Four Courts Press

Ciarán Reilly - Strokestown and the Great Irish Famine - HB -2014

‘The most in-depth study of the effects of the Famine on a landed estate and its community … With the help of this book, we are brought deep inside the actuality of life during the...

Ciarán Wallace - Meath : The Irish Revolution, 1912−1923 - BRAND NEW

This book looks at the people of Meath during the turmoil of the revolutionary era. As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily life, some embraced the chance for change, risking life and...

David A Fleming - Edmund Sexten Pery : The Politics of Virtue and Intrigue in Eighteeenth Century Ireland

Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s and later as Speaker of the Irish House...

David Goodall - The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985 - PB - BRAND NEW

The Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) signed by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher on 15 November 1985 was unique in providing a treaty-based arrangement for the government of a territory disputed...

Davis Coakley & Mary Coakley - The History and Heritage of St James's Hospital Dublin - HB - 2018 - BRAND NEW

The history of St James’s Hospital stretches back to 1703 when an act was passed to build a workhouse on its site. Just under thirty years later a foundling hospital was added to the workhouse...

Donal Hall & Eoin Magennis - Armagh The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 - BRAND NEW

County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy between unionism and...

Douglas Bennett - The Goldsmiths of Dublin : Six Centuries of Achievement - HB

this important book charts the history of the Dublin Company of Goldsmiths, from the Middle Ages to the present. It demonstrates the close link between the guild and the city and shows how the...

Jim Herlihy - The Irish Revenue Police : A Short History and Genealogical Guide to the Poteen Hussars - PB - BRAND NEW 2018

In the period 1832 to 1857, some 4,000 men served in the Irish Revenue Police, working to suppress illicit distillation. In this book, Jim Herlihy shows how to find information on them, providing an...

John Horgan & Roddy Flynn - Irish Media : A Critical History - PB ( Revised Edition 2017) - BRAND NEW

Revised and Expanded New EditionAs Irish media and society move from an insular, domestic focus in the mid-twentieth century to the global outlook of the twenty-first, this book traces how indigenous...

Joseph Brady - Dublin From 1970 to 1990 : The City Transformed - PB - BRAND NEW

Dublin’s footprint grew steadily during the 1970s with housing transforming the landscape of the west of the city, especially in Tallaght, Clondalkin and Blanchardstown. It was a time of change...

Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin & Neha Doshi ( Editors) Irish Nurses in the NHS - An Oral History - PB - BRAND NEW

Louise Ryan, Gráinne McPolin and Neha Doshi, editors.  From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as...

Mary MacDiarmada - Art O'Brien and Irish Nationalism in London 1900-1925 - HB - BRAND NEW

Joint winner of the NUI Publication Prize in Irish History 2023London-born and reared, Art O’Brien’s journey from wealthy electrical engineer to leader of Irish militant nationalism in...