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Books
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The World's War : Forgotten Soldiers of Empire€12.99
In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War - a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe.
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Thomas Cromwell : A Life€15.99
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obscurity in Putney, he became a fixer for Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520s. After Wolsey's fall, Henry VIII promoted him to a series of ever greater offices, and by the end of the 1530s he was effectively running the country for the King.
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The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin : A model of Victorian craftsmanship€50.00
This volume addresses the most influential Victorian building in the city of Dublin and explores the new standard which it set in the use of Irish decorative stone, the employment of native craftsmen and the unprecedented eclecticism of its design.
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Drawing the Line : The Irish Border in British Politics€9.99
Although it is approaching a century in existence, the Irish border is currently one of the most topical issues in British politics. For most of its existence, the border rarely impinged on the consciousness of most British people, until the outbreak of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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The Butchering Art : Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine€12.99
The story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world - the safest time to be alive in human history.
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Working Class Heroines : The Extraordinary Women of Dublin's Tenements€17.99
In Working Class Heroines acclaimed historian Kevin C. Kearns brings us the voices of the forgotten women of Dublin's tenements. If it weren't for his work the lives of these everyday heroines would be lost forever.
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Mapping Laois from the 16th to the 21st century€35.00
The author reviews and contextualizes the extraordinarily rich diversity of manuscripts and printed maps that record the changing political, economic, and social circumstances of an Irish county over nearly five centuries.
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Mrs Guinness : The Rise and Fall of Diana Mitford, the Thirties Socialite€11.99
Before Diana Mitford's disgrace as a social pariah, she was a celebrated member of the Bright Young Things, moving at the centre of 1920s and '30s London high society.
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The Famine Plot : England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy€14.99
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger.
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Battle of the Atlantic€15.99
The Battle of the Atlantic - a name coined by Churchill - was the unremitting assault that went on throughout the war on Allied merchant ships that were the lifeline of Great Britain and, from 1941, Russia by aircraft, surface ships but, above all, by the U-boat.