10 Top ireland books like The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend

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The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925

By: Charles Townshend

3.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book tells a painful stor…

If you liked the ireland plot in The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925 by Charles Townshend , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Third Policeman

By: Flann O'Brien

3.97

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The Third Policeman is Flann O'Brien's brilliantly dark comic novel about the nature of time, death… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places."

-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

"The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any."

-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

"My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings."

-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

"Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all."

-Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman

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2. Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2)

By: Hilary Mantel

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has fai… read more

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3. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

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"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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4. Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the countr… read more

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5. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933

By: Anne Applebaum

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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6. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)

By: Robert Graves

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more

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7. Look Who's Back

By: Jamie Bulloch , Timur Vermes

3.73

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Berlin, Summer 2011. Adolf Hitler wakes up on a patch of open ground, alive and well. Things have c… read more

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8. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

By: Tamim Ansary

3.87

Format: 144 pages,

We in the west share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civil… read more

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9. Mao's Great Famine: The History Of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

By: Frank Dikötter

3.51

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with t… read more

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10. Burmese Days

By: George Orwell

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Hardcover

Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, this book describes corruption and… read more

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11. The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

By: Frank Dikötter

3.71

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

"The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a 'liberation.' In China the story of… read more

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12. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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13. The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976

By: Frank Dikötter

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

After the economic disaster of the Great Leap Forward that claimed tens of millions of lives from 1… read more

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14. Dubliners

By: James Joyce , Jeri Johnson

3.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

This work of art reflects life in Ireland at the turn of the last century, and by rejecting euphemi… read more

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15. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

By: Anna Funder

4.20

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"People were crazy with pain and secrets."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."

-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

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16. Small Things Like These

By: Claire Keegan

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"

-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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17. Tokyo Express

By: Seichō Matsumoto

3.68

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

In una cala rocciosa della baia di Hakata, i corpi di un uomo e di una donna vengono rinvenuti all’… read more

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18. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

By: Anna Keay

4.39

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"This book was born of ignorance."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."

-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown

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19. Milkman

By: Anna Burns

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attem… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"how much I’d been thwarted into a carefully constructed nothingness by that man"

-Anna Burns, Milkman

"It’s not about being happy,’ he said, which was, and still is, the saddest remark I’ve ever heard."

-Anna Burns, Milkman

"also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing."

-Anna Burns, Milkman

"even though it was weird to talk on the telephone. Only eight times, seven, maybe six, ever had I done so."

-Anna Burns, Milkman

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20. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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21. Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By: Antony Beevor

3.90

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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23. Night Boat to Tangier

By: Kevin Barry

3.62

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging … read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
"Would you say there's any end in sight, Charlie?"

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"The Past is uncertain, mobile. It shifts and rearranges back there yet."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"When we move by water, our hearts are moved. We are complicated fucking machines."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

"A troubled silence descends—the old times are shifting again; they are rearranging like fault lines. The past will not relent."

-Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

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24. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

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  • ireland
  • irish literature
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25. Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

By: Camilla Townsend

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingd… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Letters and diaries sometimes bring us close to grand moments or touching scenes in the history of Euro-Americans, but harkening back to the thoughts and feelings of the less powerful, we meet only s…"

-Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

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26. Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War

By: Tim Bouverie

4.36

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER • A gripping new history of the Bri… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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27. Ireland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Overlooked and Disremembered

By: Turtle Bunbury

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This volume delves into Ireland’s forgotten history bringing to light some of the most colorful cha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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28. The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925

By: Charles Townshend

3.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'A model of research and analysis ... Townshend's concise and intelligent book tells a painful stor… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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29. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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30. Northern Ireland: The Fragile Peace

By: Feargal Cochrane

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The complete history of Northern Ireland from the Irish Civil War to Brexit “A wonderful book, bea… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
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31. The Irish Difference: A Tumultuous History of Ireland's Breakup with Britain

By: Fergal Tobin

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and entertaining investigation into what makes Ireland so different from its neighbor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland

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Anne Applebaum

3.32

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4.20

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Anna Keay

4.39

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Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

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4.22

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Claire Keegan

4.18

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Paul Lynch

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