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...