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Joe Ambrose
Dan Breen And The IRA

Dan Breen was sometimes known as the 'Thug with Blood on His Hands' because of his involvement in the ambush and killing of two RIC policemen at Soloheadbeg - a political and historical controversy widely…

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Patrick Byrne
Tales of the Banshee

To hear the Banshee's cry is considered to be an ill-omen as she is supposed to come for the purpose of forewarning death. She does this by melancholy wailing, appearing in the form of a young and beautif…

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Patrick F. Byrne
Witchcraft in Ireland

Here is the full account of Dame Alice Kyteler of Kilkenny who was said to have poisoned three husbands and enchanted a fourth, before her nefarious doings came under the notice of Richard de Ledrede, the…

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Séamas Ó Catháin
Irish Life and Lore

Irish Life and Lore is not only an excellent collection of folktales and legends but it is also packed with the lore and traditions of places and people from the four corners of Ireland.This book contains…

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Darina Clancy
The Horgan Brothers

Through extraordinary photographs, The Horgan Brothers documented both common folk and kings, fishermen and political activists. This stunning collection reveals a vanishing Ireland through the eyes of tw…

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Austin Clarke
Poetry in Modern Ireland

Poetry in Modern Ireland, with illustrations by Louis Le Brocquy, is the second booklet in the series published for the Cultural Relations Committee of Ireland and was issued in 1951. For this second edit…

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Louis M Cullen
Six Generations

Six Generations describes the significant changes in everyday life - food, entertainment, household goods, working conditions, medicine, roads and communication - and what brought them about.

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Kevin Danaher
Gentle Places and Simple Things

'If the four-leafed shamrock was lucky, the hungry grass who quite the opposite, and very unlucky he who trod on it.' In point of fact if you trod on the hungry grass you almost expired of hunger -- for t…

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Kevin Danaher
Irish Country People

Kevin Danaher growing up among the hills of west Limerick learned to see the Irish countryside partly through the eyes of the farmers and workpeople and partly through the eyes of his father, a schoolmast…

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Liam Deasy
Brother Against Brother

Brother Against Brother is Liam Deasy's moving and sensitive account of the Civil War, one of Ireland's greatest tragedies. He recounts in detail the Republican disillusionment with the Truce and later wi…

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Theo Dorgan
Camarade

A philosophical thriller. An Irish exile in Paris begins writing his memoir, forcing him to confront the night he shot a policeman and fled to France. Against the backdrop of the Algerian Crisis & May…

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Cathal Dunne
Athenry

'Tell her I'll come back to her; tell her I'll find a way.' Ireland, Autumn 1845.The potato blight turns green fields black overnight. A million will die. A million more will flee. But Liam O'Donaghue ref…

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James Durney
Special Powers

The untold story of Ireland's forgotten prisonersIn the shadow of civil war, over 5,500 republican prisoners found themselves trapped behind the wire at Newbridge Barracks and the Curragh internment camps…

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John M. Feehan
My Village My World

'This is a book that never palls or drags. It is boisterous and ribald and I am tempted to say that it is by far the funniest book I have ever read. It is also an accurate and revealing history of rural I…

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John M Feehan
The Magic of the Kerry Coast

The story of a man sailing the rugged Kerry coast.

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John M Feehan
The Secret Places of the Burren

John M Feehan searches out the hidden corners of the Burren, those secluded places where time stands still and where nature speaks its secret language to the human spirit. Although at times controversial,…

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John M Feehan
The Shooting of Michael Collins

Was Michael Collins killed by an accident of war or was he ruthlessly murdered? Both of these possibilities are calmly and carefully examined by the author, who has rejected the traditional theory that he…

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Gabriel Fitzmaurice
Splat

Spalt and other Great Poems by Gabriel Fitzmaurice brings together a collection of serious poems and silly poems, naughty poems and nice poems from Ireland's best-selling children's poet.These poems, sele…

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Thomas Fitzpatrick
The King of Claddagh

When Cromwell's soldiers drummed and swaggered their way through Galway in 1651 they forgot for a while about the strange, remote people who dwelt on the west bank of the Corrib, fishing, plying up and do…

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Frank Gallagher
Days of Fear

"To-night my head aches ... Those first days of hungerstriking are cruel days. Yet the hardest thing of all to bear is that there are no meal-hours. Jail life hinges on the three meals. I think I hav…

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