Irish life between 1930 and 1960 is normally presented as a sort of cultural wasteland. In a radical re-examination of the period, Brian Fallon challenges this sterotype and argues that Ireland's cultural and artistic life was vigorous...more details Format:Paperback
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Flanagan Laurence
ISBN:9780717124336
When the Celts first arrived in Ireland around 200 B.C., the island had already been inhabited for over 7000 years. Using archaeological evidence...more details Format:Paperback
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Redmond John
ISBN:9780717125265
Ireland provides some of the greatest opportunities for golf in the world. In this comprehensive book, John Redmond celebrates all that is special about Irish golf. He writes of the history of the game from its earliest days for the elite few to its present huge popularity. He describes the links and courses...more details Format:Paperback
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Carroll Yvonne
ISBN:9780717126019
This picture-dictionary aims to help children to develop a basic vocabulary in Irish. Each double-page spread is devoted to a theme, with key words isolated around the edge of the page...more details Format:Paperback
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C Murphy Claire
ISBN:9780717126781
This text explores the roles and responsibilities of modern women in the church by relating a gospel event to an aspect of personal development...more details Format:Paperback
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Janice Anderson
ISBN:9780717126804
This guide to Ireland outlines all the major tourist attractions in each of the country's regions. It highlights the main historical sites within each area...more details Format:Paperback
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C Kearns Kevin
ISBN:9780717124688
'Among the finest books ever written about Dublin' Dermot Bolger, 'The Sunday Tribune' 'This book will long stand as the definitive social history of Ireland's gulags...more details Format:Paperback
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C Kearns Kevin
ISBN:9780717126507
For nearly thirty years, Kevin C. Kearns has been collecting the memories and recollections of Dubliners on tape. His previous books have focused on specific themes such as tenements and pubs. Now in this ambitious work...more details Format:Paperback
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Zoeller Peter McArdle Joseph
ISBN:9780717125388
Dublin is one of the most historic and exciting cities in Europe. Beautifully situated on the semi-circle of Dublin Bay with mountains in the background...more details Format:Paperback
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Tatlow Maureen
ISBN:9780717126972
Focusing on foods that we buy on a daily basis, this book describes how they are produced, prepared and marketed, and examines such issues as the impact of EU regulations on the food industry. It also provides advice on what food to look for...more details Format:Paperback
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S B Kennedy
ISBN:9780717126101
Great Irish Artists introduces fifteen of Ireland's most interesting painters and reproduces a selection of their work. It includes the undeniably great artists such as Jack B Yeats...more details Format:Paperback
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Heron Marianne
ISBN:9780717127306
Marianne Heron's guide to a charming array of houses all over Ireland is a companion to her enormously successful guide The Hidden Gardens of Ireland. With her own unique and highly personal style...more details Format:Paperback
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J King Seamus
ISBN:9780717127122
Widely acclaimed when it appeared in hardback, A History of Hurling has already established itself as the standard work on the subject. It now appears in paperback for the first time and is updated to cover the Wexford triumph of 1996. 'He has managed to tell the history of hurling in a very interesting and readable way...more details Format:Paperback
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Richard English
ISBN:9780717127801
From Ireland's first inhabitants through to the formation of the Republic and beyond, 'History of Ireland' follows the course of events that has shaped a nation and given its people their unique character. Through words and pictures this book attempts to reflect the richness and passion of Irish history. The romance...more details Format:Paperback
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Hennessey Thomas
ISBN:9780717124008
Founded upon the partition of Ireland in 1920, Northern Ireland experienced fifty years of nervous peace under the rule of a devolved government in Belfast. This government...more details Format:Paperback
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Grenham John
ISBN:9780717125531
'An Illustrated History of Ireland' provides a facinating account of the origins of the Irish people from prehistoric times to the present day. It tells of the effects of invasion...more details Format:Paperback
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Dillon Angela
ISBN:9780717126439
This new collection of photographs illustrates the development of the town of Banbridge and its people through a period of industrial growth in the late nineteenth century up to the varied changes of recent times. There are scenes of the linen industry (the town's most important manufacturing activity)...more details Format:Paperback
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Dan Walsh
ISBN:9780717127719
Enniscorthy built its proud reputation on the rich agricultural produce of its hinterland. The combination of a unique strawberry crop and a festival have made Enniscorthy synonymous with fun-filled holidays in the South east. Yet the town has a more strident past; at the forefront of Ireland's strugle for independence...more details Format:Paperback
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Diggin Michael
ISBN:9780717127702
Once a garrison town, the attractive town of Tralee is the industrial capital of County Kerry, competing for its share in the market place for tourism. The photographs in this fascinating collection capture life in the town through a period of great change...more details Format:Paperback
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O'Broin Leon
ISBN:9780717123988
Even seventy years after his death, Michael Collins remains a colossus of modern Irish history. During the five years before he died, Collins grew particularly close to Kitty Kiernan of Granard in County Longford. Harry Boland also expressed warm affection for Kitty in several letters...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:239
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Robert Fisk
ISBN:9780717124114
When the Union Jack was hauled down over the Atlantic naval ports of Cobh, Berehaven and Lough Swilly in 1939, the Irish were jubilant. But in London...more details Format:Paperback
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Berger Marc
ISBN:9780717126026
Marc Berger's photography illustrates the many faces of Ireland and the accompanying text guides you through Ireland's turbulent past and introduce you to the Ireland of today....more details Format:Paperback
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Meek Bill
ISBN:9780717125333
The Irish folk tradition is famous the world over and remains vibrant not only in Ireland but also in Britain, Australia and North America, where it has hugely influenced modern day popular music. This collection of Irish folk songs...more details Format:Paperback
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Dooney Sean O'Toole John
ISBN:9780717126699
Written by two authors who know the system intimately from within Reflects the significant changes that have taken place in the machinery of government since the publication of the first edition An essential book for those who need to understand the workings of Irish government including students of law...more details Format:Paperback
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Gill And Macmillan
ISBN:9780717126033
Now all six stories from this bestselling children's book are available on audio tape, read by actress Cathy Belton. The cassette is accompanied by a miniature edition of the much-loved book....more details Format:Paperback
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Carroll Yvonne
ISBN:9780717125517
It includes the stories of 'The Children of Lir', 'Deirdre of the Sorrows', 'Setanta', 'The Salmon of Knowledge', 'Fionn and the Dragon', 'Oisin in Tir na n-Og'. Sensitively written...more details Format:Paperback
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Ross Ruth Isabel
ISBN:9780717125494
This practical cookbook is packed with appetising oat recipes for breakfast, dinners, desserts and even drinks. Try delicious oatmeal pancakes with slices of bacon...more details Format:Paperback
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Fintan O'Toole
ISBN:9780717127498
'The Irish Times Book of the Century' is an outstanding and thought-provoking survey of the twentieth century, written as it draws to its close and seen through the eyes of Ireland's leading newspaper of reference. Fintan O'Toole draws together the key events of modern Irish history...more details Format:Paperback
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Gill And Macmillan
ISBN:9780717126187
'An Irish Woman's Book of Days' is a luxurious collection of some of the world's most appealing paintings. Each page presents a full-colour reproduction of an image of womanhood from the sixteenth century to early in this one. Romantic...more details Format:Paperback
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Peter Costello
ISBN:9780717126873
A biography of the Irish novelist, James Joyce, who wrote "Dubliners" (1914), "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916), "Ulysses" (1922) and "Finnegans Wake" (1939). Despite choosing continental Europe as his permanent home after 1912...more details Format:Paperback
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Thurston Anne
ISBN:9780717126798
This text examines familiar biblical stories about women, resisting their traditional interpretations and liberating them from the pious and political interests that have tried to control them for many centuries....more details Format:Paperback
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Gill And Macmillan
ISBN:9780717125401
Kylemore Abbey, a magnificent turreted castle set in the lush Connemara hills overlooking a lake, is one of Ireland's top tourist attractions...more details Format:Paperback
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Carroll Yvonne
ISBN:9780717126989
Tales about leprechauns and other "little people" have long been recounted in Ireland, passed down from generation to generation. From "The Crock of Gold" to "The Fairy Lios...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:64
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Maume Patrick
ISBN:9780717127443
This text traces the rise of the nationalist movement in turn-of-the-century Ireland, the gaps and incoherences of the nationalist tradition and its subsequent re-invention. The author pays particular attention to the activities of the various separatist societies grouped grouped under the title Sinn Fein...more details Format:Paperback
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Costello Francis
ISBN:9780717124367
In the pages of this book, Francis Costello allows Michael Collins to speak in his own words. He traces Collins's career from his school days to his tragic death at the age of 31...more details Format:Paperback
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D J Hickey J E Doherty
ISBN:9780717125203
This second edition will confirm the reputation of Hickey and Doherty's Dictionary of Irish History as a standard work of reference. Every article from the first edition has been revisited and revised. New articles have been added...more details Format:Paperback
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D J Hickey J E Doherty
ISBN:9780717125210
The standard reference guide to modern Irish history ' the only such book devoted entirely to the modern era' is now available in paperback. This classic work will be a boon to everyone with an interest in Irish history. Long established as a reliable...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Gill And Macmillan
ISBN:9780717124176
Based on the RTE/BBC NI television series of the same name, 'Now You're Talking' uses the most up-to-date multimedia concepts in language learning...more details Format:Paperback
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Bell Louis
ISBN:9780717126811
Irish poets are famous throughout the world for the beauty and quality of their words. In this delightful pocket book is a selection that ranges from the traditional to the modern...more details Format:Paperback
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Bell Louis
ISBN:9780717124466
Amongst the poets whose work is included are: Seamus Heaney, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Moore and W.B. Yeats. Each poem is accompanied by a painting by an Irish artist appropriate to the content of the poem. The range of Irish artists is equally impressive...more details Format:Paperback
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Cullen Nuala
ISBN:9780717127559
The recipes offered use ingredients most readily available at particular times of the year. It is also a record of the landscapes of Ireland...more details Format:Paperback
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Hunt Hugh
ISBN:9780717126880
Sean O'Casey (1880-1964), a self-educated Dublin labourer, first became famous as a dramatist when the Abbey Theatre staged 'The Shadown of a Gunman' in 1923. Two more masterly plays based on the Irish troubles of the period followed...more details Format:Paperback
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Killeen Richard
ISBN:9780717126453
A crisply written, succinct and authoritative summary of the history of Scotland this book is superbly illustrated with over 150 photographs...more details Format:Paperback
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Boland Gerry
ISBN:9780717127887
The four short city-centre walks which can be done in abouit an hour based on Temple Bar, Grafton Street, O'Connell Street and St Stephen's Green. The longer walks vary from two to three hours and cover the Georgian city on both sides of the river...more details Format:Paperback
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Gill And Macmillan
ISBN:9780717126170
The Scottish poets included here are Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, Edwin Muir, Hugh MacDiarmuid, Kathleen Raine and, of course, the most popular of all...more details Format:Paperback