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Fugitive Ireland
European minority nationalists and Irish political asylum, 1937–2008
From 1937 to 1950 the Irish government granted political asylum to a number of European minority nationalists, many of whom were wanted for crimes of collaboration with Axis forces during the Second World War. Although inspired by the Irish...
From 1937 to 1950 the Irish government granted political asylum to a number of European minority nationalists, many of whom were wanted...
Author/Editor:
Daniel Leach
The University of Ulster
Genesis and growth
The essays in this collection examine the history of the University of Ulster and seek to place its experience within the contexts of the national and international communities it has served for forty years. Chapters have been contributed by...
The essays in this collection examine the history of the University of Ulster and seek to place its experience within the contexts...
Author/Editor:
Gerard O'Brien & Peter Roebuck, editors
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Revolutionary lawyers
Sinn Féin and crown courts in Ireland and Britain, 1916–23
This book considers the use made by Irish Republicans of British courts in the struggle for independence, over the period between the Easter Rising and the Civil War. It examines the complex relationship between the Republican movement and the...
This book considers the use made by Irish Republicans of British courts in the struggle for independence, over the period between the...
Author/Editor:
David Foxton
A history of Irish farming, 1750–1950
The book deals with changing methods of crop and livestock production during the ‘Age of Improvement’ in Ireland, and some of the ways in which they shaped rural society and the landscape. Irish agricultural improvers were part of...
The book deals with changing methods of crop and livestock production during the ‘Age of Improvement’ in Ireland, and some of the...
Author/Editor:
Jonathan Bell & Mervyn Watson
The Fishery of Arklow, 1800–1950
Surprisingly few Irish coastal communities have looked to the sea for their economic well-being. Arklow, Co. Wicklow was one of those exceptions. In 1836 it was listed as one of only six ports whose fishermen were constantly engaged...
Surprisingly few Irish coastal communities have looked to the sea for their economic well-being. Arklow, Co. Wicklow was one of those exceptions....
Author/Editor:
Jim Rees
Guarding neutral Ireland
The Coast Watching Service and military intelligence, 1939–1945
Ireland’s Second World War frontline troops were the men of the Coast Watching Service. From 1939–45 they maintained a continuous watch along the Irish shoreline, reporting all incidents in the seas and skies to Military Intelligence (G2). They had...
Ireland’s Second World War frontline troops were the men of the Coast Watching Service. From 1939–45 they maintained a continuous watch along...
Author/Editor:
Michael Kennedy
Dublin docklands reinvented
The post-industrial regeneration of a European city quarter
Over the last twenty years, the redevelopment of the docklands has radically altered the physical fabric and social structure of a large part of Dublin City both north and south of the river. What has happened in the...
Over the last twenty years, the redevelopment of the docklands has radically altered the physical fabric and social structure of a large...
Author/Editor:
Niamh Moore
An Garda Síochána and the Scott Medal
This book recounts in detail each of the incidents in respect of which members of An Garda Síochána, even today an unarmed police force, were awarded the Scott Medal, a uniquely Irish gallantry decoration. Based on a range...
This book recounts in detail each of the incidents in respect of which members of An Garda Síochána, even today an unarmed...
Author/Editor:
Gerard O'Brien
The Irish Times
A history
Founded in 1859 as the voice of southern unionism, the Irish Times is now the authoritative newspaper of choice. Forced to make its peace with an independent Ireland in 1921, it was the bane of the censor during...
Founded in 1859 as the voice of southern unionism, the Irish Times is now the authoritative newspaper of choice. Forced to make...
Author/Editor:
Mark O'Brien
That island never found
Essays and poems for Terence Brown
That Island Never Found is a collection of poems and essays in honour of Terence Brown by some of Ireland’s leading writers and scholars. In studies of Louis MacNeice, W.B. Yeats and the cultural history of twentieth-century Ireland, Brown...
That Island Never Found is a collection of poems and essays in honour of Terence Brown by some of Ireland’s leading writers...
Author/Editor:
Nicholas Allen & Eve Patten editors
The Orange Order in Canada
Nowhere in the world – not even in Northern Ireland – was Orangeism more popular than it was in Canada. When the Orange Order reached its peak in the 1920s, 60 per cent of the world’s Orangemen lived...
Nowhere in the world – not even in Northern Ireland – was Orangeism more popular than it was in Canada. When...
Author/Editor:
David A. Wilson, editor
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The Irish Brigades, 1685–2006
Since the 17th century, Irish soldiers have served in various armies across the world and have achieved a formidable reputation as fighting men. This book represents an attempt to recognize the varied and distinguished service of Irish soldiers. It...
Since the 17th century, Irish soldiers have served in various armies across the world and have achieved a formidable reputation as fighting...
Author/Editor:
David Murphy
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