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Books
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So Once Was I : Forgotten Tales from Glasnevin CemeterySpecial Price €15.99 Regular Price €19.99
Warren Farrell, having immersed himself in the cemetery’s history as a tour guide for the past seven years, set out to celebrate the lesser known figures and their contributions to the Irish state.
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The Disappeared : Forced Disappearances in Ireland 1798-1998€19.99
This book, the first of its kind, uncovers the extent to which ‘forced disappearances’ were part of the violent political conflicts that blighted Ireland for 200 years.
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Bad Bridget : Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women (Paperback)€12.99
Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many young women who travelled on their own, hoping for a better life. Some lived lives of quiet industry and piety.
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Coolfore, west Farney and the National School System, 1826–1968€20.00
Throughout rural Ireland, small single-storey stone buildings can be found, several bearing ‘national school’ on a stone plaque above the door. These are the schoolhouses that were a common feature of the built environment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The local national school was and still remains an essential institution in the social life of each parish.
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The Bill Gates Problem : Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire€20.99
You know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic, kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes around the world. But there's another side to Bill Gates.
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William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism€45.99
William Sharman Crawford (1780-1861) was the leading agrarian and democratic radical active in Ulster politics between the early 1830s and the 1850s. William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism is the first full biography of his life.
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Pilgrim Soul : W.B. Yeats and the Ireland of His Time€17.99
Marking the centenary of Yeats’s Nobel Prize, a timely guide to the work of Ireland’s national poet and the changing Ireland he lived through.
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Lives Less Ordinary: Dublin’s Fitzwilliam Square, 1798–1922€19.99
Fitzwilliam Square on the south side of Dublin provides the setting and a true-life cast of characters for Lives Less Ordinary, which examines how the people of this Georgian square impacted on the history of Dublin and the wider world.
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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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Noble Ambitions : The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House€15.99
From 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.