The Thomas Cook Travellers are a set of gu ides from the AA and Thomas Cook. They are fully illustrated and contain information on tours, shopping, nightlife, geog raphy, culture and politics, as well as walks, car tours, to wn plans and colour maps. '
This timeless picture book, available in large-format paperback or as the board book Saint Patrick, is a perfect introduction to important Irish legends and an ideal St. Patrick's day gift.
For a nation with a relatively small territory and population, Ireland has had a remarkable influence in the English-speaking world. In the United States alone, it is estimated that there...
Contains a collection of over fifty Gaelic folktales from the archives of the Irish Folklore Commission including tales of kings and warriors, pagans and Christians, and stories about historical Irish characters.
Medieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions.
The daughter of the powerful warrior queen Medb, Finnabair rebels when she becomes a pawn in her mother's schemes for power, and embarks on a dangerous journey that will change the fates of two kingdoms.
They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century—and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert...
Brady, Ciarán, 'Political Women and Reform in Tudor Ireland' in Margaret MacCurtain and Mary O'Dowd (Eds), Women in Early Modern Ireland (Edinburgh, 1991). The Chief Governors. The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, ...
The only subsequent changes to the southern state which need concern us were internal . Prior to the treaty the laws of England were the laws of Ireland . Now , in the south , they were altered to take a Catholic complexion .
Dr McAleese and Ms Ní Mhuircheartaigh responded that Patricia Burke Brogan was just a novice and spent only a week in the laundry. Katherine countered: 'I didn't mention Patricia Burke Brogan. I said Sr Stan, we sent you a PDF of her ...
The text of the Chronicle is best preserved in the Annals of Ulster, but it was also transmitted through chronicles derived from a version made at the monastery of Clonmacnois in the Irish midlands.