Belfast once had the largest shipyard in the world, Harland and Wolff. It was there in 1912 that probably the most infamous ship, The Titanic, departed from the lough and sailed into the history books
At 7.30am on 1st July 1916, some 60,000 men climbed out of their trenches and walked across No-Man’s-Land and into the history books. The Battle of the Somme, which was to rage for another four and a
New edition of Dr Patterson's history of the narrow-gauge County Donegal Railway. This edition adds interviews with workers and others who had contact with the railway, a chapter on the railway today
In Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls Vicky Cosstick tells the story of Belfast’s 100 sectarian walls and interfaces, now the last in Europe, which remain fifteen years after the Good Friday Agreeme
The classic story of Blair Mayne, late commanding officer of the first Special Air Service Regiment. He was an Air-Commando, a leader of the most daredevil and dangerous regiment in the British Army -
Did you ever hear tell of Ogilvy's Mourning Warehouse in Grafton Street? Or maybe your granny went to see Monsieur Chylinkski - the modern Hercules! - in the New Theatre Royal in Abbey Street? And did
`Man Donaghy crept silently around the back of the farmhouse and over the field to the faerie thorn. The thorn was shimmering as he knelt before it. Whispering directly to the roots of the tree, Man D
Rosaleen Magee has it all – a loving family, good looks and a handsome fiancé with his own thriving business. But then Sean Devlin turns up at the Falls Flax Factory, where Rosaleen works, and everyth
Annie and Sean Devlin have been happily married for several years when a telegram arrives to say that Annie's sister, Rosaleen, is making a flying visit home to Belfast from Canada, where she now live
In 1983, Interpol named Northern Ireland the most dangerous place in the world to be a police officer. In 1968, the RUC was catapulted into the Troubles. Bombs, death threats and murder became a regul
In 1949, when Marianne Elliott was just a baby, her parents moved into the White City, one of the first mixed-religion estates to be built in Belfast after the war. They were among the first tenants a
To look at Martin McGuinness' life is to follow Northern Ireland's own transition from conflict to peace. Martin McGuinness: A Life Remembered tells the remarkable story of McGuinness' journey from IR
Ireland, 2010, and austerity is biting. When downbeat and disaffected Noelie Sullivan finds his missing punk records for sale in a charity shop in Cork, it seems like a lucky break until he discovers
In this, his second album on Irish buses, Richard Newman, not a local but a native of Portsmouth, takes us on a journey through the interesting bus scene of an Ireland very different to today, the Ire
Pays special homage to the valiant efforts of the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) in maintaining two of the most delightful components of the Irish railway scene in an era when their special qualitie
This first history of the little known Fishguard and Rosslare Railways and Harbours Co. has been extensively researched and includes 80+ images, most previously unpublished. Now jointly owned by Irish
From an interest sparked by a family involvement in the Young Citizen Volunteers and the First World War, author Steven Moore has crafted an extensive, revealing and sympathetic account of the organiz
