Irish Politics

The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it.

The definitive guide to success in Irish politics, Paddy Machiavelli will have you laughing and crying all the way to the ballot box.

Death is the ultimate commonality; the one thing that unites us as human beings and is ironically - absolutely fundamental to our creative impulses. 

From stalemate to consensus by way of the Belfast and St Andrews Agreements, this is a 'big picture' treatment of the peace process. In a compelling compilation of landmark interviews and keynote analysis, award-winning journalist Frank Millar charts a unique chapter in Northern Ireland's history - in the words of the history makers themselves.

2009 1st Edition Hardback

First published in 1979, this volume of original essays on the history of eighteenth-century Ireland was conceived both as an exercise in revision, challenging accepted orthodoxies, and as an attempt to open up new areas of study in a period grown stale with competing clichés: the 'penal era' for Catholic Ireland which was also the 'golden age' of Protestant Ascendancy.