Irish History

The life and political career of William Conolly, a key figure in the establishment of the eighteenth century protestant ascendancy in Ireland.

Renaissance Galway is the next ancillary publication from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas. The subject of the book is the remarkable `pictorial map' of Galway, which was produced in the mid-seventeenth century.

In this innovative work, Alan Ward uses the pivotal event in twentieth-century Irish history as a prism through which to survey Irish history from the twelfth century to the present.

This work examines Irish periodicals as a network of ideas that played a vital role as a space for public debate in the year of home rule.

This full-length biographical study of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century is now reissued by UCD Press. Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, trailblazing feminist and part of a pioneering generation, played a significant role in the early Irish Republic.

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.