Published by the National University of Ireland. Lia Fáil was originally published by the National University of Ireland as a journal of Irish research. Four v…
Douglas Hyde (1860-1949) was founder and first President of the Gaelic League, the first Professor in Modern Irish at University College Dublin and an active me…
Tracing its history to the foundation of the Irish Volunteers in 1913, the Irish Defence Forces has evolved beyond recognition from the force that emerged in ta…
Little has been written on Trinity College’s role in Easter Week 1916 as a ‘loyal nucleus’ dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to r…
‘Some men see things as they are and say “why?”; I dream things that never were and say “why not?”. These words of George Bernard Shaw might well have been th…
The publication of this book in 1999 provided the first detailed examination of the many Irish men and women, all volunteers, who served in the Second World War…
Barristers played significant roles in Irish public life in the twentieth century as lawmakers, politicians, civil servants, broadcasters, judges, academics and…
With a foreword by John Bowman. The revival of interest in the sacrifices made by so many Irishmen of all backgrounds in the First World War makes the appearan…
