This book considers the politics of the Protestant Unionist Loyalist population in Northern Ireland during and following the peace process, and the political po

Discusses the reactions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century writers of Irish history to the unprecedented turbulence of the age.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages

The historian A. T. Q. Stewart once remarked that in Ireland all history is applied history—that is, the study of the past prosecutes political conflict by ot

Mythical Ireland embodies the search for a soul among Ireland's ancient ruins, and is an attempt to retrieve something of deeper import from 5,000-year-old mega