14th February 2008 · Paperback / softback
Richard Twiss' "A Tour in Ireland in 1775", published in the following year, was a controversial book. It enraged the Irish public...
13th February 2008 · Paperback / softback
Tells the story of a collaboration between two people of late nineteenth-century Irish nationalism: John Devoy and Michael Davitt, in the formulation...
24th September 2007 · Paperback / softback
Comprises the author's recollections of Victorian Belfast and Bangor between his childhood in the 1860s and his departure for London in 1892....
24th September 2007 · Paperback / softback
An interpretive essay on the history of the Ulster Protestant community from the seventeenth-century plantations to the mid 1970s. This work looks...
21st September 2007 · Paperback / softback
Tells the story of Brigadier Sean Connolly, O/C of the Longford Brigade, who was fatally wounded in action on 11 March 1921...
6th December 2006 · Paperback / softback
Addresses the Catholic professional class educated in secondary schools run by religious orders. This book shows that the Gaelic Revival would not...
6th December 2006 · Paperback / softback
First published in 1802, this work talks about the talent and wit of the Irish lower classes. It offers an informal philosophic...
6th December 2006 · Paperback / softback
Consists of articles primarily focused on Home Rule, offering both historical and contemporary analyses. This book presents a collection that includes articles...
30th March 2006 · Paperback / softback
Presenting an account of a tour of Ireland by a pro-Home Rule British Liberal journalist, this title provides interviews and personal impressions...
30th March 2006 · Paperback / softback
Based on the author's tour of the continent, this title provides vignettes of the life and times of Irish scholars, revolutionaries and...
12th June 2005 · Paperback / softback
Mitchel's account of the Repeal campaign, the Famine and the 1848 Rising, which originally appeared in Mitchel's Tennessee-based newspaper, The Southern Citizen, in...
12th June 2005 · Paperback / softback
This eloquent memoir provides an unrivalled insight into the life of a child reared in a working-class Irish Catholic community in late nineteenth-century...
7th December 2004 · Paperback / softback
Belfast Politics, arguably one of the most important texts in modern Irish history, appeared in 1794 as a collection of twenty essays outlining...
7th December 2004 · Paperback / softback
The Green Republic, a novel first published in 1902, actually describes real characters and events at the turn of the century in Poyntzpass,...
7th December 2004 · Paperback / softback
The Hanbidge family originated in Gloucester, and came to Ireland in the seventeenth century. They have been settled in the Donard/Dunlavin area ever...
7th December 2004 · Paperback / softback
Soon after Daniel O'Connell's death, Taylor published (as 'A Munster Farmer') this short account of the Liberator's life, drawing on his personal memories...
7th December 2004 · Paperback / softback
This very vivid memoir describes the prison experiences of a Cork Fenian activist, John Sarsfield Casey. 'The Galtee Boy' was a name used...
26th April 2004 · Paperback / softback
This volume is an abridged edition of Tonna's personal recollections, which includes her memoir of visiting Ireland in the mid-1820s....