Cultural Studies

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McDowell, Jim
Beyond the Footlights A History of Belfast Music Halls and Early Theatre

The Belfast Empire, The Royal Hippodrome and the newly restored Grand Opera House...

Nonsuch Publishing 2008

Rolston, Bill
Drawing Support 2

How can the political wall murals in the North of Ireland cope with the peace process and ceasefires? This second volume of unique photographs charts the changes in Loyalist and Republican mural painting between 1992 and 1995 and casts a tentative glance towards the future.

Beyond the Pale Publications

Rolston, Bill
Drawing Support 3

How can the political wall murals in the North of Ireland cope with the peace process and ceasefires? This second volume of unique photographs charts the changes in Loyalist and Republican mural painting between 1992 and 1995 and casts a tentative glance towards the future.

Beyond the Pale Publications

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Foster, R.F.
Luck and the Irish A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000

From about 1970, Irish history moved into a fast-forward phase. This title looks at roots of the changes which came with an almost completely unexpected wave of
prosperity. It examines the upheavals in economics, North-South attitudes, international relations, demography, gender roles, sexual mores, culture and religion which
accompanied the boom.

2007

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Blackstock, Allan & Magennis, Eoin Eds.
Politics and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland, 1750-1850 Essays in Tribute to Peter Jupp.

Before his untimely death in the summer of 2006, Peter Jupp was widely recognised as one of the key influences in the recovery of British and Irish political history in the 'long' 18th century.

Ulster Historical Foundation & Bookshop at Queen's 2007

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Olwen Purdue
The Big House in the North of Ireland Land, Power and Social Elites, 1878-1960

"The Big House in the North of Ireland" explores the changing fortunes of the landed elite in the six counties that became Northern Ireland from the land war of the late 1870s to the last days of the Unionist government at Stormont in the 1960s.

2009

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Hunter, Jim
The Waves of Tory / Tonnta Thoraí The Story of an Atlantic Community / Scéal Pobail Atlantaigh

The University of Ulster has teamed up with distinguished historian and folklorist Jim Hunter to publish "The Waves of Tory", a study of Tory Island, most remote of all Ireland's inhabited islands.

Colin-Smythe 2006

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Hartley, Tom
WRITTEN IN STONE THE HISTORY OF BELFAST CITY CEMETERY

Written by an acknowledged expert and organiser of the Belfast City Cemetery tour, Written in Stone tells the stories of the men and women who lie at rest in Belfast's first municipal burial ground, which officially opened on 1 August, 1869.

Brehon Press 2007