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29 produkter
We Don't Know Ourselves
A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
Häftad, 2022
165 kr
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The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Tóibín, Guardian 'With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel' Irish Times 'Evocative, moving, funny and …
For and against a united Ireland
Av Fintan O'Toole, Sam McBride
Häftad, 2025
274 kr
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The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a referendum question would mean - for themselves, for their neighbours, and for their …
Ship of Fools
How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
E-bok, 2009
118 kr
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Between 1995 and 2007, the Republic of Ireland was the worldwide model of successful adaptation to economic globalisation. The success story was phenomenal: a doubling of the workforce; a massive growth in exports; a GDP that was substantially above the EU average. Ireland became the world's …
Up the Republic!
Towards a New Ireland
Häftad, 2013
113 kr
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In this important book, historians, lawyers, economists and writers come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish economic collapse has resulted in national humiliation, renewed emigration and a decline in living standards for the majority of the population, there is still hope that …
For and Against a United Ireland
Av Sam McBride, Fintan O'Toole
Häftad, 2026
401 kr
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In For and Against a United Ireland, renowned journalists Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride provide an accessible and measured approach to the polarized debate about Irish unification.The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of …
For and Against a United Ireland
Av Sam McBride, Fintan O'Toole
Inbunden, 2026
1523 kr
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In For and Against a United Ireland, renowned journalists Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride provide an accessible and measured approach to the polarized debate about Irish unification.The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of …
Ship of Fools
How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
Häftad, 2010
149 kr
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For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in the heat of the global financial meltdown. For …
Enough is Enough
How to Build a New Republic
Häftad, 2011
110 kr
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The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by American and European companies, and a welcoming tax regime, created the 'Celtic Tiger' of the 1990s. That brief burst of good fortune was destroyed …
Enough is Enough
How to Build a New Republic
E-bok, 2010
118 kr
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The Republic of Ireland, which declared itself in 1949, allowed the Catholic Church to dominate its civil society and education system. Investment by American and European companies, and a welcoming tax regime, created the 'Celtic Tiger' of the 1990s. That brief burst of good fortune was destroyed …
Up the Republic!
Towards a New Ireland
E-bok, 2012
100 kr
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In this important book, historians, lawyers, economists and writers come together to put a coherent case: that although the Irish economic collapse has resulted in national humiliation, renewed emigration and a decline in living standards for the majority of the population, there is still hope that …
White Savage
William Johnson and the Invention of America
E-bok, 2015
137 kr
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A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands.William Johnson began life as a poor Irish Catholic peasant. After converting to Protestantism, he emigrated to America where he became the leading fur trader in the …
Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising
Av Shane Hegarty, Fintan O'Toole
Häftad, 2008
247 kr
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This heavily illustrated book focuses on the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, rather than the background and the consequences. In a widely expanded version of the supplement that appeared in The Irish Times in March to commemorate the 90th Anniversary, The 1916 Rising recreates the …
Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life
Häftad, 2025
139 kr
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The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays?In this witty, iconoclastic book, the bestselling …
Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life
E-bok, 2024
141 kr
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The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays? In this witty, iconoclastic book, the bestselling …
White Savage
William Johnson and the Invention of America
Häftad, 2009
274 kr
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Brings a strikingly original perspective to Johnson's life, and suggests new ways of thinking about Johnson's part in creating a nation he did not live to see.William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Roman Catholic family to become a Protestant in the …
Minds at War
How great artists and their work were shaped by the First World War
Av Sara LeFanu, David Edgerton m. fl.
Ljudbok, 2022
159 kr
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The complete BBC Radio 3 series exploring how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarship World War I saw an unprecedented loss of life in Western Europe, and destruction on a scale no one alive had ever seen. All those who experienced it were …
Ship of Fools
How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger
Inbunden, 2010
332 kr
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The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The"Irish Economic miracle” was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until the 1980s …
We Don't Know Ourselves
A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
E-bok, 2021
169 kr
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The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards ''A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece'' Marian Keyes ''Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent'' Colm Tóibín, Guardian ''With the pace and twists of an enthralling novel'' Irish Times ''Evocative, moving, funny …
Heroic Failure
Brexit and the Politics of Pain
Häftad, 2019
121 kr
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'A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant' JONATHAN COE. 'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit …
Heroic Failure
Brexit and the Politics of Pain
E-bok, 2018
123 kr
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''A wildly entertaining but uncomfortable read... Pitilessly brilliant'' JONATHAN COE. ''There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style'' The Times . A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. ''A quite brilliant dissection of the cultural roots of the Brexit …
Three Years in Hell
The Brexit Chronicles
Häftad, 2021
121 kr
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Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure. In 2011 Queen Elizabeth made her first ever state visit to the Irish Republic. It was a great, moving occasion. In settling once and for all its relationship with Ireland, Britain was also settling its …
Three Years in Hell
The Brexit Chronicles
E-bok, 2020
123 kr
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Three years in the troubled British Isles from the bestselling author of Heroic Failure . In 2011 Queen Elizabeth made her first ever state visit to the Irish Republic. It was a great, moving occasion. In settling once and for all its relationship with Ireland, Britain was also settling its …
Lie of the Land
Irish Identities
Häftad, 1998
374 kr
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The Lie of the Land is a highly engaging study of Ireland's fractured and shifting identities by one of its most talented writers. From its sometimes confused sense of place, caught somewhere between Europe and America, Ireland has redefined itself in the 1990s. Fintan O'Toole highlights the …
Critical Moments
Fintan O'Toole on Modern Irish Theatre
Av Fintan O'Toole, Julia Furay m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
343 kr
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History of Ireland in 100 Objects
Inbunden, 2013
448 kr
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This book takes 100 objects and explores their significance in shaping Ireland. Photographs are accompanied by a concise and insightful story that shows the social, political and artistic vitality of each object. Beginning with Mesolithic Ireland and ending in 2005, ornamental treasures such as the …
Un fracaso heroico
El BREXIT y la política del dolor
E-bok, 2020
102 kr
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Al explorar las respuestas a la pregunta: "¿Por qué Gran Bretaña votó irse?", O''Toole se encuentra descubriendo cómo mentiras periodísticas triviales se convirtieron en obsesiones nacionales nada triviales; cómo la indiferencia hacia la verdad y el hecho histórico han definido el estilo de toda …
Shakespeare is Hard, but so is Life
Inbunden, 2024
184 kr
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The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays?In this witty, iconoclastic book, the bestselling …
