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Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism
The Fenian Problem
Birth of the Fenian Movement: James Stephens' American diary
Propaganda as Anti-history
Thomas Kettle (Life and Times)
The Poems of Geoffrey O'Donoghue
Fergus O'Connor: a political life
Coolacrease
The Wit of Oscar Wilde
The T&G Story 1922-2007
Dominican Education in Ireland 1820-1930
The Irish Famine
Reviews in Brief
Troubled History
Lest we forget: the Fighting Irish and the Great War
Light, Freedom and Song
West Kerry and The Last Rightboy
God's Executioner
The People's Gallery
In Search of Ireland's Heroes
1916: The Long Revolution
The Bombs and the Bullets: a history of deadly ingenuity
After The Wake
Special Criminal Court 1922 - 2006
The Evolution of the Troubles
Framing the West
High Noon on High Street
Redmond: the Parnellite
Wars of Words: the politics of language in Ireland 1537-2004
Female Education in Ireland, 1700-1900
Letters of Bernard Shaw to the Times
The Quest For Modern Ireland
Ireland Since 1939
The Irish-American in Popular Culture 1945-2000
Sean Treacy And The Tan War
The Life And Times Of Edward Martyn
Rising Out: Sean Connolly of Longford
The Blame Game
The Impact Of The 1916 Rising
Northern Ireland's '68
Blood On The Streets
Roddy Connolly And The Struggle For Socialism
Intervening In Northern Ireland
Great Hatred, Little Room
Left To The Wolves: Irish victims of Stalinist terror
Gerry Fitt: political chameleon
Queen's Rebels: Ulster loyalism in historical perspective
The Origin Of The Troubles
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson
Ireland And The Cold War
Irish Republicanism In Scotland 1858-1916
The Irish Conservative Party
A Provisional Dictator: James Stevens
Enemies Of Empire
The Northern IRA
The Meaning Of Life
Essay on Irish Bulls
Intelligence, Statecraft and International Power
Ireland's Great Famine
Irish Women Religious
Seán O’Hegarty biography
Hunger Strike, reflections
Equality, The Unfinished Agenda
The IRA and Armed Struggle
Women of the Dáil:
The Open Secret of Ireland
Galway and the Great War
Irish Flames
The Ivy Leaf: the Parnells remembered
Souvenirs of Irish Footprints Over Europe
Fron-Goch and the birth of the IRA
Dublin Then and Now
Who Stole Our Game: the fall and fall of Irish soccer
Civilizing Ireland: Ordnannce Survey 1824-1842
Irish Studies Review (Vol.15, number 1)
Censorship in the two Irelands
Eddie's Own Aquarius
Irish Freedom
Mac Curtain Family Memoir
Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising
The Philosophy of Irish Ireland
The Burning of Cork
Ireland and India
Handloom Weavers in Ulster’s Linen Industry
Landlords, Tenants, Famine
Edmund Burke's Irish Identities
The Sage of Science
Kathleen Lynn: Irishwomen, patriot, doctor
Spies, Informers and the 'Anti-Sinn Fein Society'
Michael Collins and the Treaty
Dan Breen and the IRA
Killing Finucane
Irish Studies Review (14/2&3)
Acting Irish in Hollywood
The Young Rebels
The Politics of Northern Ireland
Ireland and the Global Question
Founded on Fear
Cork Through European Eyes
The Lady Next Door
Con Cremin: Ireland's wartime diplomat
MacBride: 'Irish Statesman and Revolutionary'
Michael Collins and the Women Who Spied for Ireland
The Phoenix Park Murders
Emergency Law in Independent Ireland
Nothing But An Unfinished Song
A Biographical Dictionary of Cork
Century of Endeavour
Women and Unionism in Northern Ireland
Bob Doyle: Brigadista
Directory of Historic Locations
Róisín Bán
Staging the Easter Rising
British propaganda in Ireland 1920
Rebel Ireland
Maria Edgeworth: women, enlightenment and nation
The O'Donoghues' War of Independence
Sinn Fein and the SDLP: from alienation to participation
The GPO and the Easter Rising
Supreme Sacrifice: the story of Eamonn Ceannt 1881-1916
Grattan's Failure
40 Years of Controversy
James Connolly: a full life
Easter 1916
James Connolly Re-assessed
That Day's Struggle: a memoir
Eoin O’Duffy: a self-made hero
Local History since 1945
The Origins of the Troubles
The Beginning of the End
My Struggle For Life
The Great Deception
Radical Politics in Modern Ireland
1916 Easter Rising in print
Through American and Irish Wars
Irishmen in War 1800-2000
The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)
A Noontide Blazing
What Lies Beneath
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English (revised & expanded edition)
The Republic: issue 4
Problems and Perspectives in Irish History
In Green and Red: the lives of Frank Ryan
Women and Public Policy in Ireland
Renovation or Revolution
Baptised in Blood
Famine in Cork
Preventing the Future
Ireland and the European Union
Foreign Affectations: essays on Edmund Burke
The Galtee Boy
Your Fondest Annie
Our Own Devices: national symbols and political conflict
The Squad and the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins
Press Delete
Documenting Irish Feminisms
Ireland and the Palestinian Question
Reminiscences of Daniel O'Connell
Differently Irish: 25 years of Vietnamese-Irish identity
Rebuilding the Celtic Languages
Sinking of the Kenbane Head
'The Irish Zorro'
Pocket History of Irish Writers
Dead Men Talking
A New Dictionary of Irish History
Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals
Controversial Issues in Anglo-Irish Relations, 1910-21
Rebel City
Guide to the graves of Irish writers
The Guardianship of Historical Records
A University in Troubled Times
Green Against Green
The Connolly Column
The Real Chief: Liam Lynch
Himself Alone: David Trimble
The Irish Ordnance Survey
Irish women and nationalism
Nell
The Land for the People
King in Exile: James II
Kicking and Screaming
Shadows: inside Northern Ireland's Special Branch
From Political Violence to Negotiated Settlement
Irish Volunteers for Spain
Rebel Columns/Choosing the Green
Book reviews in brief
Thomas Edmondson and the Dublin Laundry
Irish Women's History
Irish writing: an anthology in English, 1789-1939
St Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood
Shadow of a Gunman/ Tricycle Theatre
Festschrift in honour of ATQ Stewart
Commemorating Ireland
Essays in honour of Brian Farrell
New account of the Dublin/Monaghan bombings
The Irish Council of Churches and its response to 'The Troubles'
Ulster and Scotland
The serrated edge of Britain's dirty war
The uncrowned king of economy-class travel
Expanding our understanding of Irish landlordism
De Valera and the 'Black Fifties'
De Valera family memoir
Passage through the annals of Irish civilisation
Soft focus portrait of loyalist terror gang
Flawed Gonne
Feeling the force of a conservative backlash
Warriors, wives and workers
The fierce independence of 'Soda-bread' Sam
Dublin's finest
A big heart is not enough
Britain's dirty colonial war in Ireland
Primary sources point to longstanding plans for European superstate
Reflections on motherhood in Ireland
Radical and revolutionary women
'Foundation text' for Ulster unionism
Vivid independence-war memoir
Flourishing times for traditional Irish crafts
Reclaiming Dublin
In the service of the British crown
Passionate socialist and a true friend of Ireland
Studies of the transition to post-colonialism
New parameters set for Home Rule campaign
Songs in the key of history
Rebel who kept up the fight
Sordid tales of Mad dogs and Billy boys
A biography fit for a national hero
The long view
The true nature of republicanism, democracy & culture
Authoritative account of orangeism
An Irish legacy of the Enlightenment
A history of collusion, murder and deceit
A timely, comprehensive overview of the United Irish revolution
Republicanism's way forward, with one eye on the past
Enlightened daughters of a revolutionary age
Northern Ireland's writing on the wall
Illustrated history of Robert Emmet
Put on the khaki
A secrt history of innaccuracy, hearsay
Griffith's legacy offers little for the republican reader
A handy guide to anti-imperialist activism today
Surveying the political spectrum of Irish politics
Balanced approach to the life of ‘Big Jim’
History of Irish lace
Hannibal’s quest
Journey back from the brink
Marxist who embraced the Republic
Linguistic legacy of the colonial era
Charismatic United Irish leader
Schooled in the tradition
Book revievs: in brief
Leftward shift thwarted by reaction and division
The Provisionals' long march from war to peace
Racism study sends out a bleak warning
Trouble and strife
A friend of Ireland
Frank Ryan: patriot or collaborator?
Shedding light on WWII aid episode
The battle for Irish independence
A Fenian escapade
Coming to terms with historical memory
Striving to become part of the solution
A concise study of modern Ireland
Unionist explores grounds for peace
From IRA warrior to man of peace
Still tangled up in red, white and blue
Thoughtful study of Christianity in Ireland
The tiger whimpers
The sound of truth
A tour of heraldic offices
Reviews in brief
Linda Kearns: rebel with a gauze
Feminist pioneers in a very modern marriage
Seamus Heaney: a talent in the round
Photographs from a turbulent century
Rescuing Standish O'Grady for Socialism
Arthur O'Connor and the United Irish rebellion
Marching to the neo-liberal tune
Hindsight-assisted intelligence
Beyond sympathy for the Stuarts
Modern Irish history's Turin shroud
Emigration study
Steering clear of the C-word
Women's lives touched by conflict in the north
Land Ownership in Britain and Ireland
The people’s voice in songs of revolt
Field Day anthology of Irish women writers
Irish dramatists inspired by Greek parallels
Embracing the trappings of western democracy
The development of a modern republican party
Taking on the euro
A proconsul with a style all of her own
A working-class loyalist narrative
Another hurrah for the Tipperary minstrel man
Under the spell of the phoney MacCarthy Mór
Biographical study lacking in focus
Uneven assault on Irish first world war efforts
They got their £3 -- and some
Overseas relations
Christianity and its role in sectarinism
The Easter rising and its vengeful aftermath
Exploring the question of racism in Ireland
A baneful tale of intrigue, treachery and deceit
A long, long way from Clare to here
Insighful profile of players and process
Liverpool's radical anti--slavery poet
Falling Short of an encouraging title
Orange Disorder
Book reviews in brief (August/Septemebr 2002 edition)
Sketching the development of racism in Ireland
Every picture tells a Bloody Sunday story
Oxford Companion to Irish History (revised edition)
History Scotland (issue 1)
Inclement outlook
A semi-autographical tale of discovery
Bread and circuses -- without the bread
A revision of the unionist outlook
Brits: the final installment
Book reviews in brief (June/July 2002 edition)
Lucid account of Celtic glory days
True voices of the republican 'awkward squad'
The Union under seige
Rebellion's failure opens door to direct rule
Two hundred years of Irish political activity
Contorted view of the Irish conflict
Democratic task for all socialists
Pride of the nation
Facing Both Ways
The GUBU man
Imprisoned at sea
Book reviews in brief (April/May 2002 edition)
Fitting tribute to a fine poet and Irish activist
The biographer's craft as an instrument of war
The novel appliance of war propaganda
The Hungary link
Potted biographies to whet an appetite
Poet and prisoner
A deadly business
Insider insight into 1981 hunger strike
A history beyond shovel,pick and pint
Bloody Sunday
A class perspective
Their final words
Colonial courtiers
Orangeism hits crisis as domination crumbles
A 'Terrible Beauty'
The old brigade
London in London
Women speak out
Sympathetic treatment of a 'complex' loyalist
Contrasting images of Ireland north and south
Great poet, reactionary nationalist
Do big cats travel?
Spain's dirty war
Scotland in revolt
Nottingham bound
Dark days in Kerry
Irish Republicanism and Buried Alive in Ireland
Free guide shows way round London
Peadar O'Donnell and Louie Bennett
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