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Ierland, Ierse geschiedenis, Ierse schrijvers, Sport

John Kelly – The GAA Covered

John Kelly The GAA Covered review, recensie en informatie boek over de geschiedenis van de Gaelic sport in Ierland. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Gill Books het boek van John Kelly over de Gaelic Athletic Association, in het Iers Cumann Luthchleas Gael genoemd.

John Kelly The GAA Covered review en recensie

  • “A valuable compendium that plays fitting tribute to the ultimate GAA collector’s item.” (Michael Foley, Sunday Times)

John Kelly The GAA Covered

The GAA Covered

The History of the GAA in Match Programmes

  • Auteur: John Kelly (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse geschiedenis, sportgeschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Gill Books
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst Gaelic Athletic Association book

The GAA Covered is a stunning visual compendium of GAA programmes. With over 100 years of material contained within, each page features striking images of that year’s provincial and All-Ireland final match programmes, along with superb captions of context and colour.

Whether it’s tightly rolled up between two nervous, wringing hands, proudly sticking out from a quick-stepping back pocket or carefully brought home to be kept for posterity, the match day programme is part of the very fabric of the GAA and in The GAA Covered this glorious document gets its long overdue day in the sun.

The GAA Covered is a stunning visual compendium of over 100 years of GAA programme covers from 1913 to the present day, and an invaluable collection of local, social and sports history. Each page of this comprehensive collection features striking images of that year’s provincial and All-Ireland final match programmes, along with superb captions of context and colour.

John Kelly is born in Ireland. He is a primary school principal. He has had a lifelong involvement in Gaelic games as a player, coach and administrator, and more recently as an intercounty match official. He has also been a contributor to RTÉ’s Sunday Miscellany and Ireland’s Own magazine. He lives in County Carlow with his wife Maria and his two sons, Pádraic and Lorcan.

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Ierland, Klimaat, Meteorologie

Evelyn Cusack & Séamus Walsh – They Say It Might Rain

Evelyn Cusack & Séamus Walsh They Say It Might Rain review recensie en informatie boek over het weer en klimaat van Ierland. Op 23 oktober 2025 verschijnt Gill Books het boek van Evelyn Cusack en Séamus Walsh, weervrouw en weerman bekend van de Ierse televisie. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Evelyn Cusack & Séamus Walsh They Say It Might Rain review recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van They Say It Might Rain, The Highs and Lows of Ireland’s Weather and Climate, geschreven door Evelyn Cusack en Séamus Walsh, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Evelyn Cusack & Séamus Walsh They Say It Might Rain

They Say It Might Rain

The Highs and Lows of Ireland’s Weather and Climate

  • Auteurs: Evelyn Cusack, Séamus Walsh (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: meteorologisch boek over Ierland
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Gill Books
  • Verschijnt: 23 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 368 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over het Ierse weer en klimaat

This compelling read reveals that Ireland’s weather is more than small talk!

The Irish weather. Subject of endless conversations, the saviour of small talk and famously unreliable. We all know it well, as a constant, if capricious, backdrop to our lives. But how well do we really know it? While our relationship with the weather used to be nearly always personal and nearly always local, now it’s also increasingly global. This important relationship that each of us has with the weather, the desire to understand it and a deep concern for how it is changing, inspired Evelyn and Séamus to write this book.

They Say it Might Rain tells the fascinating tale of Ireland’s weather and our connection to it through the ages. It is both an authoritative guide and a personal reflection of Ireland’s weather, blending storytelling with science. From the earliest weather watchers in prehistory to the ferocious Night of the Big Wind in 1839 and the more recent chaos of Storm Éowyn, this beautifully illustrated book explains it all.

Evelyn Cusack and Séamus Walsh worked together in Met Éireann from 1981 to 2023. Séamus was Head of Climate and Evelyn was Head of Weather Forecasting. Evelyn is best known from her time presenting on RTÉ. They both love explaining the vagaries of Ireland’s weather and climate to the hugely interested public.

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David McCullagh – From Crown to Harp

David McCullagh From Crown to Harp review, recensie en informatie geschiedenisboek over hoe het Anglo-Ierse verdrag tussen 1920 en 1949 ongedaan werd gemaakt. Op 16 december 2025 verschijnt bij Gill Books het boek van de David McCullagh de uit Ierland afkomstige journalist. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

David McCullagh From Crown to Harp review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van From Crown to Harp, How the Anglo-Irish treaty was undone 1920-1949, geschreven door David McCullagh, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

David McCullagh From Crown to Harp

From Crown to Harp

How the Anglo-Irish treaty was undone 1920-1949

  • Auteur: David McCullagh (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse geschiedenis
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Gill Books
  • Verschijnt: 16 december 2025
  • Omvang: 528 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 26,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van David McCullagh

The crown was the symbol of British power in Ireland, and in December 1921 opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty claimed that its terms tied Ireland to the Crown forever. The new Irish Free State would be within the British Commonwealth, with limited sovereignty. And some believed it would stay that way if the Treaty was accepted.

And yet, within 16 years, Ireland had become a republic. A dozen years after that, it acquired the name as well and removed any ambiguity about its constitutional status by formally leaving the Commonwealth. And all without the firing of a shot.

This peaceful revolution had been achieved by a succession of governments of different parties and a cast of characters that included a monarch prepared to surrender his throne for love; a British prime minister who made Irish neutrality possible and another who did his best to bully or bribe Ireland into World War II. What had seemed impossible in 1921 had been achieved through relentless pressure, considerable skill and no small amount of luck. This is the story of how it happened.

David McCullagh was born on 1 December 1967. He is a journalist, author and presenter with RTÉ, where he has presented the Six One News since 2020. He previously presented current affairs television programme Prime Time and was political correspondent with RTÉ News. He is the author of a biography of John A. Costello and a two-volume biography of Éamon de Valera.

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Ierland, Ierse geschiedenis

Kathi & John Burke – Irelandopedia

Kathi & John Burke Irelandopedia review, recensie en informatie boek over Ierland en de Ieren voor kinderen en volwassenen. Op 16 oktober 2025 verschijnt bij Gill Books het boek over Ierland en de Ieren van Kathi en John Burke. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Kathi & John Burke Irelandopedia review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Irelandopedia, geschreven door Kathi en John Burke, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Kathi & John Burke Irelandopedia

Irelandopedia

  • Auteur: Kathi Burke, John Burke (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: boek over Ierland voor kinderen en volwassenen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Gill Books
  • Verschijnt: 16 oktober 2025
  • Omvang: 96 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: € 24,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over Ierland van Kathi & John Burke

Discover hundreds of things about Ireland and expand your own Irelandopedic knowledge! Armchair travellers of any age will be totally absorbed by Kathi Burke’s detailed illustrations and her father John’s fabulous facts to be discovered on every page.

Updated to include recently celebrated citizens such as Olympians (Daniel Wiffen, Kellie Harrington, Rhasidat Adeleke), Oscar-winners and nominees (Cillian Murphy, Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal), golfing champions and a Grand Slam winner (Leona Maguire, Rory McIlroy), as well as the newest Late Late host, Patrick Kielty, and rugby great Bundee Aki. Now including recent cultural phenomenons like Kneecap and Derry Girls this breathtakingly comprehensive book discovers Ireland, county by county, as you’ve never seen it before!

Kathi ‘Fatti’ Burke is an award-winning illustrator and artist. Her first book, Irelandopedia, won the Tubridy Show Listeners’ Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards 2015. She is also the illustrator of Foclóiropedia,Historopedia and the Little Library series, written by her dad, John Burke. Having lived in Amsterdam and Dublin, she is now back home in Waterford City.

John Burke is a retired primary school teacher and was Teaching Principal from 1980 to 2009. He lives in Waterford City.

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