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Books
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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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No Foreign Game: Association Football and the Making of Irish Identities€21.99
Carefully weaving together political, social, cultural and sporting history, No Foreign Game tells the story of Association Football in Ireland – a story not just of division and conflict, but also one of solidarity and celebration.
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From Gaillimh to Galway: The Anglicisation of Irish Place Names€20.99
Have you ever wondered where your town or townland name came from? Do you want to know more about an Irish locality? Well if so this is the book for you.
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The Presidents' Letters : An Unexpected History of Ireland(Paperback)€21.99
With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents' Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde.
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Sisters: Nine Families of sisters who made a difference€25.00
Nine writers trace the public and private lives of nine sets of sisters. Artists, publishers, writers, educationalists, philanthropists, revolutionaries, suffragists - thinkers all.
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The Irish Garden : A Cultural History (Paperback)€25.00
This book is a rhapsody on themes of Irishness, as if the spirit and soul of Ireland itself were sometimes more visible in these places than in the more conventionally visited locations of battlefields, breweries and bars.
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The Least of These : The Tragic Story of Dublin's Foundling Hospital€24.99
Lying at the very edge of the eighteenth-century city, behind high walls and forbidding gates, the Dublin Foundling Hospital was long viewed with horror and suspicion.
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Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941): Artist, Social Campaigner and City Councillor€22.95
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) was one of Dublin's finest portrait painters but also immersed herself in the political and social fabric of Dublin life, becoming the first female City Councillor in 1912.
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The Last Irish Question€21.99
Will Six into Twenty-Six Ever Go? Patterson is a witty, brilliant observer and this will be a highly enjoyable as well as alarmingly topical book.