Eamon de Valera has often been characterised as a stern, un-bending, devious and divisive Irish politician. Diarmuid Ferriter challenges this caricature using letters, documents and photographs. This book chronicles the extraordinary career of the most significant politician of modern Irish history.
A photographic essay by the French photographer Nicolas Feve, 'Browsing Connemara', with texts drawn from the Connemara trilogy by Tim Robinson, cartographer. Features three new unpublished essays by Tim Robinson.
This illustrated study offers an overview of Irish primary education at a time of momentous change. The authors use the data from the 1824 British parliamentary Inquiry to carry out a statistical analysis of the Irish schools system.
Maps and texts: evualuating the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, edited by H.B. Clarke and Sarah Gearty, brings together proceedings from the annual IHTA seminar series ‘Maps and texts: using the Irish Historic Towns Atlas’ that took place in the Royal Irish Academy from 2012 to 2014. The book contains comparative essays on Irish towns in thematic sections.
This richly illustrated book is a history of Irish foreign policy, rather than an institutional history of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade itself (though the two obviously go hand in hand). It explores how a small state such as Ireland has related to the wider world, by examining how Irish diplomats and politicians responded to the challenges presented by the upheavals of the twentieth century and how this small European state engaged with the world, from the Versailles peace conference of 1919 to the globalisation of the twenty-first century.
This new survey constitutes a fresh baseline study using up-to-date methodology to provide comprehensive description of the island from its bedrocks to biotic communities. This second volume examines the geology of Clare Island.
Born in Buffalo, New York in 1870, the author took up the post of US Minister to Ireland in 1940. In this title, the author reveals life in a privileged milieu amid the darker currents of war, political discord, collaboration and espionage.
This book examines the historical background and contextualisation of Ireland in Europe; representations of Ireland in European literature and Irish literature in Europe; Irish art, architecture, film and music in European discourses; and European studies, tourism and journalism.