Irish Academic Press Ltd

Novelist, short-story writer, critic, memoirist, broadcaster and journalist: Benedict Kiely (1919-2007) was not only one of the best known but one of the most artistically and culturally distinctive men of letters of his day. His fascination with the island of Ireland, the myths and memories of its people, and the many-voiced quality of its traditions, has secured for him a unique place in the country's literary history.

The University of Limerick (UL), the first university to be established since the foundation of the Irish state, came about through determined local campaigns. This sumptuously illustrated volume celebrates UL’s fiftieth anniversary, presenting fifty contributions from or about people associated with the university.

Ambitious and novel in its approach, Forging the Border: Donegal and Derry in Times of Revolution, 1911-1925 fills an important lacuna, and challenges long-held assumptions and beliefs about the road to partition in the north-west.

Prince and Warner offer us two richly-detailed, engaging narratives that intertwine to present a new history of the start of the Troubles in Belfast and Derry - one that also establishes a foundation for comparison with similar developments elsewhere in the world.