The Nine Years War was the greatest challenge that Gaelic Ireland presented to the Elizabethan...

On the night of 29-30 October 1816 eight people were murdered by burning to death in a house k...

Edward Daly was Bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1993. Before then he had been a curate in the Bog...

John Hume, civil rights activist, founding member of the SDLP and leading politician in Northe...

At the height of the Land War in 1881, a dispute over land led to the shooting dead of a young...

A North Light - John Hewitt's own account of his life in Northern Ireland from his early years...

During the period 1912-23, Tyrone was at the centre of the conflict between nationalism and un...

This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland's premier aristocratic family - t...

Since its first appearance the Directory of Irish Archives has become the standard work for th...

Aimed at the student and general reader, this is a study of Ireland's people, landscape and pl...

Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland's best...

From the Amazon rainforest to the South Pacific islands, and from India to the African plains,...