Pluto Press, 2016. — 232 p. The Easter Rising of 1916, in which just over a thousand Irish rebels seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed the independence of the Irish Republic before being brutally suppressed by the vastly larger and better-equipped British Army, is an event whose meaning remains contested to this day. For some it represents a blood sacrifice without the...
Mercier Press, 2002. — 224 p. Dan Breen was sometimes known as the Thug with Blood on His Hands because of his involvement in the ambush and killing of two RIC policemen at Soloheadbeg a political and historical controversy widely regarded as the act that started the War of Independence. Alongside his comrades in the Third Tipperary Brigade of the IRA, Dan Breen became one of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 248 p. Was there an Irish Revolution, and - if so - what kind of revolution was it? What motivated revolutionaries and those who supported them? How was the war fought and ended? What have been the repercussions for unionists, women and modern Irish politics? These questions are here addressed by leading historians of the period through both detailed...
Liverpool University Press, 2007. — 256 p. The New Politics of Sinn Féin is an assessment of the ideological and organizational development of Provisional republicanism since 1985. The book explores how the Republican movement has changed from an anti-state insurgency to a potential partner in governing the state it was pledged to destroy. In particular, the book attempts to...
Pluto Press, 2016. — 289 p. Geoffrey Bell's Hesitant Comrades is the first published history of the policies, actions and attitudes of the British working class towards the Irish national revolution of 1916-1921. Drawing principally on primary sources, Bell brings to light for the first time important incidents in British/Irish history, including how the leaders of British...
Routledge, 2000. — 370 p. Based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as the Irish, British and Americans involved in the Troubles, the focus of this study is on the workings of an organization involved in longest armed struggle.
Cork University Press, 2021. — 206 p. The volume contains the first, and only, English translation of Richard Bermann’s Ireland, produced by Dr Leesa Wheatley, a professional translator and author of a major study on German travel writing on Ireland since 1780, and Professor Florian Krobb, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maynooth University, who counts...
Four Courts Press, 2018. — 241 p. This volume presents a unique and engaging selection of stories from current and retired staff at NUI Galway of familial participation during the revolutionary period. It captures the ways in which family history and memory is transmitted and the influence and legacy of these histories. The stories include familial accounts of well-known...
Vesey Publications, 1995. — 244 p. This is the first directory of its kind in Ireland, incorporating 1,000 people who play a prominent role in contemporary Irish society. Included are career details and a comprehensive biography on those who influence the commercial, artistic, clerical, political, sporting and professional life of the nation as well as leading members of the...
Routledge, 2017. — 445 p. Politics in the Republic of Ireland is now available in a fully revised sixth edition. Building on the success of the previous five editions, it continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of the government and politics in the Republic of Ireland. Written by some of the foremost experts on Irish politics, it explains, analyses and...
Routledge, 2013. — 200 p. This concise study of Ireland’s revolutionary years charts the demise of the home rule movement and the rise of militant nationalism that led eventually to the partition of Ireland and independence for southern Ireland. The book provides a clear chronology of events but also adopts a thematic approach to ensure that the role of women and labour are...
Routledge, 2013. — 176 p. This concise study of Ireland’s revolutionary years charts the demise of the home rule movement and the rise of militant nationalism that led eventually to the partition of Ireland and independence for southern Ireland. The book provides a clear chronology of events but also adopts a thematic approach to ensure that the role of women and labour are...
O'Brien Press, 2019. — 288 p. An accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 January 1919 to the truce in July 1921, the IRA carried out a huge range of attacks on all levels of British rule in Ireland. There are stories of humanity, such as the British soldiers who helped three IRA...
Thomas Dunne Books, 2016. — 336 p. There’s before 1916 and then there’s after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country’s history forever. For though the resistance failed, it failed gloriously; the rebels were no longer a group of cranks and troublemakers in the public eye, but martyrs...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016. — 173 p. The Easter Rising began at 12 noon on 24 April, 1916 and lasted for six short but bloody days, resulting in the deaths of innocent civilians, the destruction of many parts of Dublin and the true beginning of Irish independence. The 1916 Rising was born out of the Conservative and Unionist parties' illegal defiance of the democratically...
Irish Academic Press, 2003. — 464 p. The Irish Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century spawned the creation of the modern Irish state. This is the first full length analysis to offer a comprehensive framework of that revolution in its totality, taking into account the broad range of social, economic and political developments as well as the IRA's campaign of...
Osprey Publishing, 2009. — 248 p. The turbulent and bloody years between 1913 and 1923 saw the battle for the independence of Ireland. This book tells the story of the 'Troubles' and the struggle for power, first against the occupying British forces, beginning with the Easter Rising, and then in a violent and bloody civil war that tore the country apart and whose resonances are...
Melville House, 2022. — 288 р. 1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible — then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict. The Irish "Troubles" were at a murderous fever pitch when John Crawley volunteered for the IRA. Bloody...
Belfast: Sásta, 1998. — 347 p. Кёртис Лиз. Пропагандистская война в Ирландии. Британские СМИ и "борьба за сердца и умы" (на англ. яз.) 1971: Year of crisis. From silence to civil rights. Reporting British violence. Reporting the British army. Reporting loyalist violence. Reporting republican violence. Televising republicans. The reference upwards system. Reporting nationalist...
London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto, 2000. — xxiv, 413 p. : ill., maps, ports. In Easter 1970 war came to a small Belfast community. Ballymurphy has since been at the center of the Irish conflict, playing a vital role in the developments of the past thirty years. This book examines the impact of the conflict in this area of West Belfast, where today 12,000 people live in just eight...
London: Arms and Armour Press, 1985. - 270 pgs. Lieutenant-Colonel Dewar, informed by his own experiences serving in Northern Ireland, describes the tactics, methods, and equipment evolved by the Army to meet the ever-changing challenge of the IRA, their sympathizers, and occasionally their opponents. Accounts of specific incidents as experienced by some of the regiments that have...
Lilliput Press, 1985. — 295 p. In this work based on original research into German sources, John Duggan opens up an entirely new perspective on the little-known history of Ireland during the 'Emergency' period of the Second World War. This important new book amplifies and illustrates our understanding of Irish neutrality and brings life to many of the peripheral characters in...
Apollo, 2021. — 336 p. The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. Myles Dungan's family was involved in four violent deaths between 1915 and 1922. Jack Clinton, an immigrant small farmer from County Meath, was murdered in the remote and lawless...
Merrion Press, 2014. — 320 p. This pioneering study, first published in 1995, retains its rank as one of the most powerful histories ever written about Irish involvement in World War I. This new revised edition is timely due to the centenary of the war, and the Irishmen who fought in that war may now re-enter the national memory of Ireland after decades of indifference and...
Kildare, Ireland: Gaul House, 2004. - 87 pgs. On Easter Monday outside the General Post Office in Dublin James Connolly announced that there was no Irish Citizen Army and no Irish Volunteers. They were the Irish Republican Army. At the nearby Four Courts, Commandant Edward Daly told his men that "The Volunteers are now part of the Irish Republican Army." From that day through...
Poolbeg Press, 1991. — 388 p. A biography of the Irish statesman Eamon de Valera who dominated Irish life and politics for much of the 20th century. De Valera took part in the 1916 Rising and emerged as the country's leading revolutionary. His most controversial decision was to oppose the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.
Merrion Press, 2017. — 456 p. UVF: Behind the Mask is the gripping new history of the Ulster Volunteer Force from its post-1965 incarnation to the present day. Aaron Edwards blends rigorous research with unprecedented access to leading members of the UVF to unearth the startling inner-workings of one of the world’s oldest and most ruthless paramilitary groups. Through...
Oneworld Publications, 2016. — 224 p. On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of Dublin, the Seven were arrested, court-martialled and executed. Cutting through the layers...
Pan Macmillan, 2008. — 528 p. The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanced examination now--at the end of its long war in the north of Ireland--than it was even a few years ago. Richard English's brilliant book offers a detailed history of the IRA, providing invaluable...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 310 p. This is a comprehensive and scholarly study of socialist republicanism in independent Ireland between the wars. The 1934 Republican Congress movement exemplified the socialist republican stance, holding that `a Republic of a united Ireland will never be achieved except through a struggle which uproots capitalism on its way'. In this...
Irish Academic Press, 2019. — 200 p. During the Irish Civil War, eighty-three prisoners were executed after trial by military court. The Irish Civil War: Law, Execution and Atrocity explores the pressures that drove the provisional government to try prisoners for arms offences by military courts, and how, at a time of great crisis, the rule of law evaporated and the new policy...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 259 р. In this book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, Bryce Evans reveals the real story of the Irish emergency. Revealing just how precarious the Irish state's economic position was at the time, the book examines the consequences of Winston Churchill's economic war against neutral Ireland. It...
Faber and Faber, 2015. — 320 p. Éamon de Valera is the most remarkable man in the history of modern Ireland. Much as Churchill personified British resistance to Hitler and de Gaulle personified the freedom of France, de Valera personified Irish independence. From his emergence in the aftermath of the 1916 rebellion as the republican leader, he bestrode Irish politics like a...
Profile Books, 2015. — 920 p. Packed with violence, political drama and social and cultural upheaval, the years 1913-1923 saw the emergence in Ireland of the Ulster Volunteer Force to resist Irish home rule and in response, the Irish Volunteers, who would later evolve into the IRA. World War One, the rise of Sinn Féin, intense Ulster unionism and conflict with Britain...
Profile Books, 2012. — 823 p. Hard-nosed scholarship and moral passion underpin Diarmaid Ferriter's work. Now he turns to the key years of the 70s, when after half a century of independence, questions were being asked about the old ways of doing things. Ambiguous Republic considers the widespread social, cultural, economic and political upheavals of the decade, a decade when...
Profile, 2021. — 319 p. At the end of the Irish War of Independence, Dublin signed an unsatisfactory treaty with London, that amongst other things, required oaths of allegiance to the British Empire. To many this was a price worth paying, but for others it was impossible. Very quickly, in 1922 the country collapsed into a cruel civil war that split organisations like Sinn Fein...
Profile Books, 2010. — 640 p. Ferriter covers such subjects as abortion, pregnancy, celibacy, contraception, censorship, infanticide, homosexuality, prostitution, marriage, popular culture, social life and the various hidden Irelands associated with sexual abuse - all in the context of a conservative official morality backed by the Catholic Church and by legislation. The book...
Profile, 2019. — 184 p. For the past two decades, you could cross the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic half a dozen times without noticing or, indeed, turning off the road you were travelling. It cuts through fields, winds back-and-forth across roads, and wends from Carlingford Lough to Lough Foyle. It is frictionless - a feat sealed by the Good Friday...
Routledge, 2021. — 274 р. This book is based on original research into intimidation and violence directed at civilians by combatants during the revolutionary period in Ireland, considering this from the perspectives of the British, the Free State and the IRA. The book combines qualitative and quantitative approaches, and focusses on County Kerry, which saw high levels of...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 256 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
Remembering the Irish Revolution chronicles the ways in which the Irish revolution was remembered in the first two decades of Irish independence. While tales of heroism and martyrdom dominated popular accounts of the revolution, a handful of nationalists reflected on the period in more ambivalent terms....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 315 p. The Irish Civil War and Society sheds new light on the social currents shaping the Irish Civil War, from the 'politics of respectability' behind animosities and discourses; to the intersection of social conflicts with political violence; to the social dimensions of the war's messy aftermath.
The History Press, 2015. — 288 p. Long overshadowed by fellow republicans Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, Tom Clarke was the man who made the Easter Rising possible. During an extraordinary life dedicated to Irish freedom he rose from humble origins and endured thirty years of struggle, imprisonment and exile before becoming a master conspirator in the Easter Rising. Endowed...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 262 p. Sinn Féin has undergone a startling transformation in the last two-and-a-half decades. Under the leadership of its two principal figures Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness the mainstream party of Irish republicanism has changed beyond almost all recognition. It has moved from the margins of political life, on both sides of the Irish border, to...
London: Routledge, 1999. — 108 p. — ISBN10: 0415165490; ISBN13: 978-0415165495 — (Lancaster Pamphlets) This book sets out the main political, economic and social developments in Ireland since the 1922 treaty. It explains the troubles in their context and examines the underlying tensions which led to prolonged violence after relative civil peace. Chronological table Settlement...
Belfast: Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association, Northern Ireland, 1979. - 98 pgs. This is a fond look at all the units of part-time servicemen and women formed in Northern Ireland since the Second World War, complemented by black and white photographs. The famous regiments covered are the Inniskilling Fusiliers, Ulster Rifles, Irish Fusiliers, Irish Rangers, and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 280 p. On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to the Catholic commitment in exchange for a re-emphasis on the national question. In Ireland...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. — 90 р. The Irish War of Independence is still regarded as a conflict that is both enigmatic and emotive in content; it transformed the British imperial dream into a nightmare and was to shape the foreign and domestic agendas of two countries for nearly a century. This book seeks to examine the reasons and ask the hard questions to determine...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. — 185 p. For thirty years, Northern Ireland was riven by sustained ethno-nationalist conflict over the issue of whether the territory should remain part of the United Kingdom or reunify with the Republic of Ireland. The 1998 Belfast or "Good Friday" Agreement brought peace to the region by instituting a consociational government, which...
St Martin's Press, 1996. — 239 p. Tom Garvin (politics, U. College, Dublin) examines the birth of the Irish state in the context of European history and the vicious civil war that was raging between internal factions at the time. Arguing that the conflict was over whether the Irish should be ruled by a popular majority or a virtuous but unaccountable minority, he says radical...
Gill Books, 2018. — 216 p. Step back in time with this accessible walking guide to the revolutionary history of Dublin. Beginning in 1912, when Dublin was a city of the British Empire, and finishing in the aftermath of the Civil War in 1923, en detailed active route it covers the 1913 Lockout.
Four Courts Press, 2018. — 192 p. In 1912, Derry was a busy port city with a thriving textile industry. An important transport hub, it was also a city divided along confessional and political lines. The unionist establishment controlled local government despite the existence of a large Catholic nationalist majority, leading to charges of gerrymandering and discrimination. The...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 470 p. This book offers a new military history of the city and county of Dublin in the era of the First World War and the Irish Revolution, setting the narratives of British soldiers and Irish republicans alongside each other. Much of the writing of Dublin's history between the start of the Home Rule crisis in 1912 and the end of the Irish...
Penguin, 2010. — 672 p. The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement, a story told here for the first time - from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and '70s through the Workers' Party's eventual rejection of irredentism. A roll-call of influential personalities in the fields of...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 272 p. This is the first book to examine popular responses in Southern Ireland to the Northern Irish Troubles. Beginning with the reaction to the October 1968 Civil Rights march in Derry, the book shows how thousands mobilized in solidarity with northern nationalists over the next four years. It extensively documents the reaction to Bloody...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 240 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
During the 1960s, the physical landscape of Dublin changed more than at any time since the eighteenth century. In this period, the government began to invest in town planning, new opportunities arose for the country's architects, and the old buildings of the core began to be replaced by modern structures....
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 259 p. The essays in The I.R.A. at War propose a new history of this Irish revolution: one that encompasses the whole of the island as well as Britain, all of the violence and its consequences, and the entire period from the Easter Rising to the end of the Civil War. Using new research and questioning old assumptions, these sparkling essays by...
Manchester University Press, 2015. — 356 p. After three decades of violence, Northern Ireland has experienced unprecedented peace. This book examines the impact of the 1998 Agreement which halted the violence on those most affected by it - the Northern Irish people themselves. Using public opinion surveys conducted over half a century, this book covers changes in public opinion...
University of Toronto Press, 2001. — 304 p. The Travelling People constitute a Gypsy-like minority population in Ireland that has been a long-standing target of racism and assimilative state settlement policies. Using archival and ethnographic research, Jane Helleiner's study documents longstanding anti-Traveller racism in Ireland and explores the ongoing realities of Traveller...
Apollo, 2021. — 480 p. In 1970, Taoiseach Jack Lynch accused two cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, of smuggling arms to the IRA in Northern Ireland. The criminal prosecution that followed was a cause célèbre at the time. All the accused were acquitted, but it generated a political crisis that would be one of the major events of modern Irish history. In the...
Potomac Books, 2011. — 320 p. As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use against the British administration of Ireland in the early twentieth century. His goal was to attack its well-established system of spies and informers, wear down British forces with a sustained guerrilla...
St. Martin's Press, 1988. — 364 p. Michael Hopkinson’s Green Against Green is the definitive study of the Irish civil war, putting in perspective a bitter and passionate conflict, the legacy of which still divides Irish society today. Widely praised and frequently cited as the most authoritative work on the subject, it continues to hold its place as one of the finest works on...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. — 400 p. The war was prosecuted ruthlessly by the Irish Republican Army which, paralleling the political efforts of Sinn Féin, hoped to break Britain's will to rule Ireland and create an independent Irish republic. The British retaliated by introducing two new irregular forces into Ireland, the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries. Fighting...
Gill Books, 2004. — 400 p. Within months of first publication, Michael Hopkinson's study of the Irish War of Independence established itself as by far most comprehensive and evocative account of the role played by the conflict in shaping modern Ireland. It has been welcomed both by scholars and the general public alike, and gone further than perhaps any other recent publication...
University Press of Kansas, 2021. — 328 p. Arming the Irish Revolution is an in-depth investigation of the successes and failures of the militant Irish republican efforts to arm themselves. W. H. Kautt’s comprehensive account of Irish Republican Army (IRA) arms acquisition begins with its predecessors - the Irish Volunteers and the National Volunteers - and, counterintuitively,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 125 p. Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland. They presented a series of extremely complex issues for the de Valera government, which strove to balance Ireland's international relationships with its obligations as a neutral.
Blackstaff Press, 1988. — 272 p. The period 1916–1921 was marked by political violence and upheaval, ending in the partition of Ireland and independence for 26 of its 32 counties. A failed militant attempt was made to gain separate independence for Ireland with the 1916 Easter Rising, an insurrection in Dublin. Though support for the insurgents was small, the violence used in...
Routledge, 2014. — 205 p. The roots of the Northern Ireland situation stretch back to the sixteenth century and beyond. Caroline Kennedy-Pipe's pioneering book is, however, concerned with the modern conflict: with the reasons for the resurgence of the Troubles in the late 1960s, and in particular the causes and consequences of the decision to bring in the British Army in 1969....
Mercier Press, 2007. — 698 p. An exploration of the sources of Ireland's constitution. This meticulously researched book draws on extensive primary sources to put the Irish constitution in a clear historical perspective. Using accessible language the authors examine the political context of the conception of the constitution in 1930s Ireland against the background of...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 289 p. First of the Small Nations traces the ideas and aspirations of the revolutionary generation in Ireland from the 1890s to 1918 who dreamt of an independent Irish state and imagined how an Irish foreign policy might look. It follows attempts to put these ideas into practice during the campaign for independence and how they evolved into the...
Gill & Macmillan, 2014. — 161 p. 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 War had broken out: the Act was suspended for the duration of the war, with the violent Ulster opposition to it still unresolved. But the war changed everything. Over...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 277 p. Based on extensive archival research he Politics of the Irish Civil War situates the Irish civil war in the general process of decolonization in the twentieth century, and explains why divisions over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 proved so formative in the development of the Irish state.Each chapter is devoted to a particular aspect of the...
Pluto Press, 1996. — 252 p. An excellent counter-weight to the mass of Collins biography which forgets the revolutionary period. Revolution in Ireland is an engaging and highly original account of the War of Independence, with a focus on the trade union movement, but with analysis of the major figures and political parties of the years 1917 – 1923. It details the extraordinary...
Cambridge University Press, 1990. — 778 p. This is the first major study on this scale of Irish performance, North and South, in the twentieth century. Although stressing the primacy of politics in Irish public affairs, it argues that Irish politics must be understood in the broad context of economic, social, administrative, cultural, and intellectual history. The book fully...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 217 p. This book focuses on how Irish remembrance of the First World War impacted the emerging Irish identity in the postcolonial Irish Free State. While all combatants of the “war to end all wars” commemorated the war, Irish memorial efforts were fraught with debate over Irish identity and politics that frequently resulted in violence against...
Merlin Publishing, 1995. — 172 p. The Irish Civil War has inspired passion, hatred, and idealism. In this concise history, Helen Litton recounts the events leading up to the signing of the Treaty, the impassioned Dáil debates that followed, the destruction of the Four Corners, and the confused fighting of the Civil War itself. Here is the pragmatism of Arthur Griffith, the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 200 p. Revolutionary Ireland, 1912-1925 analyses the main events in Ireland from the initial crisis over the Third Home Rule Bill in 1912 to the consolidation of partition Ulster with the settling of the boundary issue in 1925. Written with particular reference to the needs of students in further and higher education, each chapter contains an easy...
Pluto Press, 2013. — 278 p. Language, Resistance and Revival tells the untold story of the truly groundbreaking linguistic and educational developments that took place among republican prisoners in Long Kesh prison from 1972-2000. During a period of bitter struggle between republican prisoners and the British state, the Irish language was taught and spoken as a form of...
Dublin: Ashfield Press, 1997. — 192 p. An exploration of the relationship between Irish Revolutionary leader Michael Collins and the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood.
Manchester University Press, 2008. — 272 p. This book is a history of the Irish civil service and its response to revolutionary changes in the State. It examines the response of the civil service to the threat of partition, World War, the emergence of the revolutionary forces of Dáil Éireann and the IRA through to the Civil War and the Irish Free State. Questioning the orthodox...
NYU Press, 2022. — 375 p. The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. However, the conflict also has a vitally important yet vastly understudied international dimension. The Irish Revolution: A Global History reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational event, examining how...
Routledge, 1970. — 248 p. This is a cracker of a book, concise, well paced and alive to actual outcomes and possibilities. It describes a convention held in 1917 to establish a process whereby various Irish representatives were encouraged to come together to work out a method of self-rule. The convention was a response to the crisis precipitated by the 1916 Rebellion in Dublin....
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 398 p. The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin — it changed the course of Irish history. But why did it happen? What was the role of ordinary people in this extraordinary event? What motivated them and what were their aims? These basic questions continue to divide historians of modern Ireland. The Rising is the...
Pluto Press, 2011. — 252 p. This book analyses the underlying reasons behind the formation of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), its development, where this current in Irish republicanism is at present and its prospects for the future. Tommy McKearney, a former IRA member who was part of the 1980 hunger strike, challenges the misconception that the Provisional IRA was...
Yale University Press, 1984. — 340 p. In December 1928 Lionel Curtis was advising his friend Winston Churchill about the forthcoming volume of his memoirs, The Aftermath. Looking back at that turbulent decade after 1914, Curtis wrote: ‘The making of the Irish Treaty in 1921 was one of the greatest achievements in the history of the Empire. But the steps by which effect was...
Irish Academic Press, 2019. — 200 p. This landmark study of the life of republican leader Liam Mellows brings together letters, speeches, political writings and captured IRA documents to explore his short but dramatic life. Mellows was at the forefront of the republican movement in Ireland from its inception. Following the Easter Rising, he spent four years as the IRA’s...
Irish Academic Press, 2018. — 250 p. The period 1913–1922 witnessed extraordinary upheaval in Irish society. The Easter Rising of 1916 facilitated the emergence of new revolutionary forces and the eruption of guerrilla warfare. In Galway and elsewhere in the west, the new realities wrought by World War One saw the emergence of a younger generation of impatient revolutionaries....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. — 232 p. Throughout its history the Irish Republican Movement has been beset by splits. The former paramilitary and author Brendan Behan famously quipped that, 'The first thing on the agenda was always the split.' In this in-depth research Morrison analyses the splits through his extensive range of interviews with leadership and rank and file members...
Liberties Press, 2007. — 288 p. In the 1930s, Dr Adolf Mahr was head of the National Museum of Ireland, where he earned the title 'the father of Irish archaeology'. He was also the head of the Nazi Party in Ireland, and was dubbed 'Dublin Nazi No. 1'. Under pressure from Irish and British military intelligence, he left for Germany shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939,...
Irish Academic Press, 2017. — 304 p. Patrick Mulroe's book shines a penetrating light onto the under-studied role of the Irish government's security policy during the early years of the Troubles. The results might surprise even seasoned analysts of contemporary Irish history. Bombs, Bullets and the Border examines the Irish Government Security Policy and the role played by the...
Gill and Macmillan, 2016. — 327 p. It had been a busy few days for Adolf Hitler, but Douglas Hyde had not slipped his mind. On 25 June 1938, Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland. His values stood in stark contrast to those of the continental dictator. As a Protestant nationalist and a leading figure in the language revival, he made the office an inclusive one and...
New Island Books, 2010. — 354 p. David O’Donoghue has done us all a service in bringing this little-known but significant figure to life, drawing on O’Donovan’s unpublished memoirs to combine academic rigor with a racy, readable narrative. Jim O'Donovan was a major IRA figure whose fighting career had, by 1945, spanned almost three decades. A shadowy and enigmatic character, he...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 238 p. Ireland has undergone huge change in recent times. Its economy moved from 'basket case' to 'tiger', its quality of life ranked as the best in the world, and its society became more open and outward-looking under the pressures of globalization. Yet this state of affairs was given a severe shock by the global economic crisis; Ireland found...
Atlantic Books, 2019. — 416 p. Fifty years ago, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists. In this evocative memoir, Malachi O'Doherty not only recounts his experiences of living through the Troubles, but also recalls a revolution in...
Oxford University Press, 2000. — 400 p. The first study to investigate the interlinked problems of domestic security and national defense in Ireland, this book describes the development of the Irish army and police since 1922.
Manchester University Press, 2008. — 232 p. Offering a fresh new perspective on the history of the end of Empire, with the Irish and Indian independence movements as its focus, this book details how each country s nationalist agitators engaged with each other and exchanged ideas. Using previously unpublished sources from the Indian Political Intelligence collection; it...
Manchester University Press, 2014. — 244 p. In the twenty years after Ireland joined the UN in 1955, one subject dominated its fortunes: Africa. The first detailed study of Ireland’s relationship with that continent, this book, now available in paperback, documents its special place in Irish history. Adopting a highly original, and strongly comparative approach, it shows how...
Eastwood Books, 2021. — 388 p. On the eve of the centenary of the foundation of the Northern Ireland state in 2021, this significant work examines the major political developments of this short and momentous period in Irish history. By necessity, it also explores the multi-faceted nature of the communal violence that blighted the North in its early years. The author concludes...
Ulster Historical Foundation, 2012. — 358 p. On the eve of the centenary of perhaps the most significant event in Ulster during these two years—the signing of Ulster's Solemn League and Covenant—Friends in High Places: Ulster's resistance to Irish Home Rule, 1912-14 tells the story of Ulster's organised resistance to the Third Home Rule Bill, and in particular assesses the...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 184 p. — (Very Short Introductions). This is a book about the Irish Question, or more specifically about Irish Questions. The term has become something of a catch-all, a convenient way to encompass numerous issues and developments which pertain to the political, social, and economic history of modern Ireland.The Irish Question has of course...
Cambridge University Press, 1986. — 270 p. Democracy in Ireland - Theoretical and Empirical Problems. The Free State Constitution. Irish Cultural Schisms. The Durkheimian Perspective and Democratic Stability. Patterns of Crisis Resolution in the Irish Free State 1922-1932. The Character of Irish Democracy. The Uniqueness of Irish Democracy. The Army Mutiny and Normative...
Irish Academic Press, 2011. — 288 p. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a civil war emerged in Northern Ireland. This book examines the civil war - also known as the Troubles - in the cities of Belfast and Derry. Its original archival research traces how multiple and overlapping conflicts unfolded in the streets of these two cities. The Troubles grew out of a political process...
Mercier Press, 2000. — 97 p. On 6th December 1921 Arthur Grffith and Michael Collins, the plenipotentiary representatives of Ireland in negotiations with the British government signed the document which gave 26 counties of Ireland dominion status and a remarkable degree of political autonomy. Eight months later both were dead, one worn out by attrition and political strife, the...
Routledge, 2022. — 174 p. This volume examines the critical factors and processes by which the Provisional Irish Republican movement campaign from 1969 to 1998 transformed a once acquiescent nationalist population in Northern Ireland into a counterpublic of resistance demanding national self-determination and social justice. Considering the establishment of Irish Republican...
John Hunt Publishing, 2019. — 192 p. Often the so-called 'Irish question' is reduced to one of ancestral hatreds, but this timely book following the revenant tensions borne out of Brexit negotiations grounds its study in the context of colonialism, anti-imperialism and liberation struggles. This study demonstrates that 'peace' might not be found in 'justice', and argues instead...
Blackrock: Mercier Press, 2006. — 171 p. From Preface: …Some years ago I began research for a biography of Michael Collins but almost at the outset I found myself drawn into the controversial aspects of how he met his death in an ambush at Béal na mBláth on 22 August 1922. Having grown up in west Cork, I was acutely aware of how families were split by the Civil War and also of...
Pluto Press, 1994. — 200 p. Can the Downing Street Declaration bring an end to centuries of conflict and 25 years of war in the North of Ireland? In this book, the author addresses these crucial questions. Criticizing the narrow presentation of the Irish conflict as the legacy of ancient and tribal hatreds, Ryan shows how international developments have shaped Irish politics,...
Irish Academic Press, 1989. — 248 p. This book examines the background to the inclusion of the office of Governor-General in the Irish Free State constitution and the three state's men - Governors-General who held this position before World War II.
Irish Academic Press, 2019. — 450 p. On 6 May 2014, two reports condemning the conduct of Alan Shatter, Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, were delivered to government buildings in Dublin. Shatter resigned from cabinet the next day under pressure from Taoiseach Enda Kenny, his reputation destroyed and his political career in tatters. The GSOC bugging scandal had...
Liverpool University Press, 2015. — 304 p. Covering the period from the Armistice to 1939, the book examines the experiences of Irish soldiers who had fought in the British army in the First World War on returning home to what became the Irish Free State. At the onset of the War, southern Irishmen volunteered in large numbers and marched off accompanied by cheering crowds and...
Ed. by Joachim Fischer and John Dillon. — Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999. — P 298. Опубликована впервые переписка М. Диллона, известного кельтолога и специалиста по истории раннесредневековой Ирландии. Фон включает переписку М. Диллона со своим отцом и семьей, а также коллегами: Д. Хайдом (D. Hyde), Дж. Мерфи (G. Merphy) и др. Переписка представляет интерес не только как...
Ed. by Joachim Fischer and John Dillon. — Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999. — P 298. Опубликована впервые переписка М. Диллона, известного кельтолога и специалиста по истории раннесредневековой Ирландии. Она включает переписку М. Диллона со своим отцом и семьей, а также коллегами: Д. Хайдом (D. Hyde), Дж. Мерфи (G. Merphy) и др. Переписка представляет интерес не только как...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 296 p. This book explores everyday identity change and its role in transforming ethnic, national and religious divisions. It uses very extensive interviews in post-conflict Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the early 21st century to compare the extent and the micro-level cultural logics of identity change. It widens comparisons to the...
Routledge, 2001. — 262 p. Combines coverage of the historical context of the situation in Northern Ireland with a thorough examination of the contemporary political situation and the peace process. The book explores the issues behind the longevity of the conflict and provides a detailed analysis of the attempts to create a lasting peace in Northern Ireland.
Penguin Books, 2015. — 480 p. Before Easter 1916 Dublin had been a city much like any other British city, comparable to Bristol or Liverpool and part of a complex, deep-rooted British world. Many of Dublin's inhabitants wanted to weaken or terminate London's rule but there remained a vast and conflicting range of visions of that future: far more immediate was the unfolding...
Penguin Books, 2014. — 560 p. The Irish fight for independence was both a physical battle of protracted violence, and an intellectual battle for a new sort of country. After bloodshed, betrayals and grim compromises that haunted a generation, the struggle ended and a new Irish state was born. These critical years in Ireland's history have often been viewed through the prisms of...
Lulu Press, 2013. — 430 p. This book is based on an exhaustive survey of available sources, including the Communist Party of Ireland's own recently released archive. Treacy, who is the author of an authoritative book on the Ira in the 1950s and 1960s, explores the history of Irish Communism for the light of the new evidence and with particular emphasis on the relationship...
Chelsea House Publishers, 2002. — 120 p. Discusses the background and development of the conflict between the Irish Republican Army fighting for the Catholics in Ireland and the British government forces supporting the Irish Protestants.
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 277 p. This is the first book-length study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focussing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. Fionnuala Walsh demonstrates how Irish women threw themselves into the war effort, mobilising in various different forms, such as nursing wounded soldiers, preparing...
Routledge, 2018. — 268 p. This book explores the benefits and challenges of transnational history for the study of modern Ireland. In recent years the word "transnational" has become more and more conspicuous in history writing across the globe, with scholars seeking to move beyond national and local frameworks when investigating the past. Yet transnational approaches remain...
Indiana University Press, 2020. — 467 p. In a very real sense, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh can be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. But an understanding of them is not possible without appreciating where they...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 352 p. From Partition to Brexit is the first book to chart the political and ideological evolution of Irish government policy towards Northern Ireland from the partition of the country in 1921 to the present day. Based on extensive original research, this groundbreaking and timely study challenges the idea that Irish governments have pursued...
Merrion Press, 2019. — 272 p. This groundbreaking book is the first to detail, with startling new revelations, just how integral the Republic of Ireland was to the Provisional IRA’s campaign. The sheer level of sympathy and support that existed for militant republicanism demonstrates that the longevity of the ‘Troubles’ was due in large part to this widespread tolerance and...
Москва : Задруга, 1917. — 14 с. Небольшая книга, по сути, брошюра является популяристким обзором политической обстановки в Ирландии глазами К. Дунина-Маркевич. К. Дунин-Маркевич был польским художником и мужем Констанции Маркевич - известной ирландской революционерки, члена и активиста партии Шинн Фейн, участницы Пасхального восстания. Книга взята из фонда РНБ. Выкладчик делал...
М.: АСТ, 2020. — 416 с. — (True drama). — ISBN 978-5-17-123332-7. Американский журналист и лауреат национальной премии Патрик Радден Киф ("Нью-Йоркер") предпринял попытку разобраться в самой сути англо-ирландского конфликта, его истинных причинах и последствиях для населения. Избрав точкой отсчета печально известное дело МакКонвилл (похищение обвиненной ИРА в пособничестве...
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