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Quick view UCD PRESS Evelyn Conlon & Rebecca Pelan - After the Train - BRAND NEW Irishwomen United and a Network of Change The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Leeann Lane - Dorothy Macardle - PB - BRAND NEW Dorothy Macardle - literary teacher, propagandist journalist, political playwright, gothic fiction novelist - is a multi-faceted woman who has remained too often below the radar of historical recognition. In Dorothy Macardle Leeann Lane intends to change... 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED3096,MED3097,MED3099 Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi ( Editors) Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi, editors. Delivery within Ireland included in the price. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67085K George O'Brien / The Village of Longing & Dancehall Days The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED1165,MED1166,MED1167 Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is the first account of an Irish citizen... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87486K Victor Griffin / Mark of Protest - An Autobiography(Large Paperback) This autobiography includes stories of village life in Co Wicklow between the wars, and of schooldays in Kilkenny and of the cosily eccentric Trinity College during the 1940s. Yet even these early pages are more than reminiscence. The stories paint a... 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Quick view sku: BIG413 Conor Cruise O'Brien - States of Ireland -HB -1972 'States of Ireland is a masterly study of the whole complex Irish Situation as it existed in the early 1970's . Part history , part autobiography, part political analysis, part diary, it is a brilliant and distinctive contribution with much wit. Dr... MSRP: Now: €8.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: MED279 Catherine Rynne - Knock 1879-1979 - HB 1979 ( Mayo History) ) The hardcover edition of an uncommon title. Published by Veritas, 1979, partly for the centenary anniversary of the events of 1879, and probably with a view to the then current 1979 papal visit also. Both a history of the events of 1879, and the... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED1047,MED1048,MED1049,MED1050,MED1051,MED2628,MED2629,MED2630,MED1631,MED1632, Pádraig Ó Héalaí - Snátha den Seansaol - Strands of Traditional Life - PB - BRAND NEW Cad é ról an bhéaloidis sa tsochaí thraidisiúnta in Éirinn? Conas a mhúnlaigh seantuiscintí saol an phobail? Sa bhailiúchán aistí seo a chuimsíonn cuid mhaith de... MSRP: €24.99 Was: €24.99 Now: €10.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: BIG363,BIG364,BIG365,BIG366,BIG367,BIG368 Trevor White - Malton's Views of Dublin : The Story of a Georgian City - HB - BRAND NEW Commentary by Trevor White with essays by Diarmuid Ó Gráda, David Dickson, Graham Hickey, Merlo Kelly and Kathryn Milligan. HARDCOVER, BRAND NEW. In the 1790s a young artist decided to create a portrait of Dublin. James... MSRP: €29.95 Was: €29.95 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED332,MED337,MED338,MED339.MED340 Kevin Rafter - Taoisigh and the Arts - PB - BRAND NEW Kevin Rafter’s short book is an entertaining taste of the use and abuse of the arts in Ireland by successive Taoisigh. It covers a century of cultural policy juxtaposed with artistic responses of the times, to reveal a story of official neglect and... MSRP: €14.95 Was: €14.95 Now: €6.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view sku: MED505,MED506,MED507,MED508,MED509,MED510,MED511 Ray Burke - Joyce County : Galway and James Joyce - BRAND NEW Foreword by Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland. Written in an accessible style for the general reader, this book contains considerable new information, such as the first detailed accounts of the suspicious grounding of a passenger ship in Galway... MSRP: €25.00 Was: €25.00 Now: €8.00 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED327,MED328,MED329 Frank McDonald - A Little History of the Future of Dublin - PB - BRAND NEW A superb analysis by Frank McDonald on the past, present and future of Dublin as imagined by various planners over its history (as well as the various ideas of the ‘future’ of the city they suggested), coinciding with an exhibition on the... 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Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X90009K Fiona Biggs / The Pocket Book of Great Irish Speeches: Inspiring and Provocative Speeches from 1782 to Today (Hardback) Relive some of the most significant moments of Ireland's recent past through the feats of oration that have, time and again, inspired Ireland's people to action. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Limerick & Limerick Interest Books | sku: MED1425 Sharon Slater - The Little Book of Limerick - PB The Little Book of Limerick is a compendium of fascinating information about the city and county, past and present. Here you will find out about Limerick's buildings and bridges, crime and punishment, tragic accidents, and its famous (and occasionally... MSRP: €14.99 Now: €14.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X88559K Charles Callan & Barry Desmond / Labour in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown: Elections & Candidates 1919 - 1999 (Hardback) This book covers many decades and is divided into two parts,the first dealing with elections, the second with the candidates. A full history of Labour ( and the wider Irish Labour political movement ) in the district, as thesources required for such a... MSRP: Now: €4.00 Add to Cart Quick view Martello Press Books | sku: MED1272,MED1273 Kevin Rafter - Dillon Rediscovered : The Newspaperman Who Befriended Kings, Presidents and Oil Tycoons - BRAND NEW Emile Joseph Dillon witnessed some of the most dramatic events the world has ever seen including, the assassination of a Russian Tsar, the Dreyfus court martial and bloody massacres in Armenia. At a time of shifting geopolitics and the birth of modern... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED3096,MED3097,MED3099 Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi ( Editors) Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi, editors. Delivery within Ireland included in the price. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67085K George O'Brien / The Village of Longing & Dancehall Days The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. 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Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED1165,MED1166,MED1167 Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is the first account of an Irish citizen... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87486K Victor Griffin / Mark of Protest - An Autobiography(Large Paperback) This autobiography includes stories of village life in Co Wicklow between the wars, and of schooldays in Kilkenny and of the cosily eccentric Trinity College during the 1940s. Yet even these early pages are more than reminiscence. The stories paint a... 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What can folk music tell us about our society? How do we support music in our towns, villages and cities? And what can Ireland teach the world about music? For over two decades, Toner Quinn,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87296K Padraic O'Farrell / Green and Chaste and Foolish - Irish Literary and Theatrical Anecdotes(Large Paperback) A compilation of 500 anecdotes attaching to Ireland's literary figures, great and small. Gill & Macmillan 1994. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: BIG371 David Goodall - The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 - PB - BRAND NEW The Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) signed by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher on 15 November 1985 was unique in providing a treaty-based arrangement for the government of a territory disputed between two States. 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MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: MED3096,MED3097,MED3099 Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi ( Editors) Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi, editors. Delivery within Ireland included in the price. From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67132K Lucy Elphinstone / Dana - An Autobiography All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: 67085K George O'Brien / The Village of Longing & Dancehall Days The Village of Longing, George O’Brien’s narrative of his childhood in the river-valley settlement of Lismore, Co. Waterford, during the 1950s, has established itself as a contemporary classic since its initial publication in... MSRP: Now: €2.50 Add to Cart Quick view Gill Books | sku: MED1165,MED1166,MED1167 Fergus Kennedy - Ballybunion to the River Kwai : An Irishman's Story of Survival on the Death Railway Ballybunion to the River Kwai is the remarkable story of Don Kennedy’s harrowing experience as an Irish prisoner of war under the Japanese from 1942–45. Vividly narrated by Don’s son Fergus, this is the first account of an Irish citizen... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €18.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: X87486K Victor Griffin / Mark of Protest - An Autobiography(Large Paperback) This autobiography includes stories of village life in Co Wicklow between the wars, and of schooldays in Kilkenny and of the cosily eccentric Trinity College during the 1940s. Yet even these early pages are more than reminiscence. The stories paint a... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart Quick view Toner Quinn - What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music- and Other Essays - BRAND NEW How do we create a deeper public discussion around music? What can folk music tell us about our society? How do we support music in our towns, villages and cities? And what can Ireland teach the world about music? For over two decades, Toner Quinn,... MSRP: Now: €20.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87296K Padraic O'Farrell / Green and Chaste and Foolish - Irish Literary and Theatrical Anecdotes(Large Paperback) A compilation of 500 anecdotes attaching to Ireland's literary figures, great and small. Gill & Macmillan 1994. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are... MSRP: Now: €3.50 Add to Cart SALE Quick view Four Courts Press | sku: BIG371 David Goodall - The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 - PB - BRAND NEW The Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) signed by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher on 15 November 1985 was unique in providing a treaty-based arrangement for the government of a territory disputed between two States. In effect it gave the Irish Government... MSRP: €20.00 Was: €20.00 Now: €9.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: x87047K Joe Mulholland / Reforming the Republic : The MacGill Report 2010 (Large Paperback) Based on the proceedings of the 2010 MacGill Summer School, the MacGill Report 2010 – Reforming the Republic, edited by Joe Mulholland. The contents of the MacGill Report will be on the agenda and particularly the sections dealing with... 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Quick view Merrion Press | sku: MED540,MED541,MED542,MED543,MED544,MED545,MED546,MED547,MED548,MED549 Jonathan Trigg - Death in Derry : Martin McGuinness and the Derry IRA’s War Against the British - PB - BRAND NEW When civil rights protests in the 1960s gave way to armed struggle, the Provisional IRA in Derry – both city and county – led the fight against the British security forces. In the city Martin McGuinness – a young butcher’s... MSRP: €18.99 Now: €14.00 Add to Cart Quick view Lilliput Press | sku: MED1052,MED1053,MED1054,MED1055,MED1056 Lin Rose Clark - Swift Blaze Of Fire : The Life of Robert Hilliard - PB - BRAND NEW Celebrated in song by Christy Moore and affectionately recalled in many memoirs, Robert "Bob" Hilliard, the author's grandfather, is one of Ireland's best-known International Brigadistas. His short life blazed with a rare intensity; his death in Spain... MSRP: €18.95 Now: €17.00 Add to Cart Quick view UCD PRESS Leeann Lane - Mary MacSwiney - BRAND NEW Until now, in-depth analysis of key female figures in Irish republicanism in the early twentieth century has been limited. Mary MacSwiney was one of the most single-minded anti-Treaty women, leading Eamon de Valera to describe her as... MSRP: €30.00 Now: €27.00 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2421 Dr Andrew Rynne / Abortion : The Irish Question (Vintage Paperback) Published 1982 ( so before the 1983 Amendment) Every year, 60 million abortions are carried out around the world. Here in Ireland, the campaign to amend the Constitution has stirred up fierce controversy. Questions of fact, opinion and motive are... MSRP: Now: €4.50 Add to Cart Quick view sku: VP2197 Oliver St. John Gogarty / As I was Going Down Sackville Street (Vintage Paperback) All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the picture shown is the actual book you will receive. 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