This unique, easy-to-use guide highlights dozens of sites that have played important roles in the Ireland's spiritual heritage incorporates history, archaeology, comparative religion, and excerpts from Irish literature and Celtic music. Maps & photos. ...

Fourteen chapters by noted Irish academics and social servants explore such topics as education, income maintenance, employment, housing, and health, in this wide-ranging examination of the current state of social policy provision in Ireland. ...

It has been fifty years since the birth of Northern Ireland's National Health Service and the passing of the famous children's hospital from voluntary to state control. This book records the story of these past fifty years and pays tribute to the many medical personnel who have helped to make the hospital world famous for its innovative work on gunshot anti bomb injuries. ...

This is an extraordinary account of an extraordinary time in Northern Ireland's history by the Irish correspondent of the Independent. These pieces cover the events of the past three years, including the violence and political turbulence of 1996 to 1998, the two IRA ceasefires, the loyalist cessation of violence, the Good Friday Agreement, the Drumcree confrontations, and the devastating bombing at Omagh. David McKittrick is the author of a ...

A universally praised account of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, The Uncivil Wars illuminates the beliefs, words, and actions of people on all sides of the debate: Protestants and Catholics, paramilitary groups and parties committed to non-violence, British and Irish. This updated edition brings new clarity and fresh insight to this complex and tragic conflict. ...

Nicknamed "Ireland's Bastille, " Dublin Castle was one of the places attacked during the Rising, and it played its role in both the maintenance of the old rule, and the arrival of the new. ...

A celebrated politician's memoirs about growing up in rural Ireland<P>In Sweet Killough Maurice Hayes, one of the few Catholics to hold high office in Northern Ireland, brought to life his early childhood in a small fishing village. Seamus Heaney hailed it as a "triumph of recollection and recreation -- a remarkable literary debut", while Publishers Weekly commended Hayes's "winning ability to reproduce the child's sense of poetry and awe ...

12 charming designs: leprechaun, pot of gold, harp, border of shamrocks, and more--perfect for adding attractive touches to floors, walls, fabrics, and other flat surfaces. Instructions. ...

This engaging book traces the history, archaeology, and legends of ancient Ireland from 9000 B.C. to 1167 A.D. ...

A personal view of religious intolerance in Ireland. Jonathan Swift once wrote that "In Ireland, enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love." Victor Griffin, who occupied the same position as Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, examines the complex issue of religious intolerance in Ireland. ...