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Big Jim Larkin – Hero or Wrecker
Much has been written about 'Big Jim' Larkin but, remarkably, this is the first full-length biography. Through the research of leading labour historian Emmet O'Connor, Larkin - labour leader and agitator - is thoroughly evaluated. O'Connor goes beyond the public figure of heroism to explore the hidden side of a very private person who hated people knowing his business and kept his ambitions and personal demons behind a veil of silence.
Publisher: UCD Press
SIPTU Exclusive 1916 commemorative publication
A special edition of the SIPTU 2016 Pocket Diary.
Published by SIPTU Communications Department.
Workers Republic
Reproduction of all editions of ‘The Workers Republic’ weekly newspaper edited by James Connolly and published from 29th May 1915 to 22nd April 1916.
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Managing Workplace Conflict:
Alternative Dispute Resolution in Ireland
This book is the first systematic study of the genesis, operation and outcomes of ADR in Ireland. ADR innovations are examined in the context of long-run changes in the pattern of conflict in the workplace and against the background of commercial and regulatory developments bearing on organizations. The book draws on the views and experiences of HR managers, union officials, mediators and facilitators charged with handling conflict in the workplace and presents a series of detailed case studies of ADR innovations in major private and public sector organisations. Managing Workplace Conflict is a seminal textbook and an indispensable resource for students and professionals working in the growing field.
Publisher: Institute of Public Administration (IPA)
Ireland - A Directory 2016
Institute of Public Administration (IPA) Yearbook
Ireland - A Directory 2016 is an inclusive and extensive directory. It is widely regarded as Ireland's most comprehensive database with details in the 2016 edition on approximately 9,000 organisations, covering both the private sector and the public sector. Its information ranges over a wide number of areas including local authorities, government departments, voluntary agencies, trande unions, professional organisations, merchant banks, advertising agencies, third level institutions, media organisations, religious denominations and EU institutions.
Publisher: Institute of Public Administraton (IPA)
Grandpa the Sniper
The Remarkable Story of a 1916 Volunteer
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It's April, 1916. Dublin GAA footballer Frank Shouldice has just won the Croke Cup. It's a big achievement for the up and coming star, but he has other things on his mind. Two weeks after the final whistle he's on a rooftop in North King Street with a rifle in his hand. His cheekbone is grazed by a bullet smashing into the wall behind him and, according to a confidential military file, Frank Shouldice is killed in action. Except he's very much alive. His brother Jack commands the barricaded street below. In some of the heaviest fighting of the Easter Rising the South Staffordshire Regiment can't budge a pocket of Irish Volunteers defiantly holding out. Desperate to get the upper hand, the South Staffs storm the barricades after dawn. Through the sights of a borrowed pair of binoculars, Frank takes aim from the Jameson malthouse high above. The street is soon littered with casualties and the British troops are forced to withdraw. Pearse's surrender begins the next chapter of this extraordinary story.
Publisher: The Liffey Press
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The Children of the Rising
Joe Duffy's 'Children of the Rising' is the first ever account of the young lives violently lost during the week of the 1916 Rising: long-forgotten and never commemorated, until now. Boys, girls, rich, poor, Catholic, Protestant – no child was guaranteed immunity from the bullet and bomb that week, in a place where teeming tenement life existed side by side with immense wealth.
Publisher: Hachette Ireland
Hallelejah
The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life
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| Jonathan Bardon |
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18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world’s greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for its maiden performance the following spring…
Bringing to life an unforgettable cast of characters, Hallelujah provides a panoramic view of a city in flux – at once struggling to contain the chaos unleashed by the catastrophic famine of the preceding year while striving to become a vibrant centre of European culture and commerce.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Books
1916 The Mornings After
Best-selling historian Tim Pat Coogan offers a strongly personal perspective on the Irish century that followed the Rising - charting a flawed history that is marked as much by complacency, corruption and institutional and clerical abuse, as it is by the sacrifices and nation-building achievements of the Republic's founding fathers.
Publisher: Head of Zeus
SIPTU hillwalkers make donation to Glen of Imaal Red Cross Mountain Rescue
SIPTU hillwalkers at the Glen of Imaal Red Cross Mountain Rescue base near Laragh, County Wicklow, on Sunday, 13th December, during the presentation of a cheque for €1500 to representatives of Glen of Imaal Red Cross Mountain Rescue Team. The donation contributes to offsetting the significant cost of the search and rescue service which the Team provides on a volunteer basis in the Wicklow mountains area. One third of the Mountain Rescue Team's costs are met by Government grant. The remaining two thirds depend on their own fund raising events and donations. The service is provided at no cost to hill walkers or any citizen who may have reason to call on their help. The cheque was presented by Noel Dowling to the Team's Callout Officer, Diarmaid Scully.
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The Abbey Rebels of 1916
A Revolution Lost
Drawing on a huge range of previously unpublished material, The Abbey Rebels of Easter 1916 explores the experiences, hopes and dreams of these remarkable but largely forgotten individuals: Máire Nic Shiubhlaigh, the Abbey’s first leading lady; Peadar Kearney, author of the national anthem; feminist Helena Molony, the first female political prisoner of her generation; Seán Connolly, the first rebel to die in the Rising; carpenter Barney Murphy; usherette Ellen Bushell; and Hollywood star Arthur Shields.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Books
A Terrible Beauty – Poetry of 1916
Selected by Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald
A collection of poems of revolution and dreams and visions of freedom and nationhood for Ireland - focusing on before, during and after the 1916 Rising.
Publishers: The O'Brien Press
Cluskey – the Conscience of Labour
Biography of the ex Labour Party leader and ex-MEP the late Frank Cluskey.
Publisher: Umiskin Press
Tom Gilmartin
The man who brought down a Taoiseach and exposed the greed and gorruption at theheart of Irish politics
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| Frank Connolly |
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Tom Gilmartin blew the whistle on corruption at the heart of government and the city’s planning system, and the fallout from his claims ultimately led to the resignation of the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, in 2008.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Books
The Irish Citizen Army
The Irish Citizen Army was originally established as a defence corps during the 1913 Lockout, but under the leadership of James Connolly its aims became more Republican and the IRB, fearing Connolly would pre-empt their plans for the Easter Rising, convinced him to join his force with the Irish Volunteers. During the Rising the ICA was active in three garrisons and the book describes for the first time in depth its involvement at St Stephen's Green and the Royal College of Surgeons, at City Hall and its environs and, using the first-hand account of journalist J.J. O'Leary who was on the scene, in the battle around the GPO.
Publisher: Mercier Press
Lockout – Dublin 1913
At 9.40 a.m. on Tuesday, 26th August 1913 the trams stopped running in Dublin. Striking conductors and drivers, members of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, abandoned their vehicles. They had refused a demand from their employer, William Martin Murphy of the Dublin United Transport Company, to forswear union membership or face dismissal. The company then locked them out. Within a month, the charismatic union leader, James Larkin, had called out thousands of workers across the city in sympathetic action. This titanic struggle was played out in the city with the worst slums and the greatest poverty of any capital in northern Europe. By January 1914 the union had lost the battle, lacking the resources for a long campaign. The labour movement lost influence in the revolutionary events of the following years. But in the long run, it won the war; 1913 meant that there was no going back to the horrors of pre-Larkin Dublin.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Books
A City in Civil War
In the concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates’ critically acclaimed ‘Dublin at War’ trilogy, the author turns his attention to the Civil War.
The Truce that heralded the end of the War of Independence in July 1921 proved no more than a prelude to renewed conflict on the capital’s streets as many of the men who worked for Michael Collins in the fight against the British now turned their skills with deadly effect on former comrades.
For some Dubliners, including many southern Unionists, British ex-servicemen and anti-Treaty republicans, the city became a hostile environment with the City Council and Dublin Metropolitan Police abolished by the new Free State.
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Books
1916 Rising Candle
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Handbook of the Irish Revival
A set of writings that reflect the intensity of the cultural debate from 1891 to 1922 featuring essays, articles and letters by world famous figures such as James Joyce, Maud Gonne and J.M. Synge.
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| Declan Kiberd & P.J. Mathews |
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The Irish Revival of 1891 to 1922 was an extraordinary era of literary achievement and political debate in Ireland. The artists, thinkers and political activists of the day exchanged ideas and opinions about what Ireland was and could become. Yet much of this discourse remains out of print, some of these voices almost forgotten.
Handbook of the Irish Revival provides for the first time, in an accessible single volume, a set of writings that reflects the intensity of the cultural debate of the time. Essays, articles and letters by world famous figures such as James Joyce, Maud Gonne and J.M. Synge are published alongside less well-known figures, Mary Colum, John Eglinton and Helena Molony among them.
Publisher: Abbey Theatre Press
The Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities and the newly-formed IRA - was the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire. This is a vividly-written, compelling narrative placing events in Ireland in the wider context of a world in turmoil after the ending of a global war: one that saw the collapse of empires and the rise of fascist Italy and communist Russia. Walsh shows how developments in Europe and America had a profound effect on Ireland, influencing the attitudes and expectations of combatants and civilians.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
An Introduction to the Poetry of Thomas Kinsella
Providing a detailed reading of poems from different eras, Confronting Shadows is an entrance for students and other readers into the work of one of the leading Irish poets of the modern era.
In this exciting new introduction, David Lynch investigates the themes that underlie Kinsella’s work, uncovering motifs of Irish history, political struggle, love, death, war, God and the fractured psyche.
Publisher: New Island
16 Lives: Con Colbert
A biography of Con Colbert, member of Na Fianna Éireann, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood.
Colbert commanded forces at Watkins' brewery and Jameson's distillery during the Easter Rising. He faced the firing squad at Kilmainham Gaol on 8th May 1916, aged twenty-seven.
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
16 Lives: Willie Pearse
William "Willie" Pearse was a younger brother of Patrick Pearse, a leader of the Rising. He followed his brother into the Irish Volunteers and the Republican movement, taking part in the Easter Rising in 1916 at the General Post Office. Following the surrender he was court-martialled and sentenced to be shot. He was executed on the 4th May 1916.
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Inside the Room
The Untold Story of Ireland's Crisis Government
This book is the first political memoir detailing Ireland’s recovery from the economic crisis, written by one of the major players in these turbulent times. A compelling inside-story, Eamon Gilmore writes frankly about the key moments of the national political crises between 2011 and 2014, and the price the Labour Party has paid for some of its choices.
Publisher: Merrion Press
Power Play
The Rise of Modern Sinn Féin
This is the extraordinary story of Sinn Féin’s dramatic transformation into a major political force in Ireland today. Drawing on a wide range of interviews with key political figures inside and outside Sinn Féin and written by Deaglán De Breadún, one of the most experienced political journalists in Ireland, Power Play reveals the most enthralling political story of 2015.
Publisher: Publishing Ireland
Arthur Griffith
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| Owen McGee |
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A major new biography of a monumental figure in modern Irish history.
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Ireland Says YES
The Inside Story of How the Vote for Marriage Equality Was Won
A fast-paced, narrative account of the last 100 days of the campaign for a Yes vote in the 2015 Marriage Equality referendum in Ireland.
Publisher: Merrion Press
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