Search Results: Titles starting with W from The Irish History Bookshop

Westport Books, 2006 Book. Good. Soft cover. The spine is creased. A little wear to the card covers..

Mercier Press, 2013 Book. Good. Soft cover. Wear to the card covers..

Veritas, 1988 Book. Illus. by Liam C. Martin. Very Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers..

Mercier Press, 2019 Book. New. Soft cover. Like all guerrilla wars, the Irish War of Independence was characterised by great courage and ruthless brutality. It created many heroes and spawned two of the most hated forces that a British government had ever inflicted on Ireland: the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries. This book traces the cause, development and consequences of the war, which led to the bloody birth of modern Ireland..

Birlinn Ltd, 2022 Book. New. Soft cover. The Bruces of fourteenth-century Scotland were formidable and enthusiastic warriors. Whilst much has been written about events as they happened in Scotland during the chaotic years of the first part of the fourteenth century, England's war with Robert the Bruce profoundly affected the whole of the British Isles. Scottish raiders struck deep into the heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire; Robert's younger brother, Edward Bruce, was proclaimed King of Ireland and came close to subduing the country; the Isle of Man was captured and a Welsh sea-port was raided; and in the North Sea Scots allied with German and Flemish pirates to cripple England's vital wool trade and disrupt its war effort. Packed with detail and written with a strong and involving narrative thread, this is the first book to link up the various theatres of war and discuss the effect of the wars of the Bruces outside Scotland..

THP Ireland, 2023 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book.

A.& A.Farmar, 2010 Book. Good. Soft cover. Wear to the card covers. Previous owners name on the end paper..

Merrion Press, 2018 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book..

Hodder & Stoughton, 1990 Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Spine creased. Previous owners name on the end paper..

Apollo, 2022 Book. New. Soft cover. We Don't Know Ourselves is a very personal vision of recent Irish history from the year of O'Toole's birth, 1958, down to the present. Ireland has changed almost out of recognition during those decades, and Fintan O'Toole's life coincides with that arc of transformation. The book is a brilliant interweaving of memories (though this is emphatically not a memoir) and engrossing social and historical narrative. This was the era of Eamon de Valera, Jack Lynch, Charles Haughey and John Charles McQuaid, of sectarian civil war in the North and the Pope's triumphant visit in 1979, but also of those who began to speak out against the ruling consensus - feminists, advocates for the rights of children, gay men and women coming out of the shadows. We Don't Know Ourselves is an essential book for anyone who wishes to understand modern Ireland. .

O'Brien Press, 2021 Book. New. Hardcover. Nearly 2,000 people gave detailed statements to the Bureau of Military History between 1947 and 1957 about their role in Ireland's fight for freedom. The statements are the recollections of many of those who participated in the 1916 Easter Rising and the War of Independence, 1919-1921. Recently released to scholars and researchers, they allow a much broader view of what actually happened in the fateful decade that led to independence from the British Empire. They offer a remarkable window into a tumultuous era in Ireland's modern history when men and women rose up against British rule and demanded independence. The statements examined in the book reflect the views of republican men and women from all facets of society. They were urban and rural dwellers middle and working-class individuals, farmers, labourers and professionals, all of whom, came together in the pursuit of one common goal. Their statements confirm the commitment they gave to the… Read More

Mercier Press, 2023 Book. New. Hardcover. This wonderful publication provides a unique visual and historical record of the West Cork Railway as rail enthusiast and historian Chris Larkin warmly remembers the lifetime of the rail system in a travelogue which allows readers to hop onto a West Cork train and savour the journey of a bygone era. Highly illustrated with 188 images, while on board, you might even meet a celebrity! Fully illustrated throughout, material from Irish Railway Records is complemented by unique and rare images from private collections and the London Illustrated News. Photographs, vintage posters, postcards, colour slides, tickets, advertisements and images of railway paraphernalia fill the pages. West Cork Railways takes the reader time travelling from the famine right through to the rocking 1960s. Sit on a seat and be whisked from your West Cork home to villages and towns carrying along the dreams, needs and aspirations of bygone travellers. Observe railway life and the harmonious… Read More

Manchester University Press, 2017 Book. New. Soft cover. The West must wait presents a new perspective on the development of the Irish Free State. It extends the regional historical debate beyond the Irish revolution and raises a series of challenging questions about post-civil war society in Ireland. Through a detailed examination of key local themes - land, poverty, politics, emigration, the status of the Irish language, the influence of radical republicans and the authority of the Catholic Church - it offers a probing analysis of the socio-political realities of life in the new state. This book opens up a new dimension by providing a rural contrast to the Dublin-centred views of Irish politics. Significantly, it reveals the level of deprivation in local Free State society with which the government had to confront in the west. Rigorously researched, it explores the disconnect between the perceptions of what independence would deliver and what was achieved by the incumbent Cumann na nGaedheal… Read More

Clachan Publishing, 2012 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book..

The History Press, 2018 Book. New. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A brand new book..

Mercier Press, 2016 Book. Good. Soft cover. The head of the spine is bumped and has a small split..

Mercier Press, 2016 Book. Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers. Mark to the fore edge and on the final page. Lean to the spine..

The History Press, 2015 Book. New. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A Brand New Book..

Geography Publications, 2007 Book. Good. Soft cover. Lean to the spine. Previous owners name on the end paper..

Stenlake Publishing, 2004 Book. Good. Soft cover. Ex Library. Marks on the title page where stickers have been removed. Ireland was traditionally divided into four provinces, of which Connaught, comprising the counties of Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon, was the most westerly. This collection of photographs showcases the many modes of transport to be observed around Connaught from mid-Victorian times to the 1970s. Buses feature prominently, but there are also cars, horse-drawn carts, trains, lorries and trams, together with more unusual vehicles such as a hearse, a horse box, a mobile crane, a tractor, an ambulance and a decommissioned Great Southern Railway bus enjoying a change of pace as a Red Cross canteen. Connaught's big transport operators are well represented but so are many of the small concerns that once contributed to public transport in this sparsely populated area of Ireland. Featured locations include Clifden, Galway, Lough Corrib, Westport, Achill Island, Salthill,… Read More