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

Irish Academic Press, 2006 Book. New. Soft cover. The life of this prominent female doctor mirrored many of the changes in Irish life between 1874 and 1955. She was Chief Medical Officer of the Irish Citizen Army during the 1916 Easter Rising and vice president of Sinn Féin as well as a TD between 1923 and 1927. She established St. Ultan's Hospital for Infants in 1919 and her work in the hospital provides a way of analysing medical politics during a public health revolution in mid twentieth-century Ireland. Kathleen Lynn is remembered as a doctor who did her utmost for the poor of Dublin. Her biography deals with a wide range of issues including: suffragism, education, sectarian politics, maternal feminism, ecclesiastical subterfuge, public health, spirituality, ecumenism, the medical profession and social housing..

The Kerryman, 1966 Book. Good. Soft cover. The pictorial card covers are a little rubbed..

Ireland: Merrion Press, 2020 Book. New. Paperback. On 1 November 1920, eighteen-year-old UCD medical student Kevin Barry was hanged in Mountjoy Jail for his role in an IRA raid that killed a British soldier. The reaction to his execution was incensed and international, and to this day, he remains a vibrant icon of patriotic, idealistic death, his name synonymous with youthful republican sacrifice. The persistence of his memory is singular, not only within Irish republicanism but also in the wider world. Eunan O'Halpin, esteemed historian and grand-nephew of Kevin Barry, explores his ancestor's short but significant life, the dynamics of growing up with 'a martyr in the family,' and why Barry's name has continued to resonate in Ireland and beyond. O'Halpin examines Barry's ideological formation and the impact of his religious education, and challenges common misconceptions about educated, privileged men who were just as willing as rural Volunteers to do what they saw as… Read More

Little, Brown & Co., 1997 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Page edges tanned..

Ireland: Geography Publications, 2020 Book. New. Hardcover. This book has three dimensions. First, it is the story of Kilcash Castle and its associated buildings. Secondly, it connects the settlement at Kilcash to the Butlers of Ormond, and thirdly it outlines the scale and form of the Butler estate between Slievenamon and Suir and its inhabitants over the centuries. Dr. Flood, through judicious use of local knowledge and archival sources, recreates the majestic splendour of castle, church, eighteenth century mansion, walled gardens and tree-lined avenues.The book peoples the imaginatively reconstructed buildings with a succession of Butler proprietors, who held the manor of Kilcash from the sixteenth until the twentieth century. It traces the familial alliances of the Kilcash Butlers with influential families throughout the country, including the Bourkes (Galway), Brownes (Kenmare), Esmondes (Clonegal), Everards (Fethard), Hamiltons (Roscrea), Kavanaghs (Borris), Mathews (Thurles) and Purcells… Read More

Hutchinson, 1992 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Wear to the edge of the dust jacket. Slight lean to the spine. Price clipped. From the author of The Shankill Butchers and The Dirty War comes the extraordinary story of Joseph Doherty, a convicted IRA gunman who has captured American popular opinion by his continuous frustration of Britain's attempt to extradite him..

Harper Perennial, 2008 Book. New. Soft cover. At the height of the Irish Famine, now considered the greatest social disaster to strike nineteenth-century Europe, Anglo-Irish landlord Major Denis Mahon was assassinated as he drove his carriage through his property in County Roscommon. Mahon had already removed 3,000 of his 12,000 starving tenants by offering some passage to America aboard disease-ridden "coffin ships," giving others a pound or two to leave peaceably, and sending the sheriff to evict the rest. His murder sparked a sensation and drove many of the world's most powerful leaders, from the queen of England to the pope, to debate its meaning. Now, for the first time, award-winning journalist Peter Duffy tells the story of this assassination and its connection to the cataclysm that would forever change Ireland and America..

Mudlark, 2023 Book. Good. Soft cover. Some wear to the card covers. The spine is creased and has a lean. KILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet - an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot.In this fascinating and compelling book, veteran journalist Rory Carroll retraces the road to the infamous Brighton bombing in 1984 - an incident that shaped the political landscape in the UK for decades to come. He begins with the infamous execution of Lord Mountbatten in 1979 - for which the IRA took full responsibility - before tracing the rise of Margaret Thatcher, her response to the 'Troubles' in Ireland and the chain of events that culminated in the hunger strikes of 1981 and the death of 10 republican prisoners, including Bobby Sands. From that moment on Thatcher became an enemy of… Read More

Irish Academic Press, 2022 Book. New. Soft cover. This is an incisive new account of the most controversial military engagements in the Irish War of Independence, featuring previously unpublished interviews with Kilmichael veterans..

Gill Books, 2010 Book. New. Soft cover. Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847) was one of the most remarkable people in the nineteenth century. Famous in his day as the most feared lawyer in Ireland, O' Connell tormented judges, terrorised opposing barristers, and won a reputation for saving the lives of so many men who would otherwise have been hanged. He became 'The Counsellor', the fearless defender of the people. And he secured that reputation through his campaign for Catholic emancipation, when he founded the first successful mass democratic movement in European history, and became 'The Liberator'..

Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2018 Book. New. Hardcover. The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth century. Some fifty years later, the passing of the Emancipation Bill was hailed as a 'bloodless revolution'. Had the Irish Catholics been a 'millstone', as described by an English aristocrat, or were they the prime movers? While the English Catholic aristocracy and the Irish peasants and merchants approached the Catholic Question in very different ways, they manifestly shared the same objective. Antonia Fraser brings colour and humour to the vivid drama with its huge cast of characters: George III, who opposed Emancipation on the basis of the Coronation Oath; his son, the indulgent Prince of Wales, who was enamoured with the Catholic Maria Fitzherbert before the voluptuous Lady Conyngham; Wellington and the 'born Tory' Peel vying… Read More

New Island Books, 2007 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. An unread book..

Tir Eolas, 1997 Book. Good. Soft cover. There are some marks on the endpaper where stickers have been removed. A record, in image and word, of a coastal community's social and economic life, its traditions and the changes it has experienced since the late 19th century. The volume includes photographs taken between the 1890s and the 1960s which offer glimpses into an era when Kinvara was a busy port and market town, yet working and living at a slower pace - that of horse carts, sailing boats and manual labour. The explanatory captions which accompany the photographs contain details on folklore, traditions and local history. Quotes and anecdotes capture the wit and humour of the Kinvara people. The book's introduction places the town's development in a wider historical context..

The Mercier Press Ltd, 2021 Book. New. Soft cover. A brand new book..