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  • Éamon de Valera

    A Will to Power

    by Ronan Fanning ...
    This " astute, nuanced and highly readable" biography of the legendary Irish president offers an enlightening reappraisal of his divisive legacy ( Wall Street Journal).Ronan Fanning, one of Ireland's foremost historians, presents a nuanced portrait of the man who embodies Irish independence as much as Charles de Gaulle personifies French resistance and Winston Churchill exemplifies British ... Read more

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  • Éamon de Valera

    A Will to Power

    by Ronan Fanning ...
    Éamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera personified Irish independence.From his emergence in the aftermath of the 1916 rebellion as the republican leader, he bestrode Irish politics like a colossus for over fifty years.On the eve of the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Fatal Path

    British Government and Irish Revolution 1910-1922

    by Ronan Fanning ...
    This is a magisterial narrative of the most turbulent decade in Anglo-Irish history: a decade of unleashed passions that came close to destroying the parliamentary system and to causing civil war in the United Kingdom. It was also the decade of the cataclysmic Great War, of an officers' mutiny in an elite cavalry regiment of the British Army and of Irish armed rebellion. It was a time, argues ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: v. 5: 1937-1939

    by Ronan Fanning ...
    Volume V of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy chronicles the development of Irish foreign policy during the lead up to World War Two. Irish-British relations take centre stage in this record, which explains in unrivalled detail the 1938 Anglo-Irish Agreement which allowed Ireland to remain neutral in World War Two. The editors have pieced together a picture of Irish-German relations despite the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: v. 3: 1926-1932

    Edited by Ronan Fanning ...
    The third volume of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy explores Ireland's move to secure its standing amongst the nations. Confidential telegrams, secret despatches and personal letters reveal how Ireland protected its interests in an increasingly unstable world system. The Great Depression in the late 1920s and early 1930s lead to fears for Ireland's future as a small state, tensions which are ... Read more

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  • Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: v. 8: 1945-1948

    Edited by Ronan Fanning ...
    Nazi gold, fugitive war criminals, the threat of nuclear war and the growing dominance of Communism are central themes in the latest volume of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy. Now in its 15th year, the in-depth documentary history series continues to open up the secret archives of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Volume VIII spans 1945 to 1948 and shows that during the immediate post-war years ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: v. 7: 1941-1945

    Edited by Ronan Fanning ...
    Volume VII of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy chronicles Ireland's struggle to remain neutral and sovereign during the 'Emergency' years. The volume provides the clearest and most accessible explanation to date, through original sources, of the rational underpinning of Ireland's wartime neutrality. The taoiseach and minister for external affairs Eamon de Valera believed that Ireland's ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Eliza Lynch

    Queen of Paraguay

    by Michael Lillis, Ronan Fanning ...
    Escaping a desperate marriage at the age of 20, Eliza Lynch fled Ireland to Paris where her extraordinary beauty and intelligence won the attention of the soon-to-be dictator of Paraguay, Francisco Solano López.Although the couple never married, Eliza bore him seven children and was seen as the queen of Paraguay, adored by the public and admired for her glamour and sophistication. But Eliza and ... Read more

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    by Ryle T Dwyer ...
    On 14 April 1922 a group of 200 anti-Treaty IRA men occupied the Four Courts in Dublin in defiance of the Provisional Government. Michael Collins, who wanted to avoid civil war at all costs, did not attack them until June 1922, when British pressure forced his hand. This led to the Irish Civil War as fighting broke out in Dublin between the anti-Treaty IRA and the Provisional Government's troops. ... Read more

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  • Terror In Ireland

    1916-1923

    by David Fitzpatrick ...
    The practice of terror in revolutionary Ireland remains a highly controversial topic, which seldom receives either balanced or dispassionate treatment. This collection of essays is designed to illuminate the varied origins, forms and consequences of terror, whether practised by republicans or forces of the Crown. It is the fifth production of the Trinity History Workshop, an informal group of ... Read more

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  • Disraeli

    or, The Two Lives

    by Douglas Hurd, Edward Young ...
    Benjamin Disraeli was the most gifted parliamentarian of the nineteenth century and a superb orator, writer and wit - but how much do we really know about the man behind the words?'As Douglas Hurd and Edward Young point out in their splendidly written, finely judged and thoroughly persuasive book, a vast chasm yawned between the real Disraeli and his posthumous reinvention' Dominic Sandbrook, ... Read more

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  • Big Fellow, Long Fellow. A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera

    A Joint Biography of Irish politicians Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera

    by T. Ryle Dwyer ...
    Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera were the two most charismatic leaders of the Irish revolution. This joint biography looks first at their very different upbringings and early careers. Both fought in the 1916 Easter Rising , although it is almost certain they did not meet during that tumultuous week. Their first encounter came when Collins had been released from jail after the rising but de ... Read more

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