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  • 50 Things You Didn't Know About 1916

    by Mick O'Farrell ...
    Even those who know a great deal about the Easter Rising may not know that there were temporary ceasefires in the St Stephen's Green area, to allow the park attendants to feed the Green's ducks. Few know that the first shots of the rising were actually fired near Portlaoise and not in Dublin or indeed that both sides issued receipts: the rebels for food, the British for handcuffs. It features ... Read more

    $5.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1916 - What the People Saw

    by Mick O'Farrell ...
    When the rebellion of 1916 had ended, more than 400 people were dead and over 2,000 wounded. More than half of these were civilians, but even for those civilians who were not direct casualties, the rising was one of the most momentous experiences of their lives. The accounts that Mick O'Farrell has collected come from letters, diaries, extracts from otherwise unrelated biographies, and ... Read more

    $10.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The 1916 Diaries of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier

    of an Irish Rebel and a British Soldier

    by Mick O'Farrell ...
    This book contains the unpublished diaries of two men writing under fire on the streets of Dublin in April 1916. In Jacob's factory, Volunteer Seosamh de Brún wrote in his tiny diary about guard duties and a bicycle sortie to help de Valera, during which a sniper killed one of the cyclists. Meanwhile, across the Liffey, British soldier Samuel Lomas wrote in his own diary of building barricades ... Read more

    $12.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916

    Accessible ePub

    by Mick O'Farrell ...
    A Walk Through Rebel Dublin 1916 is a comprehensively illustrated guide to the Rising of Easter Week 1916, based on the significant locations of the rebellion. Dealing separately with thirty buildings and sites throughout the city – including the GPO, Liberty Hall, Trinity College, the Four Courts and Dublin Castle – the author provides a brief, fascinating history of the events and personalities ... Read more

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  • Short Stories of Padraig Pearse: The Easter Rising Hero of 1916

    A Dual Language Book

    by Patrick Pearse ...
    Translated by Desmond Maguire ...
    Pádraic Pearse, who played a prominent part in the 1916 rebellion, declared Ireland a Republic from the steps of the General Post Office in Dublin. He was executed, along with the other leaders, for his part in the Rising. But he was a gentle warrior at heart. These five stories show us that Pearse was a man of deep understanding with immense human awareness of the way of life of the average ... Read more

    $4.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1916 and All That

    A History of Ireland From Back Then Until Right Now

    by C.M. Boylan ...
    1916 And All That is as an extremely funny and irreverent satirical history of Ireland. The central assumption behind 1916 And All That is that, despite all of the compulsory school lessons and exams taken, there are only a few muddled facts of our history that most people retain into adulthood. We recall snatches of events, names and dates, and few of us can piece together a coherent narrative or ... Read more

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  • Asking For It

    AN POST TOP 20 IRISH BOOKS FROM THE PAST TWO DECADES

    by Louise O'Neill ...
    AN POST TOP 20 IRISH BOOKS OF THE PAST TWENTY YEARS (2026)BOOK OF THE YEAR at the Irish Book Awards 2015'A soul-shattering novel that will leave your emotions raw. This story will haunt me forever. Everyone should read it' Guardian'Riveting and essential' New York Times'Brilliant, harrowing' Observer'A confronting and vital read' ElleIn a small town where every... ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Great Famine

    Studies in Irish History 1845-52

    by Tom Mac Intyre ...
    The Great Hunger, Tom Mac Intyre's internationally celebrated play of 1983, and The Gallant John-Joe, his most recent dramatic work, show Mac Intyre to be one of the most daringly and excitingly original Irish writers working today. The Great Hunger is Mac Intyre's version of Patrick Kavanagh's long poem of the same name. It represents the life and dreams of Patrick Maguire, Monaghan small farmer ... Read more

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  • Hopscotch and Queenie-i-o

    by Damian Corless ...
    Before the 1970s flipped the switch to colour, Irish children ere raised in a world of black, white and an awful lot of grey. But kids, being kids, found endless ways to have fun. Do you remember Dáithí Lacha, Radio Caroline and holidays in Butlin's Mosney? Then this is the book for you! Damian Corless takes us on a tongue-in-cheek trip down memory lane to the age of Let's Draw With Bláithín, ... Read more

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  • A Death-Dealing Famine

    The Great Hunger in Ireland

    by Prof. Christine Kinealy ...
    Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52.The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants. ... Read more

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  • The Fishing Fleet

    Husband-Hunting in the Raj

    by Anne de Courcy ...
    The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands.From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrators, soldiers and businessmen. With the advent of steam travel and the opening of the Suez Canal, countless young women, suffering at the lack of eligible men in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

    by Ian Mortimer ...
    Series series Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides
    The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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