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...
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.
Edited by Darragh Gannon, Brian Hanley, Tommy Graham and Grace O'Keeffe
Price: $17.99
ISBN: 9781913934644
Pub Date: 2022-04-13
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Wordwell Books
100 Pages
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.
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