22nd July 2009 · Paperback / softback
Son of evicted Mayo tenants, Fenian treason-felony prisoner Michael Davitt (1846-1906) was to become the driving force behind the Irish National Land...
26th May 2009 · Hardback
Explores the changing fortunes of the landed elite in the six counties that became Northern Ireland from the land war of the...
23rd March 2009 · Hardback
Drawing on declassified documents from both the British and American National Archives, this title examines how the Year of Europe became a...
4th December 2008 · Paperback / softback
Thomas Kettle was born on 9 February 1880, he was killed in the opening minutes of the allied invasion of Ginchy on...
21st November 2008 · Paperback / softback
Denis Guiney (1893-1967) was one of the most remarkable Irishmen of his generation, who exerted through his business career a significant influence...
21st November 2008 · Paperback / softback
John Mitchel (1815-75) was sentenced to 14 years' transportation for attempting to incite rebellion in Ireland in 1848, in captivity he wrote...
16th October 2008 · Hardback
Edward Hincks (1792-1866), the Irish Assyriologist and decipherer of Mesopotamian cuneiform, was the Church of Ireland Rector. In 1856 Hincks began to...
18th September 2008 · Hardback
Financed through the will of Dr Richard Steevens (1653-1710), and brought into existence by his twin sister, Griselda, Dr Steevens' Hospital (1733)...
15th September 2008 · Hardback
The National University of Ireland has played a key role in Irish life since its foundation in 1908. This illustrated book looks...
2nd April 2008 · Hardback
Shortly after his appointment as Professor of Classics at Moscow University, Vladimir Pecherin fled from Russia in 1836 to pursue radical politics...
29th October 2007 · Hardback
Why, against a backdrop of the burgeoning 1960s, did the Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, seek to replicate the path taken by...
9th October 2007 · Paperback / softback
Robert Emmet's life, death, and immediate elevation into the pantheon of Irish nationalist heroes are well known. This work includes essays on...
21st September 2007 · Paperback / softback
Tells the story of Brigadier Sean Connolly, O/C of the Longford Brigade, who was fatally wounded in action on 11 March 1921...
10th May 2007 · Paperback / softback
A political biography of James Stephens, the founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. It traces Stephens' political and revolutionary career from his...
10th May 2007 · Hardback
A political biography of James Stephens, the founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood. It traces Stephens' political and revolutionary career from his...
26th April 2007 · Paperback / softback
The first fifty years of the state saw Ireland change dramatically, and the Irish Labour Party changed with it. This work traces...
26th April 2007 · Hardback
The first fifty years of the state saw Ireland change dramatically, and the Irish Labour Party changed with it. This work traces...
11th September 2006 · Paperback / softback
Presenting the history of Travellers in twentieth-century Ireland, this work describes the people who travelled Irish roads, showing how and why they...