Irish Regional History

This is the story of a remarkable man’s efforts to help starving people during the Irish Great Famine. It reveals their terrible experiences inside and outside one of the national ‘workhouses’ and throws new light on the relationship between class, religion and poverty in Ireland before independence.

The controversial career of a Cork surgeon.

The Little Book of Rathmines is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about this Dublin suburb. 

Can a long-term perspective on human adaptations to climate change inform Ireland's response to the crisis we face today?

Twenty years on from her critically acclaimed book, 'Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People', Susan McKay talks again to the Protestant community in Northern Ireland. Based on almost 100 brand-new interviews, and told with McKay's trademark passion and conviction, this is essential reading.

This fact-packed little book is full of all sorts of information that will surprise even those who think they know the towns and villages along the Wild Atlantic Way.

Explosive revelations about the hidden agendas of leading republicans Martin McGuinness, Joe Haughey, John Joe Magee and Freddie Scappaticci.

'A tale of arson, loot and murder' was how one source described the events that would befall Cork city on the night of 11-12 December 1920.

The Famine in Bantry Union.

The complete history of Northern Ireland from the Irish Civil War to Brexit "A wonderful book, beautifully written. Informative and incisive."-Irish Times