Product Description: This study of Co. Mayo during the revolutionary period examines all aspects of life of the county during a period of extreme upheaval. Augusteijn utilizes a wide array of sources, including memoirs of and interviews with former IRA men and women, newspaper reports, police records and other official documents from the British as well as the alternative Sinn Fein led governments...read more

Product Description: The success of fascist and communist regimes has long been explained by their ability to turn political ideology into a type of religion. These innovative essays explore the notion that all forms of modern mass-politics, including democracies, need a form of sacralization to function...read more

Product Description: Although much is written about the Irish revolution and Northern Ireland, we know very little about it from the perspective of Irish policemen. This unique memoir recounts the personal experiences of John Regan, an RIC officer from 1909 onwards and the highest ranking Catholic in the RUC until 1948...read more

Product Description: This is the second issue of the Irish History and, once again, it contains the writings of some of Ireland's leading young historians. Many areas - culture, history and the philosophy of history - are covered.

Product Description: This collection of essays brings together the main historians of the Irish Revolution, 1913-1923. Through detailed research and wide-ranging analysis of key themes, they provide the most up-to-date answers to, and debate on, the fundamental questions concerning this period, including: what was the nature of the revolution; what were its causes; how was the war fought and ended; and what have been the repercussions? Essential reading for all those interested in Ireland and the study of revolution...read more

Product Description: The 1930s are an underdeveloped period in Irish historical writing. This book brings together a wealth of exciting research which has been done by post-graduates in recent years. The essays collected reflect the changing content of historical research, detailing a variety of social and political issues: from the level of high politics to the experience of ordinary people and thereby illuminate several aspect of Irish life in the 1930s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Political events in the period between the 1916 Rising and the Truce of 1921 are well documented, but the experience of Volunteers at local level has not been extensively analysed before now. As a result it has so far been impossible to provide a satisfactory explanation for the fact that the IRA was so much more active in the south-west than in other areas...read more

Product Description: Political events in the period between the 1916 rising and the truce of 1921 are well documented. The experience of volunteers at local level is examined here. The work analyzes how ordinary people in various parts of the country became increasingly willing to use violence, and provides an insight into the way young men became involved in the IRA and what they did once they had joined...read more