history and politics

Thomas J Morrissey
09 Sep 2011 · Paperback

William Martin Murphy (1845-1919) was one of the most successful of Irish entrepreneurs and businessmen. As well as being a...

Paul Murray
31 May 2011 · Hardback

A history of the Irish Boundary Commission. It looks at British attempts from 1886 onwards to satisfy the Irish Nationalist...

Paul Murray
31 May 2011 · Paperback

A history of the Irish Boundary Commission. It looks at British attempts from 1886 onwards to satisfy the Irish Nationalist...

Bill Kissane
24 May 2011 · Paperback

Covers Irish constitutional development from Home Rule to the Good Friday Agreement, focusing on turning points where radical constitutional change...

L Perry Curtis Jr
05 May 2011 · Hardback

Dispossession has a long and tortuous history in Ireland, reaching back to the eleventh century. In the Victorian era, evictions...

L Perry Curtis Jr
05 May 2011 · Paperback

Dispossession has a long and tortuous history in Ireland, reaching back to the eleventh century. In the Victorian era, evictions...

Leeann Lane
15 Nov 2010 · Paperback

Born in Waterford in 1888 Rosamond Jacob, of Quaker background, was in many cases a crowd member rather than a...

J F X O Brien
14 Sep 2010 · Paperback

James Francis Xavier O'Brien is best known as a Fenian and member of the Irish Parliamentary Party. This title reveals...

John Sarsfield Casey
14 Sep 2010 · Paperback

Casey was one of a group of Fenians arrested in 1865 in Cork and transported to Western Australia with other...

Fearghal McGarry
01 Sep 2010 · Paperback

One of the most famous revolutionaries in Irish history, Frank Ryan fought in the War of Independence and Irish Civil...

Colin Barr
29 Jul 2010 · Hardback

Tells the story of Father Robert O'Keeffe of Callan, County Kilkenny, and his conflict with ecclesiastical authority. This book traces...

Michael C O Malley
01 Jul 2010 · Hardback

The Air Service came about when the Civil War caused the postponement of Michael Collins' plans for a civil air...

Michael C O Malley
01 Jul 2010 · Paperback

The Air Service came about when the Civil War caused the postponement of Michael Collins' plans for a civil air...

Philip O Leary
01 Apr 2010 · Hardback

Although the 1940s are often seen as a period of lowered post-Renaissance expectations for Irish writers of English, they were...

Darrell Figgis
01 Feb 2010 · Paperback

A memoir that presents an account of the author's imprisonment in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising and subsequent internment...

Heather Crawford
01 Feb 2010 · Paperback

Examines the relationship between Protestants and Catholics and the notion that southern Protestants are somehow not really Irish. From interviews...

Terence Dooley
25 Jan 2010 · Hardback

Examines how the inhabitants of nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland plundered their pasts for polemical reasons. This title includes the essays...

Marie Coleman
12 Nov 2009 · Hardback

The Irish hospitals sweepstake, initially established to provide money for cash-strapped voluntary hospitals in Dublin, provided funding for Irish hospitals...