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Aldous, Richard Great Irish Speeches Quercus 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or998248. ISBN #1847241956 / 9781847241955. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Aldous, Richard Great Irish Speeches Quercus 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or998248. ISBN #1847241956 / 9781847241955. (filed under: Ireland ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary "Great Irish Speeches" contains 50 of the most stirring and memorable speeches in Irish history. From the political oratories of Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera to emotive addresses by the nation's celebrated poets, writers and musicians, all of the included speeches have had a remarkable impact on the course of Irish and world history. Each speech is preceded by an introduction, which places the address in context and underlines its historical significance, as well as an iconic photograph of the speaker. Presented chronologically, the collection provides tremendous insight into Irish history. The speechmakers include: Edmund Burke; Michael Collins; John Hume; Henry Grattan; Mary McSwiney; Charles J. Haughey; Wolfe Tone; W.B. Yeats; Des O'Malley; John Fitzgibbon; Sir James Craig; Ian Paisley; Robert Emmet; Eamon de Valera; Alan Dukes; Richard Lalor Sheill; Frank Aiken; Mary Robinson; Daniel O'Connell; Sean Lemass; Maire Geoghegan Quinn; Thomas Davis; John F. Kennedy; Seamus Heaney; Bishop David Moriarty; Declan Costello; David Trimble; Charles Stewart Parnell; Neil Blaney; Mary Harney; Michael Davitt; Terence O'Neill; Joe Higgins; John Dillon; Jack Lynch; Micheal Martin; Jim Larkin; Paddy Hillery; Bertie Ahern; Edward Carson; Liam Cosgrave; Tim Collins; John Redmond; Joe Connolly; Gerry Adams; Patrick Pearse; Garret Fitzgerald; and, Mary McAleese.
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Bardon, Jonathan Shorter Illustrated History Of Ulster 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030347. ISBN #0856405868 / 9780856405860. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Bardon, Jonathan Shorter Illustrated History Of Ulster 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030347. ISBN #0856405868 / 9780856405860. (filed under: Ireland ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary This up-to-date edition spans 9000 years of social, political and economic life in the province of Ulster, Northern Ireland. The book covers early settlements, the Viking and Norman invasions, the plantations and the Penal Laws, the rise of the United Irishmen and Orangeism, the Act of Union, emigration and the Great Famine, the linen industry and shipbuilding, the Home Rule Crisis and partition, civil rights and the turmoil of the current Troubles. The book is intended for student and general readers interested in the history of Ulster.
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Beckett, J.C. Ulster Debate: Report of a Study Group of the Institute for the Study of Conflict (Studies in Irish political culture) The Bodley Head Ltd 1972 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or714749. ISBN #0370103890 / 9780370103891. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Bishop, Patrick Irish Empire St. Martin's Press 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or865258. ISBN #0312265271 / 9780312265274. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Bishop, Patrick Irish Empire St. Martin's Press 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or865258. ISBN #0312265271 / 9780312265274. (filed under: Ireland ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The story of the Irish diaspora represents a great historical triumph of the human spirit.Ireland has a present population of about four million, but it can claim seventy million descendants worldwide-seventy million people whose families turned tragedy into triumph, by fleeing poverty, hunger, and political and religious oppression to start a new life in far-flung lands.But for the Irish emigrants the pain of exile was muted by the acquisition of wealth and influence unimaginable back in their homeland.Over centuries, successive waves of Irish emigration have established an extraordinary spread of Irish communities and power bases from London to New York, from Australia to Argentina-a phenomenon which makes it possible to talk in more than just a metaphorical sense of an Irish empire. Wherever they went, Irish emigrants took with them a strong sense of nation and ancestry, a notional empire that sustained them and shaped them in exile, despite exposure to the host culture, one which was imbued with a sentimentalized image of the society they left behind.At the same time their presence created in the minds of their hosts an idea of Ireland and 'Irishness' that has become universal.In The Irish Empire Patrick Bishop looks at why, in the last four hundred years, to be brought up in Ireland meant being prepared to leave it, an Irish cultural mindset that has persisted almost to the present day.In doing so, he examines the Irish notion of separateness that goes as far back as the ancient Irish Gaels; the impact of the nineteenth-century Potato Famine on the pattern of Irish emigration; the early colonization of America and how the Irish provided the muscle that built the infrastructure of a new nation; the transplanted tension between Protestants and Catholics in their new lands; the enduring power of the Catholic Church; and the popular identification of British oppression as the engine that drove so many Irish abroad.From the origins of the scattering of the Irish over the centuries to the dreams of a mythical home nurtured by so many Irish migrants today, The Irish Empire is a penetrating exploration of the Irish diaspora, and of how the Irish succeeded in turning exile abroad into opportunity and, finally, worldwide recognition.
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Bishop, Patrick The Irish Empire St. Martin's Press 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or708246. ISBN #0312265271 / 9780312265274. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Bishop, Patrick The Irish Empire St. Martin's Press 2000 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or708246. ISBN #0312265271 / 9780312265274. (filed under: Ireland ) *
stock image, actual book may vary The story of the Irish diaspora represents a great historical triumph of the human spirit.Ireland has a present population of about four million, but it can claim seventy million descendants worldwide-seventy million people whose families turned tragedy into triumph, by fleeing poverty, hunger, and political and religious oppression to start a new life in far-flung lands.But for the Irish emigrants the pain of exile was muted by the acquisition of wealth and influence unimaginable back in their homeland.Over centuries, successive waves of Irish emigration have established an extraordinary spread of Irish communities and power bases from London to New York, from Australia to Argentina-a phenomenon which makes it possible to talk in more than just a metaphorical sense of an Irish empire. Wherever they went, Irish emigrants took with them a strong sense of nation and ancestry, a notional empire that sustained them and shaped them in exile, despite exposure to the host culture, one which was imbued with a sentimentalized image of the society they left behind.At the same time their presence created in the minds of their hosts an idea of Ireland and 'Irishness' that has become universal.In The Irish Empire Patrick Bishop looks at why, in the last four hundred years, to be brought up in Ireland meant being prepared to leave it, an Irish cultural mindset that has persisted almost to the present day.In doing so, he examines the Irish notion of separateness that goes as far back as the ancient Irish Gaels; the impact of the nineteenth-century Potato Famine on the pattern of Irish emigration; the early colonization of America and how the Irish provided the muscle that built the infrastructure of a new nation; the transplanted tension between Protestants and Catholics in their new lands; the enduring power of the Catholic Church; and the popular identification of British oppression as the engine that drove so many Irish abroad.From the origins of the scattering of the Irish over the centuries to the dreams of a mythical home nurtured by so many Irish migrants today, The Irish Empire is a penetrating exploration of the Irish diaspora, and of how the Irish succeeded in turning exile abroad into opportunity and, finally, worldwide recognition.
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Cahill, Susan (edited by) For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers Ballantine Books 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1081251. ISBN #0345434196 / 9780345434197. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Cahill, Susan (edited by) For the Love of Ireland: A Literary Companion for Readers and Travelers Ballantine Books 2001 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1081251. ISBN #0345434196 / 9780345434197. (filed under: Ireland ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Welcome to the Ireland of its Writers Walk the streets of Dublin with Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, and Roddy Doyle. Contemplate the wild glens of Wicklow with John Millington Synge and Seamus Heaney. Wander the thrilling Cliffs of Moher with Wallace Stevens. Visit antic Limerick with Frank McCourt; mysterious Coole Park with Lady Gregory; breathtaking Sligo with William Butler Yeats; wild Donegal with Brien Friel; and hidden Clare with Edna O'Brien. No place has inspired more great literature than Ireland, which in each new generation gives birth to an astonishing number of poets, storytellers, and dramatists. For the literary pilgrim to arrive, book in hand, at the pub where Joyce set a scene or the mountain where Yeats imagined a myth is to uncover fresh meaning in the works of writers in love with their native landscape. In For the Love of Ireland, Susan Cahill offers the jewels of Irish literature. Each selection is followed by traveler's advice on how to find and fully experience the place that's about. Whether you take this book with you to Ireland or savor it in your armchair, you will be enriched, ennobled, and entertained by writers of remarkable range and at the top of their form.
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Cahill, Thomas How The Irish Saved Civilization paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098202. ISBN #0385418493 / 9780385418492. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Cahill, Thomas How The Irish Saved Civilization paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098202. ISBN #0385418493 / 9780385418492. (filed under: Ireland ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost -- they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror , How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
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Cahill, Thomas How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story Of Ireland's Heroic Role From The Fall Of Rome To The Rise Of Medieval Europe Anchor Books 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or988361. ISBN #0385418493 / 9780385418492. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Cahill, Thomas How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story Of Ireland's Heroic Role From The Fall Of Rome To The Rise Of Medieval Europe Anchor Books 1996 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or988361. ISBN #0385418493 / 9780385418492. (filed under: Ireland ) *
stock image, actual book may vary The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost -- they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror , How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
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Cahill, Thomas How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe Anchor 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098577. ISBN #0385418493 / 9780385418492. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Cahill, Thomas How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe Anchor 1996 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1098577. ISBN #0385418493 / 9780385418492. (filed under: Ireland ) *
stock image, actual book may vary The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars" -- and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost -- they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror , How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
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Callahan, Bob (ed) Big Book of American Irish Culture Viking Press 1987 Hard Cover. Good reading copy. Inking.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or654326. ISBN #0670818259 / 9780670818259. (keywords: IRELAND) (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Chambers, Anne Granuaile: Ireland's Pirate Queen C.1530-1603 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058443. ISBN #0863279139 / 9780863279133. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Chambers, Anne Granuaile: Ireland's Pirate Queen C.1530-1603 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1058443. ISBN #0863279139 / 9780863279133. (filed under: Ireland ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Over 400 Years ago Granuaile became a legend. As both Pirate Queen and Gaelic Chieftain, Granuaile or Grace O'Malley, challenged the accepted ideas of sixteenth century Ireland. She manipulated the turbulent political environment, ignoring cultural conventions, to become one of the most powerful leaders in the country. The Invading English also talked about this '...most famous feminine sea captain'. The meeting of the two Queens, Granuaile and Elizabeth I, ensured that the legend grew until Granuaile became celebrated as one of the most notorious Irishwomen in Elizabeth England. Using State Papers and manuscripts of the period, Anne Chambers reveals the woman behind the legend and the unique contribution Granuaile made to Irish history. This new edition coincides with the 400th anniversary of Granuaile's death.
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Coakley, John (Editor); Gallagher, Michael (Editor) Politics in The Republic Of Ireland Routledge 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Minimal Notes or Marking. Book #or864639. ISBN #0415280672 / 9780415280679. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Coakley, John (Editor); Gallagher, Michael (Editor) Politics in The Republic Of Ireland Routledge 2004 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Minimal Notes or Marking. Book #or864639. ISBN #0415280672 / 9780415280679. (filed under: Ireland ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Politics in the Republic of Ireland is now available in a fully revised fourth edition. Building on the success of the previous three editions, this text continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of politics in the Republic of Ireland. Written by some of the foremost experts on Irish politics, it explains, analyzes and interprets the background to Irish government and contemporary political processes. Crucially, it brings the student up-to-date with the very latest developments. New patterns of government formation, challenges to the established political parties, ever-deepening, if sometimes ambivalent, involvement in the process of European integration, a growing role in the politics of Northern Ireland and sustained discussion of gender issues are among these developments along with evidence, revealed by several tribunals of enquiry, that Irish politics is not as free of corruption as many had assumed.
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Coffey, Michael (Editor) Irish in America 1997 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097543. ISBN #0786863447 / 9780786863440. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Coffey, Michael (Editor) Irish in America 1997 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1097543. ISBN #0786863447 / 9780786863440. (filed under: Ireland ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary The companion volume to a PBS television series, a compendium of essays, photographs, and illustrations explores the social, cultural, and political history of Irish Americans through contributions by Pete Hamill, Frank McCourt, Peggy Noonan, and others. TV tie-in."
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Conroy, John Belfast Diary: War As a Way of Life Beacon Press 1987 hardcover. Previous owner embossed stamp present.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or828401. ISBN #0807002046 / 9780807002049. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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Conroy, John Belfast Diary: War As a Way of Life Beacon Press 1987 hardcover. Previous owner embossed stamp present.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or828401. ISBN #0807002046 / 9780807002049. (filed under: Ireland ) *
Resolution of intractable problems around the world requires understanding ordinary people as well as leaders. This street-level view of Northern Ireland provides the best explanation of the twenty-five-year conflict.
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Cotter, James H. Tipperary The devin-Adair Company 1929 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1101372. (filed under: Ireland ) *
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