History / 20th Century

Eve in Ireland explores the political and cultural structures used to control Irish women between 1922 and 1972. It challenges the reader to reflect on a shameful and degrading aspect of Irish cultural...

Vividly captures wartime Ireland through over 200 hand-colorized photos, revealing everyday life during extraordinary times with insightful captions by historian Michael B. Barry.The Emergency in Colour brings...

"This is undoubtedly a moving and insightful collection that will surely become a key work for understanding the response of Wales, both as a class and a nation, to what was one of the most momentous...

The hitherto untold story of a civilian tented hospital, raised by public subscription in Wales.

During the Second World War, 54 families were evicted to turn Epynt into a military firing range. The tragedy of the destruction of this Welsh-language community is little known today. This volume records some of the more important chapters in the history of the mountain and its people and, in particular, the events of 1939 and 1940.

For over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the streets of Dublin recording the city’s vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape recorder, the ordinary people he encountered shared private stories of hardship, joy, sorrow, suffering, survival and triumph. This book is the culmination of a life’s work.

On the dramatic night of 5-6 December 1921, Irish Delegates at Downing Street signed an agreement for a treaty to end the War of Independence and to create a new Irish state.

This book introduces ground-breaking articles on women and the Treaty, the role of Eamon de Valera, the establishment of the Gardaí, the dead of the Civil War, the global reaction to Ireland’s independence, and the violence inside the new Northern Ireland state and along the border.

IRELAND’S FORGOTTEN LEGACY In 1914-1918, two hundred thousand Irishmen from all religions and backgrounds went to war. At least thirty-five thousand never came home. An award-winning collection of veterans’ stories as told by the families, with military records, surviving documents and letters.

Discover a time when people were much more tuned into the rhythm of the year and the ground beneath their feet, when they made much of their own furniture and clothes, and fed themselves from their own land. An exploration of Irish rural life before electricity and industry changed everything.