1st edition with review slip from publisher tipped in, DJ is in very good condition, clear plastic protective wrap has a small tear but affecting DJ,

Murderous angels: A political tragedy and comedy in black and white

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Hutchinson

<p>Conor Cruise O'Brien's second book, published in 1957, grew out of the doctoral thesis he had submitted at Dublin's Trinity College that, in 1954, duly earned him his PhD. In Parnell and His Party, 1880-1890, O'Brien applied a finessing scholarly eye to the figure of Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party and formidable proponent of Home Rule whose career was abruptly ruined by the 'Mrs O'Shea' divorce scandal of 1890 that split his party and dominated Irish politics for a generation. For O'Brien this schism was of more than academic his maternal grandfather David Sheehy was among the MPs who repudiated Parnell.\n'An indispensable classic half a century after its first publication . . . a profound analysis of power and charisma in democratic politics.' Roy Foster, Standpoint\n'One of the essential books of modern Irish history, a shrewd and clarifying study.' Thomas Flanagan</p>

Parnell and His Party, 1880-1890

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press

<p>There is a tragic inevitability about Irish history: "hatred answering hatred", as Lady Gregory wrote. Four events in particular, Yeats' "four deep, tragic notes", ring through Irish history: the Catholic revolt against Elizabeth; the battle of the Boyne, which established the Protestant Ascendancy; the impact of the French Revolution; and the fall from power of Charles Stewart Parnell, which turned Ireland away from peaceful solutions to its ills. The authors bring the story up to the present, then look ahead to the end of the century.</p>

Concise History Of Ireland

History

Maire O'Brien

Europe

Crescent

Book by Marie O'Brien, Conor Cruise O'Brien

The Story of Ireland

Marie O'Brien

VIKING

Memoir: My Life and Themes

Signed copy, with note from Mßire Mhac an tSaoi to previous owner tipped in, In very good condition, with very good DJ.

Memoir: My life and themes

Biographies & Memoirs

Poolbeg Books

An abridged edition of "The Great Melody" which was first published in 1992 and is a thematic biography and commented anthology of Edmund Burke. This celebration of Burke's lifelong struggle against the abuse of power incorporates both Burke's ideas on the American and French revolutions, as well as his debates on Catholic emancipation and the abolition of the slave trade. O'Brien also attempts to show the Namierite view on Burke as a fallacy.

Edmund Burke

Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd.

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