Cultural Region/Ireland
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
$23.99 Add to cartThe Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France,
- Author: Zuckerman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0865475784
- Language: English
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The Story of Irish Dance
$21.95 Add to cartFrom early accounts of dance customs in medieval Ireland to the present, Brennan offers an authoritative look at the evolution of Irish dance.
- Author: Brennan, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493066129
- Language: English
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Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland
$32.00 Add to cartFour Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant.
The search for justice for this one man’s death–his body found in broad daylight,- Author: Hemming, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1541703189
- Language: English
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St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography
$15.99 Add to cart“Lively and lucid.” —The New York Times Book Review
The most authoritative modern biography of the patron saint of Ireland, focusing on the historical Patrick and his times. Ireland’s patron saint ha- Author: Freeman, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0743256344
- Language: English
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The Last Pool of Darkness: The Connemara Trilogy
$20.00 Add to cartIn the second volume of his beloved Connemara trilogy, cartographer Tim Robinson continues to unearth the stories of this rich landscape in Ireland–weaving placelore, etymology, geology, and the meet… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Robinson, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1571313745
- Language: English
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Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother’s Secrets
$27.00 Read moreBlending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story.
“Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing light into the dark- Author: Wills, Clair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 374611866
- Language: English
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
$20.00 Add to cartMore than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in th… [more below]
- Author: Webb, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0767916891
- Language: English
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The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics
$15.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019
‘Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. I can think of several MPs who oug
- Author: Ferriter, Diarmaid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1788161793
- Language: English
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Perils & Prospects of a United Ireland
$38.95 Read moreThe definitive study of the questions around the future of Northern Irish politics, including the idea of reunification.
Focusing on the topics of the Northern Ireland Protocol, the Good Friday Agre- Author: O’Malley, Padraig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1843518511
- Language: English
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Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island
$19.95 Add to cartHere is one of the classics of modern Gaelic literature–the autobiography of Peig Sayers, a remarkable woman who lived forty years at the edge of survival on barren Great Blasket Island, and who came
- Series: Irish Studies
- Author: Sayers, Peig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 1974
- ISBN10: 0815602588
- Language: English
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The Scotch-Irish: A Social History
$26.00 Add to cartDispelling much of what he terms the ‘mythology’ of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their c… [more below]
- Author: Leyburn, James G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: August 30 1989
- ISBN10: 0807842591
- Language: English
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Secret History of the IRA
$36.99 Add to cartFilled with disclosures and based on the author’s unprecedented access to the Irish Republican Army, this explosive book sparked controversy when it was first published in hardcover. Delving deeply in
- Author: Moloney, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0393325024
- Language: English
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Summer with the Leprechauns: The Authorized Edition
$18.00 Add to cartThis charming book includes additional material and captures Lloyd the Leprechaun’s original voice. An Irish Jewel, far more than a fairy tale. A good humored, true account of Tanis’ summer in a cotta
- Author: Helliwell, Tanis Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 13 2011
- ISBN10: 0980903351
- Language: English
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Celtic Mythology & History: Explore Timeless Tales, Folklore, Religion, Magic, Legendary Stories & More: Ireland, Scotland, Great Britain, Wales
$19.99 Add to cartIt is believed that the Celts originated as early as 1200 B.C.
Traces of their culture can still be found in Ireland and Great Britain, where their legacy is most evident.
This book explores their histo
- Author: Brought Alive, History
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1914312562
- Language: English
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The Troubles: Ireland’s Ordeal and the Search for Peace: Ireland’s Ordeal and the Search for Peace
$45.99 Add to cartTim Pat Coogan covers the tortured history of Ireland from the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, through the long years of violence, up to the present attempts to find peace. His ac… [more below]
- Author: Coogan, Tim Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0312294182
- Language: English
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The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
$18.99 Add to cart“A highly colorful, swashbuckling read, one that will give you new respect for Britain’s first Elizabeth.” —Seattle Times
An illuminating revisionist biography about Queen Elizabeth I and her merchant
- Author: Ronald, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0060820675
- Language: English
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Malachy McCourt’s History of Ireland (Paperback)
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt offers an authoritative and engrossing one-volume chronicle of Ireland from pre-Christian times to the present, told with Irish flair by the gifted st… [more below]
- Author: McCourt, Malachy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 29 2008
- ISBN10: 0762431814
- Language: English
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America’s First Female Serial Killer: Jane Toppan and the Making of a Monster (Mind of a Serial Killer, True Crime, Violence in Society, Criminology)
$18.95 Read moreThe nurse from hell: Always cheerful, helpful, and sweet, nurse Jane Toppan was the last person you would suspect to administer a dose of death. When countless patients sought treatment for minor ailm… [more below]
- Author: McBrayer, Mary Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1642502073
- Language: English
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Pagan Portals – Irish Paganism: Reconstructing Irish Polytheism
$12.95 Read moreIrish Reconstructionist Polytheism is an often misunderstood path, but it is one with great richness and depth for those who follow it. This short introductory book touches on the basic beliefs and pr… [more below]
- Author: Daimler, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: October 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1785351451
- Language: English
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Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
$22.00 Add to cartDamned to Fame is the brilliant and insightful portrait of Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett, mysterious and reclusive master of twentieth-century literature. Professor James Knowlson, Beckett… [more below]
- Author: Knowlson, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: April 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141250
- Language: English
