Read Ireland Book Review
Issue 154
Irish History
Lockout Dublin 1913 by Padraig Yeates (Hardback; 19.99 IEP / 25.00 USD / 17.50 UK) [Add To Basket]
This book is the story of the most famous labour dispute in Irish history. At 9:40 a.m. on Tuesday, 26 August 1913, the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer to forswear union membership or face dismissal. The company then locked them out. Within a month, the charismatic union leader, James Larkin, had called out over 20,000 workers across the city in sympathetic action. This titanic struggle was played out in the city with the worst slums and greatest poverty of any capital in northern Europe. This book is first detailed account of Ireland's greatest industrial conflict, set against the backdrop of the home rule crisis and major developments in the British labour movement. In telling this extraordinary story, the author also surveys the social life and politics of Dublin on the eve of the Great War.
Ireland and the Great War by Keith Jeffrey (Hardback; 17.95 IEP / 23.50 USD / 16.00 UK) [Add To Basket]
This book explores the impact, both immediate and in its longer historical perspective, of the First World War upon Ireland across the broadest range of experience - nationalist, unionist, Catholic, Protestant - and in civilian social, economic and cultural terms, as well as purely military. Underscoring the work is a belief that the Great War is the single most central experience in twentieth-century Ireland and that the events of the war years, whether at home in Dublin during the Easter Rising or at the European battlefront, constitute a 'seamless robe' of Irish experience. The book also explores cultural responses to the war and its commemoration since 1918, up to the dedication of the Irish 'Peace Tower' in Belgium in November 1998.
Women in Parliament: Ireland, 1918-2000 by Maedhbh McNamara and Paschal Mooney (Hardback; 18.99 IEP / 24.50 USD / 17.00 UK) [Add To Basket]
This is the first study of its kind. It contains comprehensive directories of women elected to the Dail and Seanad, and details of women in the Presidency, Irish women members of the European Parliament and women elected to represent Northern Ireland in its Parliaments and at Westminister. This book is essential reading and reference for everyone with an interest in Irish politics and history, or women's affairs in twentieth-century Ireland.
The Shifting Balance of Power: Exploring the 20th Century by Joe Lee (Paperback; 11.99 IEP / 16.50 USD / 10.00 UK) [Add To Basket]
Joe Lee's column in the (Irish) Sunday Tribune has broken new ground in the way it looks at history and how the momentous events of the 20th century shaped the world we live in. Collected here are the 43 essays that formed the series: 'Joe Lee's 20th Century'. He explores the great wars and the great events in a way that so brings to life what was in so many ways the greatest, and in so many ways the most terrible of centuries.
Mayo's Lost Islands: The Inishkeas by Brian Dornan (Paperback; 22.50 IEP / 27.50 USD / 18.50 UK) [Add To Basket]
The Inishkeas are low-lying islands a few miles off the coast of the Mullet peninsula in County Mayo. The past 4000 years have seen several layers of settlement on the islands. This book focuses on the last 100 years in the life of the Inishkea community, ending in the 1930s. It uses documents, folklore records and reminiscences of islanders to examine all aspects of island life. It includes: the land and its tenants; marriage patterns; the sea and fishing customs; housing, religion, schooling and superstition; the whaling industry of the early twentieth century; and place names and family names.
Streets Broad and Narrow: Images of Vanishing Dublin by Kevin C. Kearns (Hardback; 16.99 IEP / 22.50 USD / 15.00 UK) [Add To Basket]
This selection of photographs provides a visual chronicle of Dublin inner-city life over the past generations. In sharp contrast to standard Dublin photographic books that feature famous places and personages, this is a 'grass-roots' collection that portrays the common people going about their ordinary daily life. There is a gritty reality in the faces of weathered street dealers, crusty horse traders, gang kids, street buskers, pavement gamblers, and frolicking kids.
The Irish Highwaymen by Stephen Dunford (Paperback; 14.99 IEP / 18.95 USD / 13.50 UK) [Add To Basket]
This book contains enthralling true stories of the brigands, rapparees and highwaymen of Irish history. The lives and times of fifteen of Ireland's most notorious adventurers are told here: audacious ambushes, sword and gun battles with landlords and military, daring escapes, hideouts and disguised identities, plots, betrayals and raids - and sometimes brutal ends by hanging, beheading or gunfire. The action-packed stories weave historical events and local folklore; here together for the first time, too, are the traditional Irish songs and music that grew around each of the highwayman's legend. Beautifully illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, maps and photographs of still-existing landmarks and memorabilia.
The Port of Medieval Dublin by Andrew Halpin (Paperback; 24.95 IEP / 32.50 USD / 19.50 UK) [Add To Basket]
During the second phase of construction of the new Civic Offices, Dublin, in the early 1990s, an archaeological excavation of the proposed car park area was undertaken by the author on behalf of Dublin Corporation. The excavation revealed evidence for remains of wooden revetments, dating to the later part of the 12th century, and also the remains of a substantial masonry structure. Historical research indicates that the stone building may be the remains of the 13th century Tholsel or Guildhall, indicating continuity of function on this site.
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