20th-century history

An Garda Síochána and the Scott Medal

Gerard O'Brien

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 …

The Irish Times

A history

Mark O'Brien

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 Ir…

Dublin through space & time

Anngret Simms & Joseph Brady, editors

This is the first volume in a series that deals with the planning and development of Dublin from the earliest times to the present day. The focus is on the buil…

That island never found

Essays and poems for Terence Brown

Nicholas Allen & Eve Patten editors

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 Ma…

The Orange Order in Canada

David A. Wilson, editor

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 …

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…