history and politics

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 K. 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...

Marie Coleman
12 Nov 2009 · Paperback

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

Seamas O Siochain
01 Sep 2009 · Paperback

Intends to document a selected yet systematic set of views on Ireland as 'Other' during the nineteenth century. This title...

Paul Darby
24 Aug 2009 · Paperback

Gaelic sports have been played for over a century in America, and provide a window into the lives and culture...

James Kelly
19 Aug 2009 · Hardback

"People, Politics and Power" presents some of the most recent thinking on politics and society in Ireland from the Restoration...

Carla King
22 Jul 2009 · Paperback

Son of evicted Mayo tenants, Fenian treason-felony prisoner Michael Davitt (1846-1906) was to become the driving force behind the Irish...

Olwen Purdue
26 May 2009 · Hardback

Explores the changing fortunes of the landed elite in the six counties that became Northern Ireland from the land war...

Olwen Purdue
26 May 2009 · Paperback

Explores the changing fortunes of the landed elite in the six counties that became Northern Ireland from the land war...

Catherine Hynes
23 Mar 2009 · Hardback

Drawing on declassified documents from both the British and American National Archives, this title examines how the Year of Europe...