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  • Napoleon's Blackguards

    by Stephen McGarry ...
    Spain 1808. A remarkable debut novel, Napoleon’s Blackguards introduces Captain James Ryan - brutally courageous, but haunted by the horrors of war - wanted by the British for his part in the 1798 Irish Rebellion, he escapes to France and joins Napoleon’s Irish Legion. The Irish unit’s reputation as the most hard-fighting and ill-disciplined unit in the French Army has been hard-earned, for they ... Read more

    $7.56 CAD

  • Napoleon's Blackguards

    by Stephen McGarry ...
    Spain 1808. A remarkable debut novel, Napoleon's Blackguards introduces Captain James Ryan - brutally courageous, but haunted by the horrors of war - wanted by the British for his part in the 1798 Irish Rebellion, he escapes to France and joins Napoleon's Irish Legion. The Irish unit's reputation as the most hard-fighting and ill-disciplined unit in the French Army has been hard-earned, for they ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Napoleon's Blackguards

    by Stephen McGarry ...
    Spain 1808. A remarkable debut novel, Napoleon’s Blackguards introduces Captain James Ryan - brutally courageous, but haunted by the horrors of war - wanted by the British for his part in the 1798 Irish Rebellion, he escapes to France and joins Napoleon’s Irish Legion. The Irish unit’s reputation as the most hard-fighting and ill-disciplined unit in the French Army has been hard-earned, for they ... Read more

    $6.69 CAD

  • Napoleon's Blackguards

    by Stephen McGarry ...
    Spain 1808. A remarkable debut novel, Napoleon’s Blackguards introduces Captain James Ryan - brutally courageous, but haunted by the horrors of war - wanted by the British for his part in the 1798 Irish Rebellion, he escapes to France and joins Napoleon’s Irish Legion. The Irish unit’s reputation as the most hard-fighting and ill-disciplined unit in the French Army has been hard-earned, for they ... Read more

    $6.69 CAD

  • Irish Brigades Abroad

    From the Wild Geese to the Napoleonic Wars

    by Stephen McGarry ...
    Irish Brigades Abroad examines the complete history of the Irish regiments in France, Spain, Austria and beyond. Covering the period from King James II's reign of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1685, until the disbandment of the Irish Brigades in France and Spain, this book looks at the origins, formation, recruitment and the exploits of the Irish regiments, including their ... Read more

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  • Robert Whyte's Famine Ship Diary 1847

    Edited by James Mangan ...
    The voyage of the 'coffin ship' Ajax, from Dublin to Grosse Île, the Canadian quarantine station as described in the contemporary diary of one of the passengers, Robert Whyte. Whyte was a Protestant gentleman of education and position, as well as being a professional writer who intended to publish his diary. The diary appeared in 1848. It is signed in the author's own handwriting and features ... Read more

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  • The Bloodied Field

    Croke Park. Sunday 21 November 1920

    by Michael Foley ...
    On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her fiancé to watch Tipperary and Dublin play a Gaelic football match at Croke Park. Across the city fourteen men lay dead in their beds after a synchronised IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. Trucks of ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hard Road To Klondike

    by Micheal MacGowan ...
    Micheal MacGowan was born in 1865 in the parish of Cloghaneely in the Donegal gaeltacht. He was the eldest of twelve children in a poverty-stricken family, living in a thatched cottage and speaking no English. He ended his days in a large slate-roofed house in the same place. First published in Irish as Rotha Mór an tSaol, this is his account of the fate dealt to him by 'the Wheel of Life'. From ... Read more

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  • A City in Wartime – Dublin 1914–1918

    The Easter Rising 1916

    by Pádraig Yeates ...
    This fascinating history looks at how the lives of ordinary Dubliners were affected by these three major events Why did so many working-class Dublin men join the British Army? How did the city's 92,000 Protestants fare in this turbulent time? Dubliners fought on both sides in the Easter Rising. What were their motivations? How did Sinn Féin and the Catholic Church marginalise Labour in the battle ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Missing Postman

    by Fachtna Ó Drisceoil ...
    Postman Larry Griffin vanishes during his rounds in Stradbally on Christmas Day 1929. The only clue to what happened was an abandoned bicycle on a deserted country road. The story of the Missing Postman as it became known, made the headlines nationally and overseas, when ten prominent local people were arrested and charged with his murder. The defendants included such pillars of the community as ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What If? Alternative Views of Twentieth-Century Irish History

    An Entertaining and Thought-Provoking Counter-History of Twentieth-Century Ireland

    by Diarmaid Ferriter ...
    What If? is an entertaining, thoughtful, provocative and original look at some of the milestones of twentieth century Irish history that offers a glimpse of what might have been. We all know that there was nothing inevitable about much of modern Ireland's history. Things could have turned out very differently, so it is natural to wonder what would have happened if certain events had never occurred ... Read more

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  • Medical Journal of the Emigrant Ship John Barry

    by William Burnie, Paul Allen, Paul Allen ...
    On the 23rd of May 1825, the John Barry sailed from the Cove of Cork, carrying 48 men, 38 women and 167 children from some of the most distressed districts in the south of Ireland. These people were transported, at Government expense, as part of an experimental emigration that settled over 2000 Irish paupers in the backwoods of Upper Canada. Responsibility for the success of this enterprise fell ... Read more

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