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Ruan O'Donnell
A detailed examination for every part of Wicklow in the advent of rebellion, with discussion of issues such as the operation of the government’s counter-insurgency strategy and the growth of…
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Part two of a two-volume biography on Robert Emmet, one of the best known but least understood figures in Irish history. The author draws on significant new research to establish…
Part one of a two-volume biography on Robert Emmet, one of the best known but least understood figures in Irish history. The author draws on significant new research to establish…
A collection of fresh research on neglected aspects of the 1916 Rising by scholars. It examines the impact of the Rising within the United Kingdom, the British Empire, North America…
Ground-breaking history of Irish republican prisoners held in English jails between 1978-1985.
Based on private correspondence, British state archives, declassified government documents, international media reports, and memoirs of key protagonists, this book tells the full story of the Wormwood Scrubs ‘riot’ of…
Featuring new material on the Irish Famine which has never been published before, this is a comprehensive and accessible overview of one of the most significant periods of Irish history.
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On 24 April 1916, as President of the Provisional Government, Patrick Pearse appeared under the GPO Grand Portico on Dublin’s O'Connell Street and read aloud the Proclamation of the Irish…
Militant factions of battle-hardened United Irishmen held out in the Wicklow mountains and confounded every strategy devised to defeat them for over five years. This book investigates the underlying causes…
This ground-breaking book explores the history of Irish republican prisoners held in English prisons during the first phase of the Troubles. The arrival of the first of over 200 IRA…
Voices from the Easter Rising is an anthology of extraordinary testimonies and first-hand accounts of how the Easter Rising of 1916 was experienced by people from all backgrounds, drawing from…
The Kerryman
Offers eye-witness accounts of the struggle for independence in Limerick city and county. It features stories and reports from every aspect of the conflict in Limerick from the Limerick heroes…
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Dr. Shane Kenna
In an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents, revolutionary fervour was growing. An…
The documents and essays in this reissued classic were written by the leading members of the independence movement during a period when the Irish people witnessed social and cultural changes…
