Up to half a million Irishmen and women participated in the Great War. Until very recently only the sacrifices made by roughly a third of their number were remembered and commemorated with any pride or regret. This book seeks to redress this neglect. Drawing on their diaries, letters, literary works and oral accounts of soldiers, it tells some of the personal stories of what Irishmen, Unionist and Nationalist, went through during the Great War and how, ironically, many of them drew closer together during that horror, than at any time since.

Irish Voices from the Great War

History

Dungan, Myles

Europe

Irish Academic Pr

The Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society has been a vibrant part of Dublin's musical landscape for 100 years. To this day, the Society remains amateur in status, while at the same time engaging the very best professionals for its production team and orchestra. This book traces the internal politics of the R&R, its often turbulent relationship with theatre managements, and its evolution, along with general changes in Dublin life and society.

If You Want to Know Who We Are...: Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society 1913-2013

Arts & Photography

Music

Gill & Company

Join historian Myles Dungan as he guides you through the history of our amazing island. Take an historical trip back in time to visit the ancient celts, sail away on a famine ship or join the 1916 rebels in the GPO. Discover leaders, thinkers and fighters and learn how our ancestors lived and worked in forts, castles and cottages.\nThe latest book in the Gill Books series of important topics tackled by experts, this engaging history introduces Ireland’s most significant people, history and culture to readers of all ages.\nWith clear text and bright illustrations, this book is for anyone who wants to understand more about Ireland, its history and its people.

The Great Irish History Book

Children's Books

Gill Books

You won't find Mary Robinson, Ernest Shackleton or Rory McIlroy in this volume -- they are among the unforgettables who have shaped Irish life. Instead, meet some fascinating, Irish people (and animals), who have advanced (or set back) the cause of everything from astronomy to zoology.&nbsp; &nbsp; There's the honourable but underappreciated Valentine Greatrakes, a 17th-century witchfinder and healer from Waterford. There's also the bygone baddie Miler McGrath, possibly the worstbishop in the history of religion who appears to have been a Franciscan monk, a Catholic bishop AND a bishop of the Church of Ireland at more or less the same time. Then there's Paddy the Pigeon, the WW2 veteran who brought the news of the Allied D-Day success to England. &nbsp; Be inspired by their stories and maybe one day, you can be forgettable too!

The Forgettables: Remarkable Irish People (and Animals) You’ve Never Heard Of

How the Irish Won the West

Here is the full story of the Irish immigrants and their decedents whose hard work helped make the West what it is today. Learn about the Irish members of the Donner party, forced to consume human flesh to survive the winter; mountain men like Thomas Fitzpatrick, who discovered the South Pass through the Rockies; Ellen “Nellie” Cashman, who ran boarding houses and bought and sold claims in Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada; and Maggie Hall, who became known as the “whore with a heart of gold.” A fascinating and entertaining look at the history of the American West, this book will surprise many and make every Irish American proud.

Americas

Skyhorse

Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution

Apollo

The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. Myles Dungan's family was involved in four violent deaths between 1915 and 1922. Jack Clinton, an immigrant small farmer from County Meath, was murdered in the remote and lawless Arizona territory by a powerful rancher's hired assassin; three more died in Ireland, and each death is compellingly reconstructed in this extraordinary book. Mark Clinton was murdered by a group of agrarian 'bandits' who resented his family's possession of some disputed acres; his killer was tried and executed by the dead man's relatives and comrades in the Meath IRA. A mentally challenged youth was shot as an informer by another relative of Dungan's, and buried in secrecy and silence. What unites these deaths is the violence that engulfed Ireland during the campaign against the British, but also the passions unleashed by arguments over the ownership of the soil. That often brutal struggle between landless laborers and smallholders and more prosperous farmers is a forgotten aspect of the war of independence. Myles Dungan's book, focused on one family, offers an original perspective on this still controversial period: a prism through which the moral and personal costs of violence, and the elemental conflict over land, come alive in surprising ways.

Land is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History

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Irish Voices from the Great War

If You Want to Know Who We Are...: Rathmines & Rathgar Musical Society 1913-2013

The Great Irish History Book

The Forgettables: Remarkable Irish People (and Animals) You’ve Never Heard Of

How the Irish Won the West

Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution

Four Killings: Land Hunger, Murder and A Family in the Irish Revolution

Land is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History

Land is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History

On This Day