University College Dublin Press

The Centenary Classics series examines the change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionary period. Rising Out tells the story of Brigadier Sean Connolly, O/C of the Longford Brigade, who was fatally wounded in action on 11 March 1921 at Selton Hill by British forces during the War of Independence.

James 'Dongaree' Baird, a boilermaker in Harland and Wolff's shipyard, was one of hundreds of 'rotten Prods', and thousands of Catholics, driven from their place of work by loyalists in 1920.

How will Ireland redress its legacy of institutional abuse? What constitutes justice? What is Transitional Justice? How might democracy evolve if survivors' experiences and expertise were allowed to lead the response to a century of gender- and family separation-based abuses? REDRESS: Ireland's Institutions and Transitional Justice seeks the answers.

Exploring the (political) life of John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party tradition, this collection offers a new perspective on the legacy of the Redmond family using a longue duree approach, spanning from the nineteenth century Land War through to the death in 1952 of Bridget Redmond, the last member of the family elected to parliament.

Aideen O'Connor and Ria Mooney have different backgrounds, ambitions and creative visions. They come of age in an Ireland desperate to control and restrict women: their sexuality; their careers; their independent lives. They are united by one thing: a devotion to theatre and to Ireland's National Theatre in particular.

Using new, never-before seen archival material from the Bureau of Military History, Fergus O'Farrell documents Brugha's career as a revolutionary. This closely-researched work examines Brugha's complex attitudes to violence, illuminating how Brugha sought to marry force with politics in the pursuit of Irish independence.

An Underground Theatre is the first full-length study of playwrights working in the Irish language in the pivotal 1930-80 period. In this landmark volume Philip O'Leary analyses the works of Mairead Ni Ghrada, Seamus O Neill, Eoghan O Tuairisc, Sean O Tuama, and Criostoir O Floinn and discusses the production history of their plays.

This series offer a detailed history of how prose in the Irish language developed from 1922 to 1951. Making use of contemporary newspapers, journals, personal papers, and other primary texts - novels, short stories, plays, biographies - the books recreate the intellectual and ideological climate of the spread of Irish as a modern literary language.

This volume contains a survey of prose writing - novels, plays, journalism - produced in Ireland between 1922 and 1939. All quotations are given in English with original Irish in notes.

In the newest edition to the Poet's Chair series, Frank Ormsby explores the structuring of his next collection The Tumbling Paddy. In it he extends the range of his most recent poems. He examines middle class life in Northern Ireland and his own experience as editor of a literary magazine and a number of anthologies during the Troubles.

Provides analysis of the transformations that have taken place in Ireland during the heyday of the Celtic Tiger. This book maps changes in the South and also contains description and analysis of transformations in the North. It is useful for students in advanced courses as well as the general reader interested in Irish society and culture.

Women's literary expressions of war have long been neglected and at times forgotten in Irish scholarship. In Women Writing War: Ireland 1880-1922 many of these forgotten women are revealed through their writings as culturally active and deeply invested in the political and military struggles of their turbulent times.