Irish Academic Press: 41 books
Soldiering Against Subversion
The Irish Defence Forces and Internal Security During the Troubles, 1969–1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
During a time of high tension, terror and fear, the Irish Defence Forces faced the very real threat of the Irish State being plunged into a savagely sectarian civil war. The southern state faced a breakdown of law and order, severely challenged by manhunts, prison breaks, shoot-outs, kidnappings,...
Brian Lenihan
In Calm and Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Brian Lenihan was Minister for Finance at the time of the recent and dramatic political and economic crisis in Ireland, and was the lynchpin in the rescue package sought by the Irish Government. The recollections within this powerful new book throw light on Lenihan s political career from its earliest...
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,...
A Bloody Dawn
The Irish at D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
The epic Allied invasion of German-occupied Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, has been extensively chronicled. The largest seaborne invasion in history, it began the liberation of German-occupied France, and later Europe, from Nazi control, laying the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western...
John Redmond
The National Leader
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Dermot Meleady's authoritative second part of his full-length biography of John Redmond, the first to be published in 80 years, begins in 1901 shortly after his election as chairman of the Irish Parliamentary Party in the Westminster Parliament, and ends with his death in 1918.
The book details...
A Bloody Day
The Irish at Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Within the grand narrative of the Battle of Waterloo – one that marks the end of Napoleon’s career as conqueror and the beginning of an extended peace in western Europe – little is known of the formidable efforts made by the Irish who supplemented the strength of the British Army and, in no...
Into Action
Irish Peacekeepers Under Fire, 1960–2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Into Action is the story of the Irish Defence Forces’ role as international peacekeepers since 1960. While primarily posted to uphold the transition towards peace in overseas conflicts, they have at times inevitably been forced to fight back against often aggressive opposition. Dan Harvey’s fascinating...
by Bryan Fanning, Garvin Tom Garvin
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This engaging and provocative work consists of 29 chapters and discusses over 50 books that have been instrumental in the development of Irish social and political thought since the early seventeenth century. Steering clear of traditionally canonical Irish literature, Bryan Fanning and Tom Garvin...
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...
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...
Soldiers of the Short Grass
A History of the Curragh Camp
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This is the first complete history of the Curragh Camp, from its foundation in 1855 to the present day, under both British and Irish occupation. Dan Harvey, a military historian and an experienced senior officer, presents a compelling and fascinating narrative of the camp’s many evocative eras and...
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...
A Bloody Night
The Irish at Rorke’s Drift
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
The word Zulu means ‘heaven’, but for the suddenly besieged and minute British garrison at Rorke’s Drift, among them a key faction of Irish soldiers, it represented a hellish horde of warriors from the Zulu nation.
A Bloody Night documents the terrifying struggle of these Irishmen as...
El Proyecto Macnamara
The Maverick Irish Priest and the Race to Seize California 1844-1846
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This is the story of Eugene Macnamara, a maverick young priest from Ennis, County Clare who sought to establish a colony for Irish families in the 1840s in Alta California, Mexico s far north-western territory. Had the 10,000 ready volunteers from Limerick, Clare and Cork of whom he boasted, actually...