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A series of beautiful, computer-generated maps, together with over 100 colour illustrations, accompany a series of survey chapters covering Irish history from earliest times to the present day. Already established...

This biography tells the story of Hazel Lavery, one of London's most influential and beautiful women in the 1920s, a popular society hostess and fervent supporter of Ireland's independence. It...

Presenting and analysing over 60 in-depth interviews with northern Protestants, this work aims to impart an understanding of the range and complexity of Protestant attitudes in Northern Ireland. Within the...

FOREWORD BY RYAN TUBRIDY The authoritative and comprehensive guide to tracing your Irish ancestry There's never been a better time to trace your Irish family history. Vast internet resources and...

In this ground-breaking book Kevin Johnston looks at the seismic effect that World War I and the Irish Revolution had on the island.There have been many books on the Irish...

Often the so-called 'Irish question' is reduced to one of ancestral hatreds, but this timely book following the revenant tensions borne out of Brexit negotiations grounds its study in the...

In Ireland over the past forty years, we have had many days to remember. We have laughed and cried, cheered and changed as the country has become a major economy...

Few people have had as profound an impact on their country's history in so short a time as Michael Collins had on twentieth-century Ireland. Dead at thirty-one, he remains a...

NEW EDITION'Magic that takes you out, far out, of this time and this world.'George Bernard Shaw, after a visit to SkelligThis is the story of two of the world's most...

For the first time, The Times brings together a unique collection of obituaries of Ireland's most distinguished individuals from the last two centuries. The Irish have richly contributed to the...

In our time when attention is being paid more to aspects of women as individuals and to their role in society than before, it may be appropriate to pause a...

The riddle of the inscriptions at Newgrange, Knowth and other equally ancient Irish sites in the Boyne valley has been partly deciphered at last. The inscribed passage mound stones tell...

Kilkenny has long been noted as Ireland's foremost medieval town. Founded as an Early Christian settlement in the sixth century, the town has greatly influenced the course of Irish history....

A mysterious death in respectable society: a brilliant historical true crime storyIn 1849, a woman called Ellen Langley died in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary. She was the wife of a prosperous...

The dress in Ireland from the Bronze Age to the 20th century is viewed in its widest context. Much adverse comment has been made over the centuries about the Irish...

Based on unique access to the Royal Archives in Windsor, and other historical material, as well as on personal memoir, Mary Kenny reveals some previously unappreciated aspects of the Crown...

'For at least four, and maybe eight, days they had lived in darkness. Squeezed into gaps among the furniture, they must have had difficulty moving around to keep cramped limbs...

"Marianne Elliott ...is better qualified than anyone to crack the Tone conundrum. Her meticulously documented Wolfe Tone balances a narrative of well-judged pace-accelerating as it reaches the climax of Tone's...