Ireland's bestselling popular historian tells the story of contemporary Ireland - controversial, authoritative and highly readable. Tim Pat Coogan's biographies

This collection explores how the British left has interacted with the ‘Irish question’ throughout the twentieth century, the left’s expression of solidari

The twentieth century was a time of rapid social change in Ireland: from colonial rule to independence, civil war and later the Troubles; from poverty to global

History did not have to work out the way it actually did. Ferriter looks at twenty events in twentieth-century Irish life and wonders how they might have been d

This book examines Irish economic development in the twentieth century compared with other European countries. It traces the growth of the Republic's economy fr