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Fatal Influence challenges and revises many widely held assumptions about a pivotal moment in both British and Irish history and persuasively demonstrates that Ireland's impact on British politics lasted far longer and was far greater than has been realized. It explores the Irish partition and the often conflicting motives that led to this momentous decision, dividing the country into two parts, which merely created what one politician at the ...

Executed by the British in 1916 for treason, Roger Casement is one of Ireland's most colorful, mythologized, and controversial figures. His infamous Black Diaries, with their homosexual materials, were famously published by the Olympia Press in a suspect edition in 1959. In 1903 when he was a British consul, he left his base on the Lower Congo River and made a Conrad-like journey through the "heart of darkness" regions of the Upper Congo to pe...

These eleven essays explore various aspects of Irish republicanism, north and south, from the early twentieth century to today. An awareness of history, and its uses, has long been a notable characteristic of modern Irish republicanism. Some of the topics covered include republicanism and democracy, paramilitarism, IRA veterans, the IRA and its relationship with Nazi Germany, and the mentality of extreme republicanism.

Sir Peter le Page Renouf ws invited by John Henry Newman to teach in Dublin, at Catholic University. These letters in the third of four volumes cover his time there and provide a great deal of material about Newman and the early years of the school, which was later to become University College Dublin. Renouf was later to become the Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum and translator of the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

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The mysterious deaths of two babies in Country Kerry in 1982 affects all of Irish society.

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Michael Davitt (1846-1906), was an important figure in Irish history. Active in the Fenian movement he was arrested in 1870 by the British and imprisoned for seven years. After his release he continued his efforts and founded the Land League. Once again he was arrested and sent to prison in England. While in solitary confinement he wrote a number of pieces, all of which are published here for the first time. In addition to valuable autobiograp...

This collection of ten original essays has as its starting point the strategic shift on the part of both loyalist and republican militants that became obvious in the mid-1990s. In both cases, political violence was foresworn in favor of a new strategy of inter-group bargaining and compromise. The political standpoints have deep historical roots, and this book examines them systematically. It brings together Ireland's leading specialists in the...

Executed by the British in 1916 for treason, Roger Casement is one of Ireland's most colorful, mythologized, and controversial figures. His infamous Black Diaries, with their homosexual materials, were famously published by the Olympia Press in a suspect edition in 1959. In 1903 when he was a British consul, he left his base on the Lower Congo River and made a Conrad-like journey through the "heart of darkness" regions of the Upper Congo to pe...

Edward A. Magan describes O'Grady as "at once a political polemicist, a creative writer, and a somewhat unusual historian, " involved in all three roles in this Utopian treatise which "reveals the pervasive influence of classical scholarship upon the Irish intellectual life of the period." O'Grady argues for drastic change in Ireland in the first part and in the second makes extensive use of classical Greece as a model for Ireland. Some parts ...

In this abridged version of the second edition of "Personal Recollections (1847), Tonna gives a vivid account of her time in Ireland, of the violent activities of the Rockite movement in the mid- 1820s in Kilkenny-Tipperary. and of the apocalyptic ultra-Evangelical "siege mentality" during the Tithe War and the run-up to Catholic Emancipation. It is also a valuable memoir of her religious and literary development.

Published in 1977 and now reissued with a new introduction, this book serves well as a general, accessible interpretation of modern Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Described by its historian author Oliver MacDonagh (1924-2002) as a "very small book with very large themes, " it rapidly reached the status of a classic and remains a thought-provoking survey of Ireland from the Act of Union of 1800, which MacDonagh describes as ...

Thomas Fennell provides an account, previously unpublished, of life in the Royal Irish Constabulary during the turbulent 30-year period, 1875-1905. His early accounts begin during the Land Wars, and continue up to the Irish War of Independence.

These eleven essays caused outrage in Ireland when first published in France in 1886. They represent Moore's interpretation of life in Ireland in the early 1880s, written in his combative and naturalistic style. It can be seen as a companion piece to his famous novel, "A Drama in Muslin (available from Dufour).

Land has been a dominant theme in modern Irish history, extending to political and cultural issues as well as permeating social and economic ones. This work features a collection of eleven essays that take an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of land in Ireland, from the time of the Great Famine.

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This reference on Irish mathematicians includes biographies on: Thomas Harriot (1560-1621), William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865), Robert Murphy (1806-1843), George Boole (1815-1864), George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903), George Salmon (1819-1904), and John Casey (1820-1891).