"On leaving our home, our front door closed tightly behind us; little did we know we would never return to live permanently under my dad's roof. Suddenly we were in a...

Latest in the Léargas series by Gerry Adams 

Untangles the complex story of Northern Ireland and the troubles over the past fifty years. From the Divis Street roots of 1964 to the tortuous political manoeuvring that culminated in the...

The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the Great...

A gripping personal account of the revolutionary years 1916 to 1921. This captivating journal of revolutionary Joe Good, written in 1946, vividly recounts his experiences of the 1916 Rising and the...

Guerilla Days in Ireland is the extraordinary story of Tom  Barry's War Of Independence. One of the IDA'S most legendary commanders ans leader of West Cork flying column, Barry was a...

The Easter 1916 Rising: An unlikely band of freedom fighters - teachers, poets, writers, patriots, trade unionists - declare an Irish Republic. From this dramatic gesture, a nation is born...

Colonialism is at the heart of making sense of Irish history and contemporary politics across the island of Ireland. In this exhaustive analysis, England's oldest colony is considered in the context...

"Belfast city cemetery is more than just a burial site- hidden among the the pauper dead, buried with the rich and powerful, are countless historical treasures." Within the stone walls of...

Balmoral Cemetery is a small cemetery in the heart of Belfast, yet those buried within its walls played a huge role in shaping the city.  Tom Hartley, leading authority on the...

Not only will Partition mean constant friction between "Ulster" and Ireland, but it will mean constant friction within the frontiers of Ulster itself. The proposed Ulster state has not been defined...