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...
First published in 1926, most of these proverbs were first heard by the Author in West Kerry, but could be found in any Gaeltacht in Munster . This book of Proverbs...
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...
“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...
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...
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,...
The crown was the symbol of British power in Ireland, and in December 1921 opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty claimed that its terms tied Ireland to the Crown...
Editor - AJ Hughes Patsy Dan Rodgers (or Peatsaí Dan Mac Ruairí in Gaelic) was born at Westland Row in Dublin in 1944. At the age of four, he was adopted...
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...
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...
An account of Irish customs and their resonance. The result of five years of study, this book describes Irish traditions observed on specific days of the year and draws mainly on...
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...
REBEL WOMEN: Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim 1914-1924 The early years of the twentieth century saw nationalists in County Antrim fighting for their survival during...
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...
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,...
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...
‘I was in the Army over thirty years and Derry was the most resentful place I ever served, even the dogs hated us.’ When civil rights protests in the 1960s...
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,...
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...
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...
