The Atlas of Irish History tells the story of the Irish past in graphic cartography, beautifully rendered and augmented by an authoritative text. It is an essential basic reference tool for any student of the Irish past.
The Plantation of Ulster followed the Flight of the Earls when the lands of the departed Gaelic Lords were forfeited to the Crown. Bardon’s history is the first major, accessible survey of this key event in British and Irish history in a lifetime.
Noel Whelan, the distinguished political commentator and columnist, traces the party’s fortunes from its foundation by Eamon deValera and Sean Lemass in the 1920s right up to the present day.
The Other Ireland, with a selection of images from the twilight years of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, attempts to capture, for a diverse people, a moment within the passing of historical and industrial time when Ireland challenged the authority of, and was curtailed by, the era of the British Empire.
The Irish winter of 1947 was the coldest and longest of the 20th Century. Kevin Kearns gets behind the headlines to reveal in tremendous detail the hardship, depravation and loss of life that gripped a vulnerable country as a result of an extended period of freakishly cold weather.
The Atlas of Irish History tells the story of the Irish past in graphic cartography, beautifully rendered and augmented by an authoritative text. It is an essential basic reference tool for any student of the Irish past.
By following the money trail, Michael Keyes reveals in this ground-breaking book how Daniel O’Connell turned money into political power and how sixty years later Parnell did the same.