Really getting into Irish history. Does anyone have any non-fiction Irish history books to recommend? Anything from the mesolithic period right up to the Troubles.
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe!!!
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Listen to the Land Speak by Manchán Magan is a great book about Irish myth as seen through the Irish landscape.
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*Ireland, colonialism, and the unfinished revolution* by McVeigh and Rolston
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For a really comprehensive option there is a series published by Gill books which cover various centuries, eg 16th Century History of Ireland by Colm Lennon, 17th Century by Raymond Gillespie etc, etc.
Death in Irish Prehistory – Gabriel Cooney
Woodstown, A Viking age settlement in Co Waterford – ed Russell, Hurley, Eoghan.
Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf – Sean Duffy
The Nine Years War 1593-1603 – James O’Neill
Eleanor Countess of Desmond – Anne Chambers
Grace O’Malley Ireland’s Pirate Queen – Anne Chambers
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe!!!
Listen to the Land Speak by Manchán Magan is a great book about Irish myth as seen through the Irish landscape.
*Ireland, colonialism, and the unfinished revolution* by McVeigh and Rolston
For a really comprehensive option there is a series published by Gill books which cover various centuries, eg 16th Century History of Ireland by Colm Lennon, 17th Century by Raymond Gillespie etc, etc.
Death in Irish Prehistory – Gabriel Cooney
Woodstown, A Viking age settlement in Co Waterford – ed Russell, Hurley, Eoghan.
Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf – Sean Duffy
The Nine Years War 1593-1603 – James O’Neill
Eleanor Countess of Desmond – Anne Chambers
Grace O’Malley Ireland’s Pirate Queen – Anne Chambers