A study of the Irish county of Mayo, from Elizabethan times to the late nineteenth century.

In the 1890s, most of the inhabitants of the west of Ireland experienced great poverty and hardship, living - as they did - on farms that were too small to prov

Paralleling his friend Alexis de Tocqueville's visit to America, Gustave de Beaumont traveled through Ireland in the mid-1830s to observe its people and society

About the history of Ireland from 1912 to 1985, focusing on political, social and revolutionary events.

Building on the success of the first two editions, Politics in the Republic of Ireland continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of poli