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Tax Haven Ireland

An expose of how incredible wealth is funnelled through a country without benefiting its people
Brian O'Boyle; Kieran Allen
Published: November / 
2021
Pluto Press
9780745345321
272  Pages
€90
£75
Hardback
United Kingdom
Political corruption

Tax Haven Ireland

An expose of how incredible wealth is funnelled through a country without benefiting its people
Brian O'Boyle; Kieran Allen
Published: November / 
2021
Pluto Press
9780745345314
272  Pages
€16.99
£12.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Political corruption

Roads to Rome – A Guide to Notable Converts from Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to the

The aim of this book is to summarize the lives of notable converts from Britain and Ireland and explain (by reference to quotations from their writings) why they entered the Catholic Church.
John Beaumont; Marcus Grodi; Joseh Pearce
Published: November / 
2021
St Augustine's Press
9781587317200
480  Pages
€50
£44
Hardback
United States
Biography: religious & spiritual

The Politics of Conflict and Transformation: The Island of Ireland in Comparative Perspective

Gladys Ganiel; David Mitchell
Published: November / 
2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
9781032116464
170  Pages
£120
Hardback
United Kingdom
Peace studies & conflict resolution

Piety and Privilege: Catholic Secondary Schooling in Ireland and the Theocratic State, 1922-1967

For centuries, the Catholic Church ran schools around the world, but by the 20th century most countries had moved to a state school system. Piety and Privilege shows Ireland as an exception, with the state financing schools, leaving the Church to promote practices aimed at salvation of souls and at the reproduction of a loyal middle class.
Tom O'Donoghue, Judith Harford
Published: November / 
2021
Oxford University Press
9780192843166
256  Pages
£75
Hardback
United Kingdom
History of education

The Peatlands of Britain and Ireland: A Traveller’s Guide

Clifton Bain now completes his trilogy with this look at the Peatlands of Britain and Ireland. A source of fuel for many generations, they are now a haven for wildlife and plants as well as a storehouse of greenhouse gasses.
Clifton Bain
Published: November / 
2021
Sandstone Press Ltd
9781912240241
224  Pages
£24.99
Hardback
United Kingdom
Trees, wildflowers & plants

A Landscape of Words: Ireland, Britain and the Poetics of Space, 700-1250

This book examines major literary texts by and about the Irish in the Middle Ages, providing an analysis of a spatial poetics developed over 600 years. It argues that the Irish theorised anew the concept of 'place' and developed a 'spatial turn' that reconfigured how communities in the Irish Sea region thought about writing, place and identity. -- .
Amy C. Mulligan
Published: November / 
2021
Manchester University Press
9781526160751
264  Pages
€30
£25
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval

Ireland and the Great War: A Social and Political History

In Ireland and the Great War Niamh Gallagher draws upon a formidable array of original research to offer a radical new reading of Irish involvement in the world's first total war. Exploring the 'home front' and Irish diasporic communities in Canada, Australia, and Britain, Gallagher reveals that substantial support for the Allied war effort continued largely unabated not only until November 1918, but afterwards as well.
Niamh Gallagher
Published: November / 
2021
Bloomsbury Academic
9781350246690
280  Pages
£28.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
British & Irish history

The Green & White House: Ireland and the US Presidents

THE GREEN & WHITE HOUSE takes an affectionate and wry look at the special relationship Ireland, a small nation of less than six million people, has with the greatest superpower in the world.
Lynne Kelleher
Published: November / 
2021
Black and White Publishing
9781785303562
256  Pages
£17.99
Hardback
United Kingdom
Politics & government

The Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760-1829

A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. -- .
Christina Morin
Published: November / 
2021
Manchester University Press
9781526160478
248  Pages
€24
£20
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers