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Roger Casement
The Lilliput Press 2011; US$ 18.94Séamas Ó Sìocháin has written what is the most voluminous biography of Casement and a significant contribution to an understanding of his life.' Frank Callinan, The Irish Times Roger Casement is among the most written about and mythologized figures in Irish history, yet has never, until now, been accorded such an impartial, full-scale documentary... more...
A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 54.95First published in 1923, this formative history of Ireland is an extensive study of the period from 1086 ? 1513. Beginning with the O?Brien High Kinship, Edmund Curtis takes us through the Anglo-Norman conquest and its sequel, ending with the death of Gerald ?the Great Earl? of Kildare in 1513, a date when the second English conquest of Ireland (the... more...
Celtic Revival?
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011; US$ 33.99Celtic Revival? explores what happens when a society loses its wealth, its faith in government, and its trust in its Church. The glorious rise of the Celtic Tiger in Ireland was thought by many to be a model for future economic growth for countries around the world; its dramatic crash in 2008 resonated equally widely. Yet despite the magnitude... more...
Inside the IRA
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 65.00The Irish Republican movement was one of the most significant revolutionary movements of the twentieth century. This book focuses on the issue of republican splits, which created the Provisional and Official republican movements, and the subsequent development of those movements. more...
The Same Age as the State
The O'Brien Press 2003; US$ 21.86Máire Cruise O'Brien explores the republican and revolutionary connections of her family as she was growing up, the fallout of the Civil War, and life in the Irish-speaking districts of Ireland almost a century ago Máire spent two years studying in post-war Paris where she met Beckett and Sylvia Beech, among others. She became the first ever Irish... more...
Global citizen and European republic
Manchester University Press 2007; US$ 95.00This book offers a new and innovative way of looking at Irish foreign policy, linking its development with changes in Irish national identity. Many debates within contemporary International Relations focus on the relative benefits of taking a traditional interest-based approach to the study of foreign policy as opposed to the more recently developed... more...
The IRA 1956-69
Manchester University Press 2011; US$ 95.00While there have been many books written about the IRA since 1916, comparatively little attention has been paid to the organisation during the 1960s, despite the fact that the internal divisions culminating in the 1969 split are often seen as key to the conflict which erupted that year.This book rederesses that vacuum and through an exhaustive survey... more...
Prelude to Restoration in Ireland
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 44.00This study fills a major gap in the mainstream narrative of Irish history by reconstructing political developments before the restoration of Charles II. It explains how colonists and Cromwellian newcomers combined uneasily to ensure that Charles's return was not accompanied by the return of previously-confiscated land to its Catholic owners. more...
Modern Ireland
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 9.99This title explores the notion of the 'Irish Question' and argues that there were in fact many Irish Questions which were continually articulated and reassessed according to the particular social, political, and economic conditions in which they developed. more...
The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 99.95This collection of essays brings together the main historians of the Irish Revolution, 1913-1923. Through detailed research and wide-ranging analysis of key themes, they provide answers to, and debate on, the fundamental questions concerning this period. more...









