Irish History

he first edition of the letters of Denis Devlin, Irish poet, translator and diplomat, this volume brings together a personal and professional correspondence that has until now been scattered across archives in Europe and North America.

This is the remarkable story of one of the most celebrated and decorated Irish soldiers ever to fight in overseas service, and who was considered in all opinion as the Duke of Wellington’s ‘strong right arm’. Marshal William Carr Beresford: ‘The ablest man I have yet seen with the army’

The full story of Winston Churchill's lifelong engagement with Ireland and the Irish. A long overdue book which at last addresses the most neglected part of Churchill's legacy, on both sides of the Irish Sea.

REPRINT. Aimed at the student and general reader, this is a study of Ireland’s people, landscape and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of Brian Bórama.

A study of Irish pictures and sculpture that opens up the subject by providing a interdisciplinary approach. It covers diverse topics such as the representation of the Irish peasant, the behind-the-scenes tensions in setting up a national gallery for Ireland, the erecting of political monuments, Church art, and West of Ireland landscape painting.

At the time of his death in 1945, Albert Power was the leading nationalist sculptor in the Irish Free State, yet within a few decades he was almost forgotten. This first major examination of his life and career tells of one artist's contribution to national identity before and after political independence.

Presenting the history of Travellers in twentieth-century Ireland, this work describes the people who travelled Irish roads, showing how and why they were distinguishable from settled people. It demonstrates that the alienation and unpopularity of this cultural minority were a consequence of developments in state and society from 1922.

This book brings together a series of essays which illuminate the history of the Irish flour milling industry from the medieval period to the present day. Milling was one of Ireland's foremost industries, playing a critically important role in the local economy of many districts, processing some of the key components in the Irish food supply.