The Historical Association of Ireland Life and Times series was conceived over a decade ago to place the lives of leading figures in Irish history against the background of new research on the problems and conditions of their times and modern assessments of their historical significance. A new series in association with UCD Press offers a wider range of titles with a new format and fuller scholarly apparatus.
28th February 2020 · Paperback / softback
The story of the life of Henry Joy McCracken is fused with the history and environs of eighteenth-century Belfast....
28th February 2020 · Paperback / softback
Margaret Skinnider enters and exits the history books as the female rebel who was wounded commanding a military action in the 1916...
15th April 2019 · Paperback / softback
Maud Gonne has long been viewed merely as a contemporary of more prominent literary, political and legal figures who played a role...
9th September 2018 · Paperback / softback
Using new archival material from the Bureau of Military History, Fergus O'Farrell documents Brugha's career as a revolutionary. This closely-researched work examines...
27th November 2015 · Paperback / softback
In this critical study of Shane O'Neill's life and times, Ciaran Brady, returns this neglected historical figure to his rightful place -...
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 Lemass evolved...
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 the face...
17th September 2012 · Paperback / softback
Charles Stewart Parnell has proved a compelling figure in his own time and to ours. A Protestant landlord who possessed few of...
13th July 2012 · Paperback / softback
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912) is the forgotten leader of the Irish Home Rule Movement. Overshadowed by Parnell before him and the 1916 leaders...
26th September 2011 · Paperback / softback
William Martin Murphy (1845-1919) was one of the most successful of Irish entrepreneurs and businessmen. As well as being a good employer,...
14th September 2010 · Paperback / softback
One of the most famous revolutionaries in Irish history, Frank Ryan fought in the War of Independence and Irish Civil War, before...
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...
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...