A james connolly reader

A stirring collection of James Connolly's most important speeches and writing.

Atlantic canada's irish immigrants

Challenging the commonplace view that the Irish immigration saga was primarily driven by dire events in Ireland, Lucille Campey’s groundbreaking work redraws the picture of early Irish settlement in Atlantic Canada. Extensively documented, and drawing on all known passenger lists of the period, t...

Between two hells

In June 1922, just seven months after Sinn Féin negotiators signed a compromise treaty with representatives of the British government to create the Irish Free State, Ireland collapsed into civil war. While the body count suggests it was far less devastating than other European civil wars, it had ...

Black '47 and beyond

Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish pota...

British spies and irish rebels

Using recently opened archives, this book provides new insights into the history of the British intelligence community and helps explain Anglo-Irish relations during a time of momentous change. The lessons it draws still echo today, as Britain contends with the threat posed by violent militants, ...

Éirinn & iran go brách

Approaching Irish nationalism through the historical lens of “Iran,” this book investigates patterns of Irish nationalist self-configuration and uses of memory, counter-memory, and historical amnesia by means of worlding Ireland from the late eighteenth century until Ireland’s partition and the f...

From kings to warlords

Native Irish chieftains, not totally subdued after the Norman invasion of Ireland, recovered a measure of their power in the later middle ages; unfamiliar sources illuminate developments.The Norman invasion of Ireland (1169) did not result in a complete conquest, and those native Irish chieftains...

George berkeley

A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopherIn George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish philosopher of the Enlightenment. From his early brilliance as a student and fellow at Trinity C...

Ghost moth

In this lyrical, evocative debut novel, a family is consumed by dark secrets as tensions rise in Northern Ireland.

Good trouble

Good Trouble is the story of the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland – specifically, the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to Derry march through oral history.

Hammered by the irish

How an act of conscience touched hearts and minds, in a moment of popular resistance.

Heroes of the gael

The evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song, traced over 1,400 yearsStories about Fionn macCumhaill (also known as Finn McCool) and his roving warrior band, the Fianna, have engaged audiences for more than a millennium. Fionn and the Fianna—Gaeldom’s defenders during a legendary third...

Ireland, colonialism, and the unfinished revolution

A groundbreaking examination of the colonial legacy and future of Ireland, showing how Ireland’s story is linked to and informs anti-imperialism around the world.  Colonialism is at the heart of making sense of Irish history and contemporary politics across the island of Ireland. And as Robbie Mc...

Irish cinema in the twenty-first century

This book provides an accessible, comprehensive discussion of how a small national cinema can remain relevant in the wider environment of globalisation. It includes chapters on the creative documentary, animation and the horror film, as well as Irish history on screen and the depiction of the cou...

Irish nationalists and the making of the irish race

This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no races. ...

James joyce

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writingsThe young James Joyce (1882–1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he took into his European exile a depth of political insight unrivalled among his fellow modernists....

Listening to the wind

“Exceptional . . . A book about one place which is also about the whole world.” —ROBERT MACFARLANE

Ontario and quebec’s irish pioneers

Taking on the myth that Irish settlers in Canada were a wave of famine victims, Lucille Campey reveals the pioneering achievements of the Irish who began populating — and thriving in — Ontario and Quebec a century before the famine of 1840. The second volume of the Irish in Canada series brings a...

Revolutionary lives

Constance Markievicz (1868–1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris. She would become known for her roles as politician and Irish revolutionary nationalist. Her husband, Casimir Duni...

Saint patrick retold

A gripping biography that sheds provocative new light on the life of Saint PatrickSaint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by rumors that he settled in Ireland for financial gain, the man who was to become Ireland’s...

Struggle or starve

The story of how thousands of Catholics and Protestants united to challenge poverty and unemployment in Belfast, Ireland.

Terrorists, anarchists, and republicans

A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth centuryIn 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and...

The celts

A new history of the Celts that reveals how this once-forgotten people became a pillar of modern national identity in Britain, Ireland, and FranceBefore the Greeks and Romans, the Celts ruled the ancient world. They sacked Rome, invaded Greece, and conquered much of Europe, from Ireland to Turkey...

The great famine in ireland and britain’s financial crisis

Rich in archival detail and offering a ground-breaking analysis, this book presents a radically new interpretation of British politics and policy failings during the Great Famine.The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the United Kingdom's history. Within six years of ...

The lore of ireland

The definitive reference book on Ireland's cultural and religious heritage.Ireland has one of the finest cultural heritages and a standard reference book combining the related subjects of folklore, myth, legend and romance is long overdue. There are 350 substantial entries, in alphabetical order ...

The sacred isle

Thin places

An Indies Introduce Selection for Winter/Spring 2022Both a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family’s experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of “two strands, one wondrous and elemental, the other violent and unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive ...

Tom holland's beowulf

In this unique work, acclaimed historian, Tom Holland takes up Beowulf with his pen at the ready.

Transnational women writers in the wilmot coterie, 1798-1840

Highlights the centrality of non-canonical, middle-ranking women writers to the production of literature and culture in Britain, Ireland, Europe and Russia in the late eighteenth century.The Irish writers and editors Katherine (1773-1824) and Martha Wilmot (1775-1873) left a unique record of midd...

Tyrone's rebellion

War and an irish town

War and an Irish Town is Eamonn McCann's classic account of growing up Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto.