Name: The Pearson Executions In Co. Offaly Subtitle: a debate on alleged sectarianism during the War of Independence Author: Muldowney, Pat Editor: Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Aubane Historical Society Published: 2007 ISBN: 9 781903 497326 Contents: Readers of our literature will be aware of our efforts to counter the revisionist writing and commentary on our history. The event dealt with here is a rather classic example of how these issues are dealt with these days by our media and academic historians. But more importantly it is an example of how this type of issue should be dealt with and all the facts of the case established. A book appears about an incident that involved the killing of two Protestant family members during the War of Independence. The IRA executed them. That was sufficient to set off a typical harangue by Eoghan Harris (Sunday Independent, October 2nd.) as if that was all there was to the event and the usual invective followed about alleged sectarianism of the IRA. Then, our old friend, Roy Foster (BA., MA., Ph.D., D.Litt (Hons), Hons.Litt.D., FRSL., FRHistS., FBA. Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford University) weighed in with a declaration in the Dublin Review about "…the murder of the Pearson brothers in Kinnitty Co. Offaly in June 1921 and the burning of their house—the subject of a recent local study." (Dublin Review, Autumn 2006). This debate examines that 'local study' in some detail. Messrs. Harris and Foster could not have been more wrong and Pat Muldowney set out to prove it and did so comprehensively and conclusively on the Indymedia website. Messrs. Harris and Foster did not engage in the debate and it was left to some anonymous Smart Alecs to try to make their case for them. They failed abysmally. We thought it all worth recording. Extracts: No extracts available at this time. Errata: No errata at this time. Price: �6.00 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: The Poems of Geoffrey O'Donoghue Subtitle: with Ireland's War Poets 1641-1653 by John Minahane Author: O'Donoghue, Geoffrey Editor: Minahane, John Category: Gaelic Collection Publisher: Aubane Historical Society Published: 2008 ISBN: 978-1-903-497-49-4 Contents: Séafraidh Ó Donnachadha an Ghleanna, or Geoffrey O'Donoghue of Glenflesk, wa a lively, witty and robust poet of 17th. century Kerry. This is the first collection of his work since Patrick Dinneen's pioneering edition of 1902. The Irish text is accompanied by an English translation, which tries to point to the poetry in the original (Introduction). Included also are poems doubtfully attributed to Geoffrey but interesting in their own right, and some poems relating to the Cromwellian War in which he fought. In Ireland's War Poets 1641-1653 John Minahane ranges through the rich and striking poetry which was part of the great conflict. Among the poets featured are Pádraigin Haicéad, Piaras Feirtéar, Toirdhealbhach Ó Conchobhair, Seán Ó Criagáin and the enigmatic Diarmaid Óg Ó Murchadha, whose three poems are among the book's highlights. This literature has been shamefully neglected by professional scholars, and much of it is published here, in whole or in part, for the first time. Published with an essay on Ireland's War Poets 1641-1653 by John Minahane. Translation by John Minahane. Extracts: No online extracts at this time. Errata: No online erratta at this time. Price: �20.00 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£20.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£26.60 GBP View Cart:

Name: The Rescue of Princess Clementina (Stuart) Subtitle: A 1719 Adventure of the Irish Brigades Author: Wogan, Sir Charles Editor: Winch, Cathy Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Belfast Historical & Educational Society Published: 2008 ISBN: 978-1-872078-12-0 Contents: Charles Wogan (1685?-1754) was a member of an important Catholic family in Rathcoffey near Dublin, who spent most of his life in exile in France and Spain. A deeply sympathetic character, twice in his life he had occasion to defeat measures taken by George the First, King of England. First he led an escape from Newgate gaol where he was awaiting trial for treason for his part in the rising of 1715; three years later he arranged the escape of a princess arrested on the orders of King George. The princess was Clementina Sobieski, the grand-daughter of the Polish King who won the battle of Vienna against the Turks in 1683. She was engaged to be married to James Francis Edward, son of James II, the Stuart King who was driven from the British throne in 1688 and replaced by William of Orange, later followed by the Hanoverians. Imprisoning the last Stuart claimant's fiancée, King George did not count on Wogan who, with the help of three of his relations, officers in the Irish brigade of Dillon based in France, scooped the princess from her prison; and they galloped over the Alps in their carriage in winter to safety. Clementina and James were married soon after and their first child was to be Bonnie Prince Charlie. Writing to Jonathan Swift in 1732, Wogan comments on history written to adorn a country with glorious tales, and on the need for an Irish history that would fulfill that purpose. His writing of the Clementina story was a step in that direction. Letters which Chevalier Wogan exchanged with Swift are reproduced in an annex to the book. Wogan's story appears here both in the original French and in translation, together with an introduction by Cathy Winch. Extracts: There is no extra online material at present. Errata: There is no online errata at present. Price: �15.00 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£15.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£20.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: The Revision Of European History Subtitle: Author: Fennell, Desmond Editor: Category: General Publisher: Athol Books Published: 2003 ISBN: 0 85034 104 3 Contents: In this conversational book Desmond Fennell provides three things in one: * a critique of the standard History of Europe as found in textbooks and works of reference, on the grounds that it is distorted by 'imprecise designation' and 'victors' history—and does not make sense for Europeans in the twenty-first century; * a manual which enables readers of the 'standard history', wherever encountered, to note the main distortions and make appropriate mental corrections; * an outlined 'new history of Europe' which would be 'true and clear' and make sense for Europeans living in the twenty-first century (see page 79). Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: Page 18, start of page, insert 'neglect of Plato. 3 Apart from'. Price: �10.00 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: The Rise And Fall Of Imperial Ireland Subtitle: Redmondism in the context of Britain's Conquest of South Africa and its Great War on Germany, 1899-1916 Author: Walsh, Pat Editor: Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Athol Books Published: 2003 ISBN: 0 85034 105 1 Contents: Why did Ireland fail to become a partner to Britain in its Empire—like Canada, Australia or conquered South Africa and instead embrace an anti-Imperialist point of view? At the close of the 19th century, nationalist Ireland was anti-Imperialist. Pat Walsh shows how it was utterly united against Britain's conquest of South Africa. But, after that, in the face of die-hard opposition to even the mildest expression of Home Rule, John Redmond—the compromise leader of a party re-united after the damaging Parnell split—metamorphosed into a loyal servant of the Crown: he would win Home Rule by showing that Ireland would be an asset to an expanding Empire. After the Parnell split, Redmond had been the most anti-British of the Parliamentarians. But that was to change. He won the Irish Party to an exclusive relationship with the British Liberal Party, and, as that Party espoused active Imperialism, so did he—with political nationalism in tow. After the Boers had been defeated, the Liberal Party had, by granting them self rule, won them over to be allies in expanding the Empire in Africa. Redmond saw in this master-stroke the template for the political future of Ireland. Home Rule would be the prelude to the new Imperial Ireland, Britain's junior partner. In 1912 the separatist minority in Ireland was so small as to be irrelevant. That was to change after Ulster Unionists and the British Unionist Party brought the gun into British and Irish politics. Ironically, it was political developments in Britain which conspired to kill off the nascent Irish Imperial development. In 1914—with Home Rule on the Statute Book and the Irish Party vigorously recruiting for Britain?s war on Germany and Turkey—Imperial Ireland looked to be a dead cert. At Easter 1915 the big Volunteer military review in support of the Empire at war was Redmondite. A year later Imperial Ireland was shattered. Dr. Walsh, using many contemporary sources, shows exactly what happened, and why, in this most readable of histories. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: �33.00 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£33.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£44.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: The Road to Independence: Howth, Sutton and Baldoyle Play Their Part Subtitle: A microcosm of Irish history 1900-1924 Author: O'Connor, Philip Editor: Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Howth Free Press Published: 2016 ISBN: Contents: This book tells the dramatic story of the Independence movement in Howth, Sutton and Baldoyle, from the pre-World War Irish Party, Land League, GAA and Gaelic League, to local involvement in the “Great War” that revolutionised Ireland, in the Easter Rising, the Citizen Army, Cumann na mBan and the Irish Volunteers (IRA), and in the great democratic movement for Independence from 1918 to 1922. It also tells the story of the Howth Unionist community, which was as varied in its composition as it was in its reactions to these events, as well as the dramatic impact on the area of the Civil War that followed the 1921 Treaty. Extracts: There are no extracts at this time. Errata: There are no errata at this time. Price: �0.00 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 Britain 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: View Cart:

Name: The Road to Independence: Howth, Sutton and Baldoyle Play Their Part Subtitle: A microcosm of Irish history 1900-1924 Author: O'Connor, Philip Editor: Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Howth Free Press Published: 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9553163-3-3 Contents: This book tells the dramatic story of the Independence movement in Howth, Sutton and Baldoyle, from the pre-World War Irish Party, Land League, GAA and Gaelic League, to local involvement in the “Great War” that revolutionised Ireland, in the Easter Rising, the Citizen Army, Cumann na mBan and the Irish Volunteers (IRA), and in the great democratic movement for Independence from 1918 to 1922. It also tells the story of the Howth Unionist community, which was as varied in its composition as it was in its reactions to these events, as well as the dramatic impact on the area of the Civil War that followed the 1921 Treaty. Extracts: There are no extracts at this time. Errata: There are no errata at this time. 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 Britain 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 £15.00 GBP Airmail To the Rest of the World £20.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: The Shakespeare Conspiracies Subtitle: Untangling A 400-Year Web Of Myth And Deceit Author: McClinton, Brian Editor: Category: General Publisher: Aubane Historical Society Published: 2007 ISBN: 978 1 903497 36 4 Contents: To question the identity of the universal cultural icon known as Shakespeare might be seen as placing the sceptic in the loonier department of the conspiracy market. Yet this very challenge is now refreshingly renewed for a new generation of readers by Brian McClinton. Many in the past have doubted the orthodox claimant. Included among the doubters are Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Henry James and Enoch Powell. In this brilliant synthesis, with its illuminating study of one of the richest periods in human culture, Brian McClinton provides incontrovertible evidence that nothing in the life of the Stratford man is commensurate with the incomporable learning, determined literacy and philosophical and educational purpose of the plays. The depth of the author's research and the clarity of his prose point inexorably to one man as the mastermind behind the greatest literature ever penned. Harold Bloom suggests that Shakespeare 'invented the human'. He certainly helped to extend our understanding of human consciousness and defined with greater clarity than any previous writer what it is to live as a human being in the world. Read this book and you will see that this was not an incidental effect but indeed the central purpose of the Shakespearean canon, namely the education of humanity through a myth. Read also to discover why only one man had the genius, knowledge, skill and unparalleled understanding to carry through this task—a man, as Ben Jonson said allegedly of another, who was 'not of an age but for all time.' Extracts: No extracts available at this time. Errata: No ettata available at this time. Price: �30.00 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£30.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£40.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: The so-called 'Treaty' and the so-called 'Civil War' Subtitle: Author: Lane, Jack Editor: Category: Publisher: Aubane Historical Society Published: 2019 ISBN: 978-1-903497890 Contents: Very soon we will have commemorations of the ‘Treaty,’ so-called, a document that was signed on 6 December 1921 and the ‘Civil War,’ so-called, that was launched in June 1922. This pamphlet establishes that there was no Treaty signed and the war that was launched in 1922 was one of Republicans against Republicans and it could not therefore have been a civil war if words have any meaning. A civil war in these circumstances is oxymoronic. It was a war over what was signed in London in defiance of what the Cabinet had unanimously agreed three days earlier. What was signed was ‘Articles of Agreement for a Treaty’ but the Treaty referred never came into existence. How and why this happened is examined here. If a Treaty had been signed between the existing Irish Republic and the British Government there would not have been any war between Republicans as any Treaty worthy of the name is made freely between independent states. But the ‘Articles of Agreement,’ under the threat of ‘immediate and terrible war,’ entailed the abolition of the Dáil and the Irish Republic that had been voted and fought for. This is what made the so-called civil war inevitable. Extracts: There are no extracts at this time. Errata: There are no errata at this time. Price: �3.00 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 Britain 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 £3.00 GBP Airmail To the Rest of the World £4.50 GBP View Cart:

Name: The Starvation Blockade On Germany In The Great War Subtitle: A Summary by Angela Clifford Author: Clifford, Angela Editor: Category: Publisher: Belfast Historical & Educational Society Published: 2022 ISBN: 978-1-872078-37-3 Contents: A Summary by Angela Clifford of Two Definitive Works by Eamon Dyas, Blockading The Germans and Starving The Germans Extracts: Errata: Price: �5.50 Postage Option: Free to UK and Ireland Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage to the UK and Ireland £5.50 GBP Airmail To the Rest of the World £10.00 GBP View Cart:

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