Irish History

Elections in Northern Ireland have long been unique in their political and constitutional magnitude, the melodramatic nature of the campaigns and the consequences of their outcomes. This book provides an overview of elections in Northern Ireland since the early twentieth century and the ways in which they were reported in the Belfast press.

The stories of twenty Irish feminists who rocked the system and changed history, told by one of Ireland's leading writers for young people.

Martin Parr has been taking photographs in Ireland for 40 years. His work covers many of the most significant moments in Ireland's recent history, encompassing the Pope's visit in 1979, when a third of the country's population attended Mass in Knock and Phoenix Park in Dublin, as well as gay weddings and start-up companies in 2019. It is difficult to think of a country that has changed so dramatically in this relatively short space of time.

Thomas Kettle was born on 9 February 1880, he was killed in the opening minutes of the allied invasion of Ginchy on 9 September 1916. Although he did not always choose the 'right side', Kettle in fact had a hand in nearly every major political struggle. This biography is as much a story of wasted potential as it is of great achievement.

A major new history of the experiences and activities of Irish nationalist women in the early twentieth century.

A practical introduction on various historic land records kept across the island of Ireland.

A view of the south of Ireland - political, social, geographical - through the eyes of a liberal northern protestant being asked to rejoin it.

Peter Pearson's Decorative Dublin is a feast for the eye, celebrating the city's decorative surfaces in ironwork, brickwork, stone, glass, plaster, its fanlights, doors and windows...and more.