Few events in Irish history have generated such an output of writing, reaction and controversy as the siege of Derry in 1689. In fact, the events of those month…
This book seeks to further unravel the working experiences of Irish women in the period from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries.
This book re-evaluates the career of the man described shortly after his death as 'the greatest archbishop of Dublin since St Laurence O'Toole'. Walsh was endow…
Edward Daly was Bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1993. Before then he had been a curate in the Bogside during some of the most turbulent and dramatic years of the N…
Between 1947 and 1957 Ireland received assistance in varying ways under the European Recovery Programme which was more commonly known as the Marshall Plan. The …
Since the early 1990s Kevin Myers was the mainstay of the Irish Times ‘Irishman’s Diary’ column. ‘Did you see Myers today?’ Often we meant to and didn’t. Often …
This collection of essays from scholars based in Ireland, England, Canada, and the United States addresses the symbolic representation of nationalist history in…
In recent years there has been growing interest in the contrasts and parallels between the development of Ireland and that of its closest neighbours: England, S…
they shall grown no old, as we that are left grow old, age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn, at the going down of the sun and in the morning we wil…
From the 1870s to the present day, the work of Irish artists has been frequently presented through the exhibitions of a number of independent art societies, inc…