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Books
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Who Really Owns Ireland?Special Price €15.99 Regular Price €19.99
An eye-opening account of land and property ownership in Ireland. How we became tenants in our own land – and what we can do about it. SHORTLISTED IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 – Non-Fiction Book of the Year
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Tales from the Tower : A Personal History of the James Joyce Tower and Museum by its Curators€17.99Accompanied by a rich selection of photographs of the people and events in the museum’s history, this book is not only a history of an amazing local landmark and tourist trail highlight, but a treasure trove for Joyceans everywhere.
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Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe€17.99Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic access to political power. Her forceful paintings with their vigorous female protagonists have excited modern audiences, especially feminists.
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Cleopatra's Daughter : Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen€15.99Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra VII of Egypt and Mark Antony, was the only member of the Ptolemaic dynasty to survive after her parents were defeated by the future Roman emperor Augustus at the Battle of Actium.
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Noble Ambitions : The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House€15.99From the bestselling author of The Long Weekend: a wild, sad and sometimes hilarious tour of the English country house after the Second World War, when Swinging London collided with aristocratic values.
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Asylum: Inside Grangegorman€18.99What was the life of a patient in an asylum really like? Through letters, medical records and doctors' notes, Brendan Kelly gives us a glimpse inside Grangegorman and the lives of those who lived and worked there.
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The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn : A Life Revealed through Personal Writing€45.99The diaries of Dr Kathleen Lynn, 1916-1955, cover her involvement in the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence, the Civil War, and the formative three and a half decades of the Irish Free State. They demonstrate the revolutionary, socialist and feminist fervour of a radical revolutionary woman, what motivated her and the work she did for women, workers, and Ireland.
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Killers of the Flower Moon (Film Tie-In)€11.99Now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, and the Number One international bestseller The Wager, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI's first major homicide investigations.
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Personality and Power : Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe€17.99One of the great historians of our age asks: how far can a single leader alter the course of history? The modern era saw the emergence of individuals who had command over a terrifying array of instruments of control, persuasion and death. Whole societies were re-shaped and wars fought, often with a merciless contempt for the most basic norms.
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The Northern Ireland Troubles : 1969–2007 (Essential Histories)€16.99Updated and revised for the new edition, with full-colour maps and 50 new images, this is an accessible introduction to the complicated yet fascinating history of modern Britain's longest military campaign.
