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Compact History of Ireland - Sarah Healy
Compact History of Ireland - Sarah Healy
This book provides in succinct, accessible form, a thematic rather than strictly chronological account of Irish history. It begins with a comprehensive historical portrait which presents the whole fabric of three thousand years of Irish life. For subsequent chapters the author has selected for development the significant threads of the historical web, the themes of invasion, rebellion, the Black North, and aspects of the culture, especially literary, that make the whole of Ireland the cultural jewel of the Western World.
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The Book of Irish Children\'s Jokes
A true classic for children of all generations to enjoy.
Why did the Kerry boy push his father in the fridge?
What is the best food for athletes?
What runs all the way from Cork to Belfast and still never moves?
What nationality is Santa?
What usually runs in Kerry families?
What would you call Batman and Robin if they were knocked down by a steamroller?
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The book of Cavan Man Jokes
How was copper wire invented? Two Cavan Men fighting over a penny! Here's the largest compilation of Cavan Man jokes ever assembled!
Hundreds of jokes, stories, and other tomfoolery from the Cavan Man. Tell 'em to your friends or keep 'em to yourself - this book has more jokes than Lassie has fleas!
What's the difference between a tightrope and a Cavan Man? A tightrope sometimes gives!
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The book of Irish Limericks
An old lady from near Fermanagh
Whose thoughts were exceptionally narrow
At the end of her paths
She built two bird baths
To prevent mortal sin among sparrows.
A young Dublin couple of taste
Were beautiful down to the waist
So they limited love
To the regions above
And thus remained perfectly chaste.
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Jokes
What were the first jokes you ever learned as a child? There is a good chance that they were the ones about the three Paddy\'s. This book is a celebration of all three Paddies.
Paddy the Englishman, Paddy the Irishman and Paddy the Scotsman took up a collection for their church and the problem arose as to how much they should give to the church.
\'I draw a line on the ground,\' said Paddy the Englishman, \'and I throw all the money up in the air. What falls to the left of that line, I keep for myself and what falls to the right of the line I give to the church.\'
\'I draw a circle on the ground,\' said Paddy the Scotsman, \'and I too throw all the money up in the air. What falls outside the circle I keep for myself and what falls inside the circle I give to the church
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Jokes from the pubs of Ireland
Notice hung in Harrys the other night. Honest Workman with corkscrew would like to hear from a widow with a pub!.
We have a wild character who comes into Harrys. He is a young fellow named Billo with more money than he has earned, and a red face, which isn't from sunshine. The other day he was caught gunning his Mercedes (mark the word) the wrong way down the South Mall by a guard, who asked him where he was going. Im not too sure, sez Billo through a kind of mist, but wherever it is I must be late, cos everybody seems to be coming back already.
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The Book of Kerryman Jokes
There is only one explanation for the spate of Kerryman jokes that has engulfed Ireland like a tidal wave over the past number of years - jealousy. After all, Kerry has won the All-Ireland football title more often than any other county; it has the beautiful lakes of Killarney; and it has the Rose of Tralee competition, featuring the loveliest and most charming girls one can imagine.
In the face of all this, the only feeble comeback that the rest of us can manage is the Kerryman joke - an attempt to pereserve our self-esteem by proclaiming that Kerrymen are not as gifted intellectually as others.
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Robert Whyte’s Famine Ship Diary 1847
Robert Whyte’s Famine Ship Diary 1847
The voyage of the ‘coffin ship’ the Ajax, from Dublin to Grosse Île, the Canadian quarantine station described in the contemporary diary of one of the passengers, Robert Whyte. Whyte was a Protestant gentleman of education and positions as well as being a professional writer who intended to publish his diary. The diary appeared in 1848. It is signed in the author’s own handwriting and features vivid descriptions of the spectacular scenery along the way and striking delineations of the passengers, the crew and the suffering travellers.
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The Irish Phrase-Book
This little book is designed to help those who have some Irish but who are not confident.
It will enable them to prepare for many predictable situations where they could expect to use Irish, particularly on visits to the Gaeltacht.
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Milestones in Irish History - Liam de Paor (Editor)
Milestones in Irish History - Liam de Paor (Editor)
Succinct and readable, Milestones in Irish History goes beyond the ‘what’ and ‘when’ to elucidate the ‘why’ of the troubled but fascinating course of Irish history. The book spans the whole range of Irish history, from the megalithic era to the late twentieth century. Contributors include the leading experts in their fields, among them Frank Mitchell, J. J. Lee, John A. Murphy, Margaret Mac Curtain and Ronan Fanning.
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Annie Moore New York City Girl
The fifteen-year-old who was the very first immigrant to land at the famous handling station at Ellis Island, New York, has now become a young woman of twenty. After her two-year stay in the wild west, Annie returns to New York to her family and friends. Excited by all the opportunities New York has to offer her, she's especially thrilled with the prospect of spending more time with Mike Tierney, the young man she loves.
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Strange Irish Tales for Children
Strange Irish Tales for Children is a collection of four exciting stories, by seanchai Eddie Lenihan, wich will entertain and amuse children of all ages. The stories tell of the hair-raising adventures of the Fianna and of their fighting and hunting.
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Irish Fairy Tales
In writing these fascinating stories, Edmund Leamy turned to our Gaelic past to give the Irish people something which would implant in them a love for the beauty and dignity of their country\'s traditions.
The charming and poetic tales in this book include \'Princess Finola and the Dwarf\', \'The Fairy Tree of Dooros\', \'The House in the Lake\', \'The Little White Cat\', \'The Golden Spears\' and \'The Enchanted Cave\'.
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Rebel Ireland: Easter Rising to Civil War - McMahon, Sean
Rebel Ireland: Easter Rising to Civil War - McMahon, Sean
The stories of these conflicts, with their scores of killings, torture, reprisals and long lasting bitterness are told concisely in this book. Easter 1916 – the rebellion which took place in Ireland 90 years ago was arguably the most momentous event in this country’s history. The War of Independence – the guerrilla war, characterised by marvellous courage and miserable cruelty. The Civil War – few episodes in Irish history are as poignant, bloody and unnecessary. This book traces the causes, events and consequences of these events. It will help a peaceful generation for which the bloody birth of modern Ireland is ancient history, to gain a better understanding of the essence of their nation.
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Irish Ghost Stories
Irish Ghost Stories contains stories that tell of spooky goings-on in almost every part of the country.
They include the tales of the Wizard Earl of Kildare, the Scanlan Lights of Limerick, Buttoncap of Antrim, Maynooth College's haunted room, Loftus Hall in Wexford, and an account of how the poet Fancis Ledwidge appeared to an old friend in County Meath.
The country of Ireland is full of old castles with secret rooms, and while some of the stories are obvious figments of lively imaginations, there are other tales that cannot be easily explained away.
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The Great Irish Famine
The Great Irish Famine
The first major series of essays on the Famine to be published in Ireland for almost fifty years and the most wide-ranging series ever published. Leading historians, economists, geographers – from Ireland, Britain and the United States – have assembled the most up-to-date research from a wide spectrum of disciplines, including medicine, folklore and literature, to give the fullest account yet of the background and consequences of the Famine.
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Squad, The : The Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins
Squad, The : The Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins - Dwyer, T. Ryle
In 1919, Michael Collins conceived of a scheme to knock out the eyes and ears of the British Administration at Dublin Castle by undermining and terrorising the police so that the British would react blindly and drive the Irish people into the arms of the Irish Republican Army.
The Bureau of Military History interviewed those involved in this scheme in the early 1950s with the assurance that the material would not be published in their lifetimes. A few of the contributions were made available by the families of those involved, but the bulk of them have only recently been released.
This is the first book to make use of those interviews. It makes fascinating, almost unique reading, because they contain first-hand descriptions in which men speaking candidly of their involvement in killing selected people at close range.
As a result it throws a considerable amount of new light on the activities of the Squad and the intelligence operations of Michael Collins.
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Folktales From the Irish
Kevin Danaher remembers forty of the stories that were told around the firesides long ago, before the days of television, radio or cinema. The reality is that the night was often too short for those past generations of country people. Their entertainment was singing, music, dancing, indoor games and storytelling.
Some of these stories were told to the author by his own family; others were related to him by the last traditional storytellers in his own townland. Included are stories of giants, of ghosts, of queer happenings and of the great kings of Ireland.
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Michael Collins and the Women who Spied for Ireland - Ryan, Meda
Michael Collins and the Women who Spied for Ireland - Ryan, Meda
Michael Collins has exercised an enduring fascination since his untimely death in 1922 at the age of thirty-one. This is the first book to concentrate on an aspect of his life and work hitherto overlooked: the crucial role played by women in his personal and working life. From his boyhood in an overwhelmingly female household in West Cork onwards, women brought out the best in him and he brought out the best in women. Susan Killeen, his first girlfriend from his London days, remained a steadfast ally throughout the years of the Troubles. From 1917, his girlfriend, Madeline (Dilly) Dicker, vivacious and talented, helped to ease the burden of his huge workload as well as acting as a secret agent. Society ladies Moya Llewylen Davies and Lady Hazel Lavery were conduits between Collins and the British Establishment and active participants in his work of espionage. In the final years of his life the true romantic passion between him and Kitty Kiernan is testified to by their frequent correspondence. These woman and many others who participated in the national struggle, women such as Kathleen Clarke, Leslie Price de Barra, Peg Barrett, Nancy O’Brien, Madge Hales and Collins’s sister Mary Collins Powell, are woven into this fascinating narrative of Collins’s life.
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Short History of Ireland - McMahon, Sean
Short History of Ireland - McMahon, Sean
This concise and even-handed account gives the history of Ireland since the earliest times. Based on up-to-date research, the book covers political, social and cultural issues of importance. The author is particularly enlightening about the root causes of the Northern Troubles and the relationship between Britain and Ireland. Ireland is news; since the IRA ceasefire in the autumn of 1994, she has become the focus of worldwide attention. Only now can one sense an international recognition of the complexity of Irish problems and the beginnings of understanding.
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Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O’Malley - Cook, Judith
Pirate Queen: The Life of Grace O’Malley - Cook, Judith
In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O’Malley, daughter of a clan chief in County Mayo, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She had a fleet of galleys under her command (four of them Scots). In 1559 her husband was killed in an ambush and not long after she took as a lover a survivor of a shipwreck. Clansmen came over from Scotland and murdered him. She tracked them down and had them killed, and from then on there follow episodes of plunder, kidnapping, piracy and general mayhem. In 1586 she was captured by the Earl of Ormond and was actually on the scaffold with a rope around her neck when she was saved on the orders of Queen Elizabeth. Elizabeth offered to make her a countess. Grace refused, but was officially allowed to be a ‘privateer’ thereafter. She may also have been an intelligencer for Elizabeth’s spymaster, Walsingham, thus able to warn the Queen of the Essex plot. Elizabeth died in 1603, by which time Grace had entered a nunnery.
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CELTIC Myths and Legends
A collection of legends from early Christian times, in which the author retells the stories with a directness and simplicity which makes them refreshingly modern. The stories have a literary merit and a style and character of their own, not dissimilar to the sophistication of the great tales of ancient Greece.
Included in this collection are: The Children of Lir, The Wooing of Etain, Diarmuid and Gráinne, The Combat at the Ford, The Children of Tuireann, The Sickbed of Cuchulain and Deirdre and the Sons of Usna.
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Fables Legends of Ireland
In an Ireland much changed since giants and heroes strode across it, these tales of the bravery, cunning and heroism of some of Ireland's favourite mythological characters, are much in demand.
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Love Story of Yeats and Maud Gonne
A dramatic and compelling story of the great love of W. B. Yeats for Maud Gonne, the woman he immortalised in his poems. Set in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this romantic tale unfolds against a backdrop of political unrest and tenant agitation in Ireland.
The poet W. B. Yeats was a central figure in the Irish literary revival while Maud Gonne, a political activist, was passionately involved in the struggle for Irish independence.
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Irish Cookbook
In The Irish Cookbook, traditional Irish dishes are adapted to suit present day tastes and lifestyles. It includes plenty of modern recipes using our finest fresh seafood, farmhouse vegetables, prime Irish meats and cheeses.
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How I Survived the Irish Famine - Laura Wilson
Title: How I Survived the Irish Famine
Author: Laura Wilson
Description: Entertaining and Educational children’s book. See the famine through the eyes of a child as you read a “Journal” recording one girl’s experiences.
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Irish Wit
Here is a brand new compilation - with an Irish twist. From some of the most celebrated figures of the Emerald Isle - Samuel Beckett, Dave Allen and Ardal O\'Hanlon amongst others - this book brings together a collection of wit, humour and Irish wisdom that may at times seem confusing to the poor, ignorant foreigner, but is always profound.
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Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State
Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State - Doherty, Gabriel & Keogh, Dermot (Editors)
A series of specially commissioned essays, written by some of Ireland’s leading historians (academic and popular), on the contribution made by Michael Collins to the making of the Irish state. This is a professional evaluation of Michael Collins which brings to light his multi-faceted and complex character. The contributors examine Collins as Minister for Finance, his role in intelligence, his policy towards the north, his career as Commander-in-Chief, the origins of the Civil War, his relationship with De Valera and how academics view his place in Irish history. The volume is illustrated with an eight page plate section of photographs from private family archives, from Military Archives and from the Examiner in order to give the book added scholarly and popular appeal.
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Diarmait King of Leinster - Furlong, Nicholas
Diarmait King of Leinster - Furlong, Nicholas
Diarmait Mac Murchada was a king through misadventure. Owing to a series of fatal family mishaps he was elected to power in 1126 at sixteen. He ruled through a turbulent period and became one of the most dominant figures in Irish history. Furlong presents a thorough account of Diarmait’s life and examines his actions and decisions not only in the context of his questionable personal traits and character but also expanding the analysis to reflect on his effect on the political turbulence of the time. At one stage of his influential life, ousted as King of Leinster, he invited King Henry II of England to assist him in regaining the throne. The subsequent invasion marked the beginning of eight centuries of English dominance. After his death he was damned as a traitor and a blackguard. He is recorded as having two wives at the same time, raping an abbess, the abduction of Dervorgilla, the wife of his bitter rival, and the mutilation and killing of rivals. Furlong’s Diarmait King of Leinster is a subtle, compassionate yet realistic examination of the man behind the myth.
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Squad
This is the first book to make use of those interviews. It makes fascinating, almost unique reading, because they contain first-hand descriptions in which men speaking candidly of their involvement in killing selected people at close range.
As a result it throws a considerable amount of new light on the activities of the Squad and the intelligence operations of Michael Collins.
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A Short History of Ireland
This concise and even-handed account gives the history of Ireland since the earliest times. Based on up-to-date research, the book covers political, social and cultural issues of importance.
The author is particularly enlightening about the root causes of the Northern Troubles and the relationship between Britain and Ireland. Ireland is news; since the IRA ceasefire in the autumn of 1994, she has become the focus of worldwide attention. Only now can one sense an international recognition of the complexity of Irish problems and the beginnings of understanding.
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It's a Long Way from Penny Apples
Paperback edition of the number one best-seller that made Bill Cullen a household name. The Bill Cullen story is an account of incredible poverty and deprivation in the Dublin slums.
It highlights the frustration of a mother and father feeling their relationship crumble as they fight to give their children a better life.
It's a story of courage, joy and happiness. Of how a mother gave inspiration and values to her children saying, 'The best thing I can give you is the independence to stand on your own feet'.
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Famine in Cork City
The Famine in Ireland is still a very current and emotive subject which draws readers from all spheres.
This book tells a story not unique to Cork and of interest to a national population.
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Best of John B. Keane
In this volume are hundreds of short pieces which represent the distillation of the experience of a funny, witty, wise and passionate observer of the bright tapestry of Irish life.
All human life is here, and Keane tells its story in an astonishing procession of remarkable characters and in rare humorous glimpses of his own career. This is a collection to prize.
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Eamon Kelly, Storyteller
\'That\'s my story. My journeying is over. I am eighty-four and my next trek will be through the stars to the great beyond, where I hope to meet again those I knew in my wanderings down here.
If the humour takes us and there\'s a playwright handy, Hilton Edwards or the Abbey\'s Frank Dermody may be tempted to direct a show in some celestial alhambra, where angels with folded wings will sit in the stalls, applaud politely and maybe come round after and say, \'That was great
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Ireland\'s Master Storyteller
In this collection, actor and seanchaí (traditional storyteller) Éamon Kelly\'s finest stories are collected for the first time: stories of the real Kerry and the magical past of the Gobán Saor, the heartbreak of emigration, the stations, the priests, the courting and dancing, the war between the sexes.
Kelly mines a rich seam of humour and sadness out of resilience of a people rich in hospitality and generosity, imagination, culture and tradition.
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A Farewell to Famine - Jim Rees
Title: A Farewell to Famine
Author: Jim Rees
Description: A Scholarly account of the plight of one group of Irish famine emigrants as they leave Ireland to begin a new life in the United States of America.
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The Course of Irish History
Moody, T. W. & Martin, F. X. (Editors)
The Course of Irish History is the classic general history of Ireland, covering the economic, social and political development of the island of Ireland from prehistoric times to the present day. First published in 1967, this new edition brings us up to 2001 and a chapter has been added to cover the momentous changes that have occured in Ireland since 1995. The book is illustrated throughout with black-and-white and colour photographs, maps and reproductions of contemporary artefacts and drawings, and includes a detailed bibliography and chronology to aid further research.
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Life on a Famine Ship
Title: Life on a Famine Ship
Publisher: Gill & MacMillan
Description: Children’s pop-up book depicting life on a Famine Ship, based on a voyage of Dunbrody……. Very high quality with excellent graphics..
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Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937, The (HB)
Michael Collins - A Life in Pictures - Osborne, Chrissy
The Michael Collins Album is a unique collection of photographs that catalogue the life of this great man. It includes many illustrations of the buildings and locations he would have known in Ireland and Britain but as they are today, together with rare photographs of his family and the people he knew. It also includes photographs of personal items such as his Waterman’s fountain pen and his GAA medal, won for sprinting in 1914.
This stunning compilation also covers his relationship with the love of his life Kitty Kiernan, and includesa close up of Kitty Kiernan’s watch, a pre-engagement present from Collins.
A must have for all Michael Collins enthusiasts, this book is a pictorial history of one of the men who shaped Ireland, and the intriguing images prove that a picture is worth a thousand words.
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Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937, The (HB)
Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937, The (HB)
This meticulously researched book draws on extensive primary sources to put the Irish constitution in a clear historical perspective. Using accessible language the authors examine the political context of the conception of the constitution in 1930s Ireland against the background of constitutional developments since the foundation of the state. They follow its passage through the drafting process, identifying and clarifying the precise roles of legal, administrative and religious personnel who contributed to the making of this extremely important document, which defined the nature of the modern Irish state.
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