Irish History

A history of Enniskerry

This book tells of the pivotal role played by 'ordinary' Cork women in the War of Independence, 1916-1923. Most of these women did not feature in recorded history, and their importance to Ireland's struggle for independence is only now being acknowledged

80-page booklet on the life of Joseph MacDonagh, Thomas' MacDonagh's youngest brother. An extraordinary, forgotten figure of the period. Sinn Féin activist, hunger striker, Minister for Labour, tragically dies during a spell of imprisonment in Mountjoy Jail during the Civil Wa.

This correspondence, unpublished and almost unknown until now, opens up to us the world of a great Irish scholar in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. These letters are published and commented upon for the first time by the leading medievalist, Richard Sharpe FBA, Professor of Diplomatic at Oxford and Fellow of Wadham College.

The Lilliput Press is proud to reissue this iconic view of Dublin's northside docks area in the 1980s, which comprises Ronan Sheehan's text and over 50 black and white photographs by Brendan Walsh.

A diverse selection of highlights from the collection of the Library of Trinity College Dublin, home of the world-famous Book of Kells and many other cultural treasures.

This is an extraordinary account by a gifted insider of an historic negotiation to rival the diary of Tom Jones (Lloyd George’s trusted adviser) of the negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, also recalling other classic accounts of diplomatic negotiations that have shaped the world.

This is an extraordinary account by a gifted insider of an historic negotiation to rival the diary of Tom Jones (Lloyd George’s trusted adviser) of the negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, also recalling other classic accounts of diplomatic negotiations that have shaped the world.

On the eve of the American Civil War, 1.6 million Irish-born people were living in the United States. From that as its starting point, coloured by sadness, the author has crafted the stories of thirty-five Irish families whose lives were emblematic of the nature of the Irish nineteenth-century emigrant experience.

This is the story of the forgotten role of the 200,000 Irish men and women who were involved in various ways in the American Civil War.