Mary Ann McCracken 1770-1866
A unique and progressive figure in Belfast's history. A serious revolutionary in the era of the United Irishmen. When she believed that armed struggle was no longer viable or justifiable ,...
Cave Hill and the United Irishmen
Cave Hill where the Hearts of Steel resisted the absentee landlord, Lord Donegal, where the Volunteers trained and gave their name to the Volunteer Well, where the United Irishmen celebrated Bastille...
The United Irishmen and The Men of no Property The Sans Culottes of Belfast.
In the 1970's, 1973, 1978 Belfast, then only a small town of less than 20,000 inhabitants, was the foremost revolutionary centre in Ireland, and celebrated the French Revolution as nowhere else......
Nor Meekly Serve My Time, The H Block Struggle 1976 - 1981
In 1994 'Nor Meekly Serve My Time, The H Block Struggle 1976 - 1981' was first published by the independent publishing company Beyond the Pale It was a remarkable book in...
Children of the Revolution by Bill Rolston
The lives of sons and daughters of activists in Northern Ireland.
Lethal Allies, British Collusion in Ireland
From July 1972 to the end of 1978 a loyalist gang rampaged through counties Tyrone and Armagh and across the border into the Republic of Ireland, killing farmers, shopkeepers, publicans and...
Michael Collins and The Civil War by T. Ryle Dwyer
Michael Collins and The Civil War by T. Ryle Dwyer.
Seán Tracey and the Tan War by Joe Ambrose
Seán Tracey and the Tan War by Joe Ambrose
Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter by Meda Ryan
Chronicles the action-packed life of the Commander of the Third West Cork Flying Column. ‘They had gone down into the mire to destroy us, and down after them we had to...
The Time of the Tans, An oral history of the War of Independence in County Clare by Tomás Mac Conmara
The Time of the Tans, An oral history of the War of Independence in County Clare by Tomás Mac Conmara
The Wrong Man by Danny Morrison
Hungers strikers are dying and passions are high. Belfast, 1981. Young Thomas 'Tod' Malone is in awe of leading IRA fighter and recently-released politicial prisoner, Raymond Massey. Tod joins the IRA...
West Belfast by Danny Morrison
West Belfast by Danny Morrison