20th-century history

Studies in Irish, British and Australian relations, 1916–63

Trade, diplomacy and politics

John B. O'Brien (Anne O'Brien editor)

With an introduction by David FitzPatrick.

This collection of essays brings together the work of the historian John B. O'Brien who paved the way in the study …

Newspapers and empire in Ireland and Britain

Reporting the British Empire, c.1857–1921

Simon Potter, editor

These essays explore the varied attitudes towards empire once sustained by different groups in Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland, and by their diasporic desc…

Ulster and Scotland, 1600–2000

History, language and identity

William P. Kelly & John R. Young, editors

The first volume in the series of Ulster-Scots history deals with many aspects of life, including social and economical.

Contributors: John R. Young (U. Strath…

The winding up of the Dáil Courts, 1922–1925

An obvious duty

Mary Kotsonouris

In 1923 the Irish Free State government established a judicial commission with extraordinary powers to revive the jurisdiction of the court system which had flo…

A university in troubled times

Queen's, Belfast, 1945–2000

Leslie A. Clarkson

Queen's, Belfast, grew out of the Queen's University in Ireland founded in 1845. It became independent in 1908-9 and until 1965 it was the only university in No…

Ireland, Europe and the Marshall Plan

Till Geiger & Michael Kennedy editors

This volume is a major departure in the ongoing debate on Ireland's involvement in the Marshall Plan. Rather than concentrating on Irish-American relations, the…

The Dublin fire brigade

A history of the brigade, the fires and the emergencies

Tom Geraghty & Trevor Whitehead

This is the story of the firefighters, officers and ambulance personnel who have provided emergency response to the people of Ireland's capital city for many ge…

Political censorship and the democratic state

The Irish broadcasting ban

M. Corcoran & M. O'Brien editors

January 2004 marks the tenth anniversary of the repeal of Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act, under which for two decades journalists were prohibited from broad…

Building Irish identity in America, 1870–1915

The Gaelic Revival

Úna Ní Bhroiméil

The Irish language was the hook on which Irish cultural nationalism was hung in Ireland at the end of the 19th century. The foundation of the Gaelic League in 1…

Irish villages

Studies in local history

Karina Holton, Brian Ó Daláigh & Liam Clare, editors

This significant book is the first attempt to understand the problems of evolution in Irish villages from the local perspective. These essays contrast and compa…

Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer of Limerick, 1842–1917

Thomas J. Morrissey SJ

'Our brilliant ... and difficult Bishop', as novelist Kate O'Brien described him. O'Dwyer was brilliant intellectually, independent-minded and quarrel-some, but…

Ireland and the new century

Politics, culture & identity

Robert Savage, editor

Unionism, and the future of the union
Alvin Jackson

Republicanism and culture in the new millennium
Declan Kiberd

Reading the future: the Republican idea in t…