Drawing on secret documents and interviews in South Armagh's history, this work tells the inside story of how the IRA came close to bringing the British state to its knees. It reveals the identities of the men behind the South Quay and Manchester bombings.

A new edition of Adams's powerful autobiography which was described by Publishing News as 'one of the most important political memoirs of recent times'.

Since the 1970s people have been murdering their neighbours in Northern Ireland. This book is the true account of the small-town violence and terror which lies behind the headlines.

An iconic event in modern Irish history is, for the first time, narrated in directly human terms. Who were the people who marched, who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died? In brilliant narrative form a modern myth is unfolded and revealed fully, and so tells the story of the recent history of the armed struggle in Ireland.

This narrative tells how Irish monks and scribes saved classical and religious heritage by copying the manuscripts of writers such as Homer and Aristotle, while libraries on the continent were lost forever.

Presents the history of Ireland from 1600 to 1972. This book describes not only of the events themselves but also the way in which those events acted upon the peoples living in Ireland to produce an 'Irish Nation'.