John Hume

John Hume

Irish peacemaker

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*Foreword by former President Bill Clinton* John Hume, civil rights activist, founding member of the SDLP and leading politician in Northern Ireland during the long period of the...
Author/Editor: Seán Farren & Denis Haughey, editors

Mister, are you a priest?

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Edward Daly was Bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1993. Before then he had been a curate in the Bogside during some of the most turbulent and...
Author/Editor: Edward Daly

A troubled see

Memoirs of a Derry bishop

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A troubled see: memoirs of a Derry bishop continues the story begun in Edward Daly’s bestselling Mister, are you a priest? (2000), which focused on his years...
Author/Editor: Edward Daly

Franco-Irish connections

Essays, memoirs and poems in honour of Pierre Joannon

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This collection of essays, memoirs and poems is an acknowledgment of the work of Pierre Joannon. Over four decades he has made an outstanding contribution to Irish historical,...
Author/Editor: Jane Conroy, editor

Conflicts in the North of Ireland, 1900–2000

Flashpoints and fracture zones

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This collection of essays looks at aspects of conflict and polarization in the north of Ireland during the twentieth century and illustrates that division was never far...
Author/Editor: Alan F. Parkinson & Éamon Phoenix editors

Antrim

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, Antrim contained the largest Presbyterian population on the island of Ireland. It also contained most of Belfast – the largest city...
Author/Editor: Brian Feeney

Adomnán, Adhamhnán, Eunan

Life and afterlife of a Donegal Saint

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Adomnán (c.625–704) was ninth abbot of the monastery on Iona off the Scottish coast, and comarba (head) of the confederation of churches associated with St Columba/Colum Cille. Like...
Author/Editor: Brian Lacey

Derry

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

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In 1912, Derry was a busy port city with a thriving textile industry. An important transport hub, it was also a city divided along confessional and political...
Author/Editor: Adrian Grant

The making of medieval Derry

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*‘[T]his is a most comprehensive and in many ways a revolutionary work which [...] will stand the test of time and find a place on the book...
Author/Editor: Ciarán J. Devlin