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Cupar
The History of a Small Scottish Town
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781912476732
Pub Date: 2024-11-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
288 Pages
Cupar was created a royal burgh in 1328, though its name is Pictish, suggesting that there had been an important settlement there since the 7th or 8th century if not earlier. Until the 16th century...
Hebridean Island
Memories of Scarp
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781912476695
Pub Date: 2024-07-02
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
240 Pages
The island of Scarp lies off the west coast of North Harris in the Outer Hebrides and was populated for more than 400 years until 1971, when the last of the native population left. This magnificent...
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.
Interned
The Curragh Internment Camps in the War of Independence
Price: $22.50
ISBN: 9781781175880
Pub Date: 2019-09-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mercier Press
320 Pages
During the War of Independence, faced with an insurrection, the British introduced increasingly harsh penalties for suspected republicans, including internment without trial. This led to the incarceration of thousands in camps around the country and this unique book contains a list of names of some 1,500 internees in the Curragh camps alone.
The History of St. Kilda
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 9781912476473
Pub Date: 2019-07-23
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
160 Pages
As one of the most remote corners of the British Isles, the island archipelago of St Kilda has long held a fascination for travellers from mainland Britain and beyond. The unique way of life and customs...
The Drove Roads of Scotland
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 9781912476534
Pub Date: 2019-07-23
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
288 Pages
One of the great classics of Scottish history, The Drove Roads of Scotland interweaves folklore, social comment and economic history in a fascinating account of Scotland’s droving trade and the routes by which cattle and sheep were brought from every corner of the land to markets in central Scotland.
A Natural History of St. Kilda
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781912476497
Pub Date: 2019-07-23
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
368 Pages
In 1697 Martin Martin, a Gaelic-speaking scholar from Skye, travelled to St Kilda to study the island’s flora and fauna and to learn about the now extinct great auk. Much of the information that he...
Skye
The Island and Its Legends
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 9781912476336
Pub Date: 2018-11-27
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
272 Pages
Features tales of monsters who dwell in lakes, of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still; of dark, shape- shifting spirits whose cloak of human form is betrayed by the sand and shells which fall from their hair. This work takes us far beyond Christian times to the edge of the Iron Age.
Cupar
The History of a Small Scottish Town
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9781912476732
Pub Date: 2024-11-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
288 Pages
Hebridean Island
Memories of Scarp
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781912476695
Pub Date: 2024-07-02
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
240 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
Interned
The Curragh Internment Camps in the War of Independence
Price: $22.50
ISBN: 9781781175880
Pub Date: 2019-09-05
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Mercier Press
320 Pages
The History of St. Kilda
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 9781912476473
Pub Date: 2019-07-23
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
160 Pages
The Drove Roads of Scotland
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 9781912476534
Pub Date: 2019-07-23
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
288 Pages
A Natural History of St. Kilda
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781912476497
Pub Date: 2019-07-23
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
368 Pages
Skye
The Island and Its Legends
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 9781912476336
Pub Date: 2018-11-27
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Origin
272 Pages