The Ideal Diplomat?

Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo

A military and diplomatic history, 1960–1

Michael Kennedy & Art Magennis

In 1961 Irish United Nations peacekeepers went into combat in the Congolese province of Katanga. It was the Irish Defence Forces’ first experience of active ser…

Winning the Vote for Women

The Irish Citizen newspaper and the suffrage movement in Ireland

Louise Ryan

The campaign for women’s votes in Ireland coincided with the nationalist movement, the First World War, the rise of the trade union movement, the cultural reviv…

The making of inequality

Women, power and gender ideology in the Irish Free State, 1922–37

Maryann Gialanella Valiulis

How did Ireland travel from the glorious Proclamation of 1916, with its promise of equality and universal citizenship, to the conservative constitution of 1937,…

Women and the country house in Ireland and Britain

Terence Dooley, Maeve O'Riordan & Christopher Ridgway, editors

This volume of essays examines the lives of women in country houses in Ireland and Britain from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. The authors pr…

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

Catherine Wynne

This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimea…

Wilhelmina Geddes

Life and work

Nicola Gordon Bowe

Shortlisted for The Apollo Awards 2016 Book of the Year and The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2016.

Also, Times Literary Supplement choice f…