20th-century history

The Irish Brigades, 1685–2006

David Murphy

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 repre…

Donegal

The making of a Northern county

Jim Mac Laughlin

This anthology uses extracts from a wide variety of sources, to examine social and geographical change in Donegal over the past five centuries. Combining the ap…

Irish films, global cinema

Studies in Irish film 4

Martin McLoone & Kevin Rockett

The fourth volume of papers from the Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar reflects the diversity, quality and increasingly international nature of film rese…

The memoirs of John M. Regan

A Catholic Officer in the RIC and RUC, 1909–48

Joost Augusteijn editor

Although much is written about the Irish revolution and Northern Ireland, we know very little about it from the perspective of Irish policemen. This unique memo…

The Irish county surveyors, 1834–1944

A biographical dictionary

Brendan O Donoghue

This book is a comprehensive study of the evolution and achievements of the county surveyor system in Ireland. The introduction in 1834 of these officials – cou…

The planters of Luggacurran, County Laois

A Protestant community, 1879–1927

Leigh-Ann Coffey

In late March 1922, a group of armed men forcibly evicted two protestant farmers from their homes at Luggacurran, County Laois. The evictions marked the beginni…

Italian culture

Interactions, transpositions, translations

Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin Corinna Salvadori & John Scattergood editors

At a seminar in April 2002 at Trinity College Dublin, marking the retirement of Professor Corinna Salvadori, former students, recent graduates, colleagues and f…

Belfast and the Irish language

Fionntan de Brun

This collection of essays explores Belfast's relationship with the Irish language from its earliest roots through to the cultural pioneers of the 19th-century r…

Wigs and guns

Irish barristers in the Great War

Anthony P. Quinn

With a foreword by John Bowman.

The revival of interest in the sacrifices made by so many Irishmen of all backgrounds in the First World War makes the appearan…

United States foreign policy and Ireland

From empire to independence, 1913–29

Bernadette Whelan

This book deals with United States policy towards Ireland between 1913 and 1929. Focusing on Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, it examines the…

St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 1875–2000

A history

James Kelly

St Patrick's College is one of the oldest third-level educational institutions in Ireland. From virtually its inception (in 1875), the College acquired a unique…

The clergy of the Church of Ireland, 1000–2000

Messengers, watchmen and stewards

Toby Barnard & W.G. Neely, editors

This collaborative volume considers the clergy of the Church of Ireland before and after the 16th-century reformation and before and after disestablishment in 1…