The Scariff Martyrs. War, Murder and Memory In East Clare
Close to midnight on the 16th November 1920, on Killaloe Bridge, British Forces shot dead four young men. The 'Scariff Martyrs' have been remembered for over a century. Here their story...
Northern Protestants- On Shifting Ground
Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People, award winning journalist Susan McKay talks again to the people she 'uneasily' called 'her own', those from a...
An Introduction Of The Irish Civil War
An Introduction to the Irish Civil War offers a fresh perspective on the causes, development and consequences of the Civil War triggered by the signing of the Anglo-Treaty, as it accepted...
My Fight For Irish Freedom
In 19191 a group of men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight begun in 1916 to drive the British out of...
A Letter from Gerry Adams (Beirut search for Brian Keenan)
The road from the airport through the southern suburbs of Beirut into the city centre ran through fundamentalist Hezbollah territory and was known the world over as 'Kidnap Highway.' When Brian...
From Armed Struggle To Academia
Paddy McMenamin, former political prisoner in Long Kesh in the 1970s, born in Belfast, domiciled in Galway and 30 years in Donegal in between! 'Armed Struggle to Academia' is a personal...
THE INVINCIBLES- THE PHOENIX PARK ASSASSINATIONS AND THE CONSPIRACY THAT SHOOK AN EMPIRE
In an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents, revolutionary fervour was growing. An inner...
Stolen Faith
Belfast, 1944: American soldier James McCann meets the beautiful and impetuous Rose Rafferty. They fall in love, but their romance is forbidden- and war separates them. Boston, present day: James's children...
Markievicz, A Most Outrageous Rebel
Countess Constance Markievicz- one of the most remarkable women in Irish history- was a revolutionary, a socialist and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, 'Madame',...
Interned. The Curragh Internment Camps in the War Of Independence.
During the War Of Independence, faced with an armed insurrection it couldn't stop, the British government introduced increasingly harsh penalties for suspected Republicans, including internment without trail. This led to the...
Fearless Woman
This full-length biographical study- substantially rewritten and updated- of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century is now reissued by UCD Press. Hanna Sheehy...
Unlikely Rebels. The Gifford Girls And The Fight For Irish Freedom
Many people who know the story of the 1916 Rising have heard the harrowing account of the wedding of Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol, on the dat before...