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John Ireland
Explores how French dramatists addressed violence, conflict, and war trauma after the German occupation and Algerian War
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Explores how French dramatists have engaged with two traumatic events that continue to haunt France: the German occupation and Vichy government from 1940-1944, and the Algerian War from 1954-1962.
Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland. The book evaluates current planning processes and explores the prospects for an…
This collection of regional and local case studies, by contrast, shows that a 'spirit of revolution' was widespread in Ireland in the period 1917-23.
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A schoolteacher moonlighting as a serial killer, an obese cope hiding from mirrors in his own shadow, a woman who can't tell the truth, a man who can't tell the…
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John Taggart
A stunning collection of images showcasing the different areas of Ireland in all their glory, which capture the essence of the landscape.
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John Neary
Public diplomacy enables private citizens to be involved in international relations either through initiatives sponsored by governments or through direct people-to-people contacts in areas such as culture, business, education, tourism…
John Gibney
A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century
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John Minto
First published in 1932, this book looks at the rise and progress of the public library as it stood at that time. This movement was characterized by the establishment of…
John Wilson Foster
These essays play with the ironies and follies of the campaign for a unified Ireland that has expressed little insight or care about what's involved. How do we square the…
This book address various specific topics - from mass politics to sexuality - but are linked by a stress on how Christians played active roles in building "modern" life in…
John Lindsay
Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Peter J.F. Coutts, Alan Watson
This case study of John Boles (1661-1731) illustrates how one can write comprehensive biographies of Irish Quakers, most of whom have hitherto remained anonymous. Sources are analysed, genealogical charts constructed…
This new volume in the award-winning Atlas Series presents fresh perspectives on, and a nuanced understanding of, the history of the Irish Civil War (1922-3).
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…
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The Plague of Marseilles in the Year 1720: From Documents Preserved in the City is a historical book written by John Ireland and first published in 1834. The book provides…
Written for, and to, his family, the contents of this book are the memoirs of World War II veteran, husband, father, and grandfather, John F. Ireland, chronicling the events of…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
This book includes two small classics of the Pali Canon in one volume. The Udana, or Inspired Utterances of the Buddha, consists of eighty discourses, mostly short, divided into eight…
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of the original text.
Letters and poems by the late Mr. John Henderson - With anecdotes of his life is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1786. Hansebooks is editor of…
Fiona Richards
This text explores the expressive and extra-musical qualities of Ireland’s compositions and their complex system of personal musical symbols, images and ideas. Fiona Richards interweaves biography and musical analysis in…
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his death, this book presents new articles by leading authorities on John Ireland and his music, together with transcriptions of his broadcast…
O'Bill Rex
Title: The Morals of John Ireland.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest research libraries…
John Higgins
As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints as an effective weapon in contemporary political and ecclesiastical conflicts. Cogitosus's…
John Brant Chatterton
The British Isles including Ireland are a unique tapestry of islands off the Continental shelf of NW Europe. Though there are thousands of islands making up this archipelago, a modest…
John M. Warren
This book offers a fresh approach to difficult plants that will make you become a more confident botanist. Unlike other wildflower guides, it will help you understand why some plants…
John Banim, Jane Barlow
Stories by English Authors: Ireland, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made…
Michael B. Barry, John O'Byrne
The third book from the team behind The Irish Civil War in Colour features Ireland in wartime.
Un trait d'union entre l'Amerique et la France: La Fayette / discours prononce par Mgr Ireland, … a l'inauguration du monument de La Fayette (Paris, 4 juillet 1900) Date de…
John M. Burney, Andrew J. Auge
In the game, students will represent the major parties in Northern Ireland as they reconvene at the multiparty talks in 1997 to find ways to reconcile two competing visions of…
Billy Mundow
In this volume of documentary photography by William Mundow, more than 50 black-and-white images of the West of Ireland from the 1960s are mirrored by the works of Irish poets…
