Product Description: Éamon de Valera embodies Irish independence much as de Gaulle personifies French resistance and Churchill exemplifies British resolve. Ronan Fanning offers a reappraisal of the man who remains the most famous, and most divisive, political figure in modern Irish history, reconciling de Valera’s shortcomings with a recognition of his achievement as the statesman who single-handedly severed Ireland’s last ties to England...read more

Product Description: Thomas MacDonagh was drawn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood through his strong sense of social justice, becoming a member of the Provisional Government and a signatory of the 1916 Easter Proclamation. He was executed on May 3rd, 1916 in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.

Product Description: Biography of Michael O'Hanrahan, one of the leaders of Ireland's 1916 Rising. A journalist, novelist, and fierce nationalist, he was quartermaster of the Irish Volunteers, in charge of getting and managing many of the arms used in the rebellion.

Product Description: amonn Ceannt was one of the founding members of the Irish Volunteers. His unit saw intense fighting during the Rising but surrendered when ordered to do so by his superior officer Patrick Pearse. Ceannt was held in Kilmainham Gaol until his execution by firing squad on May 8th, 1916, aged 34...read more

Recalls the life of the Irish-American Fenian activist John Devoy, who was instrumental in both the Easter Rising of 1916 and the creation of the Irish Free State

Product Description: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa died on June 29, 1915, in Staten Island, New York. On hearing of his death, Tom Clarke sent a transatlantic cable from Dublin to John Devoy in New York, with the simple message: "Send his body home at once...read more

Product Description: Long overshadowed by fellow republicans Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, Tom Clarke was the man who made the Easter Rising possible. During an extraordinary life dedicated to Irish freedom he rose from humble origins and endured thirty years of struggle, imprisonment and exile before becoming a master conspirator in the Easter Rising...read more

Product Description: Although five men were present on April 22, 1916 to decide the fate of the Easter Rising, only Diarmuid Lynch was still alive two weeks later. It is difficult to understand how Lynch, a member of the Supreme Council of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, has been forgotten by history so completely...read more

Product Description: This book was first published in 1936 and has become the classic account of the years 1916-21 in Ireland. It captures the essence of Ireland at the time, the way people lived, their attitudes, their beliefs, the songs they sang, the legends they knew...read more

Product Description: Tom Clarke was the architect of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising. This old Fenian was surrounded by a younger generation of republicans whom he galvanized towards one of the most important events in Irish history. However, relatively little is known of this apparently quiet and unassuming man...read more

Product Description: Sheds new light on Collins' role in the Irish Civil War, showing how in the weeks and months leading to the campaign he secretly persisted with guerrilla tactics in border areas. This involved not only assassination but also kidnapping and hostage taking...read more

Product Description: With the aid of Liam Lynch's personal letters, private papers, and historical records, Liam Lynch: The Real Chief traces the turbulent career of one of Ireland's greatest guerrilla commanders from his birth in 1893 until his death twenty-nine years later in the Civil War, where he was killed in action on the Knockmealdown mountains...read more

Product Description: Eamonn Ceannt was executed at Kilmainham Gaol on 8 May 1916, along with Con Colbert, Sean Heuston, and Michael Mallin, for their part in the Easter Rising. Ceannt was one of the seven signatories of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic read by Patrick Pearse...read more

During the War of Independence, when Ernie O'Malley lay under sentence of death in Mountjoy prison hospital, some notes of his were smuggled out. `Most of all,' he wrote, `I would have liked to talk about the rank and file where I found solace.' This book is indeed O'Malley's tribute to his fellow soldiers, in which he provides an account of various offensives against the British in 1920-21. O'Malley took part in three offensives and had first-hand knowledge of several others, which are detailed in a unique and informed perspective in this book. ""One of the most compelling and thorough accounts we have today of the fighting on the ground.""Irish Voice ""The classic account of the Irish Revolution.""-Irish American News

Product Description: One of the most famous revolutionaries in Irish history, Frank Ryan fought in the War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, before becoming a leader of the inter-war Irish Republican Army. Embracing socialist republicanism in the 1930s, Ryan became a founding member of the short-lived but influential Republican Congress, and led the Irish contingent within the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War...read more

Product Description: Following his court-martial in 1920, Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, greeted his sentence of two years in jail by declaring: 'I have decided the term of my imprisonment: I shall be free, alive or dead, within a month.' Four days earlier, British troops had stormed the City Hall in Cork and arrested MacSwiney on charges of possessing an RIC cipher and documents likely to cause disaffection to his Majesty...read more

Martha Quest, a passionate and intelligent young British woman growing up on a farm in Africa, rebels against her snobbish parents as she determines to live her life to the fullest. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent of the Catholic Committee and later an officer in the French revolutionary army, is intended to comprehend all his writings and largely to supersede the two-volume Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, written by himself that was edited by his son William, and published at Washington in 1826...read more

Michael Collins has exercised a fascination since his death in 1922 at the age of thirty-one. This book concentrates on the crucial role played by women in his personal and working life. From his boyhood in an overwhelmingly female household in West Cork onwards, women brought out the best in him and he brought out the best in women.