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

Collins, 2010 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. In the manner of Woodward and Bernstein [Tubridy] displays a surreptitious gift for giving the foreground a fictive gloss in pursuit of the truth. Still pursuing the truth, his authorial master stroke is a simple one. He balances the subjective prose-eye with the more distanced eye of the camera. The Scotsman In his first book, award-winning radio and TV presenter Ryan Tubridy tells the fascinating story of the iconic president John F Kennedy's visit to Ireland. The idolized, handsome and glamorous John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the great-grandson of Irish immigrants and the first and only Irish-Catholic American elected as President of the United States. He relished his Irish heritage and in June 1963 made a memorable four-day trip to his homeland, which he called the best 'four days of his life'. Tragically, five months later he was assassinated. In this fully illustrated book, Tubridy reveals the huge effect JFK's visit had on Ireland - a… Read More

Gill Books, 2008 Book. Good. Hardcover. A little wear to the dustjacket. Lean to the spine..

Haymarket Books, 2017 Book. New. Soft cover. Considered by many to be Ireland's most important revolutionary, James Connolly devoted his life to struggles against exploitation, oppression and imperialism. Active across the world, Connolly was a peerless organiser, sharp polemicist, and highly original thinker. This collection of his most important writings, with an extensive introduction from the editor, returns Connolly to his proper place in Irish and global history, and seeks to inspire people today with his vision of a world free of militarism, injustice and deprivation..

The Talbot Press Limited, 1921 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Bumped at the head and tail of the spine. Slight bow to the boards. Very Good.

University of Chicago Press, 2023 Book. New. Soft cover. A provocative history of Ulysses and the Easter Rising as harbingers of decolonization. When revolutionaries seized Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising, they looked back to unrequited pasts to point the way toward radical futures-transforming the Celtic Twilight into the electric light of modern Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses. For Luke Gibbons, the short-lived rebellion converted the Irish renaissance into the beginning of a global decolonial movement. James Joyce and the Irish Revolution maps connections between modernists and radicals, tracing not only Joyce's projection of Ireland onto the world stage, but also how revolutionary leaders like Ernie O'Malley turned to Ulysses to make sense of their shattered worlds. Coinciding with the centenary of both Ulysses and Irish independence, this book challenges received narratives about the rebellion and the novel that left Ireland changed, changed utterly..

Irish University Press, 1972 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Some wear to the dust jacket but the text is clean and the binding is tight. Previous owners inscription on the endpaper..

O'Brien Press Ltd, 2003 Book. Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers. The pages are tanned. Born in Belfast in 1920, Joe Cahill was an IRA man motivated by this ambition all his life. IRA activists rarely speak about their lives or their organization, but here Cahill gives his full and frank story, his viewpoint, his experiences-from death row in Northern Ireland in the 1940s to Washington and the Good Friday Agreement of 1998. This is the story of an extraordinary journey: Cahill's own life mirrors the growth, changes, and development of the republican movement as a whole through more than sixty years of intense involvement..

Oxford University Press, 1978 Book. Good. Hardcover. Wear and fading to the card covers. The spine is sunned..

Gill, 2023 Book. New. Hardback. Stephen Walker, veteran journalist and former political correspondent with BBC Northern Ireland has written a landmark book exploring the life of John Hume. Based on interviews with Hume's colleagues, critics and family members along with never-before-published interviews with Hume himself the text explores questions about who John Hume was, what motivated him, and how he managed to persuade the IRA to end its long running campaign. An important contribution to our knowledge of a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement and major figure in the history of Irish Politics..

O'Brien Press Ltd, 2015 Book. New. Soft cover. A brand new book..

Boethius, 1987 Book. New. Hardcover. John O'Donovan was a pioneer of Celtic studies and one of the first to realise the value of old Irish manuscripts as a source material for Irish history. Dr Boyne's book is the first full-length study of John O'Donovan's life and work..

Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1975 Book. Good. Soft cover. Crease to the spine. A little wear to the card covers..

University College Dublin Press, 2024 Book. New. Soft cover. Exploring the (political) life of John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party tradition, this collection offers a new perspective on the legacy of the Redmond family using a longue durée approach, spanning from the nineteenth century Land War through to the death in 1952 of Bridget Redmond, the last member of the family elected to parliament. The book brings together an outstanding line-up of scholars, from different disciplines, who offer a range of new perspectives on Redmond, the IPP, and its origins and legacies. Drawing on numerous printed and archival sources, essays consider the influence of leaders Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell on Redmond; others examine aspects of Redmond's own political philosophy whilst another offers a stimulating reassessment of Redmond's attitude to women's suffrage. These discussions are complemented by pieces focusing on the party during World War I and the legacy of Redmond… Read More

Hutchinson, 1998 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A little wear to the dustjacket..

The O'Brien Press, 2012 Book. New. Soft cover. Joseph Plunkett is part of the 16 Lives Series. Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916) from Dublin was one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising, the designer of the military plan and the youngest signatory of the Proclamation. A recognised poet, he was already dying of TB when, aged 28, he married Grace Gifford in Kilmainham Gaol, just hours before he was exectuted on May 4th, 1916. This timely biography, written in an entertaining, educational and assessible style and including the latest archival evidence, is an accurate and well-researched portrayal of the man and the uprising..

Hodges, Figgis and Co. Ltd, 1935 Journal. Good. Soft cover. The paper cover and spine are chipped. Previous owners name on the paper cover. The article text is clean. Illustrated..

Galway: Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 1991 Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Light wear to the card covers..

Falconer, 1945 Journal. Good. Soft cover. Some wear to the spine. The card covers are rubbed. Previous owners name on the paper cover. The article text is clean. Illustrated..

Falconer, 1961 Journal. Good. Soft cover. Some wear to the spine. The card covers are rubbed. Previous owners name on the card cover. The article text is clean. Illustrated..

Federation of Local History Societies, 2019 Journal. Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers..