20th-century history

Through the builder's lens

Dublin's evolving streetscapes

Ruth McManus

Many people have helped create Dublin’s unique streetscapes. This book looks at the builders and their projects and draws on the extraordinarily rich photograph…

The Irish Volunteers, 1913–19

A history

Daithí Ó Corráin

No organization was more central to the history of Ireland in the 20th century than the Irish Volunteers. This is the first authoritative history of that body f…

Directory of Historic Dublin Guilds

Second Edition

Mary Clark & Raymond Refausse, editors

First published in 1993, and winner of the Phillimore Prize, this directory is re-issued in an expanded format, with full colour illustrations throughout. A mus…

Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

Joseph McBrinn

Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to have found international fame and to have been describe…

The Judges of Ireland, 1866-1921

Daire Hogan

The late 1860s and the 1870s are important years in the history of the Irish judiciary, and for the structure and culture of the courts. On New Year’s Day 1878 …

Gothic

Building Castles in post-Union Ireland

Judith Hill

Castles speak. Especially in an age when they are no longer necessary. The act of union of 1800, which brought Ireland into closer association with Britain, cha…

The Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliary Force, 1881-3

A short history and complete alphabetical list of the “Magpies”

Jim Herlihy

To augment the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Land War, 1879–82, a new auxiliary police force was raised, entitled the Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliary F…

James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1892-1970

Michael Loughman

Few figures in twentieth-century Ireland remained at the centre of Irish public life as long as James Ryan. First coming to prominence as the GPO’s medical offi…

Anglesey in Ireland, 1828 to 1833

Worse than War

Síle McGuckian

Lord Anglesey was a war hero and a glamorous figure in London society when he was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1828. Within months of his arrival he …

A Sense of Place

Studies in British and Irish legal history in memory of W.N. Osborough

Sparky Booker and Kevin Costello, editors

W.N. Osborough was described by the Irish Times on his death in 2020 as Ireland’s ‘greatest legal historian’. He wrote prolifically on Irish legal history and c…

The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond

Histories, memories and legacies

Bridget McAuliffe, Mary McAuliffe and Owen O’Shea, editors

The Irish Civil War was fought with a greater intensity, violence and longevity in Co. Kerry than in any other Irish county, leaving behind a bitter and divisiv…

Finding Mary

The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844

Angela Byrne

During a robbery on 10 March 1844, 14-year-old servant Mary Doherty was murdered in a farmhouse near Culdaff, Co. Donegal. There was no doubt locally about the …