An analysis of the impact of political prisoners during a period when prisons were at the heart of a series of contests in Irish history, including the violent campaign for Irish independence.
In this book, Michael Collins's biographers, Anne Dolan and William Murphy, capture the nature of this new Collins source. They reflect on how the diaries change what we know about him, and challenge us to think differently about his life.
In his exploration of the use of intelligence in Ireland by the British government from the onset of the Ulster Crisis in 1912 to the end of the Irish War of Independence in 1921, Grob-Fitzgibbon analyzes the role that intelligence played ...
Problems were encountered also with Johnny Connors's recently returned men when Daly's men moved on Farranfore, south of Tralee. The total pro-Treaty casualties in these operations were eleven dead and 114 wounded. Connors recalled his ...
Scores of internees emigrated. Tragedy and human rights issues remain. Tremendous visual images relay the story.
Enniscorthy: A History
... 220–1 , 265 Ashbourne , 1st Baron , Edward Gibson 225 , 254 Ashbourne , 2nd Baron , William Gibson ( Liam Mac Giolla Bhríde ) 195-6 Asquith , Henry , 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith generally disengaged 206–7 , 297–8 , 307 , 311 Home ...
Frank O'Connor, The Big Fellow: A Life of Michael Collins (London & New York, 1937). Batt O'Connor, With Michael Collins in the Fight for Irish Independence (London, 1929); H.V. Morton, In Search of Ireland (2nd ed., London, 2000), p.
This book examines how the Celtic Tiger, a high growth performing economy, fell into a macroeconomic abyss.
This book will serve as an essential reference tool for any serious study of medieval English rural society.
Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution examines the leaders of the French Revolution - Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins - and particularly the gradual process whereby many of them came to 'choose ...