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Militant Nationalism
University of Minnesota Press 1999; US$ 84.00Why do some militant nationalists turn to electoral politics while others resist?and even seek to destroy?that arena? Cynthia L. Irvin examines two cases of electoral interventions by nationalist organizations engaged in violent political competition: in Northern Ireland and in the Basque provinces of Spain. Through her research, she offers important... more...
British Democracy and Irish Nationalism 1876-1906
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 34.00Major new study of the impact of Home Rule on liberalism and popular radicalism in Britain and Ireland. more...
Medieval Ireland
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 242.00Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia brings together in one authoritative resource the multiple facets of life in Ireland before and after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169, from the sixth to sixteenth century. Multidisciplinary in coverage, this A?Z reference work provides information on historical events, economics, politics, the arts, religion, intellectual... more...
Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 105.00This collection explores popular culture in Ireland and Ireland in popular, from Fanfic to Orange Parades, from Boybands to the Blessed Virgin Mary and from Celebrity Tourism to the Gaelic Athletic Association. The essays examine local and global Irishness, focusing on how gender, sexuality, and race shape contemporary postmodernism in Ireland. more...
Irish Impressions
IHS Press 2002; US$ 12.95Written at the defining moment when Ireland was heading toward complete national independence, Chesterton's study of the Irish question demonstrates that if both the English and the Irish had modified their attitudes slightly, subsequent Anglo-Irish relations could have been radically improved. Unlike most historians, he tackles the question from... more...
Ireland
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 37.99The ultimate guide to the archaeological sites of the island of Ireland, including over 250 plans and illustrations and expert and detailed coverage of all Ireland's major archaeological treasures. - ;Ireland is a country rich in archaeological sites. Ireland: An Oxford Archaeological Guide provides the ultimate handbook to this fascinating heritage.... more...
Luck and the Irish
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 21.99Roy Foster is one of Ireland's leading historians, the author of the much acclaimed two-volume biography of Yeats as well as the definitive history Modern Ireland, which has been hailed as "dazzling" (New York Times Book Review) and "elegant, erudite, wise, witty" (Irish Times). Now, this brilliant writer offers a "short... more...
Ireland and the British Empire
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 49.99This is the first comprehensive history of Ireland and the British Empire. It examines the different phases of Ireland's colonial status from the seventeenth century until the present, along with the impact of Irish people, politics, and nationalism on the Empire at large. The result is a new interpretation of Irish history and its place in the... more...
A New History of Ireland, 1
Clarendon Press 2005; US$ 60.00In this first volume of the Royal Irish Academy's multi-volume A New History of Ireland a wide range of national and international scholars, in every field of study, have produced studies of the archaeology, art, culture, geography, geology, history, language, law, literature, music, and related topics that include surveys of all previous scholarship... more...
The I.R.A. and its Enemies
Oxford University Press, UK 1999; US$ 40.00What is it like to be in the I.R.A., to fight them, or to be at their mercy? This book explores the lives, deaths, enemies, and victims of the most powerful guerrillas of twentieth-century Ireland: those of the Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923. Drawing on an unprecedented body of sources, including numerous interviews this is a uniquely intimate study... more...









