In 1973, the Nixon administration launched the "Year of Europe" in an attempt to reinvigorate the US-European relationship in key areas of military security, energy, trade, and monetary reform. Yet Eu
Britain's policy towards Europe in the latter half of the twentieth century has been the subject of endless debate. The European question has dominated foreign policy agendas from Churchill to Blair.
This is the biography of 'Big Jim' Larkin. Through the research of Emmet O'Connor, Larkin - Labour leader and agitator - is thoroughly evaluated. Based on police records, FBI files, and archives of th
"James Stephens (1825-1901) was born in Kilkenny. He founded the Irish Republican Brotherhood, the Irish branch of the Fenian movement, in 1858. Stephens can be ranked among the best political organis
Irish-born Hennessy (1834-91) was a colonial administrator and late in life became the first Roman Catholic Conservative member of the British parliament. He lived for many years in Ralegh's house in
These essays by Ireland's leading economic historian range widely over topics associated with the Ireland's Great Famine of 1846-52. Ireland's Great Famine includes four previously unpublished essays,
