Irish History

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.

Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans shows how the massacre at Genevan Barracks marked an end to the old Europe of diverse political forms, and the ascendancy of powerful states seeking empire and markets-in many respects the end of enlightenment itself.

Between 1919 and 2011, the president of Ireland was a married person. Yet, there is no reference to the president’s family in the 1937 Constitution. Beyond media curiosity, public discussion and scholarly interest in the wife or husband of the president is surprisingly rare.