? How to make peace with a dark family history? Burkhard Bilger hardly knew his grandfather growing up. His parents immigrated to Oklahoma from Germany after World War II, and though his mother was an historian, she rarely talked about her father or what he did during the war.
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Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction€10.99
A Very Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Peloponnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty naval coalition. The war would last until Sparta finally brough Athens to its knees in 404.
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The Long Game : Inside Sinn Fein (Paperback)€11.99
Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland Sinn Féin, long widely-regarded as the political wing of the Provisional IRA, is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic.
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Galway : City of HeritageSpecial Price €13.59 Regular Price €16.99
This highly illustrated work examines the heritage of Galway through the medieval, Victorian and Georgian periods. Pat Dargan celebrates the historic value of the city of Galway and brings to light the significance of the city’s heritage and local history.
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Backbone of the Nation : Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85€14.99A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families.
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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia€12.99The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was home to several thousand pirates.
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A Little Girl in Auschwitz : A heart-wrenching true story of survival, hope and love€12.99Lidia was just three years old when she arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with her mother, a member of the partisan resistance from Belarus. The bewildered little girl was picked out by Dr Josef Mengele for his sadistic experiments and sent to the infamous children's block, where every day was a fight for survival.
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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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The Wager (Paperback)€14.99A mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil.
