2,636円 From Norman invaders, religious warsーand the struggle for independenceーthe fascinating, turbulent history of a tortured nation and its gifted people When Shakespeare referred to England as a "jewel set in a silver sea," he could just as well have been speaking of Ireland. Not only has its lumin...

1,779円 The Origins of the Irish is the first major attempt in nearly eighty years to deal with the core issues of how the Irish people came into being. Written as an engrossing detective story, this authoritative and brilliantly argued book emphasizes that the Irish did not have a single origin, but are...

1,856円 Belmore: The Lowry-Corry Families of Castle Coole, 1646-1913 tells the fascinating story of two families who left Dumfries in the mid 17th century to settle in Fermanagh and Tyrone. The marriage of Galbraith Lowry to Sarah Corry united their considerable fortunes and political clout. Their only s...

3,663円 With the weakening moral authority of the Catholic Church, the boom ushered in by the Celtic Tiger, and the slow but steady diminishment of the Troubles in the North, Ireland has finally stepped out from the shadows of colonial oppression onto the world stage as a major cosmopolitan country.Takin...

11,772円 First published in 1975, Donald Akenson’s book was at the forefront of a radically new approach to the study of Irish educational history. Instead of investigating the evolution of the schools as an isolated process, he explores the complex interrelations of Irish education, institutions and soci...

496円 The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W.Y. Evans-Wentz A serious study of Fairy folklore and mythology, with an ethnographic approach. "This is one of the most in-depth and scholarly attempts to explain the phenomena of the Celtic belief in fairies. Based on Evans-Wentz' Oxford doctoral thesis, ...

746円 Foofer, the Pooka & St. Patrick is Book #4 in the Short Tales Collection by Deborah O'Toole. Read how Foofer learns the true history of St. Patrick, Ireland's patron saint. The history lesson is related to Foofer by an Irish Pooka, who also leads Foofer down a misty path to meet and discover othe...

7,959円 A new vision of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present. The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative view of the Irish historical and cultural experiences as phenomena transcending traditional chronological, topical, a...

174円 If 1916 is the founding myth of the Irish state then the famine is the founding tragedy. It was a tragedy on a truly epic scale, the events of the famine came to pass not in one of the worlds poorest nations, but in what was at the time part of metropolitan Britain (following the Act of Union of ...

496円 Icelandic Sagas, Vol. III: The Orkneyingers Saga by George W. Dasent The two groups of islands, in which the events narrated in the Orkneyingers’ Saga for the most part happened, are widely different in their geographical confirmation. While the Orkneys lie like Cyclades round Hrossey or the Main...

748円 An absorbing collection of folklore and legend from a timeless county in the heart of Ireland. Comprising stories on fairies, Leprechauns, witches and wizards. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive....

496円 The events that circle round King Conor mac Nessa and Cuchulain as their principal figures are supposed to have occurred, as we gather from the legends themselves, about the first century of our era. According to one of the stories, King Conor is said to have died in a paroxysm of wrath and horro...