Irish History

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Eason Favourite Book of the Year 2022 'she is no small town, and this is no small story . . .'BASED ON THE POPULAR DUBLIN HISTORY PODCASTA companion to the...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019 TIME's #1 Best Nonfiction Book...

In 1814, the Richmond Lunatic Asylum at Grangegorman in Dublinstarted an extraordinary programme of asylum building across Ireland,aimed at alleviating the suffering of people with mental illness who werehomeless, in...

The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher KILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret...

The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'With the pace...

'A riveting and important read, forensically documenting the state's failings while also relating the traumatic human fallout for a whole community for whom life would never be the same again'...

From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notorious double-murder, for readers of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, or Emmanuel Carrere's The AdversaryIn 1982 Malcolm Macarthur, the wealthy heir...

Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in IrelandSinn Fein is the most popular political party in...

Moore Street has long held a special place in the hearts of Irish people. Whether playing host to its local customers or to the generations of country folk who visit...

Here is the story of Ireland's Civil War in colour - a defining moment in Irish history brought to life for the first time in hand-coloured photographs. The events of...

THE IRISH BESTSELLER'Ferriter has richly earned his reputation as one of Ireland's leading historians' Irish Independent'Absorbing ... A fascinating exploration of the Civil War and its impact on Ireland and...

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived 'off the land' in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived 'on the land' as well. Agriculture was the only...

On the morning of 21 November 1920, Jane Boyle walked to Sunday Mass in the church where she would be married five days later. That afternoon she went with her...

'Garda Sheehan and Private Kelly were killed in front of me . . . I survived in some miraculous way' Don TideyNovember 1983. As top supermarket executive Don Tidey sets...

Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not a good place to be a woman. Among the wave of emigrants from Ireland to North America were many, many...

From 1918 to 1922 Michael Collins kept working diaries of his busy revolutionary life. They are a collection of hurried notes, necessary lists, names and appointments, things to do, and...

ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his own career-long engagement with the complexities of Irish identity,...

Dublin's twenty bridges cross the tidal section of the River Liffey flowing through its centre; they were built over a span of a thousand years. Each has made a contribution...

The Colour of Ireland: County by County 1860-1960 is a photographic celebration of the history, culture, people and places that make up a century of life in Ireland. Covering all...

Grace O'Malley is the story of one remarkable woman's quest for survival and fulfilment, by land and by sea.In 1979, Anne Chambers' original biography of Ireland's pirate queen, airbrushed from...

'One of the most compulsive and moving autobiographies I have ever read...' The Cork Examiner 'A powerful, passionate and often bitter account of life in Ireland from the twenties to...

Dublin during the nineteenth century could be an unforgiving city, especially for the unwary. Established in 1836, the Metropolitan Police who patrolled its dark alleys and streets fought running battles...

When the attacks against Catholics known as the Belfast pogrom erupted in July 1920, Tom Glennon was a 20-year old officer in the IRA. The next three years took him...

This new volume in the award-winning Atlas Series presents fresh perspectives on, and a nuanced understanding of, the history of the Irish Civil War (1922-3). The centenary of the Civil...

A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2023 A Spectator Book of the Year 2023 The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller 'As taut as a fictional thriller' Mail on Sunday...

This is a book about life and death over 8,500 years in Ireland. It explores the richness of the mortuary record that we have for Irish prehistory (8000 BC to...

'Fascinating . . . O'Driscoll's research is impressive' Ben Macintyre, The Times'It would be hard to overstate how good this book is . . . a fantastic read' Sunday Independent'Superb...

A ground-breaking history of the twentieth century in Ireland, written on the most ambitious scale by a brilliant young historian. It is significant that it begins in 1900 and ends...

'At least in The Handmaid's Tale they value babies, mostly. Not so in the true stories here' Margaret Atwood '[A] furious, necessary book' Sinead GleesonUntil alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church,...

A feminist history of Europe's largest red-light district and an examination of the lives of the women who worked there.Tucked away in Dublin's north inner city, Monto - purported to...

Ballykinlar Internment Camp was the first mass internment camp to be established by the British in Ireland during the War of Independence. Situated on the County Down coast and opened...

In June 1940, the fall of France prompted General Charles de Gaulle to make an impassioned rallying call to his fellow citizens to fight back against the Germans. His famous...

A Murderer. A Leader. The Scandal of an Era.'Reads like a thriller but is sadly all too true ... a brilliant account of shocking crimes and the dramatic political crisis...

"The bullets didn't just travel in distance, they travelled in time. Some of those bullets never stop travelling." Jack Kennedy, father of James KennedyOn 15th August 1969, nine-year-old Patrick Rooney...

This book explores the lives and deaths of over 300 men, women and children buried in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery who died due to the War of Independence and Civil War....

The fourth book in the acclaimed series!Ireland's premier photographers, The Lensmen, captured the essence of life in Ireland during the 1980s in their stunning and thought provoking images. This collection...

During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known...

Encompassing stories of some of Ireland's best known characters as well as key moments in Ireland's past, this pocket history recalls the country's struggles through dark times, its successes, its...

The Number One BestsellerShortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2021'A great achievement . . . Brilliant, engaging and essential' Colm Toibin'At once intimate and epic, this is a landmark book'...

A true story of murder and vengeance, a shattered community and a miscarriage of justice that echoes down the decadesOctober 1971. Nineteen-year-old Una Lynskey vanishes near her home in Co....