Academic Press: 465 books
A Failed Political Entity'
Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question, 1945-1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2016
Charles Haughey maintained one of the most controversial and brilliant careers in the history of Irish politics, but for every stage in his mounting success there was one issue that complicated, and almost devastated, his ambitions to lead Irish politics: Northern Ireland. In ‘A Failed Political...
Kilkenny
In Times of Revolution, 1900–1923
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Veteran IRA leader Ernie O’Malley criticised County Kilkenny as being ‘slack’ during the War of Independence, but this fascinating new study of the period, by historian Eoin Swithin Walsh, challenges that view and reveals that Kilkenny was truly at the forefront of the struggle for Irish freedom....
Belfast Days
A 1972 Teenage Diary
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Belfast 1972. It s the bloodiest year of the Northern Irish Troubles and sixteen-year-old Eimear O'Callaghan, a Catholic schoolgirl in West Belfast, bears witness to it all in her diary. What follows is a window into the daily life of an ordinary teenager coming of age in extraordinary times. The...
Being New York, Being Irish
Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Irish America and New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
New York University's Glucksman Ireland House opened a quarter-century ago to foster the study of Ireland and Irish America, and since then has led and witnessed tremendous changes in Irish and Irish-American culture.
Alice McDermott writes about her son's Irish awakening; Colum McCann's Joycean...
UVF
Behind the Mask
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
UVF: Behind the Mask is the gripping new history of the Ulster Volunteer Force from its post-1965 incarnation to the present day. Aaron Edwards blends rigorous research with unprecedented access to leading members of the UVF to unearth the startling inner-workings of one of the world’s oldest and...
by Owen McGee
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
As a working-class Dubliner who played a crucial role in inspiring and leading Dáil Éireann in its formative stages, Arthur Griffith's life and world is one of the greatest windows into understanding the dynamics of the Irish revolution. Owen McGee's authoritative biography is based on fascinating...
Power Play
The Rise of Modern Sinn Féin
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This is the first comprehensive analysis of how Sinn Féin has transformed itself from ‘political wing’ of the Republican movement to a mainstream force in Irish politics. In this book by one of Ireland’s leading political journalists, Deaglán de Bréadún provides an incisive account of how...
Ireland Says Yes
The Inside Story of How the Vote for Marriage Equality Was Won
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
At 7.20pm on 23rd May 2015, in the courtyard of Dublin Castle, Ireland truly became a nation of equals. Ireland Says Yes is the fast-paced narrative account of all the drama, excitement and highs and lows of the last 100 days of the extraordinary campaign for a Yes vote in the 2015 Marriage Equality...
The Treaty
Debating and Establishing the Irish State
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
What exactly did the split over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 actually mean? We know it both established the independent Irish state and that Ireland would not be a fully sovereign republic and provided for the partition of Northern Ireland.
The Treaty was ratified 64 votes to 57 by the Sinn...
The Civil War in Dublin
The Fight for the Irish Capital, 1922–1924
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2017
The start of the Irish Civil War was signalled by the artillery bombardment of the Four Courts in Dublin on 28 June 1922. A week later, the Four Courts was gutted and O’Connell Street a smouldering ruin, but the anti-Treaty IRA was driven from the city. Most accounts of the fighting in Dublin end...
The Indomitable Frank Whitcombe
How a Genial Giant from Cardiff became a Rugby League Legend in Yorkshire and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Frank Whitcombe was made for rugby league and he enjoyed a glittering career in professional rugby, winning the RL Challenge Cup three times, the RL Championship three times and was capped 14 times by Wales. He quickly created a big impression on the Great Britain selectors and he waschosen for the...
Ireland’s Call
Irish Sporting Heroes Who Fell in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
In Ireland's Call BBC journalist Stephen Walker charts the fascinating stories of 40 Irishmen who swapped the sports field for the battlefield - household names who gave up their blossoming careers to volunteer for the Great War.
Using rare archive letters, memoirs and newspaper reports, this...
Racing Rogues
The Scams, Scandals and Gambles of Horse Racing in Wales
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Horse racing may be famously known as the ‘sport of kings’ but, in the pursuit of prize money and getting one over the bookies, it also has attained a notoriety for some underhand, corrupt and downright illegal practices. Horse racing in Wales is not exempt from these dodgy dealings and on many...
Emmet Dalton
Somme Soldier, Irish General, Film Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
This is the first-ever biography of Emmet Dalton, an American-born Dubliner, Home Ruler and later Republican, whose extraordinary military career as a British officer, IRA leader and General in the Free State army brought him from Flanders to Beal na Bláth. A decorated hero of the Battle of the Somme,...