A Letter from Gerry Adams (Beirut search for Brian Keenan)
The road from the airport through the southern suburbs of Beirut into the city centre ran through fundamentalist Hezbollah territory and was known the world over as 'Kidnap Highway.' When Brian...
From Armed Struggle To Academia
Paddy McMenamin, former political prisoner in Long Kesh in the 1970s, born in Belfast, domiciled in Galway and 30 years in Donegal in between! 'Armed Struggle to Academia' is a personal...
THE INVINCIBLES- THE PHOENIX PARK ASSASSINATIONS AND THE CONSPIRACY THAT SHOOK AN EMPIRE
In an Ireland still reeling from years of famine, with tenant farmers being evicted and left to starve for their inability to pay exorbitant rents, revolutionary fervour was growing. An inner...
Stolen Faith
Belfast, 1944: American soldier James McCann meets the beautiful and impetuous Rose Rafferty. They fall in love, but their romance is forbidden- and war separates them. Boston, present day: James's children...
Markievicz, A Most Outrageous Rebel
Countess Constance Markievicz- one of the most remarkable women in Irish history- was a revolutionary, a socialist and a feminist, as well as an artist and writer. A natural leader, 'Madame',...
Interned. The Curragh Internment Camps in the War Of Independence.
During the War Of Independence, faced with an armed insurrection it couldn't stop, the British government introduced increasingly harsh penalties for suspected Republicans, including internment without trail. This led to the...
Fearless Woman
This full-length biographical study- substantially rewritten and updated- of one of the most important women in Irish political life in the 20th century is now reissued by UCD Press. Hanna Sheehy...
Unlikely Rebels. The Gifford Girls And The Fight For Irish Freedom
Many people who know the story of the 1916 Rising have heard the harrowing account of the wedding of Grace Gifford and Joseph Plunkett in Kilmainham Gaol, on the dat before...
The Bloodied Field
On the morning of 21st November 1920, fourteen men lay dead across Dublin City after an IRA attack designed to cripple British intelligence services in Ireland. That afternoon, trucks if police...
On Dangerous Ground A Memoir Of The Irish Revolution By: Máire Comerford
Edited by: Hilary Dully On Dangerous Ground is the revolutionary period memoir of Republican Máire Comerford (1893–1982). This striking memoir, one of the last of its era, includes Comerford’s original text,...
Free Statism & The Good Old IRA
Free Statism & The Good Old IRA By Danny Morrison Greenisland Press Veteran republican Danny Morrison challenges Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Irish establishment over their attitude to partition and...
On The Border
September 1921, and civil unrest is simmering across Ireland. At a rally in Armagh City, Michael Collins, the MP for Armagh, gives embattled Northern Nationalists hope that they will be part...