Irish History

"The Michael Collins Album" is a unique collection of photographs that catalogue the life of this great man. It includes many illustrations of the buildings and locations he would have...

The dramatic failure of the potato crop in mid-19th century Europe caused widespread hunger and distress. In Ireland the impact was probably the greatest, where a million people died and...

Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland-in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues...

*Traces the emergence and development of Irish social policy from its origins to contemporary timesThis new book offers undergraduate students a core text for the study of Irish social policy,...

Dublin was the cockpit of the Irish Revolution. It was in the capital that Dail Eireann convened and built an alternative government to challenge the authority of Dublin Castle; it...

An exploration of the rich herbal healing traditions of Ireland which resonate through the country's landscape, music, festivals and language.Indigenous medicine, no matter where it exists in the world, is...

1916 in 1966: Commemorating the Easter Rising' looks closely at how the Irish government reinvented the message of Easter 1916 through the official golden jubilee celebrations of the nationalist Rising....

Eve in Ireland explores the political and cultural structures used to control Irish women between 1922 and 1972. It challenges the reader to reflect on a shameful and degrading aspect...

Kilkenny, 1324. Alice Kyteler, outspoken daughter of a wealthy Flemish banker, has survived four husbands and is beset by the gossip and rivalry of a medieval Anglo-Norman town. Her beautiful...

'Tremendous ... If you are to read only one book about the modern IRA, this should be it'Irish TimesSouth Armagh was described as 'Bandit Country' by Merlyn Rees when he...

The period 1913-23 in Dublin encompassed the Lockout, the Home Rule debates, the First World War, the Easter Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. These iconic events...

FOREWORD by former Ireland fly half Ollie Campbell'I was delighted, a few years ago, when Peter Bills agreed to write my autobiography. I have always admired his writing and his...

Irish identity is best understood from a maritime perspective. For eight millennia the island has been a haven for explorers, settlers, colonists, navigators, pirates and traders, absorbing goods and peoples...

*Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2024, Irish Book Awards**A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year*'Remarkable: touching, tragic and terribly human' Sunday Times'Enthralling ... close to perfect ... it will speak...

'What do you remember?''Oh ... I remember everything.'In her early life, Mary Forde O'Neill withstood the brutalities of Ireland's most notorious institutions. Born in Tuam's mother and baby home, she...

This short history of Ireland since the 1790s is concise, comprehensive and challenging. Written with the general reader in mind, it assumes no previous knowledge of the subject.Modern history starts...

There are nine breeds of dog that are native to Ireland: four terriers, three gun dogs, and two hounds. In The Curious History of Irish Dogs, David Blake Knox tells...

'An excellent and comprehensive exploration of this fascinating subject.' - Philip Carr-Gomm, author Druid Mysteries'Samhain was the entry point into winter, a time of hardship, cold and hunger ... It...

The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the...

Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing. In a century of unrelenting, bloody...

This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement (400 - 1200 AD). Within a broad political framework it explores the...

'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...

The story of the life of Henry Joy McCracken is fused with the history and environs of eighteenth-century Belfast. Of stout Presbyterian stock, McCracken's family were the founders of the...

From one of Ireland's best known and most listened to radio programmes comes a wonderful selection of new writing. Originally broadcast by Sunday Miscellany on RTAe Radio 1, these essays,...

The Irish Civil War ended in 1923. Eighty years on, documentary-maker Tom Hurley wondered if there were many people left from across Ireland who experienced the years 1919 to 1923,...

In 1961, during the United Nations intervention in the Katanga conflict in the Congo, central Africa, a company of Irish UN troops was forced to surrender to troops loyal to...

This is a book about greed. It is a blow-by-blow account of the rise of corruption in Irish politics and planning, focusing in particular on the unholy alliance forged between...

Ferriter covers such subjects as abortion, pregnancy, celibacy, contraception, censorship, infanticide, homosexuality, prostitution, marriage, popular culture, social life and the various hidden Irelands associated with sexual abuse - all in...