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Books
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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber : The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale€12.99
The astonishing story of the English heiress who devoted her life to the IRAShe grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate.
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Nurses and Mid-Wives in Borrisokane and Nenagh poor law unions, 1882-1922€13.99
This study examines how the professionalization and development of nursing and midwifery in the nineteenth century was reflected in the poor-law unions of Borrisokane and Nenagh in Co. Tipperary between 1882 and 1922.
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The Paper Chase : The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers€11.99
In the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and the promise of protection.
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An Unconsidered People : The Irish in London - Updated Edition€14.99
New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the multifarious lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Before the 'Ryanair Generation', leaving home was for good.
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River Kings : The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads€11.99
This superb book is like a classical symphony, perfectly composed and exquisitely performed. THE TIMES Books of the Year Follow bioarchaeologist Cat Jarman, and the cutting-edge forensic techniques central to her research, as she uncovers epic stories of the Viking age and follows a small, Carnelian, bead found in a Viking grave in Derbyshire to its origins thousands of miles to the east in Gujarat.
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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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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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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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The Dirty War€13.99
1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland. Rioting in Derry's Bogside led to the deployment of British troops and a shortlived, uneasy truce.