Irish History

This book provides the reader with an indispensable source for understanding the personalities and the issues behind the long march for women's equality and national independence in Ireland.

Exile, Emigration and Irish Writing is the first book to analyze the experience of exile and emigration in Irish writing.

The first operation under anesthesia in Ireland took place 175 years ago when John MacDonnell, a surgeon at the Richmond Hospital, Dublin amputated the arm of Mary Kane on January 1st 1847.

An examination of the key events in the field of aviation during the five years between Harry Ferguson's first flight and the outbreak of the Great War. It studies the people, the aircraft and the places involved, and makes much use of contemporary sources to reveal the story through the eyes of those who witnessed these exciting times.

In May 1984, John Waters drove to Dublin to begin a career in journalism during which he was to specialise in raising unpopular issues of public importance. Three decades later, with the dust settling on his departure from Irish journalism, he finds himself back in the parish in Sligo where his father grew up a century before, looking back at the hopes and expectations of his youth and thanking his lucky stars to have escaped from the ideological cesspit the Dublin media had become.

2020 Publication.

Local history of North Belfast

This history of the Abbey discusses the plays and the personalities in their underlying historical and political context, to give due weight to the theatre's work in Irish, and to take stock of its artistic and financial development up to the end of the millennium.