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At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, we see the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into t...

Spanning the life’s work of archaeologist Elizabeth Wincott Heckett, Textiles of Ireland: Archaeology, craft, art is the first wide-ranging book on the archaeological textiles of Ireland published since 1989. The volume includes studies of cloth found in bogs, burials, hoards, sacked castles, doc...

Reproduction of original 1842 publication of the Fifth Edition of "Bianconi's car and coach lists : showing their routes, time of starting and arrival, and their respective fares, &c. Being a useful companion to the commercial traveller, throughout Leinster, Munster, and Connaught" / compiled by...

The Dublin and Monaghan Car Bombings of 1974 were unspeakable crimes of wanton savagery, executed with total disregard for human life and suffering. Thirty four innocents were murdered died in the no-warning car bomb explosions. Much has been said and written about the culprits but nobody has be...

A synopsis of the book states: ‘The Irish Forestry Society was founded in 1902 by Dr Robert T Cooper, a successful Irish physician based in London, who was greatly concerned by the level of deforestation in Ireland during the late 19th and early 29th centuries. He was soon joined by others who sh...

Since 1824, the Ordnance Survey (Tailte ireann and OSNI, respectively) has become the essence of cartographic accuracy in Ireland, documenting the ever-changing relationship between people and the environment. Though it has left a detailed and invaluable historical record in its wake, the story o...

Richly illustrated, this history of the Conollys of Castletown, Co. Kildare, takes a novel approach to following the fortunes of the family over eight generations: from the construction by William Conolly in the 1720s to the sale of the house in 1965, it is related through the individual lives of...

Contrary to widespread belief, the Spanish Armada, while it failed in its invasion objective, was not defeated – around two-thirds of the fleet managed to sail back to Spain. The English fleet managed to sink just one ship in direct action. The main losses were in Ireland, where exceptionally se...