Irish Interest

" ... fifteen contemporary Irish authors 'covering' the fifteen original stories of Dubliners to mark the collection's centenary."-- Page viii.

One woman, the secrets of a small town, and a quest for justice that rocked a nation.

Affecting and hopeful memoir about living with a congenital heart defect.

Despite on-going opposition to the higher education of women, in 1904 Trinity College became the first of the historic universities of Britain and Ireland to admit women to degrees. A century later, sixty per cent of the student body is female, and the university's chancellor and vice-provost are both women.

This definitive study of the Connolly Column - the Irish who fought for Republican Spain - reassesses the Irish experience in the light of sources at home and in Russia, Spain, Germany, Austria, and Britain, driven by a conviction that Ireland was not so isolated in the 1930s and needs to be understood in a more comparative way.