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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

Ulster Will Fight

Ulster Will Fight

Brian M Walker

Inter-communal violence in the early years of Northern Ireland

Reds under the Bed

Reds under the Bed

John Mulqueen

How the secret police bedded in communism in postwar Central Europe

Spanish Sketches

Spanish Sketches

Martin Tyrrell

Orwell and the Spanish anarchists: not judging murder too severely

They Heard the Call

They Heard the Call

John Horgan

A history of Ireland’s main Catholic seminary has a much wider focus than the merely institutional

Voices from the Chorus

Voices from the Chorus

George O’Brien

Given the historical amnesia that prevails, Katrina Goldstone’s account of the activity of Irish left-wing writers in the Thirties is something of a revelation.

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