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

George Allen and Unwin, 1934 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles. Some wear to the boards and spine..

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..

Oxford University Press, 2002 Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A Brand New Book..

Penguin Classics, 2008 Book. New. Soft cover. The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's great epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, Queen and King of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cualige. The hero of the tale is Cuchulainn, the Hound of Ulster, who resists the invaders single-handed while Ulster's warriors lie sick..

OUP Oxford, 2008 Book. New. Soft cover. A brand new book..

Colin Smythe Ltd, 1988 Book. New. Soft cover. During a period spent in the west of Ireland in 1964-65, Gertrude Horgan discovered the tales which James Berry had contributed to a local paper, The Mayo News, during the last years of his life, and decided to edit the present collection, first published by the Dolmen Press in 1966. In doing this she added an important body of work to 19th century Irish literature and rescued the author from oblivion. Like William Carleton, James Berry, a native of County Mayo, came from peasant stock. He spent his whole life in the West until his death at the age of seventy-two in 1914. The material of his tales comes from the people of Mayo and Galway, and introduces the smugglers, the packmen and the raparees of the West. Mainly handed down to him by word of mouth, they tell of poor communities living in a bleak and beautiful countryside against a background of secret societies, man-hunts, smuggling, murders, wakes, rebellion and starvation. Some go back hundreds of… Read More

Austin Macauley Publishers, 2023 Book. New. Soft cover. This work stretches from deep prehistoric times up to the 12th century AD and beyond. After a short preamble from the Megalithic to the Bronze Age, scanning Tara's Golden Age, it deals with Celtic Europe's decline due to Roman and Germanic conquest. It follows Celtic tribes fleeing to Britain and Ireland, where they set up settlements. Ptolemy of Alexandria's 2nd-century record debunks early Irish pseudo-history and ratifies the archaic Ulidian Tales. This work exposes the monumental hoax projecting Tara of Meath as the capital of Ireland and the seat of the High Kingship. The work draws on a compelling compilation of acclaimed authors and specialist studies that list the aforesaid as a medieval forgery. Prehistoric Tara had a much older status, an archaic Golden Age. This work tracks extensive research and archaeological analysis into British oppida, from which Celtic Belgic tribes migrated and set up similar oppida in Ireland. A… Read More

Foilseachain Naisinuta, 1967 Book. Good. Hardcover. The top board is a little wrinkled. The dust jacket is rubbed and has tears at the top edge..

Banley House, 2016 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A little wear to the edge of the dustjacket..

Syracuse University Press, 2013 Book. New. Soft cover. A collection of pioneering essays by one of the leading researchers in Irish womens history, this is a sister collection to Margaret Mac Curtains Ariadnes Thread: Writing Women into Irish History..

Grove Press, 2022 Book. New. Soft cover. In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make Margaret Thatcher's government recognize them as political prisoners rather than common criminals. Drawing extensively on secret IRA documents and letters from the prisoners smuggled out at the time, David Beresford tells the gripping story of these strikers and their devotion to the cause. An intensely human story, Ten Men Dead offers a searing portrait of strife-torn Ireland, of the IRA, and the passions - on both sides - that Republicanism arouses. "In their testament to the human spirit, the letters that form the spine of this book are nothing less than the Irish equivalent of the diary of Anne Frank." -from the introduction by Peter Maas "An excellent history of the 1981 hunger… Read More

Poolbeg, 2016 Book. New. Soft cover. Where did it all begin, the struggle of these ten women for Irish freedom? What made them support the Rising in 1916? The answer lies in their childhoods. A skating accident, a Fenian nanny, the loss of a parent, poverty, tales of the Famine, a close friendship, and a sense of exile -such were the early experiences that formed them and made them what they were: brave, adventurous and ready to risk their lives!.

Poolbeg Press Ltd, 1991 Book. Good. Soft cover. A little wear to the card covers. The half title is missing..

Wordwell Books, 2022 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..

Gill Books, 2021 Book. New. Soft cover. John Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from growing up in Cork City as a young boy to travelling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new book, he peels back the layers of meaning of familiar place names to reveal stories about the land of Eireann and the people who walked it before us..

Gill & MacMillan, 2002 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Wear to the edge of the dust jacket..

M.H. Gill and Son, 1895 Book. Good. Hardcover. New Impression. The spine is sunned and the titles are faded. Marks to the boards. Previous owners name on the end paper.Foxing to the title page..

Crown Publications, 1988 Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. A little wear to the dust jacket. Previous owner has written on the end paper..

Dolmen Press, 1963 Book. Good. Soft cover. The card covers are rubbed. There is a lean to the spine..