Read Ireland Book News - Issue 61
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Irish Home Rule 1867-1921 by Alan O'Day (Paperback; 17.50 IRP / 22.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book is the first account of Irish Home Rule to explain all of the self-government plans, placing them in context and examining the motives behind the schemes. The book makes a clear distinction between material and moral Home Rulers. The former appealed especially to outsiders, some Protestants and the intelligentsia, who saw in self-government a means to reconcile Ireland's antagonistic traditions. In contrast, material Home Rulers viewed a Dublin parliament as a forum for Catholic interests. This account reappraises the Home Rule movement from a fresh angle. By getting away from the usual division drawn between physical force and constitutional nationalists, the author maintains that an ideological continuity runs from Young Ireland, the Fenians, the early Home Rulers including Isaac Butt and Charles Stewart Parnell, to the Gaelic Revivalists and the men of 1916. These nationalists are distinguishable from material Home Rulers not on the basis of methods or strategy but through a fundamental ideological cleavage.
1916 Rebellion Handbook with an introduction by Declan Kiberd (Paperback; 14.99 IRP / 22.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book is a complete and connected narrative of the Rising, compiled contemporaneously with the event. It contains detailed accounts of the fighting, the story of the Great Fires with lists of premises involved. Military and Rebel Proclamations and Despatches. Punishment of Rebels - full Record of Sentences. Casualities - Official Lists of Military, Royal Irish Constabulary, Dublin Metropolitan Police, Volunteer Training Corps, and Rebels. Names of Persons Interred in Cemeteries. Official Lists of Prisoners Deported and Released. A special map illustrates the area of fighting. Despatches of Sir John Maxwell and Viscount French. Honours, Promotions and Awards to Military, Police and Civilians. Courts-Martial at Richmond Barracks - Reports of Public Trials. Sir Roger Casement's Landing, Capture, Trial and Execution. Hardinge Commission of Inquiry and Simon Commission of Inquiry - Evidence and Reports. Work of the Hospitals - St John Ambulance - City and County of Dublin Red Cross Societies. Facsimile Reproductions of Rebel Proclamations. Names of Prisoners Released under General Amnesty. Photographs, Personal Notes and New Index. Essential for anyone interest in the Easter Rising.
1916 Proclamation (Poster; 5.99 IRP / 9.00 USD) [Add To Basket]
A colour facsimile poster of the original 1916 Proclamation (approximately 12 inches wide and 24 inches long).
Death of an Irish Tinker by Bartholomew Gill (Paperback; 5.99 IRP / 8.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
A Peter McGarr Mystery. A body is found shackled to the upper branches of the tallest tree in Ireland. The victim is a 'Tinker,' one of the mysterious class of itinerant travellers who have roamed Ireland for generations. The murder bears all the signs of being the work of Desmond Bacon, 'the Toddler,' brutal king of Ireland's heroin trade. But who was the deceased and why was he killed? The answer lies with a Tinker woman named Biddy Nevins, who may be the only person able to put Bacon away - that is, if Peter McGarr and his crew can get to her before the Toddler does.
Mary, Mary by Julie Parsons (Hardback; 14.99 IRP / 22.50 USD) [Add To Basket]
This book is a gripping psychological thriller set in contemporary Dublin. A phone call late on a hot Dublin evening. An anxious mother, enquiring about her daughter. It she'd said she wasn't coming home … If she'd rung … Then, a week later, the full dreadful story beginning to unfold. The policeman, McLoughlin, watching as the green cover is pulled back from the mortuary slab. The young woman's battered and mutilated body exposed. And for Margaret, the dull, aching realisation that his is not - can never be allowed to be - the end. Margaret is a psychiatrist, recently returned to Dublin after many years abroad. To a city where she once loved and shone. She came back to nurse her dying mother and now her daughter Mary is dead …
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