Name: Muriel MacSwiney Subtitle: Letters To Angela Clifford Author: Clifford, Angela Editor: Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Athol Books Published: 1996 ISBN: 0 85034 00 76 Contents: This book is about Muriel McSwiney—not Mary. The wife—not the sister?of the Republican Martyr who died after two-and-a-half months on Hunger Strike in 1920. Terence knew he had a revolutionary destiny to fulfil and was not going to marry—that is, until he met Muriel Frances Murphy, a beautiful Cork heiress who was ardently concerned about social injustice and who believed Irish freedom would bring social justice along with independence. Muriel gave her husband a brief measure of personal happiness during their three years together, as well as doing what she could to further the national cause. When the time of the grim test came, though she had been in poor health, she was the perfect helpmate, sitting quietly by his bedside daily, attending at the offices of the Self-Determination League to give bulletins on his health, smiling for reporters, keeping calm throughout. She did not physically collapse till right at the end. Muriel went on to live for another sixty years after that fateful episode. This book attempts to trace her subsequent life: her work against the Treaty, espousal of Jim Larkin's Communist Party and the Continental revolutionary movement, and political committment to the oppressed the world over. Muriel's politics after 1923 were not to the satisfaction of Catholic-nationalist Ireland. There was one child of the marriage, Máire. She was kidnapped from Germany by Mary MacSwiney, and brought to Ireland, where the deed was ratified by the courts. This severe blow nearly killed Muriel, but she pulled through and went on working for the causes she believed in. The last of these was the housing agitation led by Dennis Dennehy, whose Hunger Strike caught her attention, coinciding as it did with the 50th anniversary celebrations of the sitting of the First Dail in early 1969. It was that social agitation which occasioned the unique feature of this book, the letters written by Muriel to Angela Clifford in the following few years. These letters fill out Muriel's public profile, and reveal her as a progressive well ahead of her time. Ireland is now catching up on her world-view. Perhaps this book will help to get her the acknowledgement she deserves, and give her her rightful place in the inclusive Ireland which is the current aspiration. 168 pp. Bibliography. Index. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £12.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£12.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£16.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: Myths From Easter 1916 Subtitle: Author: Neeson, Eoin Editor: Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Aubane Historical Society Published: 2007 ISBN: 978 1 903497 34 0 Contents: Eoin Neeson is the author of 23 books and 14 plays. Much of his historic writing has been devoted to subjects ignored or neglected before his own work appeared—The Civil War in Ireland; A History of Irish Forestry; Birth of the Republic; the Epic of the Tain—to name but four of his ground-breaking works. In Myths from Easter 1916 he again breaks new ground, examining and disposing of myths that have grown and ripened with the years and also suggesting answers to the questions:— i. Why did the Civil War occur? ii What might have happened had Michael Collins not been killed? It is a book that no one interested in the course of formative Irish history can afford to miss. Neeson was born and reared in Cork. Of his books, five, including this one, are on history. Much of his other work is devoted to Mythology, his most recent, An Tain, the Imperishable Celtic Epic, being the first narrative version of the entire epic in modern language. His historical novels under the pseudonym Donal O'Neill led to his being dubbed "the Walter Scott of Ireland". He now lives in Dublin and lectures at home and abroad. Extracts: No extracts available at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £15.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£15.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£20.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: Narrative History Of Ireland (Stair-Sheanchas Éireann) Subtitle: Author: Ó Siochfhradha, Mícheál Editor: Category: Gaelic Collection Publisher: Aubane Historical Society Published: 2005 ISBN: 1 903497 21 3 Contents: Seo stair na hÉireann, ón tsean-aimsir go dtí an lá inniu, curtha in eagar ag Mícheál Ó Siochfhradha ó Chorcha Dhuibhne. Tá aistí eile sonnracha sa leabhar seo, mar atá, fianaise Phádraig Uí Shiochfhradha ("An Seabhac") i dtaobh Sheachtain na Cásca 1916, agus cur síos ar an tslí ar chuaigh cúrsaí domhanda i bhfeidhm ar stair na hÉireann sa fichiú aois. Má tá ré an aithbhreithiúnachais i stair scríobhtha na hÉireann ag teacht chun deiridh,is mithid breathnú siar arís ar an nós inar chuir stairithe na hÉireann an scéal ársa sin in iúl don tsaol. This is a narrative history of Ireland from prehistoric times until the present day. It gives a lucid, concise account of all the major events over two millenia. It is the perfect introduction to the course of Irish history and it was a standard school textbook for many years at Secondary level. It was originally published in Irish only by the Educational Company of Ireland. This is a bilingual edition. As in previous publications we have retained the original Gaelic script. Therefore, the book is both a study of history and a means of studying some Gaelic as well as an opportunity to appreciate a modern example of the unique Gaelic script. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £21.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£21.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£28.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: Ned Buckley's Poems Subtitle: Author: Buckley, Ned Editor: Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Aubane Historical Society Published: ISBN: Contents: 112 pp. Paperback. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £12.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£12.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£16.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: Northern Ireland And The Algerian Analogy Subtitle: A Suitable Case For Gaullism? Author: Roberts, Hugh Editor: Category: Northern Ireland Collection Publisher: Athol Books Published: 1986 ISBN: 0 85034 031 4 Contents: The assumption that the Ulster Protestants are a privileged and reactionary colonial caste, comparable with the Europeans in Algeria, is widespread within the English liberal and left intelligentsia, and has exercised an influence on Government policy towards the province since 1968. An analogy between the Unions and the "colons" in Algeria is frequently alluded to, if rarely argued explicitly. In this book, Hugh Roberts, who has devoted the last 13 years to a specialist study of Algeria, subjects these assumptions to detailed scrutiny and devastating criticism. The idea that the British Government has only to take on the Unionists as De Gaulle took on the "colons" was central to the strategic conception underlying the Anglo-Irish Agreement. Hugh Roberts shows that this idea rests on a basic historical ignorance of both Algeria and Ireland, even when it is expounded by such an eminent academic as R. W. Johnson, and that the political strategy derived from it is a practical impossibility. At a time when that bungled piece of colonialist engineering, the Hillsborough Agreement, is visibly collapsing, Hugh Roberts' analysis provides an indispensable key to the Northern Ireland problem, and a long overdue refutation of the tacitly racist stereotype of the Ulster Protestants which is current in the English press and Universities. 72 pp. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £8.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£8.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£10.50 GBP View Cart:

Name: Northern Ireland: What Is It? Subtitle: Professor Mansergh Changes His Mind Author: Clifford, Brendan Editor: Category: Irish Politics Publisher: Athol Books Published: 2011 ISBN: 1 8740157 26 7 Contents: This book is called Northern Ireland: What Is It? It might also have been called, Northern Ireland: What Is It For? After all, there must have been good reason to establish such a perverse system of government in a society so divided. Or perhaps The State Of Northern Ireland would have been to the point. The ambiguity of that title also goes to the heart of what this book is about: the governing arrangement established by Britain and the trouble it has caused. The 1920 Government of Ireland Act described itself as providing for the "good government" of an area broken off from Ireland—but the forms it set up made bad government inevitable. In a sense "Northern Ireland" was a time-bomb planted by stealth with the detonation coming some fifty years later. But why was this done? What was "Northern Ireland" for? That is a question which has never been considered. This book considers what was established in Northern Ireland and why. The why is important. It had—and continues to have—to do with the handling of the bit of Ireland which broke the Imperial State: an Ireland which had to cope with seeing a national minority misgoverned across the Border. Professor Nicholas Mansergh was a historian, constitutional expert, and part of the inner ruling class of Britain. He wrote a book on Northern Ireland in 1936 which correctly described the constitutional form while misconceiving its politics. In 1983 he altered his opinion of "Northern Ireland" and endorsed an academic description of it as an Irish 'state', setting a trend picked up by a medley of other academics. This book takes a look at those writings and takes issue with their approach, which fitted in with the new Oxbridge project of "Re-Writing Irish History". History-writing has become a political project. If war is a continuation of politics by other means, it might be said that politics is a continuation of war by other means. Britain may have lost in 1922, but the war is not over yet. "Northern Ireland" is clearly continuing to serve the purpose for which it was set up. A Belfast Magazine, No. 38. Extracts: No online extracts available at this time. Errata: No online errata available at this time Price: £20.00 Postage Option: It is not possible for us to trade using only one postage rate. We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£20.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£26.60 GBP View Cart:

Name: Notes On The History Of Millstreet Subtitle: Author: Editor: Lane, Jack Category: Irish Collection Publisher: Aubane Historical Society Published: 2001 ISBN: 1 903 497 04 3 Contents: These two contributions towards a history of Millstreet, by Canon Costello and Padraig O'Maidin, were prepared some time ago. "Canon Costello took a particular interest in the history of the Parish while he was Parish Priest here and collected a lot of interest over a number of years. The late Padraig O'Maidin was in charge of the County Library for many years and contributed an enormous amount to local history through his research and writings in many journals and newspapers." Their work will appeal to natives, exiles and anyone interested in the real history which is the detailed local knowledge of Ireland. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £5.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£5.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£6.50 GBP View Cart:

Name: On Hitler And Mussolini Subtitle: Author: Murphy, James Editor: Clifford, Brendan Category: German-Irish Collection Publisher: Athol Books Published: 2002 ISBN: 0 58034 087 10 Contents: The collection of writings by James Murphy (1880-1946) reprinted here has the general aim of explaining the emergence of Fascism in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s as a historical phenomenon arising out of the elemental consequences of the First World War. Murphy, an ordained priest who dropped out of clerical practice, was closely involved with the Italian situation during the war and for some years afterwards. He then moved to Germany, where he was on familiar terms with Einstein, Schrodinger and Max Planck. He was thus exceptionally qualified to comment on the affairs of both countries. As well as providing background information to facilitate the reader in following these Italian and German events, Brendan Clifford, in an extensive introduction, reviews modern Germany's difficulties in coming to terms with the aftermath of war. Particular attention is paid to the furore around the speech to the Bundestag by Speaker Phillip Jenninger on the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht. An appendix on The Jewish Problem in interwar eastern Europe completes this collection. Athol Books has already re-published the "International Forum", the star-studded magazine Murphy produced in Berlin in 1931. The present volume will further enhance the reputation of a remarkable European, who seemed equally at home in the worlds of philosophy, literature, abstruse physics, and practical politics. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £18.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£18.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£24.00 GBP View Cart:

Name: Orange Subtitle: A Political Rhapsody In Three Cantos Author: Gillard, George Editor: Clifford, Brendan Category: Northern Ireland Collection Publisher: Athol Books Published: ISBN: Contents: Reprint of exuberant swan-song of the Williamite aristocracy which ruled Ireland between the Battle of the Boyne and the Act of Union. First published in Dublin in 1798. Pamphlet. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £5.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£5.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£6.50 GBP View Cart:

Name: Orange Terror Subtitle: The Partition Of Ireland Author: Ultach Editor: Clifford, Brendan Category: Northern Ireland Collection Publisher: Athol Books Published: 1995 ISBN: 1 874157 04 9 Contents: First published in The Capuchin Annual in 1943. Reprinted in "A Belfast Magazine", No. 15, Jan. 1995. Pamphlet. Extracts: No extra online material at this time. Errata: No errata available at this time. Price: £6.00 Postage Option: We are able to deliver free to shipping addresses within the United Kingdom and Ireland. To the rest of the world we deliver by Airmail, for which there is a charge. Please indicate below which postage option you require. Please take your time and be sure to choose the correct option. This will save both time and trouble. Add To Cart: Choose Postage Option Free Postage in United Kingdom and Ireland£6.00 GBP Airmail to the Rest of the World£8.00 GBP View Cart:

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