Books from Irish Academic Press
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Music and Irish Cultural History
By Harry White, Gerard GillenThis book addresses the relationship between music and cultural history in Ireland. It variously identifies and examines the development of music as an outgrowth of extra-musical concepts and socio-cultural entities,...
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Irish Musical Studies: The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995
By Harry White, Patrick F. Devine"This book addresses the relationship between music and cultural history in Ireland. It variously identifies and examines the development of music as an outgrowth of extra-musical concepts and socio-cultural entities,...
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The GPO and the Easter Rising
By Keith JefferyAll existing accounts of the GPO in 1916 concentrate on the Volunteers who occupied the building on Easter Monday. But what of those Dubliners and others who were working in...
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Daniel O'Connell: The Man and His Politics
By Maurice R. O'ConnellDaniel O'Connell: The Man and His Politics
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Our Own Devices: National Symbols and Political Conflict in Twentieth-century Ireland
By Ewan MorrisNational symbols have long been highly contentious in Ireland, and they remain so today. While there have been a number of studies which have examined the role of symbols in...
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From Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare: The Experience of Ordinary Volunteers in the Irish War of Independence, 1916-1921
By Joost AugusteijnPolitical events in the period between the 1916 Rising and the Truce of 1921 are well documented, but the experience of Volunteers at local level has not been extensively analysed...
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Dominican Education in Ireland, 1820-1930
By Máire M. KealyFocusing on the part played by Dominican women in schools and colleges from 1820 to 1930, this book brings new findings to the history of the Catholic education of women...
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Female Education in Ireland 1700-1900: Minerva Or Madonna
By Deirdre Raftery, Susan M. ParkesThe history of formal education for Irish women was characterised by a dichotomy: should a girl be educated for the private sphere and a dutiful subservience, or should she be...
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Bombs, Bullets and the Border: Ireland’s Frontier: Irish Security Policy, 1969–1978
By Patrick MulroeO'Malley, Desmond, Conduct Unbecoming: A Memoir (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2014). O'Sullivan, Michael P., Patriot Graves: Resistance in Ireland (Chicago: Follet, 1972). Parker, John, Secret Hero: The Life and Mysterious Death of ...
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The Walled Towns of Ireland
By Avril ThomasTown walls were a common heritage for many Irish towns over long periods. The majority date from the Anglo-Norman period, but trends can be recognized which represent common themes throughout...
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The Walled Towns of Ireland
By Avril ThomasTown walls were a common heritage for many Irish towns over long periods. The majority date from the Anglo-Norman period, but trends can be recognized which represent common themes throughout...
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Donegal Authors, a Bibliography
By Brenda O'HanrahanDonegal Authors, a Bibliography
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The Provisional IRA in England: The Bombing Campaign, 1973-1997
By Gary McGladderyIn this revealing and fascinating account, the impact of the Provisional IRA's bombing campaign in Britain on both British government policy towards Northern Ireland and the internal politics of the...
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Riotous Roscommon: Social Unrest in the 1840s
By Anne ColemanRoscommon was a land hungry county. The landless rose in large numbers and declared they would rather be shot than starved. Their opposition and brutality was directed against those evicting...
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IRA, The Bombs and the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity
By A. R. OppenheimerClaims were made by the CIA that the purpose of an ill-fated visit by three IRA men to Colombia in 2001 was to perfect fuel-air bombs and to use the vast wilderness of a FARC-controlled demilitarised zone the size of Wales to test them.
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Journals and Memoirs of Thomas Russell, 1791-5
By Thomas RussellJournals and Memoirs of Thomas Russell, 1791-5
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Ireland and the League of Nations, 1919-1946: International Relations, Diplomacy, and Politics
By Michael J. KennedyThis is the first extensive in-depth study of the role in Ireland in an international organisation. It is based on official records from the Department of External Affairs that have...
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Women, Unionism and Loyalism in Northern Ireland: From 'tea-makers' to Political Actors
By Rachel WardPolitically active unionist and loyalist women in Northern Ireland are rendered relatively invisible because of the predominantly male public faces of unionism and loyalism. This is evident in the media...
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Edmund Burke's Irish Identities
By Seán Patrick DonlanEdmund Burke (c.1729-1797), orator, philosophical and political writer, British statesman, and opponent of the revolution in France, is among the most famous of eighteenth century Irishmen. Two centuries after his...
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Remembering and Forgetting 1916: Commemoration and Conflict in Post-peace Process Ireland
By Rebecca Graff-McRae'Remembering and Forgetting 1916 engages with the diverse, divergent, and at times contradictory, discourses of commemoration in Ireland. It explores the complex politics of commemoration of four significant events in...