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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The No.1 bestselling novel of the Great Irish Famine from one of Ireland's most beloved writersIreland's hopes for freedom are dashed with the arrival of a deadly potato blight that...
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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Although the island of Tory has been a stronghold of the Irish language for centuries, unlike other Gaelic islands off the coast of Ireland, this island does not have a...
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,...
This textbook is a translation of ‘Politics and Society in Northern Ireland, 1949-1993 (Option 5).’ It covers Option 5 of the “History of Ireland” section of the Leaving Cert syllabus....
The ten years between 1913 and 1923 were eventful and changing times for the people of Galway, both in the city and county. The political, economic and social life of...
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...
