Abject
Loyalty: Nationalism and Monarchy in Ireland During the Reign of Queen
Victoria
by James H. Murphy
Book Description: Abject Loyalty challenges the view that Irish
nationalists were necessarily hostile to the British monarchy. During Queen
Victoria's reign, royal visits to Ireland were in fact generally met with
great enthusiasm. Indeed, the strength of the opposition of some Irish
nationalists to the monarchy was a sign of the purchase that it seemed
to have on the allegiance of many people within nationalist Ireland. By
the 1880s, however, the monarchy had become the focus for British imperial
identity in England and for the denial of constitutional legitimacy to
those in Ireland who wished for home rule. It began to face increasing
opposition in Ireland both because nationalist politicians feared its influence
might reconcile Irish people to the Union with Britain and because enthusiasm
for monarchy in Ireland was used to feed a British discourse which saw
Ireland as a country that could be appeased by concessions short of home
rule and which did not take nationalist demands seriously.
The book traces Ireland's interaction with the British monarchy from
King George III to Queen Elizabeth II but focuses on the reign of Queen
Victoria. It deals with its topic on two levels. It explores Queen Victoria's
interaction with Ireland and her influence on British policy towards Ireland.
And it examines how Queen Victoria and monarchy were perceived in Ireland.
Whereas Queen Victoria's views and actions have previously been subject
to historical analysis, no previous study has seriously explored how she
was perceived in Ireland or the subtleties of nationalism's attitude towards
monarchy. Abject Loyalty makes a significant and original contribution
to the political and cultural history of Ireland and will be of interest
to those concerned with understanding the historical development of Irish
identity.
Hardcover: 352 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.19 x
9.22 x 6.36
Publisher: Catholic Univ of Amer Pr; (November 2001)
ISBN: 0813210763
The Ancient Celts
by Barry Cunliffe
Listed under Ancient Britain
Ancient
Ireland: Life Before the Celts
by Laurence Flanagan
Hardcover: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.99 x
8.73 x 5.65
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; (January 1999)
ISBN: 0312218818
The
Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture
by W. J. McCormack (Editor)
(Paperback - October 2001)
Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland
by John M. Feehan
Listed under The Troubles
Celtic
Christianity: A Sacred Tradition, a Vision of Hope
by Timothy J. Joyce
Paperback from Orbis Books
Book Published: March, 1998
Celtic Myths (The Legendary Past)
by Miranda Jane Green
Listed under Celtic Mythology
The
Course of Irish History
by T. W. Moody (Editor), et al
Much Irish history is written as a matter of heroes and leaders, of
great personalities and sweeping events. T. W. Moody and F. X. Martin's
collection of essays by leading historians offers all those things, but
it takes the land itself as its starting point. Ireland, they write, has
always been poor because of its ungiving soil; always isolated because
of its ring of imposing mountains and steep hills--but always open to invasion
from the east across the calm, narrow Irish Sea, because of which, they
write, "our present-day laws and institutions have their origins in England."
While taking a long view of events, they manage to compress thousands of
years of history into this fact-filled, highly readable book. Amazon.com
Paperback from Roberts Rinehart Pub
Book Published: February, 2002 |
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Cuchulain
of Muirthemne
by Lady Gregory
Book Description:
Dramatic, enthralling accounts of the legendary Cuchulain, the greatest
of ancient Ireland’s legendary Knights of the Red Branch,
tell of his birth and boyhood deeds, superhuman exploits in love and war,
and premature death, all in the same beautifully simple style Lady Gregory
first heard in stories told by her childhood nurse. Preface by W. B. Yeats.
Paperback from Dover Pubns
Book Published: June, 2001
Dictionary
of Irish Artists: 20th Century
by Theo Snoddy
(Hardcover - September 2002)
Dress in Ireland
by Mairead Dunlevy
Listed under Vintage Costume
Erin's
Blood Royal: The Gaelic Noble Dynasties of Ireland
by Peter Beresford Ellis
In time long past, little corners of Ireland were ruled by chiefs,
kings, earls, and other nobles whose ancient dominion came to an end with
the Tudor conquests of the 1500s. But, writes author Peter Ellis, the royal
bloodlines continued to flow in faraway lands, the forgotten victims of
"the ruthless colonial policy of an unsympathetic alien power."
With the Flight of the Wild Geese, when many nobles abandoned the island,
the hereditary aristocracy of Ireland lost power and, with time, was forgotten
at home. Today, emerging from exile in places like Austria and Asturias,
claimants to long-abandoned titles are now popping up everywhere, and the
Irish government has been obliging some of them with "courtesy recognition"--an
anachronism, many Irish object, in a democratic era. Surveying the surviving
nobility, Ellis examines their claims and, in the process, addresses what
he rightly calls "a much-neglected area of Irish history": the blue-blood
past of the MacGillycuddys, Maguires, O'Brien's, and other storied families.
Heraldry buffs, royalty watchers, and claimants to long-lost thrones will
find much of interest in Ellis's wanderings through the island's unhappy
history. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 384 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.30 x
9.60 x 6.50
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Revised edition (April
2002)
ISBN: 0312230494
The
Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
by Thomas Keneally
The Booker Prize-winning Schindler's List (on which Steven Spielberg
based his Oscar-winning film) demonstrated that Thomas Keneally could make
history as compelling as any novel. His latest book, The Great Shame, expands
upon the achievement of his earlier fiction. This is more than just the
story of the Keneally family tree, transported from Ireland to Australia
in the 19th-century. It is the story of how Irish men and women came to
be dispersed all over the world, and what they made of their lives in their
new homes. It is the epic history of a whole people.
The Great Shame is hypnotically readable, partly because Keneally weaves
his many narrative strands so expertly and touches his story with many
moments of beautiful writing, but also because it is all, even at its most
extraordinary, completely true. The result is astonishingly vivid. What
The Great Shame most resembles is a classic 19th-century novel: Dickens,
say, or George Eliot. Readers avidly follow Keneally's characters through
their successes and their trials, until the very last sentence in the book
when, like a master from the classic age of the novel, Keneally pays tribute
to "the piquant blood and potent ghosts of the characters to whom we now
bid goodbye." --Adam Roberts - Amazon.com
Paperback from Anchor
Book Published: 05 September, 2000 |
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How
the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role
from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Hinges of History,)
by Thomas Cahill
In this delightful and illuminating look into a crucial but little-known
"hinge" of history, Thomas Cahill takes us to the "island of saints and
scholars," the Ireland of St. Patrick and the Book of Kells. Here, far
from the barbarian despoliation of the continent, monks and scribes laboriously,
lovingly, even playfully preserved the West's written treasury. When stability
returned in Europe, these Irish scholars were instrumental in spreading
learning, becoming not only the conservators of civilization, but also
the shapers of the medieval mind, putting their unique stamp on Western
culture.
Amazon.com
Paperback: 246 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.57 x
8.04 x 5.22
Anchor; ISBN: 0385418493; (March 1996)
In
Search of Ancient Ireland: From Neolithic Times to the Coming of the English
by Carmel McCaffrey, Leo Eaton
Book Description: This engaging book traces the history, archaeology,
and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C., when nomadic hunter-gatherers
appeared in Ireland at the end of the last Ice Age to 1167 A.D., when an
Anglo-Norman invasion brought the country under control of the English
crown for the first time. So much of what people today accept as ancient
Irish history-Celtic invaders from Europe turning Ireland into a Celtic
nation; St. Patrick driving the snakes from Ireland and converting its
people to Christianity-is myth and legend with little basis in reality.
The truth is more interesting. The Irish, as the authors show, are not
even Celtic in an archaeological sense. And there were plenty of bishops
in Ireland before a British missionary called Patrick arrived. But In Search
of Ancient Ireland is not simply the story of events from long ago. Across
Ireland today are ancient sites and folk customs that provide tangible
links to events thousands of years past. The authors visit and describe
many of these places, talking to a wide variety of historians, archeologists
and language scholars, in the very settings where history happened. Thus
the book is also a journey on the ground to uncover ten thousand years
of Irish identity. It is all here, from the Celtic culture to the rise
of the uniquely Irish Christian spirituality to the final chapter which
deals with the complex events that led to the English invasion of the island.
In Search of Ancient Ireland is the official companion to the PBS series
of the same name.
Hardcover from New Amsterdam Books
Book Published: November, 2002 |
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Scotch-Irish:
A Social History
by James G. Leyburn
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.94 x 9.02 x 5.00
Univ of North Carolina Pr; ISBN: 0807842591; Reprint
edition (September 1989)
How
the Irish Became White
by Noel Ignatiev
Paperback: ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.64 x 9.01 x 6.18
Routledge; ISBN: 0415918251; (October 1996)
Danny
Boy: The Beloved Irish Ballad
by Malachy McCourt
(Hardcover -- December 2001)
The
Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism
by Robert Kee
This excellent book on the subject has been in print for over 30 years.
Db.
Paperback: 877 pages
Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0140291652; (June 5, 2001)
Big
Little Book of Irish Wit & Wisdom: Six Volumes in One: Irish Blessings,
Irish Toasts, Irish Proverbs, Irish Riddles, Irish Laws, Irish Wisdom
by Pat Fairon, Mary Dowling Daley (Contributor)
(Hardcover -- September 1997)
Killing Rage
by Eamon Collins, Mick McGovern (Contributor)
Listed under The Troubles
Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany, 1914-1916
by Reinhard R. Doerries
Listed under Sir Roger Casement
To
School Through the Fields: An Irish Country Childhood
by Alice Taylor
(Paperback -- March 1994)
A Secret History of the IRA
by Ed Moloney
Listed under The Troubles
The
Great Irish Famine: Impact, Ideology and Rebellion (British History in
Perspective)
by Christine Kinealy
(Paperback - February 2002)
Families
of County Cork, Ireland: From the Earliest Times to the 20th Century: Irish
Family Surnames With Lo Cations & Origins: Including English, sc
by Michael C. O'Laughlin
(Hardcover - March 1999)
The
Irish Tinkers: The Urbanization of an Itinerant People
by George Gmelch
(Paperback - June 1985)
Emigrants
and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
by Kerby A. Miller
(Paperback - January 1988)
The
Encyclopedia of Ireland: An A-Z Guide to Its People, Places, History, and
Culture
by Ciaran Brady (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (November 2000)
Families
of County Kerry, Ireland: Over Four Thousand Entries from the Archives
of the Irish Genealogical Foundation
by Michael C. O'Laughlin
(Hardcover - 2000)
The
Irish: A Photohistory, 1840-1940
by Sean Sexton, Christine Kinealy
(Hardcover - December 2002)
Irish
Records: Sources for Family and Local History
by James G. Ryan
(Hardcover)
Isolde,
Queen of the Western Isle
by Rosalind Miles
Fiction
The
Encyclopedia of the Irish in America
by Michael Glazier (Editor), Daniel Patrick Moynihan
(Hardcover - October 1999)
Prophecy
of Berchan: Irish and Scottish High-Kings of the Early Middle Ages (Contributions
to the Study of World History)
by Benjamin T. Hudson
(Hardcover - May 1996)
Special Order
The
Great Queens: Irish Goddesses from the Morrigan to Cathleen Ni Houlihan
by Rosalind Clark
A
History of Northern Ireland
How
the Irish Became White
by Noel Ignatiev
(Paperback - October 1996)
In
Search of Ancient Ireland
by Carmel McCaffrey and Leo Eaton
The
Irish Experience: A Concise History
by Thomas E. Hachey, et al
(Paperback - June 1996)
Irish Genealogies (includes Vol. 3 of Keatings History of Ireland)
by Geoffrey Keating, et al.
Listed under Irish Genealogy
The
Irish Famine (Discoveries)
by Gray. Peter, et al
(Paperback - October 1995)
Irish
Kings & High Kings
by F. J. Byrne
Publisher: International Specialized Book Services; 2nd edition (December
1, 2001)
The
Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland
by R. F. Foster
Publisher: Oxford University Press; (October 2001)
Out
of Ireland : The Story of Irish Emigration to America
by Paul Wagner, Kerby A. Miller
(Hardcover - March 1998)
Out
of Time: Irish Republican Prisoners Long Kesh 1972-2000
by Laurence McKeown
(Paperback)
Pagan
Celtic Ireland: The Enigma of the Irish Iron Age
by Barry Raftery
(Paperback - March 1998)
Poverty
Before the Famine: County Clare 1835
Unknown Binding: 169 pages
Publisher: Clasp Press; ; 1 Ed edition (1997)
ISBN: 1900545012
The
Story of the Irish Race
by Seumas MacManus
First published in the 1920's, this book is more of a curiosity than
a work of history. Db.
(Hardcover - August 1990)
Shamrock and Sword: The Saint Patrick's Battalion in the U.S.-Mexican
War
by Robert Ryal Miller
Listed under Mexican-American
War
Timetables
of Irish History: An Illustrated Chronological Chart of the History of
Ireland from 6000 BC to Present Times
by Patrick C. Power (Introduction), Sean Duffy (Introduction)
The
Twilight Lords: Elizabeth I and the Plunder of Ireland
by Richard Berleth
Covers the First and Second Desmond wars and the O'Neill uprising between
the 1560s and the early 1600s. Db.
Paperback: 316 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.76 x
9.00 x 5.86
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart Pub; Revised edition (August
2002)
ISBN: 1570983763
Wars
of the Irish Kings: A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth
Through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
by David Willis McCullough (Editor)
(Paperback - February 2002)
Wars
of the Irish Kings : A Thousand Years of Struggle from the Age of Myth
Through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
by David W. McCullough (Editor)
(Hardcover - October 2000)
Whoredom
in Kimmage: The Private Lives of Irish Women
by Rosemary Mahoney
(Paperback -- November 1998)
Ancient Ireland: From Prehistory to the Middle Ages
by Jacqueline O'Brien and Peter Harbison
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