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Paul Darby

24th August 2009 · Paperback / softback

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

James Kelly

19th August 2009 · Hardback

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

Carla King

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...

Olwen Purdue

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...

Catherine Hynes

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...

Senia Paseta

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...

Peter Costello

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...

James Quinn

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...

Edward Hincks

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...

T. Percy C. Kirkpatrick

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)...

Tom Dunne

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...

Vladimir Pecherin

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...

Jane Toomey

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...

Anne Dolan

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...

Ernie O'Malley

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...

Marta Ramon

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...

Marta Ramon

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...

Niamh Puirseil

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...