Secondhand Irish History Books

This guide to Ireland presents a meticulous, historical account of Ireland coupled with a comprehensive directory of sites. This fascinating volume is a perfect companion both for the discerning traveller...

'Volume IX' of 'Documents on Irish Foreign Policy' brings together for the first time the entire spectrum of Ireland's foreign relations between 1948 and 1951. It covers Ireland's role as...

Starting from its original conception and design by the owners and naval architects at the White Star Line through construction at Harland and Wolff's shipyards in Belfast, Nick Barratt explores...

Ireland is a country that arouses strong opinions: everyone has a view on its character, its foibles, its charm and its waywardness. It has inspired some of the best poetry...

Visited in these pages are sacred ritual sites, beautiful castles and ancient fortifications, geological formations which have attracted mythological explanations, symbolic statues and architectural masterpieces - all of them representing...

The author was brought up in Warrenpoint and in this book describes his family life and the characters involved including his frail delicate mother, his brother who died of pneumonia...

It is a curious paradox that, while for many centuries there has been deep antagonism between the British and the Irish, the latter have fought the former's wars with exemplary...

Understanding the past - where we have come from and what has moulded us - is important everywhere, and nowhere more so than in Northern Ireland's largest city. For 250...

The Society of Irishmen was founded in Belfast, with the dream to bury religious divisions, end the rule of the "antiquated and corrupt Ascendary" centred on Dublin Castle, and sever...