The story of how two Derry GAA supporters returning from Croke Park were killed by loyalist paramilitaries operating an illegal checkpoint on a country ...

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

What was a mark? Livery of seisin? Letters patent? This remarkable Dictionary of Irish Local History will be able to tell you. Entries are fully cross-referenced ...

The fifteen-year-old who was the very first immigrant of any nationality to land at the famous handling station at Ellis Island, New York has now become ...

Sixteen men were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916: fifteen were shot, and one was hanged. Their deaths changed the ...

Widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish-language novels of the 20th century,  An Béal Bocht is a classic satire in Irish by one of the ...

This meticulously researched book uses previously secret official documents to explore the tangled web of relationships between the top echelons of the ...

During the Civil War, when Ernie O'Malley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some of his notes were smuggled out. 'Most of all,' ...

Keeping a personal diary was not a practice among writers of Irish before O'Sullivan's time, and contemporary Irish scholars saw no future for the language ...

The Highest House on the Mountain examines the tension between brothers, fathers and sons. When Mikey's son Patrick comes to visit with his new wife ...