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Joseph Johnston

1st 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...

James Quinn

31st March 2015 · Paperback / softback

This book examines why Young Ireland attached such importance to the writing of history, how it went about writing that...

Mary Louise O'Donnell

15th December 2014 · Paperback / softback

The image of the harp - symbolic of the political and cultural landscape of Ireland for centuries - evokes strong...

Robert Savage

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...

Padraig Lenihan

1st September 2014 · Hardback

Left for dead at the sack of Drogheda, Richard Talbot later ingratiated himself with the future James II by plotting...

Matthew Lewis

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...

Norbert Elias

28th May 2014 · Hardback

A complete edition of 18 volumes of the Collected Works of Norbert Elias in English....

James H. Murphy

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,...

19th February 2014 · Hardback

For almost 800 years, from their arrival with the first wave of Anglo-Normans in 1169, the FitzGeralds - Earls of...

Colin Barr

3rd December 2013 · Hardback

Brings together scholars of Ireland and Italy to examine the multiple intersections, impacts, and influences that flowed between Italy and...

Fanny Taylor

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...

Professor Harry White

30th September 2013 · Hardback

Intends to chart Irish musical life across recorded history. This book also documents Ireland's musical relations with the world at...

Father Patrick Dinneen

15th September 2013 · Paperback / softback

A document that offers insight into the ideas of a major Irish-Ireland intellectual on one of the most important political,...

Marc Mulholland

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...

Judith Devlin

20th June 2013 · Hardback

Features essays focusing on the role of propaganda, mass media and culture in the development of the Cold War in...

20th June 2013 · Paperback / softback

A collection of essays by leading scholars and Parnell experts that reconsiders Charles Stewart Parnell and the Parnell family legacy...

Bo Almqvist

30th November 2012 · Hardback

Professor O Cathain is widely known for his contribution to Irish and international folkloristics and the many ways in which...

Peter Gray

20th November 2012 · Hardback

Explores the multiple dimensions of the Irish lord lieutenancy as an institution - political, social and cultural - between its...