Irish Academic Press: 41 books
by John M. Regan
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
When we read a history we believe ourselves to be reading cold, hard, facts of the events that took place and how they occurred. But there is no real, truthful way to know the approach our historian has taken with the historical sources. This book deals with the uncertainty in writing history in the...
The Wrong Country
Essays on Modern Irish Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This engaging, personal chronicle by Irish poet Gerald Dawe explores the lives and times of leading Irish writers, including W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and Stewart Parker, alongside lesser-known names from the earlier decades of the twentieth century, such as Ethna Carberry, Alice...
Irish Women and the Vote
Becoming Citizens, New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
This landmark book, reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Irish women being granted the right to vote, is the first comprehensive analysis of the Irish suffrage movement from its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings to when feminist militancy exploded on the streets of Dublin and Belfast...
Frank Aiken
Nationalist and Internationalist
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Revolutionary; statesman; polymath: Frank Aiken cuts a colossal figure in twentieth century Irish history. However, he remains a controversial figure regarded as a war criminal by some and a principled proponent of National liberation by others.
In this engaging biographical collection, contributors...
Dorothy Stopford Price
Rebel Doctor
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
Dorothy Stopford Price was arguably the most instrumental individual in eradicating the TB epidemic within Ireland. She introduced BCG to its shores which, to this day, prevent children from catching tuberculosis. This illuminating biography uncovers the importance of her medical work and of occasionally...
The Dublin Lockout, 1913
New Perspectives on Class War & its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Putting Ireland on trial, Jim Larkin’s verdict was damning and resolute. His words resound, shuddering towards the present day where class division and workers’ rights disputes make headlines with swelling frequency. In this pioneering collection, an exemplary list of contributors registers the...
Special Category
The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 2: 1978-1985
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
This pioneering three-part work is the definitive history of Irish Republican prisoners detained in England’s maximum security prison ‘dispersal system’ during the entire period of the ‘Troubles’. A resurgence of IRA violence in Britain resulted in a steady stream of prisoners that ensured...
Harry Clarke’s War
Illustrations for Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918 contain the names of 49,435 enlisted men who were killed in the First World War. Commissioned in 1919 by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and published in 100 eight-volume sets, the Records are notable for stunning and elaborate page decorations by celebrated...
War and Revolution in the West of Ireland
Galway, 1913–1922
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The period 1913–22 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...
John Redmond
Selected Letters and Memoranda, 1880–1918
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Irish nationalist leader John Redmond left no diaries or memoirs, but was a prolific letter-writer. In John Redmond: Selected Letters and Memoranda, 1880–1918, Dermot Meleady skilfully edits Redmond’s correspondence to offer new and first-hand perspectives on key moments in Ireland’s history...
Being New York, Being Irish
Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Irish America and New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
New York University's Glucksman Ireland House opened a quarter-century ago to foster the study of Ireland and Irish America, and since then has led and witnessed tremendous changes in Irish and Irish-American culture.
Alice McDermott writes about her son's Irish awakening; Colum McCann's Joycean...
Fighting Irish
The Irish Regiments in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Fighting Irish is a meticulous and engaging account of the First World War from the perspective of the men of the Irish Regiments of the British Army, revealing the extent of the Irish military commitment to the Great War effort from 1914-1918. Startling and sympathetic matters, from campaign strategy...
The Treaty
Debating and Establishing the Irish State
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
What exactly did the split over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 actually mean? We know it both established the independent Irish state and that Ireland would not be a fully sovereign republic and provided for the partition of Northern Ireland.
The Treaty was ratified 64 votes to 57 by the Sinn...
Unhappy the Land
The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish?
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
In Unhappy the Land Liam Kennedy poses fundamental questions about the social and political history of Ireland and challenges cherished notions of a uniquely painful past. Images of tragedy and victimhood are deeply embedded in the national consciousness, yet when the Irish experience is viewed in...