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The Sunday papers

The Sunday papers

A history of Ireland’s weekly press

Joe Breen & Mark O'Brien, editors

For over a century, the Irish Sunday newspaper has influenced social mores and political developments in Ireland. In this lively and engaging book, historians a…
Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

Alison FitzGerald, editor

Irish silver, for long renowned among collectors and connoisseurs, is increasingly being considered as an aspect of the material world of the past. Its making, …
A university in troubled times
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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…
Fugitive Ireland

Fugitive Ireland

European minority nationalists and Irish political asylum, 1937–2008

Daniel Leach

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 collaborat…
The Royal Irish Constabulary

The Royal Irish Constabulary

A short history and genealogical guide with a select list of medal awards and casualties

Jim Herlihy

‘This book combines a short history of policing in Ireland with a detailed description of how to trace ancestors who were members of police forces operating in …
Winning the Vote for Women

Winning the Vote for Women

The Irish Citizen newspaper and the suffrage movement in Ireland

Louise Ryan

The campaign for women’s votes in Ireland coincided with the nationalist movement, the First World War, the rise of the trade union movement, the cultural reviv…
Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800

Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800

Essays in honour of Jacqueline R. Hill

Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

Political culture is not an idea that many historians of Ireland have engaged with, preferring more straightforward ways of thinking about the distribution of p…
Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690–1830

Land Surveying in Ireland, 1690–1830

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

Ireland's rich history of manuscript and printed maps is testament to the information that earlier generations sought from the environment around them. Although…
The succession, bye and main plots of 1601–1603

The succession, bye and main plots of 1601–1603

Francis Edwards

Like his volume on earlier plots in the reign of Elizabeth I, Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I (2002), Edwards' new study draws heavily on archiva…
Joe Holmes: here I am amongst you

Joe Holmes: here I am amongst you

Songs, music and traditions of an Ulsterman

Len Graham

Named as the Best Book about Irish Music in 2010 by The Irish Echo

'I love the Joe Holmes book. What a great achievement', Paul Muldoon.

'One of the book's ma…