Search Results: Authors starting with W from The Irish History Bookshop

Wordwell, 2005 Book. New. Soft cover. A Brand New Book..

Wordwell Books, 2023 Book. New. Soft cover. Written for a general readership, this wide-ranging study draws on archaeological evidence and on what is known about ritual practices in other cultures to address the difficult question of what beliefs might lie behind certain ritual activities in Pagan Ireland. Archaeologists frequently come across puzzling evidence for ritual activity and Pagan Ireland looks at some of these discoveries. This is a survey of the many rituals and beliefs that were vitally important elements of life in ancient Ireland over several thousand years from at least 4000 BC. Driven by a very human desire to make sense of the world and transform their lives, people created sacred spaces and monuments to facilitate communication with the gods and with ancestral figures. A multiplicity of sacred phenomena were a part of everyday experience, with landscapes and objects often holding unworldly meaning. Written for a general readership, this wide-ranging study draws on archaeological… Read More

Four Courts Press Ltd, 2015 Book. New. Soft cover. In this book John Waddell contends that elements of pre-Christian Celtic myth preserved in medieval Irish literature shed light on older traditions and beliefs not just in Ireland but elsewhere in Europe as well. He mainly focuses on aspects of the mythology associated with four well-known Irish archaeological landscapes: Newgrange and the Boyne Valley, the royal sites of Rathcroghan in Co. Roscommon, Navan in Co. Armagh, and Tara in Co. Meath. Their mythological associations permit the pursuit of the archaeological implications of several mythic themes, namely sacral kingship, a sovereignty goddess, solar cosmology and the perception of an Otherworld..

Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 2006 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Offprint article from the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society. Stapled in card covers..

Friar's Bush Press, 1984 Book. Good. Hardcover. A little wear to the edge of the dust jacket..

Appletree Press Ltd, 1976 Book. Good. Soft cover. The card covers are a little worn. Previous owners gift inscription on the endpaper..

Bookmart Ltd, 1994 Book. Good. Hardcover. A little wear to the dustjacket..

Merrion Press, 2023 Book. New. Soft cover. Ties That Bind is a fascinating and timely study of the historical, cultural and political relationship between Scotland and Northern Ireland, at a seminal moment in the constitutional history of both states..

Gill, 2023 Book. New. Hardback. Stephen Walker, veteran journalist and former political correspondent with BBC Northern Ireland has written a landmark book exploring the life of John Hume. Based on interviews with Hume's colleagues, critics and family members along with never-before-published interviews with Hume himself the text explores questions about who John Hume was, what motivated him, and how he managed to persuade the IRA to end its long running campaign. An important contribution to our knowledge of a key architect of the Good Friday Agreement and major figure in the history of Irish Politics..

David & Charles, 1971 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. A little wear to the dustjacket. Light foxing to the page edges..

Geoffrey Chapman, 1970 Book. Good. Hardcover. Wear to the edge of the dust jacket..

Cambridge University Press, 2022 Book. New. Soft cover. This is the first book-length study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. Fionnuala Walsh demonstrates how Irish women threw themselves into the war effort, mobilising in various different forms, such as nursing wounded soldiers, preparing hospital supplies and parcels of comforts, undertaking auxiliary military roles in port areas or behind the lines, and producing weapons of war. However, the war's impact was also felt beyond direct mobilisation, affecting women's household management, family relations, standard of living, and work conditions and opportunities. Drawing on extensive research in archives in Ireland and Britain, Walsh brings women's wartime experience out of the historical shadow and examines welfare and domestic life, bereavement, social morality, employment, war service, politicisation, and demobilisation to challenge… Read More

New Island, 2008 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A little wear to the dust jacket. Patrick Hillery: a formidable politician, but also one of the most creative public figures in recent Irish history. Although he never served as Taoiseach, Hillery's influence on significant turning points in contemporary Irish history, including the arms crisis in 1970 and Ireland's accession to the European Community, is considered in the light of his own concerns and preoccupations. Hillery's recollections of the most controversial events of his career, notably the Papal visit in 1979 and attempts by leading politicians to influence the President's decisions in 1982, are analysed for the first time. The present book is based on a number of in-depth interviews with Dr. Hillery and on unrestricted access to his private papers. The work provides a comprehensive and balanced portrayal of one of the most important figures in the development of contemporary Ireland..

A.& A.Farmar, 2010 Book. Good. Soft cover. Wear to the card covers. Previous owners name on the end paper..

I.B.Tauris, 2011 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Light wear to the card covers..

ireland: Royal Irish Academy, 2019 Book. New. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A brand new book..

Columba Press, 2016 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. A little wear to the edge of the dust jacket..

University College Dublin Press, 2019 Book. New. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. This full-length biographical study - substantially rewritten and updated - of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century is now reissued by UCD Press. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, part of a pioneering generation, played a significant role in the early Irish Republic. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington was a leading figure in the suffrage movement, she was an activist in the anti-war movement of 1914-18 and was an executive member of Sinn Fein. She opposed the Free State and provided consistent support for women's resistance to anti-women measures enacted by both Cumann na nGaedheal and Fianna Fail. Her later career saw her as an electoral candidate to the Dail in 1943 and she proved herself fearless in her fight for justice, confronting both the British Prime Minister and the President of the United States of America. Incorporating new archival research and featuring an array of newly discovered images,… Read More

Colourpoint, 2016 Book. New. Soft cover. "Few people nowadays are able to visualise the difficulties and dangers of learning to fly in 1910...flying was in the experimental stage, it was impossible to predict how the frail and flimsy structure would behave in the air." Captain Frederick Sykes, writing in 1940. This is a brand new account of early aviation in Ireland. It describes and examines the key events in the field of aviation during the bare five years between Harry Ferguson's first flight and the outbreak of the Great War. It studies the people, the aircraft and the places involved, and makes much use of contemporary sources to reveal the story through the eyes of those who witnessed these exciting times. All main personalities are covered as well as much new research on several more obscure pioneers..

Oxbow Books, 2022 Book. New. Soft cover. Explores the Irish Mesolithic - the period after the end of the last Ice Age when Ireland was home to hunter-gatherer communities, mostly from about 10,000-6,000 years ago. At this time, Ireland was an island world, with striking similarities and differences to its European neighbours - not least in terms of the terrestrial ecology created by its island status. To understand the communities of hunter-gatherers who lived there, it is essential that we consider the connections established between people and the other beings and materials with which they shared the world and through which they grew into it. Understanding the Mesolithic means paying attention to the animals, plants, spirits and things with which hunting and gathering groups formed kinship relationships and in collaboration with which they experienced life. The book closes with a reflection on hunting and gathering in Ireland today. The overriding aim of the book is to provide a point of entry into… Read More