Irish History

This history of Ireland is inextricably linked with our relationship with the land. In this book, based on extensive research and investigation, the authors examine some of the key figures in Irish agrarian agitation and change. 

This book provides selected reflections on the various thoughts, activities, and literary output of the quite extraordinary, complex and talented young James Joyce starting at his time at Clongowes College through to his years at UCD.

‘The University in Living Memory’ was an oral history project initiated by NUIG in 2007 to establish what it was like to study, teach and work at what was formerly University College Galway from 1930 to 1980.

A fresh and unique perspective on the key defining events of the early period of the Troubles: the Battles of the Bogside, Bombay Street and St Matthews, the Fall’s Road curfew and the Divis Riots. Two richly-detailed stories that intertwine to present a new history of the start of the Troubles.

Amid the twists and turns of her survival to this day, the story of the light cruiser HMS Caroline spans a century and more.

The British men who fought and died for the Irish Republic 1916-23.

Maynooth Studies in Local History

Poems and Writings of Stephen O'Reilly

Remembering Anne Devlin through Research, Publication, Education and Commemoration.

This is a book that is a tale of saints and sinners, of churchmen and warlords, of scholars and craftsmen, of Derry itself as sacred city, as frontier citadel, as royal capital and episcopal see. 

The grave of Theobald Wolfe Tone, its monuments and its pilgrimages. Bodenstown revisited is about a place of memory and pilgrimage often mentioned in history books but never before treated as a subject meriting an entire book.

2018 1st Edition Hardback

This enticing 250 page book is the result of painstaking research into the turbulent life of clergy and laity of the (ancient Celtic, catholic and protestant) many faceted Church of Ireland during political upheavals, the influences of plantation and of ecclesiastical establishment.

Memorials have been a feature of the commemoration of battles since early recorded history.

In this conference volume, six distinguished scholars of Irish birth or descent, reflect on what the ambitions and achievements of the men and women who supported the Rising of 1916 have meant to succeeding generations of Irish people at home and abroad.

2017 1st Edition Hardback

This album covers Ballyjamesduff, Dundalk and Dun Laoghaire. The Album is 64 pages of very readable text and crammed with excellent photographs by Billy White.

John Hume in America, a towering achievement, supported by the Hume family, explores the intricate negotiations that made this possible and highlights Hume's paramount role in leveraging Irish-America.

2017 1st Edtion Hardback.

A meticulously detailed cultural and architectural history of the Throne Room in Dublin Castle – a touchstone of British authority and Irish autonomy that can be analysed through the details of its form and furnishing.

Pearse wrote and produced eleven plays and pageants that drew widespread attention at the time of their first production and wrote widely on theatre, performance and the politics of identity.

2017 1st Edition Hardback

Originally published in 1769–70, the Boulter letters represent one of the most important printed sources for the political and ecclesiastical history of Ireland in the early Hanoverian period. . .

2016 1st Edition Hardback

That was a headline in the Belfast Telegraph in 1951 which reflected the reporter’s frustration at being unable to penetrate the veil of secrecy surrounding the discrete red brick buildings which nestled behind a security fence in the Castlereagh Hills.