Irish History

A vivid portrait of everyday life in both urban and rural Limerick in the early twentieth century.

An inside account of the H-Blocks hunger strike of the early 1980s.

This book will shock readers, and cause them to reevaluate everything they formerly held to be true about Stakeknife’s dirty war in Ireland.

Since ancient times, long before GPS, radio or radar, lighthouses have served as beacons helping ships navigate Ireland's sometimes treacherous waters. Artist Roger O'Reilly's illustrated celebration of these architectural gems will be treasured by anyone who finds comfort, intrigue or excitement in the glimmer of a lighthouse through the darkness.

The new Historical Dictionary of Gaelic Placenames, prepared by the Locus Project in the Department of Early and Medieval Irish at University College Cork, is the first of its kind to appear for almost 100 years.

This volume is the first full-length publication to systematically unpack and analyze the linguistic practices and ideologies of "new speakers" specifically in an Irish language context.