Item category 2: Irish Collection

1916: The Rising Handbook contains all the bite-sized facts you'll ever need to know about the Rising, including: who organised it; the positions occupied and garrison strengths; how many people died; the weapons used; the ships and boats associated with the Rising; and the last statements of the...

Contemporary civilian accounts of life in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising show what it was really like on the streets. The accounts that Mick O'Farrell has collected come from letters, diaries, extracts from otherise unrelated biographies, and contemporary magazine and newspaper articles. To...

In 1919, at Soloheadbeg in County Tipperary, two members of the Royal Irish Constabulary ( RIC ) were killed by the IRA. In the bloody years that followed , nearly 500 RIC men were killed. 46 Men Dead is a thought provoking look at the grim reality of the conflict in Tipperary, a microcosm of the...