The elusive search for stability is the subject of Professor D. George Boyce's Nineteenth-Century Ireland, the fifth in the New Gill History of Ireland series. Nineteenth ...

This volume brings together some of the most distinguished historians from Ireland to offer their own interpretations of key issues and events in Irish history.

These pioneering essays provide a unique study of the development of political ideas in Ireland from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. The book breaks away from the ...

Based on extensive historical, literary and political research, this text examines the relationship between ideas and political and social reality. It explains why the ...

Concise and accessible, this guide provides an overview of the process of British decolonisation. Dr White syntheses recent historical debate by looking at the demise of ...

For nearly two hundred years, Great Britain had an empire on which the sun never set. This is the story of its rise and fall