Irish History

Colour photgraphs throughout.

Belfast, part II, 1840 to 1900 is the seventeenth in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series, which assembles topographical documentations on the development of Irish towns and publishes them as individual fascicles.

Northern Ireland after the defeat of the IRA. A critical analysis of the Irish peace process.

YouTube sensation John D. Ruddy brings history to life with clarity and hilarity in videos that have amassed millions of views around the world. Here, his viral online hit, Manny Man, turns Ireland's tumultuous millennia of history into a fun and easy-to-understand story.

Two years before the Geat Famine (1845-51), Daniel O'Connell led a movement for the Repeal of the Act of Union (1801) between Great Britain and Ireland...

Lusk Faces and Places gives a flavour of Lusk from 1930s to the end of the 1960s, concentrating on people, places, activities, and memories from earlier years that might be lost.

A tragic death, a murder trial and a 170-year-old mystery - but what really happened? A compelling modern analysis of the Victorian murder trial that scandalised Ireland.

James Berry was the notorious hangman who ended the lives of over 100 criminals in Victorian Britain and Ireland. Tortured by nightmares as he tried to come to terms with the toll his gruesome work took on him, he played a central role in some of the crimes of the century, including the hanging of William Bury, the man suspected of being Jack the Ripper. When the Hangman Came to Galway focuses on a winter week in Irish history where Berry was tasked with bringing to a conclusion the case of two notorious murders in Galway, keeping readers transfixed as they journey with this fascinating character through nineteenth-century Ireland in all its gruesome glory.

The lives of all the executed leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising in one volume

A short history of the Windsor Road area from Victorian times to today.

Roman Imbroglio: Italy and Ireland During World War Two explores Ireland’s links to Italy in the period 1939–1945, in part drawing on the rich and fascinating material left by the Irish minister to Rome, Michael MacWhite, as well as by the Irish minister to the Vatican, T.J. Kiernan, and the Italian minister in Dublin, Vincenzo Berardis.

As a figure of thought, the concept of freedom tends to shuttle between abstraction and ideal. Located within the realm of lived experience however, freedom is invariably forged from context-specific constraints.