Irish History

Galway is the twenty-eight in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas Series, which assembles topographical documentations on the development of Irish towns and publishes them as individual fascicles. CD-ROM included.

This map shows historic Galway plotted onto a detailed modern base. Over 200 sites and streets,many of which no longer survive in the present-day are depicted in colour and listed in an accompanying index. An attached booklet contains a commentary on the urban development of Galway and gives a chronological list of sites included on the map.

In this finely researched and accessible account of multiple struggles over 150 years, themes of politics, class, gender and power are deftly interwoven to tell the fascinating story of the Irish National Teacher's Organisation.

Documents in chilling detail how the British government turned to violent and illegal measures in its fight against Irish Republicanism.

This is the first in-depth examination of the Irish Revolution in Fermanagh and its political, economic and social context.

Belfast Charitable Society was established in 1752 with the purpose of raising funds to build a poorhouse and hospital for the poor of Belfast. From here, it would go on to assume increasing responsibility for a range of matters relating to health, welfare and public order in a town that, during the nineteenth century, grew from a large market town into a major industrial city.

Echoes from a Civil War tells two stories of violent death in rural Ireland during the 1920s. Based on a wide range of sources, reinforced by skillful and sensitive use of the oral history of each community, the memories of people who lived through it, and which he has carefully gathered over two decades, this is a fascinating book, which should be read by anyone interested in the Civil War or the history of community conflict.

Stanislaus (Stasko) Markiewiecz was overshadowed by his famous father and stepmother, Casimir and Constance. He was educated in Ireland, conscripted into the Russian Navy in World War One and held hostage by the Bolsheviks. One of his letters on a cloth was smuggled out of Russia in a coat. His story is a fascinating episode in the connection between Ireland and Poland.

Sisters against the Empire tells the remarkable story of one of Ireland's most famous families at the time of the Easter Rising and its aftermath. Countess Constance Markievicz, one of the leaders of the Rising, and her sister Eva Gore-Booth, her closest ally and confidante.