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Francis J. Byrne, Irish Kings and High Kings [1973]
Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe
T.M. Charles-Edwards, Early Christian Ireland
Laurence Flanagan, Ancient Ireland: Life Before the Celts [1998]
Robert MacAlister, The Archaeology of Ireland [1928]
Eoin MacNeill, Phases of Irish History
Gerard Murphy (ed), Early Irish Lyrics: Eight to the Twelfth Century
Roger Chatterton Newman, Brian Boru: King of Ireland
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Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200 [1995]
Michael J. O' Kellly, Early Ireland: An Introduction to Irish Prehistory [1989]
Stephen Oppenheimer, The Origins of the British: The New Prehistory of Britain and Ireland from Ice-Age Hunter Gatherers to the Vikings as revealed by DNA analysis [2006]
Francis Pryor, Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland before the Romans [2003]
Richard Roche, The Norman Invasion of Ireland [1970]
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Celtic Studies
Barry Raftery (ed.), Philip's Atlas of the Celts
Nora Chadwick, The Celts [1970]
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Frank Delaney, The Celts [1986]
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Robert Graves, The White Goddess
Lady Augusta Gregory, Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan [1904]
Cúchulainn of Muirthemne: The History of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster [1902
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Ronald Hutton, The Druids [2007]
Gwynn Jones (trans.), The Mabinogion
Bruce Arnold, A Concise History of Irish Art
Thomas Kinsella (trans), The Táin: from the Irish Epic Táin Bó Cuailgne
Alexander MacBain, Celtic Mythology and Religion [1917]
James MacKillop, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology [1998]
Jean Markale, The Druids: Celtic Priests of Nature [1985]
John Minahane, The Christian Druids: On the Filid or Philosopher-Poets of Ireland [1993]
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Betty Radice (ed) Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Charles Squire, Celtic Myths and Legends
Lady Wilde 'Speranza', Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland with sketches of the Irish past [1888]
J. E. Caerwyn Williams, The Irish Literary Tradition
Simon Young, The Celtic Revolution: In Search of 2000 Forgotten Years that Changed the World
Medieval Ireland
Art Cosgrove (ed.), A New History of Ireland, Vol. 2, Medieval Ireland, 1162-1534
Patrick J. Duffy (ed), Gaelic Ireland c.1250- c.1650: Land, Lordship and Settlement
Nicholas Furlong, Diarmait, King of Leinster [2006]
Laurence Ginnell, The Brehon Laws: A Legal Handbook
Diane Hall, Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c1140-1540
Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles of England, Scotland & Ireland
James Lydon, The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages [2003]
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Kenneth Nicholls, Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages [1973]
Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages [2003]
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A.J. Othway-Ruthven, A History of Medieval Ireland [1968]
Katherine Simms, From Kings to Warlords: The Changing Political Structure of Gaelic Ireland in the Later Middle Ages
16th Century Ireland
Richard Berleth, The Twilight Lords: The Fierce Doomed Struggle of the last great Feudal Lords of Ireland against the England of Elizabeth I
Brendan Bradshaw (ed.), Representing Ireland, Literature and the Origins of Conflict 1534-1660
The Irish Constitutional Revolution of the Sixteenth Century
The Dissolution of the Irish Monasteries under Henry VIII.
Ciaran Brady , Shane O' Neill: His Life and Times
(ed.), A Viceroy's Vindication? Sir Henry Sidney's Memoir of Service in Ireland, 1556-78
Ann Chambers, Granuaile, Ireland's Pirate Queen: Grace O' Malley, 1530-1603
Eleanor, Countess of Desmond {2000]
Stephen Elliss, Ireland in the Age of the Tudors, 1447-1603, English Expansion and the End of Gaelic Rule
Cyril Falls, Elizabeth's Irish Wars [1950]
Sir John Pope-Hennessy, Sir Walter Raleigh in Ireland
Colm Lennon, Sixteenth Century Ireland: The Incomplete Conquest
Laurence McCorristine, The Revolt of Silken Thomas: A Challenge to Henry VIII
Anthony M. McCormack, The Earldom of Desmond, 1463-1583: The Decline and Crisis of a Feudal Lordship
John Mitchel, The Life and Times of Aodh O' Neill, Prince of Ulster
T.W. Moody & F.X. Martin (eds.) A New History of Ireland, Vol. 3, Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1691
Séan O' Faoileáin, The Great O' Neill: A Biography of Hugh O' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, 1550-1616
Margaret MacCurtain, Tudor and Stuart Ireland
Ulster Plantation
Jonathan Bardon, The Plantation of Ulster
A History of Ulster
Marianne Elliott, The Catholics of Ulster
M. Perceval-Maxwell, Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I
John McGurk, Sir Henry Docwra, 1564-1631: Derry's Second Founder
17th Century Ireland
Karl S. Bottigheimer, English Money and Irish Land: The 'Adventurers' in the Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland
Barra Boydall & Kerry Houston (eds.), Music, Ireland and the Seventeenth Century
Jerrold L. Casway, Owen Roe O' Neill and the Struggle for Catholic Ireland
Edwards, Lenihan, (eds.), Age of Atrocity: Violence and Political Conflict in Early Modern Ireland
Peter Beresford Ellis, Hell or Connaught! The Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland, 1625-1660
Brendan Fitzpatrick, Seventeenth Century Ireland: The War of Religions
Raymond Gillespie, Seventeenth Century Ireland: Making Ireland Modern
G.A. Hayes & McCoy, Irish Battles: A Military History of Ireland [1990]
Hugh Kearney, Strafford in Ireland 1633-1641: A Study in Absolutism
Ian McBride, The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology
Edward MacLysaght, Irish Life in the Seventeenth Century [1939]
Patrick Macrory, The Siege of Derry [1980]
Tomás Ó Fiaich, Oliver Plunkett: Ireland's New Saint
Tadgh Ó Hannracháin, Catholic Reformation in Ireland: The Mission of Rinuccini 1645-1649
Jane Ohlmeyer & John Kenyon, The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1638-1660
Jane Ohlmeyer, (ed.) Political Thought in Seventeeth Century Ireland: Kingdom or Colony?
Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms: The Career of Randal MacDonnell, Marquis of Antrim
(ed.) The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century
Micháel O' Siochrú, Confederate Ireland, 1642-49
God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland
Sir Charles Petrie, The Great Tyrconnel: A Chapter in Anglo-Irish Relations [1972]
Tom Reilly, Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy
J. G. Simms, Jacobite Ireland
David Stevenson, Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates
Piers Wauchope, Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War [1992]
John Barratt, Battles for the Three Kingdoms: The Campaigns for England, Scotland and Ireland, 1689-1692
18th Century Ireland
Toby Barnard, A New Anatomy of Ireland, The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 [2003]
Bergin, Magennis, Ní Mhunghaile, Walsh (eds), New Perspectives on the Penal Laws: Eighteenth Century Ireland ~ Iris an Dá Cultúr
Séan Connolly Divided Kingdom, Ireland 1630-1800
Daniel Corkery, The Hidden Ireland
David Dickson, Arctic Ireland: The Extraordinary Story of the Great Frost and Forgotten Famine of 1740-41
New Foundations, Ireland, 1660-1800 (2nd ed.) [2000]
Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 [2005]
Patnrick Fagan, Cornelius Nary: Dublin's Turbulent Priest, 1658-1738
Brian Fitzgerald, Lady Louisa Connolly, 1743-1821: An Anglo-Irish Biography [1950]
Shevawn Lynam, Humanity Dick Martin, 'King of Connemara' 1754-1834
Eoin Magennis, The Irish Political System, 1740-1765: The Golden Age of the Undertakers
Ian McBride, Eighteenth Century Ireland: Isle of Slaves
Scripture Politics
Antonia McManus, The Irish Hedge School and its Books, 1695-1831
Éamonn Ó Ciardha, Ireland and the Jacobite Cause 1685-1766
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
The Selected Poems
Major Works (Oxford)
Ireland in the Age of Democratic Revolution, 1766-1815
Stanley Ayling, Edmund Burke: His Life and Opinions
Bartlett, Dickson, Keogh, Whelan (eds), 1798: A Bicentennial Perspective
Thomas Bartlett (ed), Life of Theobold Wolfe Tone
Guy Beiner, Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory
John Bew, Castlereagh: Enlightenment, War and Tyranny
Belfast Politics: William Bruce and Henry Joy
Denis Carroll, The Man from God Knows Where: Thomas Russell 1767-1803
Séan Cronin & Richard Roche (eds), Freedom the Wolfe Tone Way
Charles Dickson, Revolt in the North, Antrim and Down in 1798
David Dickson, (& Gough eds) Ireland and the French Revolution
Séan Patrick Donlan, Edumnd Burke's Irish Identities
Tom Dunne, Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798
Nancy J. Curtin, The United Irishmen: Popular Politics in Ulster and Dublin 1791-1798
Marianne Elliott, Wolfe Tone: Prophet of Irish Independence
Partners in Revolution: The United Irishmen and France
Robert Emmett: The Making of a Legend
David P. Fidler & Jennifer M. Welsh (eds), Empire and Community: Edmund Burke's Writings and Speeches on International Relations
Nicholas Furlong, Fr. John Murphy of Boolavogue, 1753-1798
Daniel Gahan, The People's Rising: Wexford 1798
Jane Hayter Hames, Arthur O' Connor, United Irishman
Douglas Kanter, The Making of British Unionism, 1740-1848
James Kelly, Sir Richard Musgrave, 1746-1818: Ultra-Protestant Ideologue
Daire Keogh & Nicholas Furlong (eds), The Women of 1798
Isaac Kramnick, The Portable Edmund Burke (Penguin)
John Larkin (ed), The Trial of William Drennan
W. E. H. Lecky, A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 2
A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 3
A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 4
A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 5
R. B. McDowell, Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution, 1760-1801
Historical Essays, 1938-2001
Mary McNeill, The Life and Times of Mary Ann McCracken 1770-1866: A Belfast Panorama
Frank MacDermot, Theobold Wolfe Tone
Daniel Owen Madden, Grattan's Speeches [1865]
Danny Mansergh, Grattan's Failure: Parliamentary opposition and the people in Ireland, 1779-1800
Jesse Norman, Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet
Gerard O' Brien, Anglo-Irish Politics in the Age of Grattan and Pitt
Conor Cruise O' Brien, Edmund Burke: The Great Melody
William O' Brien, Edmund Burke as an Irishman
Margaret Ó Hógartaigh, Edward Hay, Historian of 1798: Catholic Politics in an Era of Wolfe Tone and Daniel O' Connell
Thomas Packenham, The Year of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798
Cathal Póirtéir (ed.), The Great Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Thomas Davis Lecture Series) [1998]
Jim Smyth, The Men of No Property: Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century
Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Union: Ireland in the 1790's
A.T.Q. Stewart, A Deeper Silence: The Hidden Origins of the United Irishmen
The Summer Soldiers: The 1798 Rebellion in Antrim and Down
Janet Todd, Daughters of Ireland: The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation
Fergus Whelan, Dissent into Treason: Unitarians, King-killers and the Society of United Irishmen
Kevin Whelan, The Tree of Liberty: Radicalism, Catholicism and the Construction of Irish Identity 1760-1830
Daniel O' Connell
Erin I. Bishop, The World of Mary O' Connell, 1778-1836
Patrick Geoghegan, King Dan: The Rise of Daniel O' Connell, 1775-1829 [2008]
Liberator: The Life and Death of Daniel O' Connell, 1829-1847 [2010]
Donal McCartney (ed.), The World of Daniel O' Connell
William McComb, The Repealer Repulsed [1841]
Oliver MacDonagh, O' Connell, Life of Daniel O' Connell
Kevin Nowlan (ed.), Daniel O' Connell: Portrait of a Radical
Séan O' Faoileáin, King of the Beggars: A Life of Daniel O' Connell [1938]
Charles Trench, The Great Dan: A Biography of Daniel O' Connell, 'Liberator' of Ireland [1984]
The Famine
Hilary Andrews, The Lion of the West: A Biography of John MacHale
Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-50
Gustave de Beaumont, Ireland
William Cobbett, Cobbett in Ireland: A Warning to England (ed. Denis Knight)
Tim Pat Coogan The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
Nuala Costello, John MacHale, Archbishop of Tuam [1939]
George Cusack & Sarah Goss (eds.) Hungry Words: Images of Famine in the Irish Canon [2006]
Margaret Crawford (ed.), The Hungry Stream: Essays on Emigration and Famine
Mary Daly, The Famine in Ireland [1986]
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World
Paul E. H. Davis, From Castle Rackrent to Castle Dracula: Anglo-Irish Agrarian Fiction from the 19th Century [2011]
Richard Davis, Revolutionary Imperialist: William Smith O' Brien [1998]
Enda Delaney, The Curse of Reason: The Great Irish Famine [2012]
James S. Donnelly Jr., The Great Irish Potato Famine
Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821-1824
Peter Duffy, The Killing of Major Denis Mahon
R. Dudley Edwards, The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History 1845-52
Mary Lowe-Evans, Crimes against Fecundity: Joyce and Population Control
Laurence Fenton, The Young Ireland Rebellion & Limerick
Thomas Gallagher, Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-47: Prelude to Hatred [1982]
Peter Gray, The Irish Famine (New Horizons)
Famine, Land and Politics: British Government and Irish Society 1843-50
(ed.) Poverty and Welfare in Ireland, 1838-1948
Robin Haines, Charles Trevelyan & the Great Irish Famine [2004]
Tom Hayden (ed.), Irish Hunger: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of the Famine [1997]
Aidan Hegarty, John Mitchel: A Cause too Many
William Henry, Famine: Galway's Darkest Years
John Kelly, The Graves are Walking: The History of the Great Irish Famine [2012]
Thomas Keneally, The Great Shame
Three Famines: Starvation and Politics [2010]
Séan Kenny, The Hungry Earth [1995]
Donal Kerr, A Nation of Beggars? Priests, People and Politics in Famine Ireland 1846-52
John Killen, The Famine Decade: Contemporary Accounts, 1841-51
Christine Kinealy, A Death-Dealing Famine (1997)
The Great Irish Famine: Impact, Ideology & Rebellion (2001)
This Great Calamity (2005)
Repeal and Revolution: 1848 in Ireland (2009)
Ireland's Great Hunger: Silence, Memory and Commemoration (ed with David A. Valone, 2002)
Carla King (ed), Famine, Land and Culture in Ireland
James Fintan Lalor, Collected Writings [1918]
Edward Laxton, The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America, 1846-51
Matthew Lynch, The Mass Evictions in Kilrush Poor Law Union During the Great Famine
Stuart McLean, The Event and its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity
Gerard Mac Atasney, The Other Famine: The 1822 Crisis in County Leitrim [2010]
James Mangan, Gerard Keegan's Famine Diary: Journey to a New World [1991]
Harriet Martinieu, Letters from Ireland [1852]
A History of the Thirty Years Peace, 1816-1846, Vol. 4 [1849-1850]
John Mitchel, The History of Ireland from the Treaty of Limerick to the Present Time
Last Conquest of Ireland (perhaps)
The Crusade of the Time
Jail Journal [1854]
Bryan P. McGovern, John Mitchel, Irish Nationalist, Southern Secessionist
Chris Morash (ed), Fearful Realities: New Perspectives on the Famine
David Nally, Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine
Asenath Nicholson, Annals of the Famine in Ireland (Maureen Murphy ed.)
Cormac O' Grada, Black 47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy and Memory
Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays [2006]
The Great Irish Famine: New Studies in Economic History
Famine: A Short History [2009]
Michelle O' Mahony, Famine in Cork City [2005]
Ciaran O' Murchadha, The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-52
Joseph O' Neill, The Irish Potato Famine
John O' Rourke, A History of The Great Irish Famine of 1847
Gearóid O' Tuathaigh, Ireland Before the Famine 1798-1848
Cathal Póirtéir (ed.), The Great Irish Famine (Thomas Davis Lecture Series) [1995]
Famine Echoes [1995]
Robert Scally, The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine and Emigration
Robert Sloan, William Smith O' Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848 [2000]
Cecil Woodham Smith, The Great Hunger
K.D.M. Snell (ed,), Alexander Somerville's Letters from Ireland during the Famine (1847)
William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketchbook of 1842 [1843]
Colm Tóibín & Diarmaid Ferriter (eds.) The Irish famine: A Documentary [2004]
Leslie Williams, Daniel O' Connell, The British Press and the Famine: Killing Remarks (2004)
19th Century Literature
Maria Edgeworth, The Absentee
Castle Rackrent/Ennui
William Carleton, Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry Vol I
Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry Vol II
Phelim O' Toole's Courtship
Tales & Legends of the Irish peasantry
The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine [1847]
Gerald Griffin, The Collegians
Charles Kickham, Knocknagow
James Clarence Mangan, Poems (ed. D.J. O' Donoghue)
Selected Prose (ed. Jacques Chuto)
Somerville & Ross, The Real Charlotte
Experiences of an Irish R.M
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Oscar Fingal O' Flaherty Wills Wilde, Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
De Profundis and other writings
Picture of Dorian Gray
19th Century Ireland
D. George Boyce, Nineteenth Century Ireland: The Search for Stability
Phillip Bull, Land, Politics and Nationalism: A Study of the Irish Land Question [1996]
J. Stirling Coyne, The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland
Terence Dooley, The Decline of the Big House in Ireland
Tadgh Foley & Séan Ryder (eds.), Ideology and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
Ireland and India: Colonies, Culture and Empire
Roy Foster, Paddy and Mr.Punch
The Irish Story: Telling Tales and Making it up in Ireland
Colm Kerrigan, Father Mathew and the Irish Temperance Movement, 1838-1849
Joseph Lee, The Modernisation of Irish Society, 1848-1918 [1973]
Nicholas Mansergh, The Irish Question, 1840-1921: A Commentary on Anglo-Irish Relations and on Social and Political Forces in Ireland in the Age of Reform and Revolution.
James Murphy, Ireland: A Social, Cultural and Literary History, 1791-1891
Michael de Nie, The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press 1798-1882
Patrick O' Donnell, The Irish Faction Fighters of the 19th Century [1975]
Charles Orser (ed.), Unearthing Hidden Ireland: Historical Archaeology at Ballykilcline, Co. Roscommon
W. E. Vaughan (ed), A New History of Ireland, Vol V, Ireland under the Union I, 1801-70
Alan J. Ward, The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland, 1782-1992.
IRB/Land League/Parnell
Kathleen Clarke, Revolutionary Woman: Memoirs of Kathleen Clarke [1991]
Joe Ambrose, The Fenian Anthology
R. V. Comerford, The Fenians in Context
Michael Davitt, Jottings in Solitary
Terence Dooley, 'The Greatest of the Fenians': John Devoy and Ireland [2003]
Tom Garvin, Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland, 1858-1928
Brian Jenkins The Fenian Problem: Insurgency and Terrorism in a Liberal State, 1858-1874
Ian Kenneally, From the Earth, a Cry: The Story of John Boyle O' Reilly [2011]
F. S. L. Lyons, Charles Stuart Parnell [1977]
Owen McGee, The IRB: The Irish Republican Brotherhood from the Land League to Sinn Féin
Robert Kee, The Laurel and the Ivy: Charles Stuart Parnell and Irish Nationalism
Laurence Marley, Michael Davitt: Freelance Radical and Frondeur
Padraig Ó Conchubhair, 'The Fenians were dreadful men', The 1867 Rising [2011]
Jeremiah O' Donovan Rossa, Rossa's Recollections, 1838-18989: Memoirs of an Irish Revolutionary
Easter Rising/War of Independence/Civil War
Tom Barry, Guerrilla Days in Ireland [1949]
Richard Bennett, The Black and Tans [1959]
Max Caulfield, The Easter Rebellion [1964]
James Connolly, Collected Works, Vol.1
Collected Works, Vol.2
Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins
Easter 1916
De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow
T. Ryle Dwyer, De Valera: The Man and His Times
The Squad: The Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins
Ruth Dudley Edwards, Patrick Pearse: The Triumph of Failure [1977]
Michael Foy & Brian Barton, The Easter Rising [1999]
C. Desmond Greaves, The Life and Times of James Connolly [1961]
Arthur Griffith, The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland [1904]
Dave Hannigan, De Valera in America: The Rebel President's 1919 Campaign [2008]
Michael Hopkinson, The Irish War of Independence
John Horne (ed.), Our War: Ireland and the Great War
Brian Inglis, Roger Casement [1973]
Ian Kenneally, The Paper Wall: Newspapers and Propaganda in Ireland, 1919-1921 [2008]
Samuel Levenson, A Biography of James Connolly: Socialist, Patriot and Martyr [1973]
Timothy McMahon (ed.), Padraig O' Fathaigh's War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer
Maud Gonne MacBride, A Servant of the Queen: Reminiscences [1938]
Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Myths and Memories of the Easter Rising: Cultural and Political Nationalism in Ireland
Eoin Neeson, The Civil War in Ireland, 1922-23
Donal Nevin (ed.), James Larkin: Lion of the Fold
Frank O' Connor, The Big Fellow: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution [1937]
Ulick O' Connor, A Terrible Beauty is Born: The Irish Troubles 1912-1922 [1975]
P.S. O' Hegarty, The Victory of Sinn Féin [1924]
Ernie O' Malley, On Another Man's Wound [1936]
Frank Pakenham, Peace by Ordeal: The Negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921 [1935]
Patrick Pearse, The Coming Revolution: Writings & Speeches
Peter de Rosa, Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916 [1990]
Louis N. Le Roux, Life of Patrick H. Pearse (trans. Desmond Ryan)
Meda Ryan, The Day Michael Collins was Shot
Tom Barry: IRA Freedom Fighter
Charles Townshend, Easter 1916: The Irish Rising [2005]
Terence de Vere White, Kevin O' Higgins, strong man in the Free State Government 1922-27: His eventful life and mysterious violent death [1948]
Calton Younger, Ireland's Civil War [1968]
Nationalism in Ireland
D. George Boyce, Nationalism in Ireland (3rd ed.)
Sean Cronin, Irish Nationalism
Richard English, Irish Freedom: A History of Irish Nationalism
Hugh Kearney, Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History
The British Isles: A History of Four Nations
Robert Kee, The Green Flag: A History of Irish Nationalism
Conor Cruise O' Brien, Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland
Louise Ryan & Margaret Ward (eds.), Irish Women and Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags
Elizabeth Coxhead, Daughters of Erin: Five Women of the Irish Resistance
Irish Diaspora
Tim Pat Coogan, Wherever Green is Worn
Jay P. Dolan, The Irish Americans: A History
Michael Hogan, The Irish Soldiers of Mexico
Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White [1995]
Stephen McGarry, Irish Brigades Abroad: From the Wild Geese to the Napoleonic Wars
Kerby Miller, Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
Thomas O' Connor, The Boston Irish: A Political History [1995]
Patrick O' Farrell, The Irish in Australia
Francis O' Neill, Chief O' Neill's Sketchy Recollections of an Eventful Life in Chicago
Bob Reece (ed.), Exiles from Erin: Convict Lives in Ireland and Australia
Sián Rees, The Shadow of Elisa Lynch: How a Nineteenth- Century Irish Courtesan became the most Powerful Woman in Paraguay
David Wilson, United Irishmen, United States: Immigrant Radicals in the Early Republic
20th Century Irish History
Diarmaid Ferriter, Judging Dev
The Transformation of Ireland
What if? Alternative Views of Twentieth Century Ireland
Bruce Arnold, The Irish Gulag: How the State Betrayed its Innocent Children [2009]
Noel Browne, Against the Tide [1986]
T. Ryle Dwyer, Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland's Phoney Neutrality during World War II
Brian Hanley & Scott Millar, The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Worker's Party [2009]
Joe Joyce & Peter Murtagh, The Boss
Dermot Keogh (ed.), The Lost Decade: Ireland in the 1950's
Jack Lynch : A Biography
Joseph Lee, Ireland, 1912-1985: Politics and Society [1989]
Séan MacBride, That Day's Struggle: A Memoir 1904-1951 (Caitriona Lawlor ed.)
Diarmaid Whelan, Conor Cruise O' Brien: Violent Notions
The Troubles
Gerry Adams, Before the Dawn: An Autobiography [1996]
Hope and History: Making Peace in Ireland [2003]
The Politics of Irish Freedom [1986]
John Bowman, De Valera and the Ulster Question, 1917-1973 [1982]
Eamon Collins, Killing Rage [1997]
Tim Pat Coogan The IRA [2000]
On the Blanket: The H-Block Story [1980]
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-96 and the Search for Peace [1996]
The IRA [1970]
Gerry Conlon, Proved Innocent
Jim Cusack, UVF: The Endgame [2008]
Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark
Bernadette Devlin, The Price of My Soul
Richard English, Armed Struggle : The History of the IRA
James Kelly, Orders for the Captain? (Arms Crisis) [1971]
Eamon McCann, Bloody Sunday in Derry: What really Happened [2000]
War and Peace in Northern Ireland
Maria McGuire, To Take Arms: A Year in the Provisional IRA
Ciaran McKeown, The Passion of Peace [1984]
Eamonn Mallie & David McKittrick, The Fight for Peace: The Secret Story behind the Irish Peace Process [1996]
Ed Maloney, Voices from the Grave: Two Men's War in Ireland
A Secret History of the IRA
Paisley [1986] (with Andy Pollak)
Dervla Murphy, A Place Apart [1978]
Kevin Myers, Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970's Belfast [2006]
Brendan O' Brien, A Pocket History of the IRA [1987]
Fionnuala O' Connor, In Search of a State: Catholics in Northern Ireland [1993]
Liam de Paor, Divided Ulster [1970]
Henry Patterson, Ireland since 1939: The Persistence of Conflict
Jonathan Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland [2008]
Eamon Phoenix, Northern Nationalism: Northern Politics, Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland 1890-1940
David Reed, Ireland: The Key to the British Revolution
Bobby Sands, Writings from Prison (Foreword Gerry Adams, Intro Séan McBride)
John Stalker, Stalker
A.T. Q. Stewart, The Narrow Ground: The Roots of Conflict in Ulster
Rosita Sweetman, 'On Our Knees': Ireland 1972
Joe Tiernan, The Dublin and Monaghan Bombings (And the Murder Triangle) [2010]
Colm Tóibín, Bad Blood: A Walk along the Irish Border [1987]
Kevin Toolis, Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul [1995]
Irish Interest: Miscellaneous
Marian Broderick, Wild Irish Women ~ Extraordinary Lives From History
Joe Broderick, Fall from Grace: The Life of Eamonn Casey
John Giles, A Football Man: The Autobiography
Anthony Carty, Was Ireland Conquered? International Law and the Irish Question
Ann Chambers, At Arm's Length: Aristocrats in the Republic of Ireland
Tim Pat Coogan, A Memoir
Siobhan Creaton, Ryanair: How a small Irish airline conquered Europe [2004]
Bill Cullen, It's a Long Way from penny Apples
Walter Curley, Vanishing Kingdoms: The Irish Chiefs and their Families [2004]
Robbie Dillon, Cancer Life [1998]
Roddy Doyle & Séan Love, From the Republic of Conscience: Stories Inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Eamon Dunphy, Unforgettable Fire: The Story of U2 [1987]
Des Geraghty, Luke Kelly: A Memoir
Garret Fitzgerald, Just Garret (Autobiography)
Terry Eagleton The Truth about the Irish
Allen Foster, Foster's Irish Oddities: A Miscellany of Strange Facts
Tom Humphries, Booked! Selected Writings [2004]
Laptop Dancing and the Nanny Goat Mambo: A Sportswriters Year [2003]
Green Fields: Gaelic Sports in Ireland [1996]
Frank Worrall, Rory McIlroy: The Biography
Elizabeth Keane, Séan MacBride: A Life
Roy Keane, The Autobiography
Charles Lysaght (ed.), Great Irish Lives
Paul McGrath, Back from the Brink
Kevin Myers, From the Irish Times Column 'An Irishman's Diary' [2000]
Conor Cruise O' Brien, Memoir: My Life and Times
Donnchadh O' Corráin & Fidelma Maguire, Irish Names
Conor O' Clery, May You Live in Interesting Times: The Journals of an Accidental Correspondent [2008]
Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh, From Borroloola to Mangerton Mountain
Emily O' Reilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter
Michael Sheridan, Frozen Blood: Serial and Psycho-Killers in Ireland
Declan Power, Siege at Jadotville: The Irish Army's Forgotten Battle
Joseph Robins, Customs House People
John Scally, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: The Official Biography of Tony Ward
Dermot Somers, Endurance: Heroic Journeys in Ireland
John Waters, Beyond Consolation: Or how we became too clever for God .. and for our own good
Brian de Breffny (ed.), The Irish World: The History and Cultural Achievements of the Irish People
Alan Titley, A Pocket History of Gaelic Culture
Anthropology/ Social Studies
E. Estyn Evans, The Personality of Ireland
Angela Bourke, The Burning of Bridget Cleary
Breandán Breathnach, Folk Music and Dances of Ireland
Padraic Colum, A Treasury of Irish Folklore: The stories, traditions, legends, humor, wisdom, ballads and songs of the Irish people
Art Byrne & Séan McMahon, Faces of the West, 1875-1925: A Record of Life in the West of Ireland
Terence Brown, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History, 1922-2002
Hugh Brody, Inishkillane: Change & Decline in the West of Ireland
Conrad M. Arensberg, The Irish Countryman: An Anthropological Study
Steve Garner, Racism in the Irish Experience
James Kelly, 'That Damned Thing called Honour': Duelling in Ireland, 1570-1860
Patrick Logan, Irish Folk Medicine
Susan McKay, Northern Protestants: An Unsettled People [2000]
Frank Murphy (ed.) The Bog Irish : Who they were and how they lived
Tomás Ó Canainn, Séan O' Riadha: His Life and Work
Maurice O' Sullivan, Twenty Years A-Growing
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental illness in Rural Ireland
John Edward Walsh, Rakes and Ruffians: The Underworld of Georgian Dublin [1979]
W. B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland
Contemporary Shenanigans
Basil Chubb, The Government and Politics of Ireland (3rd ed.) [1992]
Michael Clifford & Shane Coleman, Bertie Ahern and the Drumcondra Mafia [2009]
Shane Coleman, Foot in Mouth: Famous Irish Political Gaffes
Mark Coleman, Back from the Brink: Ireland's Road to recovery [2009]
Matt Cooper, Who Really Runs in Ireland? The Story of the Elite who led Ireland from Bust to Boom... and back again [2009]
How Ireland Really Went Bust [2011]
Eamonn Delaney, An Accidental Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service, 1987-1995
Martina Devlin & David Murphy, Banksters: How a Powerful Elite Squandered Ireland's Wealth [2009]
Frank Dunlop, Yes, Taoiseach: Irish politics from behind closed doors
Katie Hannon, The Naked Politician: Your local TD will never seem the same again [2004]
Simon Kelly, Breakfast with Anglo: A Developer takes us inside the Irish property bubble - from muddy fields to bank boardrooms to the four courts [2010]
Gene Kerrigan, The Big Lie: Who Profits from Ireland's Austerity? [2012]
This Great Little Nation: The A to Z of Irish Scandals & Controversies [1999]
Pat Leahy, Showtime: The Inside Story of Fianna Fáil in Power [2009]
Dearbhail McDonald, Bust: How the Courts Have Exposed the Rotten Heart of the Irish Economy [2010]
Frank McDonald & James Nix, Chaos at the Crossroads [2005]
Frank McDonald & Kathy Sheridan, The Builders: How a small group of property developers fuelled the building boom and transformed Ireland [2008]
David McWilliams, The Generation Game [2007]
The Pope's Children: Ireland's New Elite [2005]
Brendan Ogle, Off the Rails: The Story of Ilda [2003]
Éoin Ó Broin, Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism
Cearbhall O' Dálaigh, Celtic Meltdown: Why Ireland is Broke and How We Can Fix it [2009]
Fintan O' Toole, After the Ball [2003]
Enough is Enough: How to Build a New Republic [2010]
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger [2009]
Up the Republic!: Towards a new Ireland [2012]
Paul Reynolds, King Scum: The Life and Crimes of Tony Felloni, Dublin's Heroin Boss [1998]
Shane Ross & Nick Webb, Wasters: The People who Squander your taxes on white elephant projects, international junkets and favours for their mates - and how they get away with it [2010]
John Travers, Green & Gold: Ireland a Clean Energy World Leader?
Paul Williams, Crime Wars [2008]
The General, Godfather of Crime [1995]
Evil Empire: John Gilligan, His Gang and the Execution of Journalist Veronica Guerin [2009]
Mark Heffernan (with Darren Boyle), Dead Man Talking: How one man brought down the Limerick mob
Debate on Revisionism
D. George Boyce, (ed.) The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy
D. George Boyce, (ed.) Problems and Perspectives in Irish History since 1800
Ciaran Brady (ed.), Interpreting Irish History: The Debate on Historical Revisionism 1938-1994
General Histories of Ireland
J. C. Beckett, The Making of Modern Ireland
Edmund Curtis, A History of Ireland
Norman Davies, The Isles: A History
Roy Foster, Modern Ireland 1600-1972
The Oxford History of Ireland
Neil Hegarty, The Story of Ireland: In Search of a New National Memory
T. A. Jackson, Ireland Her Own [1947]
Alvin Jackson, Home Rule: An Irish History, 1800-2000
Paul Johnson, Ireland: A Concise History from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day
Richard Killeen, A Short History of Ireland
Christine Kinealy, A New History of Ireland
Laurence Kirkpatrick, Presbyterians in Ireland: An Illustrated History
F. S. L. Lyons, Ireland since the Famine
Séamus MacManus, The Story of the Irish Race [1921]
Séan O' Faoileáin, The Irish [1947]
Patrick O' Farrell, England and Ireland since 1800
Karl S. Bottigheimer, Ireland and the Irish
K. Theodore Hoppen, Ireland since 1800: Conflict and Conformity
Irish Literary Biography/Criticism
Richard Ellman, James Joyce
Terence Brown, The Life of W. B. Yeats: A Critical Biography
Richard Fallis, The Irish Renaissance: An Introduction to Anglo-Irish Literature
Victoria Glendinning, Jonathan Swift
Susan Johnston Graf, W.B. Yeats: Twentieth Century Magus
Joseph Hone, W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939
Hugh Hunt, Sean O' Casey
H. Montgomery Hyde, Oscar Wilde
Ronan Kelly, Bard of Erin: The Life of Thomas Moore
Declan Kiberd, Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation
Irish Classics
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living
James Knowlson, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett
Christopher Murray, Séan O' Casey: Writer at Work
John Middleton Murry, Jonathan Swift: A Critical Biography [1954]
Edna O' Brien, James Joyce
Ulick O' Connor, Celtic Dawn: A Portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance
Eve Patten, Samuel Ferguson and the Culture of Nineteenth Century Ireland
Anthologies
Stephen J. Browne, Poetry of Irish History [1927]
Stephen Regan (ed), Irish Writing: An Anthology of Irish Literature in English, 1789-1939
William Trevor (ed.) The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories
Sean McMahon, Rich and Rare: A Book of Ireland
Bernard Share, Slanguage: A Dictionary of Irish Slang
Brendan Kennelly (ed.), The Penguin Book of Irish Verse
Brendan Lehane, The Companion Guide to Ireland
Séan Connolly, The Oxford Companion to Irish History
Patricia Craig (ed.), The Oxford Book of Ireland
Richard Aldous & Niamh Puirseal, We Declare: Landmark Documents in Irish History
Peter Van De Kamp & Norman Jeffares (eds.), Irish Literature in the Nineteenth Century: An Annotated Anthology, Vols. I-III.
Séan O' Tuama, Thomas Kinsella (eds), An Duanaire: Poems of the Dispossessed, 1600-1900
Essay Collections
Raymond Gillespie (ed) The Remaking of Modern Ireland 1750-1950 (Beckett Prize Essays in Irish History)
Conor Cruise O' Brien, States of Ireland
Passion and Cunning and other essays
Ideas Matter: Essays in Honour of Conor Cruise O' Brien
Standish O' Grady, Selected Essays and Passages
David A. Wilson (ed.), Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World: Religion, Politics and Identity
Liam de Paor, Milestones in Irish History
20th Century Literature
Dermot Bolger, The Bright Wave/An Tonn Ghael
J.P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man
A Singular Man
Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S.
The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B
The Onion Eaters
The Unexpurgated Code: A Complete Manual of Survival and Manners
A Fairy Tale of New York
De Alfonse Tennis
Schultz, battered and betrayed and broke, blasphemous but by some holy oversight blessed
Leila, further in the life and destinies of Darcy Dancer, gentleman
Are you listening Rabbi Low?
The Plays
James Joyce, Stephen hero
Portrait of the Artist
Dubliners
Ulysses
Finnegan's Wake
Exiles
Roddy Doyle, The Snapper
Paddy Clarke ha ha
The Van
The Woman Who Walked into Doors
The Barrytown Trilogy
Ann Enright, The Gathering
Ray Evans, The Hanging Gale [1995]
Marilyn French, The Book as World: James Joyce's Ulysses
Oliver St. John Gogarty, It isn't this time of year at all!
Intimations: Remembrances of Irishmen and Irish Life
John B. Keane, Durango
The Bodhrán Makers
Hugh Leonard, Home Before Night
Parnell and the Englishwoman
Martha Long, Ma, he sold me for a few cigarettes
Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes
John McGahern, Amongst Women
The Dark
Walter Macken, Seek the Fair Land
The Silent people
Francis MacManus, The Greatest of These
Desmond Maguire (ed.), Short Stories of Pádraic Pearse: A dual language book
Edna O' Brien, August is a Wicked Month
Back to Innocence and Ireland, A Pagan Place
In the Forest
Kate Cruise O' Brien, A Gift Horse and other stories
Flann O' Brien, Myles na Gopaleen
Séan O' Casey, Three Dublin Plays: Juno & the Paycock, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars
Frank O' Connor, My Oedipus Complex and other stories [1931]
Joseph O' Connor, Star of the Sea [2002]
The Secret World of the Irish Male
(ed.) New Irish Short Stories
Liam O' Flaherty, The Informer
Famine [1937]
Skerrett [1932]
James Plunkett, Strumpet City [1969]
George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island and other plays
Colm Tóibín, The Master
Leon Uris, Redemption [1995]
Terry Waters, A Drug Called Horse
William Butler Yeats, The Poems
Poems (selected by Seamus Heaney)
