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Throughout his political career, Charles J. Haughey has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: The Arms Crisis, the ... More

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This book attempts to give a complete history of the cult of Colmn of Cloyne (560AD), patron of the diocese of Cloyne, Co. Cork. Scholars of the ... More

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Finlay was, in turn, professor of classics, of philosophy, and of political economy in University College Dublin. A prolific writer, he founded or co ... More

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This book, the outcome of twenty-five years of research, focuses on the lives and times of Lavins, Callerys, O'Haras, and Flynns-unpretentious ... More

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Diarmait Mac Murchada was a king through misadventure. Owing to a series of fatal family mishaps he was elected to power in 1126 at sixteen. He ruled ... More

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are ... More

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Julius Pokorny (1887-1970) was the foremost Celtic scholar of his generation on the European mainland. Born in Prague, he studied at Vienna ... More

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The brilliant Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin (J.K.L.) was the outstanding Catholic bishop of his time. This major source book is a ... More

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Narcissus Marsh (1638 1713) was an English clergyman who spent his later life in Ireland, initially as Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and ... More

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Following on from the bestselling success of How to Be Irish, David Slattery has penned Poet, Madman, Scoundrel: 189 Unusual Irish Lives, another ... More

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Based on recently-released interviews, this book throws a considerable amount of new light on the intelligence operations of Michael Collins.

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This previously unpublished memoir of a senior civil servant based in Dublin, London and Belfast gives invaluable and unique insight into the ... More

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Working with Richard Aldous, Bertie Ahern has written a very human and compelling book which reveals what it was like to be Irish Taoiseach for more ... More

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Originally intended as a chronicle of an Irish family's progression over 2,000 years, this book has blossomed into a panorama of the country's social ... More

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Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair earned his reputation as a paramilitary leader seeking freedom and peace in Northern Ireland. The authorities hold him ... More

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Docwra was an important military commander in Ulster during the Nine Years War responsible for making the crucial divide between ONeill and ODonnell ... More

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Arnold Meagher was born in a small village in the heart of IrelandaBallinamuck in the County of Longford. When he was four, he moved with his family ... More

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A re-evaluation of post-independence Irish society.

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Emigrants were a common sight in nineteenth and early twentieth century Ireland as they left their family farms to make their way to the boat at ... More

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The violinist Fritz Kreisler and the singers John McCormack and Paul Robeson were without question among the most celebrated musicians of the early ... More

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The story of one of the heroic figures of the 1916 rising.

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Robert McElborough was a Belfast trade unionist of little education, who spent most of his life living in the Sandy Row district and working on the ... More

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