Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press, 1991
ISBN 10: 0856404780 ISBN 13: 9780856404788
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A journey to the heartland of today's Ireland, its people and politicians, Jiving at the Crossroads marks a radical new departure in Irish writing. Cutting to the very core of the unresolved struggles that haunt the Irish psyche -- the past and the present, between the urban and the rural -- Irish Times columnist John Waters creates a uniquely personal insight into the dilemmas faced by a whole gerneration born since de Valera's vision of comely lads and lasses dancing at the crossroads.
Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press, 1988
ISBN 10: 0856404047 ISBN 13: 9780856404047
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Softcover. Condition: Good. An acclaimed account which chillingly recreates the 'curse of Cromwell', the executions and mass transportations, the confiscation of lands, and the banishment of Irish landowners to 'Hell or Connaught'.
Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 0856407283 ISBN 13: 9780856407284
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Edition Unstated. In the 1950s the islanders' battle is with the savage forces of poverty, disease and religious constraint. Terrible things happen - rape, incest, bestiality - and yet somehow compassion, love and generosity of spirit manage to continue. Brooding over it all is the elemental figure of Big Bucko, symbolic of all that is brutal and disruptive.Four decades later, the island is facing other dangers: the Spanish fishing boats which threaten the livelihood of the trawlermen, the encroachment of tourism and the gradual disintegration of community. But still the people strive to transcend their common legacy of suffering, to reach for love and a new connectedness.Soon past and present converge, as the secrets of the generations are disentangled and a complex, disturbing pattern is at last revealed.
Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 1996
ISBN 10: 0856405582 ISBN 13: 9780856405587
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. The story of the seven days, from 6 June 1798, when a coalition of idealistic Presbyterians and Catholics challenged the might of the Anglican establishment in Antrim and Down. It draws on contemporary diaries, letters and reports to present a history of the United Irishmen rising in the North.
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Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0856408069 ISBN 13: 9780856408069
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2. It is 1972: a group of teenagers, some from Dublin, some from Derry, are spending a month in a Donegal Gaeltacht, learning Irish language and culture from their teachers and from the local people they are boarding with. Liberated for the first time from the restricting reins of parental control, they respond to the untamed landscape of river, hill and sea, finding in it unnerving echoes of their own submerged - and now emerging - wildnesses.In this complex new novel, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, uses the experiences and emotions of girls on the cusp of womanhood to explore dangerous territories of sex, politics, class, and Irishness.
Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 1990
ISBN 10: 0856404055 ISBN 13: 9780856404054
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A handbook to Ulster surnames which has entries for over five hundred of the most common family names of the province, and references to thousands more.
Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 1997
ISBN 10: 0856405965 ISBN 13: 9780856405969
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Exhilarated and bewildered by the relentless demands of overpowering emotion, the characters in these stories find themselves defenseless against its ultimately wrecking power. Breaking substantial new ground, both for her own work and for the short story form, this collection triumphantly confirms Ni Dhuibhne's place as one of the most questing and courageous voices in modem Irish fiction.
Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 1994
ISBN 10: 0856405221 ISBN 13: 9780856405228
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. good copy.
Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 0856407658 ISBN 13: 9780856407659
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Softcover. Condition: Good. A humorous travelogue of two epic motorcycle journeys, from Delhi to Belfast and Route 66.
Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 0856404365 ISBN 13: 9780856404368
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Flanagan, Laurence.
Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press Ltd, 2024
ISBN 10: 0856406643 ISBN 13: 9780856406645
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Book by Deane, John F.
Published by Brand: Blackstaff Press, 2024
ISBN 10: 0856406880 ISBN 13: 9780856406881
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Good. Although recent events are testing its durability, the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 has been hailed as a triumph of Anglo-Irish diplomacy. But why did it take thirty years of intense conflict to reach an understanding of the problem before a solution could be implemented?In this book, centuries-old misperceptions between the two islands are scrutinised and recent seismic shifts examined, including the changing nature of Irish nationalism and the role of Irish-America in both shaping and resolving the conflict.This is a study by a distinguished observer, persuasively demonstrating how even the most intractable conflicts can be made more malleable. It will prove invaluable to readers interested in British and Irish politics, ethnic conflict and conflict transformation.