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Ellen Rowley

30th September 2020 · Hardback

Richly designed and illustrated, Making Belfield reflects on the making and shaping of UCD to celebrate 50 years of college life at...

Justin Dolan Stover

20th November 2022 · Soft Jacket w/Flaps

The Irish Revolution inflicted unprecedented damage to built-up and natural landscapes between 1916 and 1923. Destruction transcended national and ideological divisions and remained...

C.P Curran

15th Mar 2022 · Hardback

In 1968, Conn Curran summed up his life-long companionship with Joyce, including the 1904 photograph he took of his friend in his family's...

Martin O'Donoghue

1st June 2024 · Soft Jacket

Exploring the (political) life of John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party tradition, this collection offers a new perspective on the legacy...

Peter Gray

30th September 2023 · Soft Jacket

William Sharman Crawford (1780‐1861) was the leading agrarian and democratic radical active in Ulster politics between the early 1830s and the 1850s....

Katherine O'Donnell

30th April 2022 · Paperback / Softback

How will Ireland redress its legacy of institutional abuse? How might democracy evolve if survivors' experiences and expertise were allowed to lead...

Liam Mac Mathuna

30th June 2019 · Hardback

This collection of journal and diary entries, now published for the first time as a bilingual edition (Irish and English), is a...

Fergus O'Farrell

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...

Professor Bryan Fanning

15th February 2018 · Paperback / softback

Migration and the Making of Ireland richly explores accounts of migrant experiences across more than four centuries. The motivations that drove migration to...

Trish Ferguson

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...

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 IRA, Frank...

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 the face...

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 Europe. Exploring...

Alan Bairner

1st December 2004 · Paperback / softback

Focusing on the extent to which sport plays a part in the construction of Irishness, this book also makes a contribution to...

Emmet O'Connor

25th October 2004 · Paperback / softback

In August 1922, at the height of the Civil War, when the Communist Party of Ireland could count on barely 50 activists, two...

Emmet O'Connor

25th October 2004 · Hardback

In August 1922, at the height of the Civil War, when the Communist Party of Ireland could count on barely 50 activists, two...

Elaine Callinan

30th September 2023 · Soft Jacket

After 11 arduous months, on 24 May 1923, the guns fell silent, and the Irish Civil War finally came to an end....

Emmet O'Connor

30th September 2022 · Paperback / Softback

James 'Dongaree' Baird, a boilermaker in Harland and Wolff's shipyard, was one of hundreds of 'rotten Prods', and thousands of Catholics, driven from...