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Irish History

A selection of books on Irish history.
A black cover with a map of Ireland in the centre, filled in with different words in white, red and grey. The title is across the top in red letters.

A Dictionary of Hiberno-English
A dark painting of flowers in dull yellow, red and green. In the centre, imposed over the picture is the title in white letters.

A Ghost in the Throat
A photo of a lake on a cloudy day. In the centre of the lake is a small island covered in green trees. The title is across the top in large, thin, red capital letters. Around the edges of the cover are grey silhouettes of branches.

Arise and Go
A green background with white illustrators around the edges of Irish things such as sheep, Irish dancers, and St. Patrick. The title is in the middle with ‘Irish’ in big, yellow letters in the centre.

Be an Irish Explorer
Belonging

Belonging
Beyond The Tape

Beyond The Tape
A bright coral cover with the title in yellow painted letters in the centre, and sub title in smaller white letters underneath. In the top right corner peeking down is a face from the nose up with white planets around it.

Blazing A Trail: Irish Women Who Changed the World
A green background with a pattern in harps. A flat illustration of a king in a cloak, holding a staff stands in the centre. The title is in large white, capital letters in the centre.

Brian Boru: The Warrior King
A photo of a white bridge that resembles a harp on its side, with a clear blue sky in the background. The title and sub-title are in the top right in yellow and white letters.

Bridges of Dublin
A line drawing of O’Connell St in Dublin. It is half hand coloured, with some buildings still white. The title is at the top in yellow and orange against a blue sky.

Colour Dublin
Coming Home: Art and The Great Hunger

Coming Home: Art and The Great Hunger
An orange background with a pattern of ‘Votes for Women’ leaflets. A flat illustration of a woman in a green military uniform stands in the centre. The title is in large white, capital letters in the centre.

Constance Markievicz: The Rebel Countess
Craic Baby

Craic Baby
A green cover with the title in yellow painted letters in the centre. In the top right corner peeking down is a man from the neck up, smoking a pipe and wearing a knit hat. In the bottom left corner is a woman from the neck up wearing a straw hat, with some butterflies.

Dare to Dream
A close up of an intricately detailed stained glass piece. A saint with a blue halo, crown and red clothes looks towards the viewer. The title is at the bottom in stylised white letters.

Dark Beauty
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?
A bar down the left shows a Celtic style illustration of a bird with an intricate background. The wing from the bird overlaps onto the plain cream of the rest of the cover. The title is below this wing in thin, green capital letters.

Divine Illumination: The Oratory of the Sacred Heart, Dún Laoghaire
A black background with a large, multi-panel blue toned stain glass window on the left. The title is on the right in thin, white letters.

Exiled From Ireland - Harry Clarke's Geneva Window
A white cover with a close up of half of the face of a life-like statue on the left. The title is in the centre right in black letters.

Expressions of Nationhood in Bronze & Stone: Albert G. Power, RHA
Gazetteer Of Irish Stained Glass

Gazetteer Of Irish Stained Glass
A drawn portrait of an old man with a beard, George Bernard Shaw, from the shoulders up. The title in the bottom right corner is white letters.

George Bernard Shaw: A Biography
A blue background with a pattern of old sailing ships. A flat illustration of a woman with red hair dressed as a pirate, a sword on her waist, is in the centre. The title is in large white, capital letters in the centre.

Granuaile The Pirate Queen
A close up painting of an older man’s face, Seamus Heaney. There are visible brush strokes. The title is across the bottom in white capital letters.

Great Irish Lives
The white cover is split in two. In the top half is an intricately detailed illustration in jewel tones of people draped in sheer, flowing cloth. In the bottom half is the title in gold capital letters.

Harry Clarke and Artistic Visions of the New Irish State