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What Spies Do

What Spies Do

David Blake Knox

Sean Bourke and the springing from jail of Russian agent George Blake

A Revolutionary’s Life

A Revolutionary’s Life

Gerald Dawe

An affectionate portrait of Ernie O’Malley in war and in exile

On the Brink

On the Brink

Martin Mansergh

Breaking away from the empire: the dilemma of the 1921 Treaty negotiators

A Man of Many Parts

A Man of Many Parts

Jim Smyth

A brilliant historian and teacher who kept faith with the republic

The Man From Nowhere

The Man From Nowhere

Enda O’Doherty

Rallying the great and the good to build the European project from above

Eastward Ho!

Eastward Ho!

David Dickson

Dublin’s expansion on the basis of the reclamation of land from the bay

Going Georgian

Going Georgian

Patrick Duffy

Urban transformation and sectarian division in 18th century Ireland

University Pioneer

University Pioneer

Judith Harford

An Irish historian who encountered misogyny in her academic career

The Rebound

The Rebound

David Donoghue

Germany’s rapid bounceback from the destruction of 1945’s ‘Zero Hour’

Bearing the Burden

Bearing the Burden

Philip McDonagh

Historians’ role in excusing the brutalities of empire-building

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