The Mansfields of Co. Kildare : A Franco-Irish Catholic elite family and their networks, 1870-1915 (Maynooth Studies in Local History)

A Nation Is Born celebrates a formative period in the history of the Irish state: the fifteen years during which we emerged from the rubble of wars and violence and set up as a fledgling country while establishing a diplomatic presence on the world stage.

REPRINT. Aimed at the student and general reader, this is a study of Ireland’s people, landscape and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of Brian Bórama.

Eugene Downing (1913-2003) was not your usual Irish brigader: a communist from his teenage years, an urbanised skilled worker, and an Irish language enthusiast. Downing spent nine months in the International Brigades Spain before being invalided home in December 1938. His memoirs are presented here in English for the first time.