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The Blue Book is a unique Association of Ireland's most gracious owner-managed Country Houses and Restaurants. Contains details of 36 houses and restaurants.

The Hidden Ireland is a collection of 39 private houses offering the more adventurous visitor a chance to sample Irish country life at its very best, in a style not usually >experienced by the ordinary tourist.

The Hidden Ireland is a collection of 32 properties available for rental. These are particularly appropriate for family holidays.

Contains details on over 1800 family homes in which the visitor will be made very welcome and enjoy the best in Irish hospitality, comfort and value.

This guide features a broad selection of Irish Hotels, including stately Country Houses, luxurious castles, worldly Inns and homely Guesthouses.

This book is the first multidisciplinary approach to defining and describing Ireland's rich and complex
heritage and analysing its protection and management. It is presented in three main parts, each includes case studies illustrating issues highlighted: Natural, Man-
Made and Cultural Heritage; Conservation and Interpretation; and Administration and Business. It also provides authoritative and detailed accounts of heritage legislation and EU institutions and directives dealing with heritage in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Its contributors include academics, professionals, and practitioners from Ireland, north and south.

The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working class Irish community, branding it a violent, racist enclave. But the threats - poverty, drugs, a shadowy gangster world - were real. The author of this memoir lost four of his siblings to violence and poverty. This book is his heart-breaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be 'the best place in the world.'

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Nuala O'Faolain's autobiography, Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman, was a number one bestseller in Ireland for 26 weeks. This book is her first novel.

This book is the author's grand finale to the hilarious best-selling 'Irish Male' series - one last look at the bitter-sweet realities that the Irish male encounters at home and abroad as the new Millennium rips up the rulebook.

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no ISBN but available by writing to:
Irish Genealogical Foundation
P.O. Box 7575
Kansas City, MO 64116
(write for free catalog)

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At the outbreak of the Second World War, Ireland declared neutrality and thus became isolated as never before. But it was imperative to continue essential overseas trading. A lifeline had to be formed and so the nucleus of a merchant marine was established. For the following five years a tiny fleet of vessels ventured the seas under the Tricolour, the badge of neutrality clearly emblazoned on their hulls. This book is the story of that fleet, diminutive in size but large in heroism. It is the story also of the exceptional courage of the mariners themselves, many of whom perished as victims of a war in which they were non-participants. It is a dramatic and authentic book that documents the remarkable achievement and grievous losses of the Irish mercantile marine during the Second World War. Contains numerous photographs.

Sectarian violence is one of the defining characteristics of the modern Ulster experience. Riots between Catholic and Protestant crowds occurred with depressing frequency throughout the 19th century, particularly within the constricted spaces of the province's burgeoning industrial capital, Belfast. From the Armagh Troubles in 1784 to the Belfast Riots on 1886, ritual confrontations led to regular outbreaks of sectarian conflict. This, in turn, helped keep Catholic/Protestant antagonism at the heart of the political and cultural discussion in the north or Ireland. This book has at its core a subject frequently ignored - the rioters themselves. Rather than focusing on political and religious leaders in a top-down model, the author demonstrates how lower-class attitudes gave rise to violent clashes and dictated the responses of the elite.

This volume of essays explores United Irish propaganda and organisation, and looks at the forces of revolution before and during the 1798 rebellion. It also begins to redress imbalances in the historiography of the period by turning to the face of counter-revolution - examining the crisis in law and order, the role of the magistrates, the strengths and weaknesses of the state, and the scope and character of the repression following the rebellion. Other essays consider the short-term and longer-term consequences of these momentous events, including their impact upon the churches, the Act of Union, and the politics of early nineteenth-century America

'I was the kid who had hung out for far too long on the stairs in his dressing-gown, eavesdropping on the sounds of adult conviviality, but invited to enter the mysteries at last.'

This book is an exuberant memoir of growing up London-Irish, of having two identities and being caught between both. As a child, John Walsh found the Irishness of his parents' Battersea home bemusing. Here was an enclave of Ireland's mystic west, transported to London's South Circular Road, where performance and after-dinner singing were mandatory, where the gossip and visitors were Irish, and where Catholic priests invaded the kitchen for tea, barm-brack and a waltz with his mother. Ireland too was a puzzle. It was a family holiday destination that meant rain, dry-stone walls and blue bubble gum. It was a country that seemed to scatter its tribes of exiles across the globe, a place his mother had escaped from and his father only longed to return to.

But as a teenager spellbound by Mick Jagger and images of Catholic martyrdom, the author discovers an extended family in a Galway he never know existed. In this new world of hoolies, spook-haunts and wakes, and ultimately through the death of his mother, he begins to understand the Irish Way of Life and Death and the heart of his Hibernian roots.

Witty, intimate and full of illuminating insights into exile, religion and the culture of 'belonging', this book is a the passionate tale of one man's relationship with a mythic and mercurial homeland. This book was our choice for Book of the Month Non Fiction for January 2000.

Out Of Ireland, by noted scholar Kerby Miller and fillmmaker

Paul Wagner, is a moving portrayal of Irish emigration to the United States. The book is based on a documentary film of the same name developed for public television and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. This sweeping historical epic involving millions of Irish men and women over a period of two centuries is personalized by the stories of several individual immigrants, using the actual letters they wrote home to Ireland describing their experiences in the New World. It is further brought to life by 110 riveting and rarely seen photographs and illustrations, the fruits of more than two years of research in Irish and American archives.

is a vividly illustrated depiction of the country's evolution, from its Celtic roots to its present-day realities. Two best-selling Authors have teamed up with National Cartoon Company of Ireland to tell the story of Ireland in graphic narrative form. This combination of words and images brings history alive and makes it accessible to young and old alike. Ireland's six thousand year history is full of drama and intrigue, cruelty and compassion, humour and spirit. This book portrays it in a way that has never been done before and sets a new standard for history books of the future. A uniquely inspired treasure for historians, art lovers, graphic novel enthusiasts, and people who enjoy a great story.

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