Independent

For 800 years the Barnewall De Berneval family walked a dangerous tightrope straddling English rule and Irish rights. This book finally tells their truly amazing story.

This fascinating new book looks into the history of cricket in Fingal and explains why the sport has found a home there.

The history of 2BP, Ireland's first licensed radio station that broadcast from the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire in August 1923. The broadcasts were surrounded by political intrigue and showed both a desire and a need for a full time broadcasting station in the new Irish Free State.

Aidan Collins has always been an outsider, a weirdo, an oddball. But the arrival of his worldly, urbane cousin Dan, changes his life completely.

Anyone with an interest in Irish history is aware of the legend of Dan Breen.

‘The Irish Forestry Society 1902–1923’ is a hugely interesting and investigative piece of research and it reveals much about Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The Irish parliament has become radical, raucous and rancorous, trawling, brawling and bawling to hide its failure to represent the people equally and fairly. It directs its energy toward character assassination and denigration of its predecessors in opposition, to the detriment of respect and toleration for the Irish people and the institutions of government.