Political Science

From late 1994 to June 1997 Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left were a coalition government led by John Bruton, arguably the most left-wing government in the history of the state. Shane Kenny provides...

It's no secret that Britain achieved its empire through forceful, and often brutal, methods. Many nations are still grappling with the dark legacy of colonisation. Des Ekin lays out some of the worst atrocities perpetrated by the British and explores the justifications used for such violent actions.

Ireland has the most cyclical construction sector in Europe, equaled only by Spain. Except for an interlude of normality in the early 1990s, it has been dominated for half a century by booms, busts, slow and painful recoveries, housing shortages and surpluses, and soaring and crashing prices.

In this thought-provoking and alarming book, veteran China specialist and foreign correspondent Ian Williams examines how China’s aggressive foreign policy is arguably the biggest threat to our security and is a problem that not just the West – but the rest of the world – ignores at its peril.

Leading journalist Matt Cooper examines the key players behind the scenes of Irish property ownership - who really controls the valuable land where we live, work and play and how did they acquire it?...

Here, Irish Times journalist Conor Gallagher takes an urgent, provocative dive into Irish neutrality – a core facet of Irish life – and explores how it might look in the future.

A definitive account of the flooding of Cwm Tryweryn and its impact on Wales in both cultural and political terms. As a means of countering this rise in Welsh national consciousness, the DVLA opened...

Shifting Sentiment is a study of the evolving editorial commentary of Ireland’s nationalist provincial newspapers on the important political events in Ireland between the Home Rule crisis of 1914 and the Civil War of 1922-23

Bilingual English/Welsh. Evidence submitted by Plaid Cymru to the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales, explaining why change is needed to the current devolution arrangements, debunking the myth that Wales is too small and poor to be independent and proposing a sovereign Senedd as an interim step on the way to independence.

A passionate, entertaining, challenging, and very practical workbook towards Wales’ independence and readers’ own independence of mind – including exercises to form your own action points and photocopiable information sheets to pass on.