Search Results: Authors starting with K from The Irish History Bookshop

Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022 Book. New. Soft cover. Shortlisted for the ALCS Gold Dagger Award for Nonfiction A brilliant work of historical true crime charting a pivotal event in the l9th century, the Phoenix Park murders in Dublin, that gripped the world and forever altered the course of Irish history, from renowned journalist, former New Yorker London editor, and Costa Biography Award finalist Julie Kavanagh. Ireland, 1879-1882. After 700 years of British rule, the post-Famine generation of Irish tenant farmers began to push back against the reigning feudal system of landownership. The charismatic political leader, Charles Stewart Parnell, headed up the Land League, a revolutionary movement that promised to restore land and power to the people through a series of protests, strikes, and boycotts. After what became known as the Irish Land War had escalated into nationwide anarchy, Parnell and two associates were incarcerated without trial in Kilmainham Gaol. In April 1882, Parnell… Read More

William Collins, 2017 Book. Good. Soft cover. Spine creased. A little wear to the card covers..

William Collins, 2018 Book. New. Soft cover. A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past. 2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE NON-FICTION IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC, Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell a story that lies at the root of his fascination with war. It is a family story of war and love, and how the ghosts of the past return to shape the present. Wounds is a powerful memoir about Irish people who found themselves caught up in the revolution that followed the 1916 Rising, and in the pitiless violence of civil war in north Kerry after the British left in 1922. It is the story of Keane's grandmother Hannah Purtill, her brother Mick and his friend Con Brosnan, and how they and their neighbours took up guns to fight the British Empire and create an independent Ireland. And it is the story of another… Read More

Hamish Hamilton, 1987 Book. Good. Soft cover. Wear to the card covers and spine. The pages are tanned..

Penguin, 2000 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book..

Atlantic Books, 2009 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. The spine is creased. At the end of the nineteenth century, Charles Stewart Parnell, MP, was the only man who both the English government and Irish radicals believed could secure Home Rule for Ireland. But when Parnell met and fell in love with Katie O'Shea, a married woman, Parnell's life - and Ireland's history - would change for ever. When Parnell was named as co-respondent in Katie's divorce and revealed as the father of three of Katie's children their affair triggered the most notorious scandal of the Victorian era. Elisabeth Kehoe's vivid biography introduces us to a woman entirely unrecognisable as the home-wrecker and historical catastrophe of subsequent myth. From this book emerges, for the first time, the real Katie O'Shea: a gifted woman who influenced political policy with an acuity and sensitivity sorely lacking in her lover..

Ireland: University College Dublin Press, 2018 Book. New. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Maamtrasna Murders of 1882-in which three men who spoke only Irish were wrongfully sentenced to death after a trial conducted fully in English-stand as one of the gravest miscarriages of justice in Irish history. In this book, Margaret Kelleher uses the Maamtransa case, notorious for its failure to interpretive and translation services to monoglot Irish speakers, as a starting point for an investigation into broader sociolinguistic issues. Uncovering archival materials not previously consulted, this book illuminates a story that has proven to be a much messier social narrative than previously recognized. Kelleher show that, although the wrongful execution of monolingual Irishmen have historically been the best-known feature of the case, the complex significance of language use in an isolated region mirrors the dynamics that continue to influence the fates of monolingual and bilingual… Read More

The History Press Ireland, 2014 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book..

Cork University Press, 1995 Book. Good. Soft cover. Spine faded. Previous owners name on the end paper..

Irish Manuscripts Commission, 2013 Book. As New. Hardcover. Shelfwear. One small closed tear at the head of the dustjacket..

Faber and Faber, 2013 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book..

Gill Books, 2021 Book. Good. Hardcover. Split to the board at the bottom corner..

Wordwell, 2023 Book. New. Hardcover. A History of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. In 1784, a small group of Irish surgeons broke ranks with the Guild of Barber-Surgeons to form the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Every Branch of the Healing Art tells the story of RCSI through its contributions to a near-quarter-millennium of surgical, medical and societal change. From nineteenth-century bodysnatchers to the 1916 Rising, through two pandemics and two world wars, with a vivid cast of characters, and reaching right to the present day, Every Branch of the Healing Art is a fast-moving, lavishly-illustrated narrative of a great Irish - and, now, global - institution..

Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 Book. New. Soft cover. The first woman elected to lead a major Western power and the longest serving British prime minister for 150 years, Margaret Thatcher is arguably one the most dominant and divisive forces in 20th-century British politics. Yet there has been no overarching exploration of the development of Thatcher's views towards Northern Ireland from her appointment as Conservative Party leader in 1975 until her forced retirement in 1990. In this original and much-needed study, Stephen Kelly rectifies this. From Thatcher's 'no surrender' attitude to the Republican hunger strikes to her nurturing role in the early stages of the Northern Ireland peace process, Kelly traces the evolutionary and sometimes contradictory nature of Thatcher's approach to Northern Ireland. In doing so, this book reflects afresh on the political relationship between Britain and Ireland in the late-20th century. An engaging and nuanced analysis of previously neglected… Read More

Shruffaun Publishing, 2016 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers..

Currach Press, 2016 Book. New. Hardcover. Brings together the nine principal occasions in Ireland's history on which resistance was made to the dominance of those who controlled the country's destiny. The book takes us from the period of the Battle of Clontarf in Dublin in the year 1014, when Brian Boru's forces took on the Viking invaders, up to the time in 1949 when Ireland, then styled the `Irish Free State', was declared a republic. Along the way we learn of such crucial conflicts as the Battle of the Boyne, the 1798 Rebellion and, of course, the 1916 Rising, which directly contributed to the creation of an independent Irish parliament. Using an easily assimilated style, All the Risings gives an excellent overview of the main events that have shaped Ireland's history..

The O'Brien Press, 2014 Book. New. Soft cover. Thomas MacDonagh is part of the 16 Lives series. Born in Cloughjordan in Co. Tipperary, MacDonagh was a poet and playwright, an educator and political activist. Appointed to the IRB Military Council he became a member of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic and was a signatory of the 1916 Easter proclamation. During the Rising MacDonagh was commandant of the 2nd Battalion of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers and occupied the Jacobs Biscuit factory garrison. Following an inspiring speech at his Court Marshal he was executed on 3 May 1916 at Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. In this meticulously researched biography Shane Kenna places this remarkable man within the great pantheon of Irish Republican heroes..

Methuen Publishing Ltd, 2006 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Light wear to the edge of the dustjacket. Marks to the end paper. A bleak, honest, and shocking account of how Northern Ireland's Orange Order, a religious institution founded in 1795 to defend Protestantism, has tragically departed from its core values and become associated with sectarian violence and political intrigue. Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Northern Ireland today..

Liberties Press Ltd, 2012 Book. New. Soft cover. The book presents the premise that the silent majority remained silent over the years as the leadership of the country - the Sacred Cows - misled, mismanaged and variously misused power in Ireland from the 1950s through to the present times. .

Catholic Dean of Residences, 1946 Book. Good. Soft cover. The card covers are rubbed and a little dog eared..