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This magical book is both a guide to the most delightful places for garden lovers to stay and eat, and a guide to the top gardens of Ireland, providing a wonderful framework for the garden lover’s Irish vacation.

Simple and user friendly, the book includes around one hundred tip-top gardens, arranged by area, with up-to-the-minute practical information, photographs, and maps. Introducing each section is a guide to the kind of romantic accommodation and restaurants, pubs or cafÇs with really interesting food that will enhance the garden lovers experience, in most cases also set in lovely gardens. Each section also includes useful information for gardeners with suggestions for top nurseries, garden centers, or additional gardens to visit.

This new guide builds on the reputation of two experienced writers in the hospitality and garden fields. The Georgina Campbell Guides to The Best Places To Eat Drink and Stay in Ireland (the Georgina Campbell’s Ireland series) are widely recognized as the essential companions to any tour around the country, and Marianne Heron’s best selling Hidden Gardens of Ireland is still in print in the second edition 10 years on.

Designed to cater for both the home and overseas market, the guide will be both an ideal gift and a long lived and useful substitute for the plethora of cross references in books, maps, and brochures formerly needed for the intrepid garden visitor. For the more casual garden lover, it will provide the perfect reference for planning holidays and short breaks in the most delightful surroundings.
Georgina Campbell’s Ireland For Garden Lovers’: Gentle Journeys Through Ireland’s Most Beautuful Gardens With Delightful Places To Stay Along The Way

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This book was written between 1946 and 1952, and first published in 1953. It is now widely regarded as the standard portrait of the European and American theater in the turbulent and seminal years following World War II; but it is far more than that. It ranges back as far as Ibsen and even Shakespeare, and has contributed very substantially to a number of reputations that would long outlast 1950, such as those of Bertolt Brecht, Charles Chaplin and Martha Graham. For Bentley fans, it is an essential link in a chain that runs from The Playwright as Thinker to The Life of the Drama to The Brecht Memoir and Thinking About the Playwright.
In Search of Theater: Travels in England, Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and the United States

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* Co-winner of the tenth annual James S. Donnelly, Sr. award for Books in History and the Social Sciences presented by the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS)

In 1879, local people reported an apparition of the Virgin Mary and other supernatural personages at Knock, a poor rural village in western Ireland. The author draws on both insiders’ views and his training as a sociologist to show how the apparition was related to the local social context including economic, cultural, religious, political and historical dimensions.

Drawing on new and neglected sources of evidence, Hynes pays particular attention to the individuals most directly involved including the seers, local clergy, Land League activists, various promoters, and others. The author looks through participants’ eyes as much as possible. To understand what those eyes saw, the book examines the local scene for half a century before the apparition. His deep knowledge of the local context enables the author to develop understandings of key persons and events before and around the apparition. Using the Knock case, the author challenges usually accepted explanations of changes in nineteenth-century Irish Catholicism.

The book is important for those interested in the links between official and local religion especially in Irish Catholicism, for students of apparitions generally, for anyone interested in bottom-up approaches to social and cultural history, and especially for students of nineteenth-century Ireland.
Knock: The Virgins Apparition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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Reflects recent social developments with new chapters on Civil Society, Popular Culture and Everyday Life Has a strong central argument related to the nature of Irish society Looks at Ireland’s positioning in a globalising world Considers a wide range of aspects of the social structure and culture Written in an accessible and interesting style Includes a comprehensive bibliography of Irish and overseas references Suitable for Sociology courses in Irish universities and Institutes of Technology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level including general arts programmes, applied social studies, social studies/social work.
Sociology of Ireland

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This lavish visual history traces and records the development of Britain’s finest secular buildings in the years up to 1486. It describes and explains the changes in method and style from the ancient earthworks and Roman forts to the splendors of castle building.
Medieval Castles, Stately & Historic Houses of Great Britain & Northern Ireland: From ancient times to the Wars of the Roses and 1485

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This lavish visual history traces and records the development of Britain’s finest secular buildings in the years up to 1486. It describes and explains the changes in method and style from the ancient earthworks and Roman forts to the splendors of castle building.
Medieval Castles, Stately & Historic Houses of Great Britain & Northern Ireland: From ancient times to the Wars of the Roses and 1485

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A magnificent book of 55 folk, fairy and ghost stories from all over Britain and Ireland. Taken from original sources and then brilliantly retold in a fresh and modern way, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative collection written in the last twenty years. A handsome trade paperback with notes and sources. Each story has a beautiful opening illustration by Emma Chichester Clark, a major illustrator. First published by Orchard Books as BRITISH FOLK TALES, it attracted rave reviews: ‘outstanding’ Naomi Lewis in The Observer ‘a sourcebook of folklore no home with children should be without’ The Independent
The Magic Lands: Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland

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A stunning glimpse of the natural beauty of the landscapes and sights of seventeenth century Ireland.

Originally published circa 1842, this book is the result of collaboration between writer Joseph Stirling Coyne and engraver William Henry Bartlett. The first section has a collection of landscapes: wooded gorges, crashing waterfalls, wind-swept seashores, dramatic mountain scenery, and views of towns and villages. Coyne emphasizes his reverence for nature—the ‘picturesque,’ the ‘wild and sublime,’ and the ‘romantic beauty’ of the landscape, highlighting how the scenery inspired generations of artists and writers. The second section concentrates on the ancient ruins, churches, monuments, and castles and stone circles of Ireland.

The various regions of Ireland are described as they appeared at the time of the author’s travels. Coyne’s short history of each town or region visited combined with William Henry Bartlett artistic skill allows readers to experience the natural beauty of the period.
The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland

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Sir Michael Francis Joseph McDonnell (1882-1956) was a Barrister and scholar and subsequently chief justice of the British Mandate of Palestine. His works include: Ireland and the Home Rule Movement (1908), A History of St. Paul’s School (1909) and The Arab Case: The McMahon Correspondence (1939).
Ireland and the Home Rule Movement