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Books
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France : A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle€11.99
'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPH
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Ultimate Witnesses: The Visual Culture of Death, Burial and Mourning in Famine Ireland€14.99
This folio encompasses a cross-section of representational forms and strategies of remembrance of the Famine dead who were, to borrow Giorgio Agamben's term, the "ultimate witnesses" to that tragic period.
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Limits of the Visible: Representing the Great Hunger€14.99
Luke Gibbons revisits representations of the Famine, particularly those in Ireland's Great Hunger Museum to argue that images can not only give visual pleasure but demand ethical interventions on the part of spectators.
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Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924 Gold, Silver and Green: The Irish Olympic Journey, 1896-1924Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €25.00
Winner of the best book on the Olympic Movement and Olympic history for 2010. The award was made by the International Society of Olympic Historians
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Behind the Green Curtain : Ireland's Phoney Neutrality during World War II€24.99
Irish diplomats spied for the United States during the course of the war. Irish diplomats in Europe carried messages and supplied information to the OSS - the predecessor of the CIA - with the full knowledge and consent of de Valera. Behind the Green Curtain is a comprehensive account of Irish neutrality, focusing strongly on the American - and to a lesser extent the Canadian - connection.