20th-century history

Tyrone

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

Fergal McCluskey

During the period 1912–23, Tyrone was at the centre of the conflict between nationalism and unionism, the evolution of partition and the emergence of two Irish …

Brendan Behan

Cultural nationalism and the revisionist writer

John Brannigan

This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Brendan Behan (1923–64), author of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. It charts Behan’s intelle…

The decline and fall of the dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948

Love, war, debt and madness

Terence Dooley

This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland’s premier aristocratic family – the dukes of Leinster – who, for almost 300 years, lived amidst glo…

Laurence O'Neill (1864–1943)

Lord Mayor of Dublin (1917–1924), patriot and man of peace

Thomas J. Morrissey SJ

Laurence O’Neill (1864-1943) was Lord Mayor of Dublin during key years in modern Irish history, 1917–1924. During these troubled years he held the confidence of…

Changes in practice and law

A selection of essays by members of the legal profession to mark twenty-five years of the Irish Legal History Society

Daire Hogan & Colum Kenny editors

Changes in practice and law is a selection of essays by members of the legal profession, including judges, counsel and solicitors, who explore a number of trans…

Walter Starkie

An odyssey

Jacqueline Hurtley

Hispanic scholar, musician and writer, Walter Starkie is perhaps best remembered for his travel books Raggle Taggle – subtitled ‘Adventures with a fiddle in Hun…

Portmarnock and the Plunketts, 1850–1918

The Portmarnock Brick and Terracotta Works

Alan Costello

This book presents a picture of Portmarnock, Co. Dublin, as an important local centre for the manufacture of brick and terracotta during the Victorian period. T…

The South Circular Road, Dublin, on the eve of the First World War

Catherine Scuffil

This publication examines life for Dublin’s South Circular Road population under a variety of topics using databases created with the 1911 census data supported…

The Easter Rising of 1916 in north Co. Dublin

A Skerries perspective

Peter F. Whearity

The rebellion of 1916 transformed Irish politics. Outside of Dublin, there were only a few locations where military action occurred. One of these was Ashbourne,…

Lawyers, the law and history

Felix M. Larkin & N.M. Dawson, editors

The fourteen essays in this book cover a wide range of topics within the field of legal history. Most are adaptations of discourses given at meetings of the Iri…

A north light

Twenty-five years in a municipal art gallery

John Hewitt

Edited by Frank Ferguson & Kathryn White.

A North Light – John Hewitt’s own account of his life in Northern Ireland from his early years until his ‘enforced ex…

The Irish Parliamentary Party and the third Home Rule crisis

James McConnel

But for the 1916 Rising, self-governing Ireland’s founding political generation would have been drawn not from Sinn Féin and the IRA, but from among the ranks o…