Name: Pat Murphy, Social Republican Subtitle: Tribute to his Life and Work, 1937-2009 Author: O'Connor, Philip Editor: Category: Publisher: Howth Free Press Published: 2009 ISBN: 978-0-955316-30-4 Contents: Extracts: Errata: Price: £10.00 Postage Option: Available from info@howthfreepress.com Add To Cart: View Cart:

Name: Political And Historical Writings Of Thomas Moore Subtitle: Author: Editor: Clifford, Brendan Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Athol Books Published: 1993 ISBN: 0 85034 067 5 Contents: Thomas Moore, who is now remembered only as the author of Moore's Melodies, was the most influential Irish political writer of the first third of the 19th century. Later generations, saturated with O'Connellite Catholic-nationalism, relegated his prose writings to oblivion—it was beyond their power to do anything about the Melodies?and put about the idea that he was a vain and insubstantial individual, who had succumbed to the flattery of English aristocrats. This selection of his writings shows that to be a travesty. The trouble with Moore is that, while he did not become a tool of English aristocracy, neither did he compromise with the Catholic-nationalism of O'Connell. He was brought up amongst the Dublin United Irishmen of the 1790s, and was a friend of Robert Emmet when O'Connell was a Yeoman, and he kept on writing in the United Irish spirit to the end of his life. In the "Memoirs Of Captain Rock", a fictional biography of a Whiteboy family, he relates the history of Ireland in a way that the most demanding Fenian could not quibble with. The "Life Of Lord Edward Fitzgerald" is an uncompromising justification of the United Irish leader. The "Travels Of An Irish Gentleman In Search Of A Religion" is a riposte against the Protestant propagands of the period by somebody who detested the new, Ultramontanist, tendency in Catholicism. This selection includes substantial extracts from these three books, along with extracts from Moore's "Journal", his "History Of Ireland", and his Lives of "Sheridan" and "Byron". Introduction by Brendan Clifford. 268 pp. Illustrated. Index. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £18.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£18.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£24.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: Preposterous Paradoxes Of Ambassador Morgenthau Subtitle: A factual story about politics, propaganda and distortions Author: Aya, Server Editor: Category: Miscellaneous Publisher: Athol Books Published: 2013 ISBN: 978-085034-125-6 Contents: Justin McCarthy, Professor of History at the University of Louisville has written of this book: Sükrü Server Aya has done a service to our understanding of history with his analysis of Ambassador Morgenthau's reports on the Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire. Morgenthau has long held a prominent place in what has become the popularly accepted history of the events of World War I. His descriptions of Armenian suffering feature prominently in accusations that the Ottomans committed genocide. The difficulty, as demonstrated by Aya, is that Morgenthau readily accepted fabricated evidence and himself falsified the record. Aya's method is simple. He takes Morgenthau's statements and identified the false, the prejudiced, and the impossible. He compares Morgenthau's written accounts with his diaries, showing that much of what Morgenthau allegedly heard from Ottoman officials on plans to exterminate Armenians was complete invention. He analyses the prejudices and political calculations that led to Morgenthau's deception. This book is not one of the polemics and baseless assertions that too often have characterised histories of the Turks and Armenians. It is a book of incredible detail that demands careful consideration. The effort of readers, however, will be repaid with a new understanding of history and of the creation of the mythology of the events of World War I. Extracts: No online extracts at present. Errata: No online errata at present. Price: £22.50 Postage Option: It is not possible for us to trade using only one postage rate. We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage to the UK and Ireland £22.50 GBP Airmail To the Rest of the World £30.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: Prison Adverts And Potato Diggings Subtitle: Author: Clifford, Brendan Editor: Category: United Irish Collection Publisher: Athol Books Published: 1992 ISBN: 0 85034 052 7 Contents: The most wholehearted rebellious act of the United Irish movement of the North was the great constitutional potatoe digging of 1796. People assembled by hundreds and thousands to harvest the potatoes and other crops of neighbours who were imprisoned for alleged treason by the terrorist Government of Lord Camden (1795-98). Another remarkable feature of the time was business advertising from prison by eminently respectable Belfast businessmen. This booklet reprints some of those advertisements, along with "Northern Star" reports of the "hasty digging" of potatoes, and other major events in the life of Antrim and Down during the years when reckless and arbitrary government built up the pressures that found release in the Rebellion of 1798. Pamphlet Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £5.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£10.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£13.30 GBP View Cart:

Name: Problems Subtitle: Yearly Subscription Author: Editor: Category: Periodicals Publisher: Athol Books Published: ISBN: 1365 7887 Contents: Formerly: Problems of Capitalism & Socialism, Problems of Communism. Extracts: Errata: Price: £15.00 Postage Option: It is not possible for us to trade using only one postage rate. We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£15.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£20.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: Problems Subtitle: Yearly Electronic Subscription Author: Editor: Category: Periodicals Publisher: Athol Books Published: ISBN: 1365 7887 Contents: No delivery charges will be taken for this item Extracts: Errata: Price: £6.00 Postage Option: Please choose the Free Postage option. Add To Cart: View Cart:

Name: Propaganda as Anti-History Subtitle: Peter Hart's 'The IRA and its Enemies' examined Author: Sheridan, Owen Editor: Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Aubane Historical Society Published: 2008 ISBN: 9781-903497-41-8 Contents: Because historians tell the story of humanity, we depend on them for our understanding of who and what we are. But writers of history can also distort the story, presenting their subjects, not as people, but as caricatures of good and evil. When such distortion becomes serious and deliberate, Owen Sheridan describes it as anti-history. Using a detailed examination of The IRA and Its Enemies, Sheridan shows how writer Peter Hart removes the humanity of IRA Volunteers during the War of Independence, depicting them as the popular press in Britain depicted Germans during the First World War—as objects of hatred. His Anti-History is a wake-up call, not only for historians but for thinking people everywhere. Owen Sheridan grew up in Country Cork, where members of his family have been local historians for several generations. Most of his adult life has been spent out of Ireland where he worked in construction and real estate. He is now retired and living in the United States. Anti-History is his second book. Extracts: No online extracts at this time Errata: No online errata at this time Price: £8.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£8.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£10.50 GBP View Cart:

Name: Puritanism And The Theatre Subtitle: Author: Clifford, Brendan Editor: Category: General Publisher: Belfast Historical & Educational Society Published: 2014 ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-872078- Contents: It is not well known that the English Reformation suppressed the theatre in England, not once but twice. First there was Henry VIII's suppression of the mediaeval theatre, because traditional culture was permeated by the old religion. Miracle plays and suchlike became a form of thought-crime. Henry's absolute State required a thorough re-moulding of the populace and that included theatrical life. Half a century later the State encouraged the development of a new development of theatre, to provide entertainment for Elizabeth and her courtiers. The Stuarts who followed her also promoted a new form of theatre which flourished, and which had a marked anti-Puritan bias. Stuart (or Jacobean) theatre was anathema to the new Puritan religious development. A coup d'etat was brought about by Puritan forces in 1641. England became a rigorous Protestant theocracy and Oliver Cromwell abolished theatre for a second time. English social life came under the control of forces nowadays described as fanatical, radical or fundamentalist. Dating from this era, William Prynne's comprehensive Christian case against the theatre is described. After the Cromwellian governing arrangement ran into the ground, the Stuarts were brought back to power. With them came a new development of theatre after 1660, but only in a limited form under Government licence. In 1740 an attempt at political theatre was nipped in the bud. This is discussed in connection with Charlotte Brooke, an early translator of Irish verse, whose father wrote the banned play Gustavus Vasa. These events were described in an entertaining manner in a series of articles for The Heresiarch (Editor, Joe Keenan) which are reproduced here. Then there is a comment on Synge and Sean O'Casey, questioning a suggestion made on Radio Eireann that The Playboy and The Plough were met with hostile demonstrations because their authors were Protestants. Around the theme of Showgirls, the depiction of sex in popular discourse is considered. The overall surprising conclusion is that Puritanism abolished, along with theatre, the traditional communal medium of social life, creating a vacuum which is filled in the Anglo-sphere by an upsurge of theatre. The population lives its community life through theatrical presentations on stage, screen and air-waves. Extracts: There are no extracts at this time. Errata: There are no errata at this time. Price: £12.00 Postage Option: It is not possible for us to trade using only one postage rate. We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Air Mail. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage to the UK and Ireland £12.00 GBP Airmail To the Rest of the World £16.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: Readings from Pearse Ferriter (Please Note. This publication is not currently available.) Subtitle: Author: Ferriter, Pearse Editor: Category: Gaelic Collection Publisher: Aubane Historical Society Published: 1999 ISBN: Contents: Readings of Pearse Ferriter's Gaelic poems by Boscó Ó Concúir. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £4.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£4.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£5.50 GBP View Cart:

Name: Remembering Gallipoli Subtitle: President McAleese's Great War Crusade Author: Walsh, Pat Editor: Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Athol Books Published: 2010 ISBN: 978 1 903497 24 3 Contents: The Irish President Mrs. Mary McAleese pays an official visit to Turkey to unveil a memorial to the Irish who died in the British invasion at Gallipoli in 1915. Such a visit is an unusual departure for Ireland, given the historical perspective of the independent Irish State. Gallipoli is quite a famous battle in Ireland and many people know that there was Irish participation in it. However, the Irish participation at Gallipoli has never been commemorated in the same way that, for example, Australians and New Zealanders have marked it. However, tours organized from Ireland, to coincide with the visit of Mrs. McAleese, have advertised themselves as 'The Gallipoli Pilgrimage'—a phrase with religious meaning, borrowed from previous Australian commemorations. There is a view in Australia that their participation in the Gallipoli landings was a major milestone in the forging of the Australian nation. Paul Keating, the former Premier, caused something of a controversy a few years ago when he dissented from this view and remarked: "Gallipoli was shocking for us… Dragged into service by the imperial government in an ill-conceived and poorly executed campaign, we were cut to ribbons and dispatched. In some respects we are still at it; not at the suffering and the dying, but still turning up at Gallipoli… we still go on as though the nation was born again or even was redeemed there. This is utter and complete nonsense. For these reasons I have never been to Gallipoli and I never will" (The Age, October 31, 2008). Whether Australia was born at Gallipoli or not, the same cannot be said of Ireland and the Irish participation in the assault on Turkey...... A Belfast Magazine, No. 37 Extracts: No online extracts available at this time. Errata: No online errata available at this time. Price: £5.00 Postage Option: It is not possible for us to trade using only one postage rate. We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£5.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£6.50 GBP View Cart:

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