Irish History

Collection of essays by Hubert Butler, edited by Chris Agee and Jacob Agee, published by The Irish Pages Press

The story is similar to that of the RMS Leinster, torpedoed by the Germans in WW1 and focuses on all aspects of the tragedy. The ship, the sinking, the people who were lost and survived. The authors traced a member of every family descended and also held a centenary. A packed book and the profits go to the RNLI.

Spiritual Wounds challenges the widespread belief that the contentious events of the Irish Civil War (1922–23) were covered in a total blanket of silence. The book uncovers a new archive of published testimonies by pro- and anti-treaty men and women, written in both English and Irish. Most of the testimonies discussed were produced in the 1920s and 1930s and nearly all have been overlooked in historical study to date. This is despite the fact that many of these writings were bestsellers in their own time.

Ailerán was one of the most distinguished scholars at the School of Clonard in the 7th century / Structure / Irish features of the text / Scholarly literature / other works ascribed to Aileran / The manuscripts / The manuscripts of Sedulius Scottus / Recesio Sedulii Scotti / Translation / Hiberno-Latin authors / The Carolingian era / The onomastic sources / The orthography of the Hebrew names/ References to the Old Testament and New Testament.

They came in the holds of overcrowded ships, packed in among cargo and animals. They were sold to others to work as hard and under as dismal conditions as their owners chose. They were taken to the West Indies, to Barbados, to the American colonies, and beyond. A familiar story, is it not? But these immigrants, derived of all personal freedom, were Irish, and their servitude started long before black slavery was common.

The first book in over a century to present the stories of the Fianna as a complete and continuous cycle

Richard Bartlett was a talented cartographer and topographical draughtsman who practised in Ireland at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Although his early life and career are poorly documented, he left what for this period must be reckoned a substantial output comprising between nineteen and twenty-seven items depending on how they are counted.

This book tells a history of Ireland by looking at the development of 100 medieval Irish words drawn from the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of the Irish Language. Words tell stories and encapsulate histories and this book captures aspects of Ireland’s changing history by examining the changing meaning of 100 key words. The book is aimed at a general readership and no prior knowledge of the Irish language is required to delve into the fascinating insights it provides.