Industrial Yarns Ltd, a large textiles factory and one of Seán Lemass’s flagship industrial projects, provided well-paid employment for hundreds of workers in B…
The Irish Civil War was fought with a greater intensity, violence and longevity in Co. Kerry than in any other Irish county, leaving behind a bitter and divisiv…
W.N. Osborough was described by the Irish Times on his death in 2020 as Ireland’s ‘greatest legal historian’. He wrote prolifically on Irish legal history and c…
Although numbers varied, at any one time the Irish Jacobite army mustered about forty-five regiments of infantry and nineteen of cavalry and dragoons. In all, j…
Winner of the Prestigious 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction. Click below for a sneaky glimpse of the insides of this stunning new book. https://online.f…
Few figures in twentieth-century Ireland remained at the centre of Irish public life as long as James Ryan. First coming to prominence as the GPO’s medical offi…
Click below for a sneaky glimpse of the insides of this stunning new book. https://online.flippingbook.com/view/170164431/ Castles speak. Especially in an age…
The late 1860s and the 1870s are important years in the history of the Irish judiciary, and for the structure and culture of the courts. On New Year’s Day 1878 …
Henry Paget, 1st Marquess Anglesey (1768–1854), was a war hero who had fought alongside the duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo. A glamorous and engagi…
Events in County Cork during the Irish Revolution point to there being many different Corks between 1912 and 1923. The county contributed some of the most pro…
