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Killester

Killester

From medieval manor to garden suburb

Joseph Brady & Ruth McManus

Killester: from medieval manor to garden suburb explores the development of Killester from its earliest days as Killester Demense, through its transformation in…
Taking sides?

Taking sides?

Colonial and confessional menalités in early modern Ireland

Vincent Carey & Ute Lotz-Heumann, edtiors

This volume in honour of Professor Karl Bottigheimer examines the impact of the dramatic shifts in culture, society and politics on people in Ireland in the ear…
Ireland, Germany and the Nazis

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…
The world of Thomas Ward

The world of Thomas Ward

Sex and scandal in late-17th century Co. Antrim

Eamon Darcy

Why do a number of children look like the local dean? Did you hear that the bishop did not like the communion wine and spat it out, exclaiming “this is the base…
The Making of The Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985

The Making of The Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985

A Memoir by David Goodall

Frank Sheridan, editor

The Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) signed by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher on 15 November 1985 was unique in providing a treaty-based arrangement for the…
A century of scholarship

A century of scholarship

Travelling Students of the National University of Ireland

National University of Ireland

‘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 Sunday papers

The Sunday papers

A history of Ireland’s weekly press

Joe Breen & Mark O'Brien, editors

For over a century, the Irish Sunday newspaper has influenced social mores and political developments in Ireland. In this lively and engaging book, historians a…
Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

Alison FitzGerald, editor

Irish silver, for long renowned among collectors and connoisseurs, is increasingly being considered as an aspect of the material world of the past. Its making, …
A university in troubled times
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A university in troubled times

Queen's, Belfast, 1945–2000

Leslie A. Clarkson

Queen's, Belfast, grew out of the Queen's University in Ireland founded in 1845. It became independent in 1908-9 and until 1965 it was the only university in No…
Fugitive Ireland

Fugitive Ireland

European minority nationalists and Irish political asylum, 1937–2008

Daniel Leach

From 1937 to 1950 the Irish government granted political asylum to a number of European minority nationalists, many of whom were wanted for crimes of collaborat…