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Carla King

22nd July 2009 · Paperback / softback

Son of evicted Mayo tenants, Fenian treason-felony prisoner Michael Davitt (1846-1906) was to become the driving force behind the Irish National Land...

Senia Paseta

4th December 2008 · Paperback / softback

Thomas Kettle was born on 9 February 1880, he was killed in the opening minutes of the allied invasion of Ginchy on...

Peter Costello

21st November 2008 · Paperback / softback

Denis Guiney (1893-1967) was one of the most remarkable Irishmen of his generation, who exerted through his business career a significant influence...

James Quinn

21st November 2008 · Paperback / softback

John Mitchel (1815-75) was sentenced to 14 years' transportation for attempting to incite rebellion in Ireland in 1848, in captivity he wrote...

Edward Hincks

27th September 2007 · Hardback

Covers the period from the 1820s when Hincks was a young clergyman and scholar, applying himself assiduously to his family and parish...

Joseph Keating

12th June 2005 · Paperback / softback

This eloquent memoir provides an unrivalled insight into the life of a child reared in a working-class Irish Catholic community in late nineteenth-century...

Norman White

26th May 2002 · Hardback

Gerard Manley Hopkins spent five unhappy years in Ireland before his death in 1889, during which time he wrote perhaps the most...

Norman White

26th May 2002 · Paperback / softback

Gerard Manley Hopkins spent five unhappy years in Ireland before his death in 1889, during which time he wrote perhaps the most...

Robert Brennan

8th February 2002 · Paperback / softback

Two memoirs written in the late 1950s by Robert Brennan, a republican activist in the early years of the 20th century, journalist...

Ken Houston

4th September 2000 · Paperback / softback

This reference on Irish mathematicians includes biographies on: Thomas Harriot (1560-1621); William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865); Robert Murphy (1806-1843); George Boole (1815-1864); George...

James Green Douglas

16th November 1998 · Hardback

These memoirs were written in the late 1940s and cover events in Ireland from 1916-26. Besides casting fresh light on a number...