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Books
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In Our Day: An Oral History of Dublin’s Bygone Days (Hardback)Special Price €19.99 Regular Price €24.99
In Our Day is the culmination of a life’s work – a treasure trove bursting with whispers from the past – 450 vignettes, memories and recollections gathered to present an evocative, poignant portrait of a forgotten Dublin.
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Days in the life: Reading the Michael Collins Diaries 1918-1922 (Hardback)€19.99
In this book, Michael Collins’s biographers, Anne Dolan and William Murphy, capture the nature of this new Collins source. They reflect on how the diaries change what we know about him, and challenge us to think differently about his life.
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The Way We Were : Catholic Ireland Since 1922Special Price €17.99 Regular Price €19.99
At a time when the values of Catholic Ireland are so often viewed in a negative, even hostile, light, Mary Kenny's approach is a balanced and measured recollection of the Ireland of our times - and of times past, since the foundation of the Irish state a hundred years ago.
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Richard Mulcahy : From the Politics of War to the Politics of Peace 1913-1930 (Hardback)Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €24.99
Chief of Staff of the IRA, successor to Michael Collins as Commander in Chief of the National Army, founding member of Cumann na nGaedheal and later leader of Fine Gael.
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Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy (Hardback)Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €29.99
Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy throws opens a new window on an unknown aspect of Irish social history, while also demonstrating Ireland’s significant contribution to the global history of female education.
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Murtai Og : Murtai Og O Suilleabhain (c.1710-54) A Life Contextualised (Hardback)Special Price €17.99 Regular Price €24.99
This book will be of interest to social and economic historians of Ireland, of the Cork and Kerry region and to those interested in contacts between Ireland and the continent in the 18th century.
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On Raglan Road: Great Irish Love Songs and the Women Who Inspired Them (Hardback)€17.99
This lively collection uncovers for the first time how great Irish love songs came to be, and includes engaging biographies of the songwriters and their muses
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Éamon de Valera: A Will to Power (Hardback)Special Price €14.99 Regular Price €24.99
This biography reconciles an acknowledgement of de Valera's catastrophic failure in 1921-22, when his petulant rejection of the Anglo-Irish Treaty shaped the dimensions of a bloody civil war, with an appreciation of his subsequent greatness as the statesman who single-handedly severed the ties with Britain and defined nationalist Ireland's sense of itself.
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John Hunt: The Man, The Medievalist, The Connoisseur€19.99It tells amazing stories of discovery, dealing, war, great scholarship, false accusations, generosity and legacy