9th September 2018 · Paperback / softback
Using new archival material from the Bureau of Military History, Fergus O'Farrell documents Brugha's career as a revolutionary. This closely-researched work examines...
15th November 2016 · Hardback
Michael Davitt after the Land League brings Davitt's later story back into the light by exploring his career in the 24 years...
5th May 2016 · Hardback
In The Real People of Joyce's Ulysses, Dubliner and Joycean scholar Vivien Igoe leaves no stone uncovered in revealing the biographies of...
3rd December 2015 · Hardback
This is the biography of 'Big Jim' Larkin. Through the research of Emmet O'Connor, Larkin - Labour leader and agitator - is...
27th November 2015 · Paperback / softback
In this critical study of Shane O'Neill's life and times, Ciaran Brady, returns this neglected historical figure to his rightful place -...
27th October 2015 · Paperback / softback
The Centenary Classics series examines the change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. Rising...
12th December 2014 · Paperback / softback
Sean Lemass is generally regarded as the man most responsible for the modernisation of Irish society. This book considers how Lemass evolved...
1st September 2014 · Hardback
Left for dead at the sack of Drogheda, Richard Talbot later ingratiated himself with the future James II by plotting to assassinate...
29th August 2014 · Paperback / softback
From an adolescent farmer to a local Sinn Fein activist and provincial guerrilla leader, and eventually to chief-of-staff of the IRA, Frank...
15th May 2014 · Hardback
The fifth Earl Spencer was lord lieutenant of Ireland twice (1868-71, 1882-5). It was a problematic office, combing both symbolic, constitutional aspects...
24th October 2013 · Paperback / softback
Between 1864 and 1867 the author made many trips to Ireland. In this book, she offers an eye-witness account of her visits...
15th September 2013 · Paperback / softback
Terence O'Neill came to power as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1963 with a bold plan to 'literally transform the face...
17th September 2012 · Paperback / softback
Charles Stewart Parnell has proved a compelling figure in his own time and to ours. A Protestant landlord who possessed few of...
13th July 2012 · Paperback / softback
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912) is the forgotten leader of the Irish Home Rule Movement. Overshadowed by Parnell before him and the 1916 leaders...
26th September 2011 · Paperback / softback
William Martin Murphy (1845-1919) was one of the most successful of Irish entrepreneurs and businessmen. As well as being a good employer,...
14th September 2010 · Paperback / softback
James Francis Xavier O'Brien is best known as a Fenian and member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. This title reveals his life...
14th September 2010 · Paperback / softback
One of the most famous revolutionaries in Irish history, Frank Ryan fought in the War of Independence and Irish Civil War, before...
11th August 2009 · Hardback
Edward Hincks (1792-1866), the Irish Assyriologist and decipherer of Mesopotamian cuneiform, was born in Cork and spent forty years of his life...