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Enda Finnan - Navan Road - An Illustrated History - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE Enda Finnan examins the physical and social development of the Cabra /Navan Road district from the 18th to the 20th century. Tracing the...

Bryan MacMahon - Calamity and Controversy - The Famine Years in Dingle & West Kerry - PB - BRAND NEW

'Absorbing first-person accounts of the hardship and also the heroism that occurred in Co. Kerry during Ireland's Great Famine of the1840s bring the period to life. Bryan MacMahon focuses on human...

Mark Mellett - Blue Heart : War, Climate and the Battle for the Ocean that Keeps us Alive - HB - BRAND NEW

Tracked delivery within Ireland is included in the price. War, Climate and the Battle for the Ocean that Keeps us Alive   DescriptionIn Blue Heart, Mark Mellett, former Vice Admiral and head of the...

Pat Power - The Arklow Question - Street Preaching and Sectarianism in Late Nineteenth-Century Wicklow - BRAND NEW

In the summer of 1890, the quiet harbour town of Arklow became the unlikely centre of one of the most remarkable religious controversies in late Victorian Ireland. What began as a campaign of...

Colum Kenny - Myths and Lies of the Irish Revolution - PB - BRAND NEW

Myths and lies have distorted the truth behind the founding of an Irish state. The struggle for independence was dramatic and dangerous, but there was no outright ‘Irish revolution’ from 1913 to 1927...

Fergus Whelan - Enemies of the State - Richard Musgrave, The Rebellion of 1798 and the Making of Irish History - PB - BRAND NEW

DELIVERIES WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST Enemies of the State offers a rigorous reassessment of one of the most enduring and contentious interpretations of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. At...

Gareth Prendergast - Clear Hold Build - How the Free State Army won the Irish Civil War - PB - BRAND NEW

What was achieved by the Free State during the Irish Civil War was remarkable. Within a period of less than a year they raised and equipped a standing National Army of nearly 60,000 soldiers,...

Isabel Bennett ( Editor) - Excavations in Ireland 2006 - Archaeology - Wordwell

This edition of the annual summary contains the largest number of annual excavation summaries to date (2,214), with at least a further 193 sites for which summaries were not received. Contained...

Joe Curtis - Clontarf : An Illustrated History - PB - BRAND NEW

In 1014, at the famous Battle of Clontarf, the High King of Ireland, Brian Boru, in conjunction with the provincial chiefs, defeated the colonizing Norsemen in a decisive battle which ended their...

John Bergin, David Dickson, Ivar McGrath, Thomas O'Connor & Rosemary Ryan - Waterford and the Wider World 1575-1825 - PB - BRAND NEW

1575 - 1825 This collection of essays explores Waterford’s wide-ranging connections across Europe and beyond from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through expert essays, it reveals the city’s...

Joseph E. A. Connell Jnr - An Unfinished Republic : De Valera and the Politics of Negotiation - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND VIA N POST IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE He was not a conciliator. His political policy was distinguished by an unwavering belief that his view, and only his view, was...

Marc Mulholland - At the Rising of the Moon - BRAND NEW

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST.  ''The Peasantry and Ireland from the Tudor Conquest to the fall of landlordism'' At the Rising of the Moon is a sweeping history of a time in...

Miriam Moffitt - Soupers and Jumpers - The Protestant Missions in Connemara 1848-1937 - PB - BRAND NEW

Brand new, originally published (in hardcover, in 2008) this is a brand new ( and updated) paperback edition, published by Eastwood/Wordwell Books, 2025.  The establishment of Protestant missions in...

Noel Dorr - Irish or British or Both - BRAND NEW

DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICEMore than a generation after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement brought an end to decades of violence in Northern Ireland, the central constitutional...

Pat Brereton - Farming in Ireland : Crisis and Climate - An Oral History from the Irish Midlands - PB - BRAND NEW

Rooted in the rich soil of Ireland’s heartland, Farming in the Midlands offers a vivid, multi-layered portrait of rural life across generations. From the challenges of smallholders to the innovations...

Pat Dargan - Medieval Dublin : An Illlustrated History - PB - BRAND NEW

Provides an insightful exploration of Dublin's rich architectural heritage, spanning from the medieval period through the normal era to the late 15th century. Featuring 45 significant structures this...

Patrick O'Sullivan Greene - Gatsby : Death of an Irishman - PB - BRAND NEW

Gatsby: Death of an Irishman delivers a compelling and new insight into the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the genesis of The Great Gatsby.   Fitzgerald once told a friend that ‘Gatsby started as...

Salvador Ryan (Editor) - Childhood and the Irish : A Miscellany - PB - BRAND NEW

In eighty short essays, historians, folklorists, archaeologists, theologians, anthropologists, poets, novelists, artists, literary scholars, and educationalists explore diverse facets of the...

Salvador Ryan (Editor) - Birth and the Irish : A Miscellany - PB - BRAND NEW

Following the success of Death and the Irish: a Miscellany (2016), and Marriage and the Irish: a Miscellany (2019), this third volume in the series 'Birth, Marriage and Death among the Irish'...

Salvador Ryan - Death and the Irish - PB - BRAND NEW 2026 ( 10th Anniversary Edition)

As a race, the Irish have historically had the reputation of ‘doing death well’. Taking its cue from this somewhat dubious distinction, this volume explores the relationship of the Irish people with...

Tony Gaynor - The Curse & Scourge of All Irishmen: General Henry Lawes Lutterell, Second Earl of Carhampton - BRAND NEW

The Curse & Scourge of All Irishmen: General Henry Lawes Lutterell, Second Earl of Carhampton From the privileged world of the Luttrells of Luttrellstown to the blood—soaked politics of rebellion and...