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The troubles in Northern Ireland rolled grimly on for almost 30 years from the late 1960s until the onset of the current shaky peace process. In that time, the conflict...

Using the Caribbean island of Montserrat as a case study of Irish 'imperialism', Akenson addresses the question of what kind of imperial power might Ireland have been.

Colm Toibin has called Thomas Moore 'the most influential figure in shaping the Irish psyche'. Through his Irish Melodies, Moore created an iconography of silenced harps, misty landscapes and round...

In the early part of the seventeenth-century, along the southwest coast of Ireland, piracy was a way of life. Following the outlawing of privateering in 1603 by the new king...

"Blood on the Streets" explores the people, the places and the context of the real events of the battle for Mount Street Bridge. Based around the bridge over the canal...

Rutherfurd's epic style, famously exercised in his dramatic accounts of Sarum, Russia and London, makes this saga, set against the backdrop of the great events of Irish history, so readable...

The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of...

Beginning with the death of legendary IRA figure Sean South of Garryowen on New Year's Day 1957, this title describes the background to what we have now come to call...

Older than the Egyptian pyramids, older than Stonehenge, for 5,000 years the ancient megalithic tomb at Newgrange in County Meath has housed the remains of Stone Age 'aristocracy', sheltering the...

Before the outbreak of the Troubles, a typical firefighter's year might have included call-outs to chimney fires, the occasional house fire or road accident, and - even more rarely -...

Grace O'Malley is unique as the only woman recorded on the famous Baptista Boazio map of Ireland (1599), a tribute to the status she achieved as a leader on land...

If history were music, then the genre of this book would be punk. For nearly 400 years, it has been widely accepted that Oliver Cromwell committed civilian atrocities at Drogheda...

Most political parties are created to win power, but Cumann na nGaedheal was built by men already running the country. 'The Cosgrave Party' tells the story of a political party...

As the twentieth century drew to a close, people in all parts of Ireland began to recover the memory of the First World War as the last great common experience...

A moving and often amusing collection of fiction, poetry and autobiography by top-selling and award-winning authors. Tales of blood and bloodlines - Irish grandmothers, ma's and da's, the Famine and...