20th-century history

Royal Irish Constabulary officers

A biographical dictionary and genealogical guide, 1816–1922

Jim Herlihy

This book lists the 1700 officers of the RIC, including birth, marriage and death dates; the native county, service (if any) in the British army, yeomanry and m…

Our good health

A history of Dublin's water and drainage

Michael Corcoran

Dublin had a supply of piped water since the 13th century and a drainage service since the late 18th century. Their history is related against the backdrop of t…

The British Auxiliary Legion in the First Carlist War, 1835–8

Edward M. Brett

The two Carlist wars are probably the least remembered, outside Spain, of the civil conflicts of the country. In the first of these, as in 1936, foreign volunte…

Dublin, 1745–1922

Hospitals, spectacle & vice

Gary A. Boyd

Based on material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dubli…

Studies in Irish, British and Australian relations, 1916–63

Trade, diplomacy and politics

John B. O'Brien (Anne O'Brien editor)

With an introduction by David FitzPatrick.

This collection of essays brings together the work of the historian John B. O'Brien who paved the way in the study …

Newspapers and empire in Ireland and Britain

Reporting the British Empire, c.1857–1921

Simon Potter, editor

These essays explore the varied attitudes towards empire once sustained by different groups in Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland, and by their diasporic desc…

Ulster and Scotland, 1600–2000

History, language and identity

William P. Kelly & John R. Young, editors

The first volume in the series of Ulster-Scots history deals with many aspects of life, including social and economical.

Contributors: John R. Young (U. Strath…

The winding up of the Dáil Courts, 1922–1925

An obvious duty

Mary Kotsonouris

In 1923 the Irish Free State government established a judicial commission with extraordinary powers to revive the jurisdiction of the court system which had flo…

A university in troubled times

Queen's, Belfast, 1945–2000

Leslie A. Clarkson

Queen's, Belfast, grew out of the Queen's University in Ireland founded in 1845. It became independent in 1908-9 and until 1965 it was the only university in No…

Ireland, Europe and the Marshall Plan

Till Geiger & Michael Kennedy editors

This volume is a major departure in the ongoing debate on Ireland's involvement in the Marshall Plan. Rather than concentrating on Irish-American relations, the…

The Dublin fire brigade

A history of the brigade, the fires and the emergencies

Tom Geraghty & Trevor Whitehead

This is the story of the firefighters, officers and ambulance personnel who have provided emergency response to the people of Ireland's capital city for many ge…

Political censorship and the democratic state

The Irish broadcasting ban

M. Corcoran & M. O'Brien editors

January 2004 marks the tenth anniversary of the repeal of Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act, under which for two decades journalists were prohibited from broad…