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Name: Belfast In The French Revolution

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Author: Clifford, Brendan

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Category: United Irish Collection

Publisher: Belfast Historical & Educational Society

Published: 1989

ISBN: 1 870278 00 1

Contents: "Belfast In The French Revolution" tells the story of the French Revolution by use of materials taken from the columns of "The Northern Star", the Belfast United Irish paper. An introductory chapter explains why Belfast was predisposed by its own history to indulge in a wholehearted and unanimous vicarious participation in French affairs, the like of which occurred nowhere else. The background to the Revolution is explained in a chapter on its philosophical antecedents?on "Voltaire and Rousseau". The story is carried from 1789 to 1794, with chapters on Mirabeau's attempted reform of the Church; the Girondins; the reform of the Calendar; and the year of Robespierre and Saint-Just. Also included is the full Northern Star account of the great Belfast Review and Celebration held on Bastille Day, 1792. 148 pp.

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Price: £11.50

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Name: Belfast Politics with Thoughts On The British Constitution

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Author: Joy, Henry & Bruce, William

Editor: Clifford, Brendan

Category: Irish Collection

Publisher: Athol Books

Published: 2010

ISBN: 978-085034-122-5

Contents: Henry Joy's Belfast Politics is impressive. In it he gives expression to the political ferment of Belfast and its hinterland iat a time of optimistic constitutional endeavour. Volunteers, United Irishmen, Catholic Committee—they all speak in this book. And they don't just declaim, they argue about reform. All agree that change must come: but should the franchise be deepened amongst Protestants, and should the Catholics be included in the Constitution and be part of the body politic?

Given the importance and vitality of Joy's Belfast Politics, it is curious to find that the present edition is the first full reprint since its initial publication in 1794.

Also included in this work are Strictures On The Test Taken By Certain Societies Of United Irishmen and articles by William Bruce, Thoughts On The British Constitution.

Brendan Clifford supplies and Introduction providing context, as well as an Afterword examining the reasons for the disappointing Northern turn-out for the 1798 Rebellion and the silence of Belfast during the passing of the Union Bill. Also reviewed is the attempt by former United Irishmen during the following generation to establish an independent Belfast University (of which Inst is a remnant).

A Postscript examines some recent contributions from Cambridge University to the re-writing of Irish history in the British interest.

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Price: £23.50

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Name: Berlin Magazine of 1931

Subtitle: International Forum

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Editor: Murphy, James

Category: German-Irish Collection

Publisher: Athol Books

Published: 2000

ISBN: 0 85034 091 8

Contents: Full reprint. Contributors include Oliver St. John Gogarty, Thomas Mann, Erwin Schrodinger and Max Planck. 94 pp. (A4).

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Price: £8.00

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Name: Billy Bluff And The Squire

Subtitle: (A Satire On Irish Aristocracy)

Author: Porter, James

Editor: Clifford, Brendan

Category: United Irish Collection

Publisher: Athol Books

Published: 1991

ISBN: 0 85034 045 4

Contents: Published together with other writings of Rev. James Porter, who was hanged in the course of the United Irish rebellion of 1798. Edited and introduced by Brendan Clifford. "Billy Bluff", the only piece of United Irish literature which was kept continuously in print from its original publication to the present century, is given in full in this collection, along with "Wind And Weather", a satirical sermon on "The Late Providential Storm Which Dispersed The French Fleet Off Bantry Bay", the "Letters To Lord Downshire" published in The Northern Star in 1796-97; a transcript of the official record of Porter's trial by Courtmartial; and a selection of songs from "Paddy's Resource". 88 pp.

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Price: £7.00

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Name: Blockading The Germans! With an overview of 19th century maritime law

Subtitle: The evolution of Britain's strategy during the First World War, Volume 1 (Paperback)

Author: Dyas, Eamon

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Publisher: Belfast Historical and Educational Society

Published: 2018

ISBN: 978-1-872078-27-4

Contents: This is the first volume of a Trilogy examining overlooked aspects of the First World War and its aftermath from a European perspective. Comprehensively sourced with scholarly research, it explains how Britain used a continental blockade to force the capitulation of the Kaiser’s Germany by targeting not just military, but also civilian, imports—particularly imported food supplies, upon which Germany had become dependent since its industrial revolution. After joining the European War of August 1914—and elevating it into a World War—Britain cast aside the two maritime codes agreed by the world's maritime powers over the previous almost 60 years – the Declaration of Paris in 1856 and the Declaration of London in 1909. In defiance of these internationally agreed codes, Britain aggressively expanded its blockade with the object of disrupting not only the legitimate trade between neutral countries and Germany but trade between neutral countries themselves. Britain’s policy of civilian starvation during the First World War was unprecedented in history. Whereas it had used the weapon of starvation against civilians in the past, in such instances this was either through the exploitation of a natural disaster to bring about famine (Ireland and India) or the result of pre-conceived policy against a non-industrial society (France during the Revolutionary Wars). Its use against Germany was the first time in history where a policy of deliberate starvation was directed against the civilian population of an advanced industrial economy. This volume traces the evolution of Britain’s relationship with international naval blockade strategies from the Crimean War through the American Civil War and the Boer War culminating in its maturity during the Great War. It also draws out how the United States—the leading neutral country—was made complicit in Blockading The Germans during the war and brings the story up to America’s entry into the War. Eamon Dyas is a former head of The Times newspaper archive, was on the Executive Committee of the Business Archives Council in England for a number of years, and was Information Officer of the Newspaper Department of the British Library for many years.

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Price: £25.00

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Name: Blockading The Germans! With an overview of 19th century maritime law

Subtitle: The Evolution of Britain's Strategy During The First World War. Volume 1 (Hardback)

Author: Dyas, Eamon

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Published: 2018

ISBN: 978-1-872078-27-4

Contents: This is the first volume of a Trilogy examining overlooked aspects of the First World War and its aftermath from a European perspective. Comprehensively sourced with scholarly research, it explains how Britain used a continental blockade to force the capitulation of the Kaiser’s Germany by targeting not just military, but also civilian, imports—particularly imported food supplies, upon which Germany had become dependent since its industrial revolution. After joining the European War of August 1914—and elevating it into a World War—Britain cast aside the two maritime codes agreed by the world's maritime powers over the previous almost 60 years – the Declaration of Paris in 1856 and the Declaration of London in 1909. In defiance of these internationally agreed codes, Britain aggressively expanded its blockade with the object of disrupting not only the legitimate trade between neutral countries and Germany but trade between neutral countries themselves. Britain’s policy of civilian starvation during the First World War was unprecedented in history. Whereas it had used the weapon of starvation against civilians in the past, in such instances this was either through the exploitation of a natural disaster to bring about famine (Ireland and India) or the result of pre-conceived policy against a non-industrial society (France during the Revolutionary Wars). Its use against Germany was the first time in history where a policy of deliberate starvation was directed against the civilian population of an advanced industrial economy. This volume traces the evolution of Britain’s relationship with international naval blockade strategies from the Crimean War through the American Civil War and the Boer War culminating in its maturity during the Great War. It also draws out how the United States—the leading neutral country—was made complicit in Blockading The Germans during the war and brings the story up to America’s entry into the War. Eamon Dyas is a former head of The Times newspaper archive, was on the Executive Committee of the Business Archives Council in England for a number of years, and was Information Officer of the Newspaper Department of the British Library for many years.

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Price: £40.00

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Name: Bolg An Tsolair/Gaelic Magazine, 1795

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Editor: Clifford, Brendan and Muldowney, Pat

Category: Gaelic Collection

Publisher: Athol Books

Published: 1999

ISBN: 0 85034 083 7

Contents: This is two books in one. Book One comprises a "Gaelic Magazine, Bolg An Tsolair", published in 1795. Only one issue was produced. The Editor was Patrick Lynch, who taught Irish to Thomas Russell and other Belfast reformers. He put together an interesting magazine. Apart from an Irish Grammar, there are some fascinating Dialogues, in Irish and English, more rooted in the life of the country than such texts usually are. To fill out the magazine, Lynch included some Gaelic poetry which had been collected and translated by Charlotte Brooke. Again these appear in Irish and English—and the translations are surprisingly good. Book Two offers a biographical profile of Patrick Lynch and Charlotte Brooke, who in their different ways represented two aspects of Ireland as it then was. (Charlotte Brooke's family were cousins to the Brookes of Brookeborough.) As there is little information about Charlotte, the authors reconstruct her world, the two guiding stars of which are Henry Brooke, the litterateur, and William Law, a writer of theological/philosophical works as well as devotional ones which were fundamentally at variance with the tendency of English Christianity. The combination of these very different influences served to produce a very unusual lady who became absorbed by the lusciousness of Gaelic culture. 248 pp. Bibliography. Index.

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Price: £17.50

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Name: Britain's Great War, Pope Benedict's Lost Peace

Subtitle: How Britain Blocked The Pope's Peace Efforts Between 1915 and 1918

Author: Walsh, Pat

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Category: General

Publisher: Athol Books

Published: 2006

ISBN: 0 85034 114 6

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Price: £5.00

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Name: Britain's Relationship With Iraq And Turkey, Part One

Subtitle: Preliminaries To The Conquest Of Mesopamia

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Editor: Clifford, Brendan

Category: General

Publisher: Athol Books

Published:

ISBN:

Contents: Problems of Capitalism & Socialism, Nos. 53-4

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Price: £5.00

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Name: Britain, Zionism And The Holocaust

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Author: Smith, John

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Category: General

Publisher: Athol Books

Published: 2002

ISBN: 085034 099 3

Contents: Shows how Zionism made an alliance with the British Empire to colonise Palestine on behalf of the West and condoned European anti-Semitism to stimulate Jewish settlement in Palestine to build up a critical mass to form the state of Israel. Well-referenced.

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Name: Butter Road

Subtitle: 250 Years of the Butter Road 1st May 1748-1st May 1998

Author: Lane, Jack

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Publisher: Aubane Historical Society

Published: 1997

ISBN: 0952108143

Contents: On the 1st May 1998 the Butter Road between Cork and Kerry will be exactly 250 years old. Not many roads can have a birthday but this one can as its construction was authorised in great detail by an Act of Parliament to begin on 1st May 1748. This publication is a celebration of the road, the Kerrymen who built it, the people who travelled it and its contribution to the life of the communitites along its route for the past 250 years.

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Price: £6.00

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