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The Royal Irish Constabulary

A Complete Alphabetical List of Officers and Men, 1816-1922

Jim Herlihy

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In 1836 the four provincial constabularies of the Constabulary of Ireland were amalgamated to form the Irish Constabulary, which in September 186…

Directory of Historic Dublin Guilds

Second Edition

Mary Clark & Raymond Refausse, editors

First published in 1993, and winner of the Phillimore Prize, this directory is re-issued in an expanded format, with full colour illustrations throughout. A mus…

Iona, Kells, and Derry

The history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba

Máire Herbert

First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north Britain in the era between the sixth a…

The Irish Ringfort

Matthew Stout

This book, first published in 1997, examines all aspects of Irish ringforts – their shape and size, their date and function – with special attention to national…

The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin

Irish Traditional Singer

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Elizabeth (Bess) Cronin, ‘The Queen of Irish Song’ as Séamus Ennis called her, was probably the best-known Irish female traditional singer of her time. Collecto…

Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism

The Friends of Irish Freedom, 1916-1935

Michael Doorley

This book traces the history of the Friends of Irish Freedom (FOIF), an Irish-American nationalist movement launched in New York in 1916. At its peak, the organ…

Ireland under the Normans, 1169–1333

Goddard Henry Orpen

New in paperback

Almost a century after the publication of his magnum opus, Goddard Henry Orpen’s Ireland under the Normans remains a work of quite the most st…

The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland

La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande

Evelyn Mullally, editor

New in paperback

The Deeds of the Normans in Ireland (La Geste des Engleis en Yrlande) is a primary source for the history of Ireland in the twelfth century. F…

Government, war and society in medieval Ireland

Essays by Edmund Curtis, A.J. Otway-Ruthven and James Lydon

Peter Crooks, editor

In the late twelfth century, Ireland was absorbed into the dominions of the kings of England. This transformed the social and political life of the island, with…

The Nine Years War, 1593–1603

O'Neill, Mountjoy and the military revolution

James O'Neill

The Nine Years War was one of the most traumatic and bloody conflicts in the history of Ireland. Encroachment on the liberties of the Irish lords by the English…

Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo

A military and diplomatic history, 1960–1

Michael Kennedy & Art Magennis

In 1961 Irish United Nations peacekeepers went into combat in the Congolese province of Katanga. It was the Irish Defence Forces’ first experience of active ser…

Ireland, Germany and the Nazis

Politics and diplomacy, 1919–1939

Mervyn O'Driscoll

An absorbing evaluation of independent Ireland’s response to the rise and consolidation of Nazism in Germany, this book places Irish-German relations in the con…