In 1845, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, which was the richest and most powerful nation in the world. Ireland was producing a surplus of food. However, between 1845...
The Irish language has thirty-two words for field. Among them are: Geamhar – a field of corn-grass Tuar – a field for cattle at night Réidhleán – a field for...
In the summer of 2023, playwright Bernadette MacFarland sat down with female relatives of the thirteen men shot dead on Bloody Sunday and listened to their stories. These recorded interviews...
Memories, adventures and short stories of Belfast parish life. The author was born in Wallasey, England in 1930. He received his education from his Christian Brothers on Falls Road. Former...
The remarkable story of William and James Roantree from Leixlip, Co. Kildare William Francis Roantree famously shook his fist at the British Empire when he made his way, aged 87,...
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...
From the first symptoms of serious unrest - the Divis Street riots of 1964 - to the tortuous political manoeuvrings culminating in the 2003 Assembly elections, the book traces the...
Bloodthirsty buccaneers and buried treasure, fierce sea battles and cold-blooded murders, Barbary ducats and silver pieces of eight. Des Ekin embarks on a roadtrip around the entire coast of Ireland,...
Cage Eleven by Gerry Adams Gerry Adams' account of interment without trial in the 1970s in Long Kesh prison. Written while Adams was a prisoner, the pieces were originally smuggled...
Bobby Sands was 27 years old when he died. He spent almost nine years of his life in prison because of his Irish republican activities. He died, in prison, on...
In 1935, a Gaeltacht colony was created in the townland of Rath Cairn, Co. Meath, for 27 Irish-speaking families. Fianna Fail had achieved an overall majority in the wake...
Bobby Sands was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who died on hunger strike while imprisoned in the H Blocks of Long Kesh. He was the leader of...
Updated edition with many more biographies and a new introduction by the author. Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics, women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom, risking...
The Peer the Priests and the Press: A Story of the Demise of Irish Landlordismby Roy GreensladeLord George Augusta Hill was the godson of a British king and the son...
On the morning of the 1920 GAA Great Challenge Match, the IRA shot dead a team of British officers in Dublin. Convinced the killers were in the Croke Park crowd,...
What lies beneath? The Great Irish Famine is a story that has been told for several generations and is the single most pivotal experience in modern Irish history. Now, acclaimed...
Martin Doyle, Books Editor of The Irish Times, offers a personal, intimate history of the Troubles seen through the microcosm of a single rural parish, his own, part of both...
The perfect introduction to Ireland’s dramatic fight for sovereignty Gaining independence from British rule has dominated Irish history since the plantation of Ulster. This book focuses on the lead up...
Placenames are an incomparable and irreplaceable part of our heritage on account of the light they throw on the shape of the landscape and the history of human occupation. This...
Kinsale, Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601 As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation....
A handbook to the events and locations of the Easter 1916 Rising. There are so many different versions of the story of Easter Week 1916. Lorcan Collins, an acknowledged expert...
The Normans are coming! In the spring of 1169, a Norman force in Wales was preparing a fleet for sea: Fitz Gerald, Barry, Fitz Martin, de Courcy, Prendergast, Fitz Gibbon,...
It’s A Time-Travelling Journey Through Ireland … It’s A Historopedia! Buckle up and get ready to travel back in time with John and Fatti Burke’s new adventure through Ireland’s history. This...
