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Alfred Cobban - A History of France 1715-1799 & A History of Modern France 1799-1945( Vintage Pelican PB ) 2 Book Vintage Pelican

Cobban's narrative commences with the death in 1715 of Louis XIV after 54 years of personal rule. Louis XIV had used those five decades to perfect a system of absolutist monarchy and to exert French power and influence throughout the continent of Europe...

Gabriel Rosenstock & Brian Fitzgerald - An Eala Órga agus Scéalta Eile ón Ind - PB - As Gaeilge

An Eala Órga, tugann Gabriel Rosenstock, mar aon lena chomhealaíontóir, Brian Fitzgerald, ar thuras geal i bhfad is i gcéin muid. Seo againn Gúrú na Gaeilge agus é i mbarr a réime...

Osbert Lancaster - Classical Landscape With Figures - ( Travels in Greece ) - HB 1947 - ILLUSTRATED - 1st Edition

Artist and illustrator Osbert Lancaster worked for the British Foreign Service during and after WW2, and had been posted to Greece after liberation  He took the opportunity of travelling in the country beyond Athens during the months before civil...

Bono , Gavin Friday & The Friday -Seezer Ensemble - Peter and the Wolf - HB - Box SET with CD

Since its premiere in 1936, Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf has become a classic beloved by generations of children and adults. For this enchanting new version of the story, Bono and his childhood friend Gavin Friday have collaborated on a...

C.S Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader ( Chronicles of Narnia - Book 5) ( Fontana Lions Edition Cover)

Book five in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior illustrations by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes.A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that...

Geoffrey Elborn - Francis Stuart : A Life - PB Biography -1990

Published by Raven Arts PRESS, 1990, paperback.  A biography of the frequently controversial Irish author, who broadcasted from Nazi Germany during WW2. 

John McGahern - The Leavetaking - Quartet Books PB - 1977 ( Originally 1974)

 A day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married an American divorcee. As a result he now faces certain dismissal by the school authorities...

Joseph Lee - The Modernisation of Irish Society 1848-1918 - PB - ( Gill History of Ireland - Volume 10 ) 1983 ( originally 1973)

In surveying the period from the Famine in 1848 to the triumph of Sinn Fein in the 1918 general election, Joe Lee argues that Ireland became one of the most modern and advanced political cultures in the world during that time.   Lee contends that...

Legion of Mary - Handbook , 1975 Legio Mariae

From a modern perspective, it's difficult to now see the huge impact that popular Catholic devotional organizations like the Legion of Mary had on Irish society in the 20th century.  This is the handbook of the Organisation, issued to each member,...

Robert Kee - Ourselves Alone -( The Green Flag , Volume 3 ) PB

  Ourselves Alone - Volume Three of the Green Flag  covers the period from the executions of the 1916 rebels to the 1920-21 war of Independence and the eventual Treaty.  The smallest of teh three volumes , only light tanning to pages...

Francesca Haig - The Fire Sermon - Hardcover 2015

An unused copy of the first book in the projected trilogy by Francesca Haig - The Fire Sermon, published by Harper Voyager UK in 2015. Nuclear war, dystopian unrest, a genetic mutation that divides twins in life and unites them in deaththe...