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Coal in Wales
Images of the Miners’ Strike: before, during and after
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781800995031
Pub Date: 2024-05-03
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
128 Pages
Back in the early 1980s, young freelance press photographer Richard Williams began documenting the decline of the south Wales coal industry. He was there with his cameras as the coal workers walked...
Gallant Little Wales
The Welsh Hospital for South Africa
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9781800993969
Pub Date: 2023-09-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
160 Pages
The hitherto untold story of a civilian tented hospital, raised by public subscription in Wales.
An Uprooted Community
A history of Epynt
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9781800994027
Pub Date: 2023-09-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
120 Pages
During the Second World War, 54 families were evicted to turn Epynt into a military firing range. The tragedy of the destruction of this Welsh-language community is little known today. This volume records some of the more important chapters in the history of the mountain and its people and, in particular, the events of 1939 and 1940.
In Our Day
An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days
Price: $31.00
ISBN: 9780717195596
Pub Date: 2022-11-29
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Gill Books
272 Pages
For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the streets of Dublin recording the city’s vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape recorder, the ordinary people he encountered shared private stories of hardship, joy, sorrow, suffering, survival and triumph. This book is the culmination of a life’s work.
Midnight in London
The Anglo-Irish Treaty Crisis 1921
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9781913934194
Pub Date: 2022-05-12
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wordwell Books
128 Pages
On the dramatic night of 5-6 December 1921, Irish Delegates at Downing Street signed an agreement for a treaty to end the War of Independence and to create a new Irish state.
The Split
From Treaty to Civil War, 1921-23
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 9781913934644
Pub Date: 2022-04-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wordwell Books
100 Pages
This book introduces ground-breaking articles on women and the Treaty, the role of Eamon de Valera, the establishment of the Gardaí, the dead of the Civil War, the global reaction to Ireland’s independence, and the violence inside the new Northern Ireland state and along the border.
A Coward if I Return, A Hero if I Fall
Stories of Irishmen in World War I
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781788491730
Pub Date: 2020-07-25
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
368 Pages
IRELAND’S FORGOTTEN LEGACY In 1914-1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. An award-winning collection of veterans’ stories as told by the families, with military records, surviving documents and letters.
Irish Country Life
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9781788491846
Pub Date: 2020-05-09
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
160 Pages
Discover a time when people were much more tuned into the rhythm of the year and the ground beneath their feet, when they made much of their own furniture and clothes, and fed themselves from their own land. An exploration of Irish rural life before electricity and industry changed everything.
Coal in Wales
Images of the Miners’ Strike: before, during and after
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781800995031
Pub Date: 2024-05-03
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
128 Pages
Gallant Little Wales
The Welsh Hospital for South Africa
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9781800993969
Pub Date: 2023-09-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
160 Pages
An Uprooted Community
A history of Epynt
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9781800994027
Pub Date: 2023-09-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Y Lolfa
120 Pages
In Our Day
An Oral History of Dublin's Bygone Days
Price: $31.00
ISBN: 9780717195596
Pub Date: 2022-11-29
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Gill Books
272 Pages
Midnight in London
The Anglo-Irish Treaty Crisis 1921
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9781913934194
Pub Date: 2022-05-12
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wordwell Books
128 Pages
The Split
From Treaty to Civil War, 1921-23
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 9781913934644
Pub Date: 2022-04-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wordwell Books
100 Pages
A Coward if I Return, A Hero if I Fall
Stories of Irishmen in World War I
Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781788491730
Pub Date: 2020-07-25
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
368 Pages
Irish Country Life
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9781788491846
Pub Date: 2020-05-09
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
160 Pages