Books Related to Ireland

Volume I: Young Ireland and the Rising Volume 2: Young Irelanders beyond the Rising

Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county

In From My Heart, Linda writes honestly about growing up in her big Irish family and finding fame with her sisters in The Nolans and reveals the shocking family secrets and feuds that threatened to tear them apart. She also describes her original battle with breast cancer and how the death of her husband left her deeply depressed, to the point of feeling suicidal. Just as she’d learned to embrace life again, and even to start dating, the cancer came back . . .

A study of the activities of violent republicans in Britain during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, 1919-1923, including gunrunning and their campaign of violence, as well as the reaction of the authorities.

What do Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Black Lives Matter (BLM), the Paris-Dakar Rally, an 'Islamic' raid on an obscure Irish fishing village, and the less known St Benedict the Black have in common? Answer: slavery.

Renowned Irish photographer Giles Norman presents more than 150 of his most enduring black-and-white images in this remarkable collection, now in paperback. From rugged headlands and windswept oceans to fragile flora and shadowed skies, these images are as enduring as they are iconic and capture the timeless splendour of Ireland.

In these pages, David Norris reveals for the first time the full, no-holds-barred story of his presidential campaign, and of how he recovered from the turmoil.A Kick Against the Pricks is a brilliant, deeply revealing autobiography, a remarkable journey from the margins to the centre of Irish society.

Nano Nagle: The Life and the Legacy throws opens a new window on an unknown aspect of Irish social history, while also demonstrating Ireland’s significant contribution to the global history of female education.