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  • The Graves Are Walking

    The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

    by John Kelly ...
    “Though the story of the potato famine has been told before, it’s never been as thoroughly reported or as hauntingly told.” —New York PostIt started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century—it ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Say Nothing

    A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN FX LIMITED SERIES STREAMING ON HULU • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • From the author of *Empire of Pain—*a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.One of The New York Times’s 20 Best Books of the 21st Century**"Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Immortal Irishman

    The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero

    by Timothy Egan ...
    In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.A dashing young orator during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison ... Read more

    $16.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism

    From Galway to Cloyne and beyond

    This book traces the steady decline in Irish Catholicism from the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1979 up to the Cloyne report into clerical sex abuse in that diocese in 2011. The young people awaiting the Pope’s address in Galway were entertained by two of Ireland’s most charismatic clerics, Bishop Eamon Casey and Fr Michael Cleary, both of whom were subsequently revealed to have been engaged in ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Coffin Ship

    Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine

    Series Book 4 - The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyA vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great FamineThe standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Co... ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A Little History of Dublin

    by Trevor White ...
    Irish village. Viking town. English city. Proud European capital.A Little History of Dublin is a high-speed history of life in the Irish capital. The key events are explained in short, digestible chapters, and the reader can expect to discover the complete history of Dublin in the time it takes to walk from Dollymount to Dalkey.Incident, humour and humanity are privileged throughout this history ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Confession of St. Patrick

    by St. Patrick ...
    Translated by Thomas Olden ...
    Ireland, in the fifth century, was divided into five provinces, each governed by a king, under whom were several lesser chieftains. These provincial kings were themselves subject to the supreme monarch, who resided in the royal palace of Tara; but they appear not to have shown much regard to his authority beyond the payment of a regulated tribute. It might be supposed, from the way in which some ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rory and Ita

    by Roddy Doyle ...
    Combining Rory and Ita’s marvelous storytelling ability with Roddy Doyle’s legendary skill in illuminating ordinary experience, Rory & Ita is a book of tremendous warmth and humanity.Roddy Doyle’s first non-fiction book tells—largely in their own words—the story of his parents’ lives. They remember every detail of their Dublin childhoods—the people, the politics, idyllic times in the Wexford ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Famine Ships

    The Irish Exodus to America

    by Edward Laxton ...
    A “fascinating” account of the experiences of the Irish emigrants who fled a catastrophic crop failure and built new lives across the Atlantic (Library Journal).Between 1846 and 1851, more than one million people—the potato famine emigrants—sailed from Ireland to America. The Famine Ships tells of the courage and determination of those who crossed the Atlantic in leaky, overcrowded sailing ships ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Trad Nation

    Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music

    by Tes Slominski ...
    Series series Music / Culture
    Just how "Irish" is traditional Irish music? Trad Nation combines ethnography, oral history, and archival research to challenge the longstanding practice of using ethnic nationalism as a framework for understanding vernacular music traditions. Tes Slominski argues that ethnic nationalism hinders this music's development today in an increasingly multiethnic Ireland and in the transnational Irish ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Undiscovered Country

    by Aidan McQuade ...
    'A smart and pacy debut' Irish Times‘One is struck by its mordant wit and fierce intelligence’ Martin W. Sandler, National Book Award-winning author and historian'A cracker read about morality and ethics in a time of conflict . . . A really accessible way of getting into complex stuff on nation-building and justice' Claire Hanna, MP for Belfast South1920, the Irish War of Independence. Amid the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Monk

    The Life and Crimes of Ireland's Most Enigmatic Gang Boss

    by Paul Williams ...
    On the streets of the tough Dublin inner-city neighbourhood where he grew up, Gerry Hutch was perceived as an ordinary decent criminal, a quintessential Robin Hood figure who fought the law - and won. To the rest of the world he was an elusive criminal godfather called the Monk: an enigmatic criminal mastermind and the hunted leader of one side in the deadliest gangland feud in Irish criminal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Search of Angels

    Travels to the Edge of the World

    “This account of four west coast journeys in search of the remnants of the earliest Christian missionaries is intriguing . . . Moffat is an engaging guide.” —The ScotsmanFourteen centuries ago, Irish saints brought the Word of God to the Hebrides and Scotland’s Atlantic shore. These “white martyrs” sought solitude, remoteness, even harshness, in places apart from the world where they could fast, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Birthright: The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped

    The astonishing story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Kidnapped.In 1728, in the wake of his father’s death, the twelve-year-old heir to five aristocratic titles and the scion of Ireland’s mighty house of Annesley was kidnapped by his uncle and shipped to America as an indentured servant. Only after twelve more years did “Jemmy” Annesley at last escape, returning to Ireland to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • There Will Be Fire

    Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

    by Rory Carroll ...
    ****A Goodreads Choice Awards Nomination for Best History & Biography****An NPR Book We Love**A race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA’s attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed.**A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Prisoners of War: Ballykinlar, An Irish Internment Camp 1920-1921

    Ballykinlar Internment Camp was the first mass internment camp to be established by the British in Ireland during the War of Independence. Situated on the County Down coast and opened in December 1920, it became home to hundreds of Irish men arrested by the British, often on little more than the suspicion of involvement in the IRA. Held for up to a year, and subjected to often brutal treatment and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Ancient Britain

    by Neil Oliver ...
    Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy?In A History of Ancient Britain, much-loved historian Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the very beginnings of the story of Britain; on the first people to occupy these islands and their battle for survival.There has been human habitation in Britain, regularly interrupted by Ice Ages, for the best part of a million years. The last ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors 3rd Edition

    An Essential Guide to Researching and Documenting the Family Histories of Ireland's People

    by Ian Maxwell ...
    Whether you're eager to hold on to EU citizenship post-Brexit or simply interested in exploring your family's past, learn how to research and document your Irish ancestry with this essential guide, newly updated to include the latest genealogy tools.The purpose of this book is to highlight the most important documentary evidence available to the family historian wishing to research their Irish ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • How the Irish Became White

    by Noel Ignatiev ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    '…from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, AmherstThe Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • An Address to the Irish People

    by Percy Shelley ...
    Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation.An Address to the Irish People is a classic by English poet Percy Shelley. ... Read more

    $2.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ireland Under The Normans 1169-1216 - Vol. I

    The Norman invasion is often thought of as a wholly English affair but in reality the Norman's took control of large portions of Wales and Ireland. Here is a fascinating and in-depth history of a little told chapter of British history. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Irish Rebellion of 1641

    The Irish Rebellion of 1641 was a conflict between Irish Catholics and English and Scottish Protestants. The organized Irish Catholics created a de facto government called the Catholic Confederation and the ensuing war between Ireland and Protestants would be known as the Irish Confederate Wars. The war continued until Oliver Cromwell conquered Ireland in 1650. Hamiltons chronology of the Irish ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs

    The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people "...even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching." This introduction to Celtic Mythology will serve the novice well – for it is a complicated history with the earliest written ... Read more

    Free

  • We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES • 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe Atlantic: 10 Best Books of 2022Best Books of the Year: Washington Post, New Yorker, Salon, Foreign Affairs, New Statesman, Chicago Public Library, Vroman's“[L]ike reading a great tragicomic Irish novel.” —James Wood, The New Yorker“Masterful . . . astonishing.” —Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD