Books Related to Ireland

Local history of North Belfast

This history of the Abbey discusses the plays and the personalities in their underlying historical and political context, to give due weight to the theatre's work in Irish, and to take stock of its artistic and financial development up to the end of the millennium.

Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans shows how the massacre at Genevan Barracks marked an end to the old Europe of diverse political forms, and the ascendancy of powerful states seeking empire and markets-in many respects the end of enlightenment itself.

Between 1919 and 2011, the president of Ireland was a married person. Yet, there is no reference to the president’s family in the 1937 Constitution. Beyond media curiosity, public discussion and scholarly interest in the wife or husband of the president is surprisingly rare.

Offers the first comprehensive study of the diplomatic relationship between America and Ireland in the 1930s.

The Road to Riverdance by Bill Whelan is a skilfully attuned record of one of Ireland's most famous and influential composers.

Haunted by the Waters is a stunning evocation of Ireland and a personal journey of discovery.

The Forgotten is a deeply moving work by Gerard Whelan, capturing the lives of the men and women of the parish of Castledermot who fought and, in many cases, died in the Great War.

This study of urban and cultural geography shows how Dublin's iconography evolved before and after the creation of the Irish Free State. Yvonne Whelan argues that a shift has taken place from an intensely political iconography to one that is increasingly apolitical.