<p>The Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852 cast a long shadow over the subsequent history of Ireland and its diaspora. Since 1995, there has been a renewed interest in studying this event, not only by history scholars and students, but byarcheologists, artists, musicians, scientists, folklorists, etc., all of which has added greatly to our understanding of this tragic event.The focus on the Great Hunger, however, has overshadowed other periods of famine and food shortages in Ireland and their impact on a society in which poverty, hunger, emigration and even excess mortality, were part of the life cycle and not unique to the 1840s. This publication re-examines some of the forgotten famines that not only shaped Ireland?s history, but the histories of the many countries in which successive waves of emigrants chose to settle.</p>

Irish Famines before and after the Great Hunger

History

Americas

Cork University Press

The Navvy in Scotland

Business & Money

Handley, James E.

Economics

It is of historical importance those who read Gaelic will carry this book about with them like an Elizabethan song book, reading and re-reading until all those golden lines are thrice familiar. Incorporating poems from 1350 to 1750 this book contains a wealth of verse that shows the Irish language at it's richest and most beautiful. Influenced by the French tradition of the amour courtois the poetry is still inherently Irish, revealing the natural characteristics of wit and irony while rebounding with affection.

Dánta Grádha

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Denez, Per. Brezhoneg...buan hag aes. A Beginner's Course in Breton. Adapted from the French of Per Denez by Raymond Delaporte. Cork University Press, 1991, 255p, paperback.

Brezhoneg ... Buan hag Aes: A Beginner's Course in Breton

Delaporte, Raymond

Denez, Per

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. The Roman Catholic church and the plan of campaign in Ireland 1886-1888, hardcover, A very good, clean, copy. Dk. green boards, no d/j.

The Roman Catholic church and the plan of campaign in Ireland 1886-1888

Emmet J Larkin

World

Softcover, bumped at corners. Some foxing to fore-edge. Former owner's name on front endpaper. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy in good condition. Raymond Delaporte, Elementary Breton-English Dictionary (Breton and English Edition) ISBN 0902561162. Publisher: Cork University Press, 1979, xviii and 110 pages.

Elementary Breton-English dictionary =: Geriadurig Brezhoneg-Saozneg

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

De Valera and his times

John P. O'Carroll

Dublin, the Deposed Capital: A Social and Economic History, 1860-1914

Mary E. Daly

<p>very good copy, light wear to covers only. Part of the RTE Thomas Davis Lectures</p>

Goldsmith: the Gentle Master

Seán Lucy

Biographies & Memoirs

This is a comprehensive study of the problems which the city of Dublin faced between the famine and World War One. The decline of the city's traditional industries and the rising proportion of casual labourers in the population gave rise to intense poverty which resulted in excessively high death-rates and a housing crisis. These problems were compounded by the migration of the middle-classes to the suburbs where they established autonomous self-governing townships which failed to contribute to city taxes. The alienation of the Protestant middle-class and the growing political dominance by lower middle-class Catholics - many of them slum landlords - who attributed all social and economic ills to the Act of Union, weakened the resolve to tackle the city's major ills. However it seems doubtful whether the problems of the Dublin labouring class could have been resolved within the accepted limitations of state intervention as they existed prior to World war One. The work draws on a wealth of sources to examine topics such as choice of marriage partners, occupational continuity between father and son, the background of tenement families and the corporation tenants, and the role of contemporary charitable institutions - topics hitherto relatively neglected in Irish historical research.

Dublin, the Deposed Capital

DALY, Mary E.

Europe

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