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

Penguin Books Ltd, 1972 Book. Good. Soft cover. The spine is faded and split at the tail. The pages are tanned..

Greystone Books Ltd, 1986 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Wear to the top edge of the dust jacket..

Royal Irish Academy, 2016 Book. New. Hardcover. Ulster Political Lives, 1886-1921 examines the lives of 50 of Ulster's most significant political figures in the turbulent period from the first Home Rule Bill of 1886 to the foundation of the state of Northern Ireland in 1921. It includes articles on leading figures such as Edward Carson, James Craig and Joseph Devlin, but also on lesser-known but interesting figures such as Margaret Byers, Winifred Carney and George Clark, whose lives are also significant and instructive. It details the lives of unionists and nationalists, loyalists and republicans, but also those who did not fit into such neat categories--socialists, trade unionists and feminists, who often avoided identification with the major political groupings but nonetheless made noteworthy contributions to the creation of Northern Ireland and the shape it took after 1921..

British Broadcasting Corporation, 1957 Book. Good. Soft cover. The card covers are rubbed. The text is clean and the binding is tight..

The Author, 1986 Book. Good. Soft cover. Some marks to the card covers..

Blackstaff Press Ltd, 1983 Book. Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers. Previous owners name on the end paper. The pages are tanned..

Cambridge University Press, 2023 Book. New. Hardcover. When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish Sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how the British army acted to save Great Britain from disaster during the most violent phase of the Troubles but, in so doing, condemned the people of Northern Ireland to protracted, grinding conflict. Huw Bennett shows how the army's ambivalent response to loyalist violence undermined the prospects for peace and heightened Catholic distrust in the state. British strategy consistently underestimated community defence as a reason for people joining or supporting the IRA whilst senior commanders allowed the army to turn in on itself, hardening soldiers to the suffering of ordinary people. By 1975 military strategists considered the conflict unresolvable: the army could not convince Catholics or Protestants that it was there to protect them and settled instead for an unending war..

New Island Books, 2021 Book. New. Soft cover. Updated Edition. New updated edition of the seminal work by Catherine Dunne, which charted the multifarious lives of the London Irish, in all their variety and colour, now with a brand new foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter. Before the 'Ryanair Generation', leaving home was for good. Half a million Irish men and women left these shores in the nineteen-fifties, forced by decades of economic stagnation to make their lives elsewhere. For many of these emigrants, mostly young and unskilled, Britain was their only hope of survival. Abandoned by the Irish state, this forgotten generation went in search of employment and security, the dignity of a future that was denied them at home. For many of these youthful emigrants, exile held the promise of adventure and excitement, freedom from the oppressions of De Valera's Ireland. Yet no two emigrant experiences were the same. In a series of compelling interviews, 'honest, angry, and funny', these… Read More

O'Brien Press, 1996 Book. New. Soft cover. The first book in the famine trilogy. Under the Hawthorn Tree is Ireland's top selling children's book and a classic for young readers worldwide. Ireland in the 1840s is devastated by famine. When tragedy strikes their family, Eily, Michael and Peggy are left to fend for themselves. Starving and in danger of the dreaded workhouse, they escape. Their one hope is to find the great aunts they have heard about in their mother's stories. With tremendous courage they set out on a journey that will test every reserve of strength, love and loyalty they possess..

Cornell University Press, 1998 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Bumped at the head of the spine..

Pen and Sword History, 2019 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book..

Tuairim, 1958 Book. Good. Soft cover. The paper covers are marked and creased at the edge. 24p..

Gill Books, 2020 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book..

The Heritage Council, 2000 Book. Good. Soft cover. The card covers are rubbed. The spine is a little creased..