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Merrion Press, 2022 Book. New. Soft cover. THE YEAR IS 1975. A young Irish-American is on a mission to enlist in an elite unit of the US Marine Corps. His goal: to receive the most intensive military training possible and then go to Ireland to join the IRA and fight to end the British occupation of the North. In this powerful and brutally honest memoir of his extraordinary experiences, John Crawley details the gruelling challenges of his Marine Corps training, and how, not long after his discharge, he joined the IRA. Soon he found himself in Boston, working with notorious American mobster James 'Whitey' Bulger to amass a shipment of weapons. When captured on the Marita Ann gun-running trawler off the Kerry coast, Crawley was imprisoned for ten years, and upon his release he became one of the masterminds behind the IRA's plan to throw London's electrical system into disarray. Crawley is blisteringly candid about the people he worked with and unflinching in his commentary on the IRA… Read More

Abacus, 2000 Book. New. Soft cover. This classic account of the great Irish rebellion of 1798 remains the only full-scale history of that tragic event. As relevant today as it was when first published in 1969, The Year of Liberty is now reissued with the addition of a chronology and a glossary of terms. In May 1798 a hundred thousand peasants rose against the British government in Ireland. By the time the revolt had been put down four months later, thirty thousand dead were literally rotting in heaps in a smoking and desolate countryside. Yet it was not a schoolroom story of the heroic oppressed rising against the brutal oppressor, but the result of a complex, tragic, often absurd and sometimes heroic interplay between different groups of people. A tough and arrogant oligarchy of country gentlemen, mainly Protestant and mainly British in origin, lived off a Catholic peasantry. Meanwhile, idealistic merchants and hot-headed young lawyers dreamed and plotted for an Irish Republic on the French model.… Read More

Cottage Publications, 2014 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A little wear to the pictorial boards. Every place has its iconic images and Northern Ireland is no different. There's the sweep of the Mournes down to the sea at Newcastle, the hexagonal pillars of the giants Causeway or Belfast's mighty shipyard cranes. But for the residents of north County Down the image of the stark tower on the hill maintaining its vigil over the head of Strangford Lough can top them all. In this book David Kirk captures the essence of Scrabo and its surrounding lands including Newtownards, Comber and the upper part of Strangford Lough.Page after page is filled with glorious images capturing every aspect of the area throughout the seasons. Whether it be farmers at work or the results of their labours; people at work or play in Comber and Newtownards; rocks showing the marks made by seas millions of years ago or the marks made by quarrying today, David's canny eye captures the very essence of Scrabo country..

David & Charles, 2003 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Light wear to the dust jacket. Illustrated stories recall various aspects of Irish life over the past one hundred years, including tales of the fishermen of Kerry, the horsemen of Kildare, and recollections of emigration, marriage, and daily life..

Hatch, 2024 Book. New. Soft cover. Climb aboard the unsinkable Titanic and discover the tragic history behind the world's most famous shipwreck!The year is 1907, and you are the manager of a prestigious shipping company. You decide to plan and build the largest and most luxurious streamliner in the world to cross the Atlantic Ocean: the Titanic. Little do you know that the ship is sailing straight towards disaster! This perfect curriculum companion steers readers through the Titanic's history and its doomed maiden voyage, covering everything from its construction to destruction. The ever-popular You Wouldn't Want to Be series transports readers to the grisliest times and places in history, perfect for reluctant readers. The first-person narrative approach puts children in the shoes of some of the most unfortunate people ever to have lived..