Padraig Yeates: 4 books
A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924
The Irish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates’ ‘Dublin at War’ trilogy
In A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland’s bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.
The...
A City in Turmoil – Dublin 1919–1921
The War of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
Dublin was the cockpit of the Irish Revolution. It was in the capital that Dáil Éireann convened and built an alternative government to challenge the authority of Dublin Castle; it was where the munitions strike that crippled the British war effort in 1920 began and it was where rival intelligence...
Lockout Dublin 1913
The most famous labor dispute in Irish history
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2000
On 26 August 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers, members of the Irish Transport Workers’ Union, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer, William Martin Murphy of the Dublin United Transport Company, to forswear union membership...
My Life in the IRA:
The Border Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Former IRA Director of Operations Mick Ryan's memoir of growing up in Dublin's East Wall in the 1940s and 1950s and his subsequent involvement in the border campaign. My Life in the IRA is a story of suffering, hardship, frustration and constant disappointment that will leave readers wondering why...