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...
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...
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...
“What politicised me was the civil rights protest. It wasn’t anything I heard in the house, or even in my grandmother’s house in Donegal. There was no republicanism whatsoever in...
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...
In November 2023, the Dublin riots shocked Ireland and the wider world.Sparked by an immigrant's knife attack on three children, inflammatory online rumours spread in minutes. Parts of the city...
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...
From 1912 onwards Ireland saw reaction, war, insurrection, war of independence, and civil war. This book is a discussion about the period a century later.
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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....
