Product Description: Seventeen ninety-eight saw French and American revolutionary ideals converge with popular rebellion in Ireland. The rebellion ended in bloody failure, but 1798 was kept alive in folk memory by a nascent literature added to by succeeding generations of nationalists and cultural revivalists...read more

Product Description: This epic historical novel is loosely based on the life of Richard 'Boss' Croker, an Irish-born American politician who succeeded William Tweed as boss of the Democratic political machine, Tammany Hall, from 1886 to 1902. ...The author brings this era to life extremely well, describing an extraordinary man against the backdrop of an extremely colorful time...read more

Product Description: This is the story of the author who so enraged his Westmeath rural Irish neighbors with his novel, The Valley of the Squinting Windows, that the book was publicly burned, its author humiliated, and his father, a local schoolteacher, driven into exile...read more

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Product Description: A fascinating collection of Irish proverbs and sayings. Padraic O'Farrell has gathered a rich harvest of wise sayings from the Irish countryside, the lips of great men, and the unspoilt fount of Irish folklore and legend. Whenever Irish people congregate, however long removed from a rural environment, gems of wisdom are to be heard in their conversation...read more

Product Description: Do you know why it is considered unlucky to: meet a barefooted man? start a journey on the tenth of November? get married on a Saturday? Irish country people believed that fairies were always present among them and that around the next corner or in the very next clump of thistles there might well be somebody lurking who would lead them to the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow...read more

Product Description: An entertaining history of seven scandalous events that made news headlines in Ireland between 1918 and 1961. They are: the deportation of Leitrim man James Gralton, The Rose Tattoo affair at the Pike Theatre, the 'Battle' of Baltinglass Post Office, the Shanahan's Stamp Auctions and the Paul Singer affair, the Locke's Distillery case, and the furors over two books, The Valley of the Squinting Windows and The Tailor & Ansty...read more

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