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

Limerick Leader, 1944 Book. Good. Soft cover. The card covers are sunned. The page edges are a little dog eared. Includes fold out map and errata slip..

Press Cuchulainn, 1967 Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. The card covers are a little rubbed. The covers are wrapped in plastic. Old tape mark on the end paper..

School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2001 Book. As New. Soft cover. An unread book..

The Mercier Press Ltd, 2021 Book. New. Soft cover. In November 2008, Tomás Mac Conmara sat with a 105 five-year-old woman at a nursing home in Clare. While gently moving through her memories, he asked the east Clare native; 'Do you remember the time that four lads were killed on the Bridge of Killaloe?'. Almost immediately, the woman's countenance changed to deep outward sadness. Her recollection took him back to 17th November 1920, when news of the brutal death of four men, who became known as the Scariff Martyrs, was revealed to the local community. Late the previous night, on the bridge of Killaloe they were shot by British Forces, who claimed they had attempted to escape. Locals insisted they were murdered. A story remembered for 100 years is now fully told. This incident presents a remarkable confluence of dimensions. The young rebels committed to a cause. Their betrayal by a spy, their torture and evident refusal to betray comrades, the loneliness and liminal nature of their… Read More

Arlen House, 2008 Book. New. Soft cover. This book offers a collection of Margaret Mac Curtain's pioneering essays in the field of Irish women's history. Subjects range from marriage and education in early modern Ireland to female spirituality and representations in art and literature..

Clo Iar-Chonnachta Teo, 2009 Book. Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers and the edge of the text block. Light foxing to the end papers. Writings of the author Micheal Breathnach..

FAS, 1960 Book. Fair. Soft cover. The spine is creased and leaning. Some highlighting in text. Suitable as a reading or reference copy..

FAS, 1960 Book. Good. Soft cover. The spine and cards are rubbed..

The Collins Press, 2015 Book. New. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. The wild plants of Ireland are bound up in our culture and folklore. They appear in the old Irish Brehon Laws and early nature poetry. Herbal medicine was also important. In ancient Ireland there were 365 different parts to the body, and a different plant to cure the ailments of each part. So there are myths, legends and folklore associated with wild plants and flowers in Ireland. A person who carries a four-leaved shamrock will have great luck in gambling, while a girl who puts nine ivy leaves under her pillow will dream of her future husband. Plants are described in seasonal order instead of botanically, a fresh perspective bringing us back to the viewpoint of our ancestors. After the history of herbs in Ireland, tractional herbal medicine and different aspects of plant folklore are examined. Included are their roles in magical protection, their use in charms and spells (especially for love!), as emblems in children's games, in Irish… Read More

Talbot Press, 1931 Book. Good. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt titles. Bumped at the head and tail of the spine. Mark on the spine. Endpaper absent..

Oxford University Press, 2017 Book. New. Hardcover. South-west Donegal, Ireland, June 1856. From the time that the blight first came on the potatoes in 1845, armed and masked men dubbed Molly Maguires had been raiding the houses of people deemed to be taking advantage of the rural poor. On some occasions, they represented themselves as 'Molly's Sons', sent by their mother, to carry out justice; on others, a man attired as a woman, introducing 'herself' as Molly Maguire, demanding redress for wrongs inflicted on her children. The raiders might stipulate the maximum price at which provisions were to be sold, warn against the eviction of tenants, or demand that an evicted family be reinstated to their holding. People who refused to meet their demands were often viciously beaten and, in some instances, killed - offences that the Constabulary classified as 'outrages'. Catholic clergymen regularly denounced the Mollies and in 1853, the district was proclaimed under the Crime and… Read More

The O'Brien Press, 2012 Book. New. Soft cover. The most famous Irish legend of all in an exciting and easily understood version. Read about the feats of the famous warrior Cuchulainn who singlehandedly defends Ulster against the army of Queen Maeve. War, peace, love, greed, fate are the stuff of an epic, and in The Tain they are present in full. Illustrated throughout by Donald Teskey..

O'Brien Press, 2007 Book. New. Soft cover. Older than the Egyptian pyramids, older than Stonehenge, for 5,000 years the ancient megalithic tomb at Newgrange in County Meath has housed the remains of Stone Age 'aristocracy', sheltering the spirits of the long dead from the outside world. This book explores the creation, building and discovery of Newgrange. Why did these people spend years building this tomb? How did they move huge boulders miles across hilly country and erect them at the site, without the aid of machinery? Modern archaeological techniques have revealed much about the lives of our Stone Age ancestors, but Newgrange still retains many of its secrets. Exploring Newgrange uncovers, in words and illustrations, the extent, and limitations, of our knowledge of this world-famous site..

Dalcassian Publishing Company, 2017 Book. New. Soft cover. Lebor Gabála Érenn, known in English as The Book of Invasions, is a collection of poems and prose narratives in the Irish language intended to be a history of Ireland and the Irish from the creation of the world to the Middle Ages..

Wolfhound Press, 1999 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The Irish Republic was the first complete history of the struggle that started with the proclamaition of the Republic and ended, or seemed to end, with the Republican defeat and ceasefire order of 24 May 1923. "This is not a narrative of battles and ambushes," writes Dorothy Macardle, "it is with the political rather than the military aspect that this book deals." Her detailed chronicle covers the seven years between the Easter Rising of 1916 and the end of the Civil War. Introductory chapters review earlier phases of the Irish resistance to conquest, the eforts to secure Home Rule and the beginning of Sinn Fein. After May 1923, the story is carried forward, as a brief survey, to the further implementation of the Treaty by the signing of the Partition Agreement in London in December 1925. First published in 1937, The Irish Republic has long held a place of honor in many Irish… Read More

M.H. Gill and Son, 1910 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Volume 2. Three quarter leather boards with five raised bands. Marbled end papers. Gilt stamp of Maynooth on the top board. Rubbed at the edges. Previous owners name on the endpaper..

New Island Books, 2022 Book. New. Soft cover. Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards Irish-Published Book of the Year A TREASURE TROVE OF LETTERS TO AND FROM OUR NINE PRESIDENTS FROM 1938 TO THE PRESENT DAY With over 400 letters, memos, cards, telegrams, drawings, notes and photographs, The Presidents' Letters reveals a personal and unexpected story of Ireland since the inauguration of our first president, Douglas Hyde. Most of these have never been published before and a handful have never been seen by the public. They are letters of congratulations, of resignation, of sympathy. A handwritten note from a president to a queen, a message sent to the moon, a fond farewell from a poet. There are letters of joy and loss, begging letters and threatening ones, sent from palaces, parliaments and prisons, from war zones, refugee camps and homeless shelters. Meticulously researched and hand-picked for this unique book, these correspondences bring to life our presidents, Áras an… Read More

Four Courts Press, 2008 Book. Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). A little wear to the card covers..

Four Square, 1965 Book. Good. Soft cover. Crease to the spine. A little wear to the card covers. The pages are tanned..

Futa Fata, 2013 Book. New. Soft cover. The Top 10 Worst series counts down the angriest animals, the vicious villains, the creepiest mysteries and more! Featuring frightful facts about the world's creepiest unsolved mysteries, the scariest dinosaurs and 10 most vicious villains in the history of mankind. Each title explores the facts and the science behind each subject as well as looking at their impact on the world at large. Full-colour, humorous illustrations are accompanied by clear, concise text. Features full glossary and index..