Recommended Reading

Books that explore Irish history from 1913 - 1923.

Recommended Reading

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Titles on 1918

New titles : May - June 2018

  • Philip Blom - Fracture : life and culture in the West, 1918-1938 (Atlantic Books, 2015)
  • Laura Engelstein - Russia in flames : war, revolution, civil war, 1914-1921 (Oxford University Press, 2018)
  • Peter Hart - The last battle : endgame on the Western Front, 1918 (Profile Books, 2018)
  • Gerard Murphy - The great cover-up : the truth about the death of Michael Collins (Collins Press, 2018)
  • Helen Pankhurst - Deeds not words : the story of women's rights, then and now (Sceptre, 2018)
  • Charles River Editors - The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic : history and legacy of the world's deadliest influenza outbreak (Charles Rivers Ltd.)

From our Shelves : May - June 2018

  • Cork Workers Club - Irish labour and its international relations in the era of the Second International & the Bolshevik Revolution (C.W.C.,1975)
  • Ashley Ekins (ed.) - 1918 : year of victory : the end of the Great War and the shaping of history (Exisle, 2010)
  • William Gerhardie - God's fifth column : a biography of the age 1890-1940 (Overlook Press, 1991 (orig. 1981)
  • Michael Morpurgo (ed.) - Only remembered : powerful words and pictures about the war that changed our world (Corgi, 2014)
  • Richard J. Overy - The inter-war crisis, 1919-1939 (Pearson, 2007)
  • Arnold J. Toynbee et al. - The impact of the Russian Revolution 1917-1967 (Oxford University Press, 1967)
  • Margaret Ward (ed.) - In their own voice : women and Irish nationalism (Attic Press, 1995)

New titles : March - April 2018

  • Catherine Arnold - Pandemic 1918 : the story of the deadliest influenza in history (O'Mara Books, 2018)
  • Eamonn Ashe - 31 Years of Hell, 1914-1945 (Flashforward, 2016)
  • Mark Mazower - What you did not tell : a Russian past and the journey home (Allen Lane, 2017)
  • Jean Prendergast - Cork voices of WWI (J. Prendergast, 2017)
  • Anthony Richards - In their own words : untold stories of the First World War (Imperial War Museum, 2016)
  • L. Ryan and M. Ward - Irish women and the vote : becoming citizens (New edition) (Irish Academic Press, 2018)
  • Mark Scott - The man who shot the Great War : the remarkable story of George Hackney (Colourpoint, 2017)

New titles : January - February 2018

  • Martin M. Evans - 1918 : the year of victories (Arcturus Publishing, 2017)
  • Tom French (ed.) - A bittern cry : in honour of Francis Ledwidge (Éigse Éireann, 2017)
  • History Ireland - 1916-1918 : Changed utterly : Ireland after the Rising (History Ireland, 2017)
  • David McCullagh - De Valera : Rise, 1882-1932 (Gill Books, 2017)
  • Evan Mawdsley - The Russian Civil War (Birlinn, 2017)
  • Dominic Price - We bled together : Michael Collins, the squad and the Dublin Brigade (Collins Press, 2017)
  • E. Rogatchevskaia (ed.) - Russian Revolution : hope, tragedies, myths (British Library, 2017)
  • Margaret Ward - Hanna Sheehy Skeffington : suffragette and Sinn Féiner (U.C.D. Press, 2017)

Titles on 1917

New titles : November - December 2017

  • Prit Buttar - Russia's last gasp : the Eastern Front, 1916-1917 (Osprey Publishing, 2016)
  • Gemma Clark - Everyday violence in the Irish Civil War (Cork University Press, 2016)
  • Fergal Keane - Wounds : a memoir of war and love (Collins, 2017)
  • D. Molyneaux and D. Kelly - Those of us who must die : execution, exile and revival after the Easter Rising (Collins Press, 2017)
  • Cormac Ó Comhraí - Ireland and the First World War : a photographic history (Mercier Press, 2014)
  • Joseph Pearce - Death comes for the war poets : a verse tapestry (St. Augustine's Press, 2017)
  • William Sheehan - A hard local war : the British army and the guerrilla war in Cork, 1919-1921 (History Press, 2017)

New titles : September - October 2017

  • Max Arthur - The faces of World War I : the Great War in words and pictures (Bounty Books, 2007)
  • Stefanie Linden - They called it shell shock : combat stress in the First World War (Helion & Co., 2017)
  • Paul O'Brien - Havoc : the Auxiliaries in Ireland's War of Independence (Collins Press, 2017)
  • T & M.L. O'Donnell - Sisters of the revolutionaries : the story of Margaret and Mary Bridget Pearse (Merrion Press, 2017)
  • Seán Ó Lúing - I die in a good cause : Thomas Ashe, a biography (Mercier, 2017 (new ed.))
  • A. Pilz and W. Standlee - Irish women's writing, 1878-1922 : advancing the cause of liberty (Manchester University Press, 2016)
  • Laura Spinney - Pale rider : the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world (Jonathan Cape, 2017)

New titles : The Russian Revolution 1917

  • Tariq Ali - The dilemmas of Lenin : terrorism, war, empire, love, revolution (Verso, 2017)
  • Daniel Beer - The house of the dead : Siberian exile under the Tsars (Allen Lane, 2016)
  • Tony Brenton (ed.) - Historically inevitable : turning points of the Russian Revolution (Profile Books, 2016)
  • David King - Russian revolutionary posters (Tate Publishing, 2017)
  • Sean McMeekin - The Russian Revolution : a new history (Profile Books, 2016)
  • Alexander Rabinowitch - The Bolsheviks came to power : the revolution of 1917 in Petrograd (Pluto Press, new ed. 2017)
  • Helen Rappaport - Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, 1917 (Windmill Books, 2016)
  • Victor Sebestyen - Lenin the dictator : an intimate portrait (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2017)


From our shelves : The Russian Revolution 1917

  • V.I. Lenin - The tasks of the proletariat in our revolution (1917)
  • Sheila Fitzpatrick - The Commissariat of Enlightenment : Soviet organization of education and the arts under Lunacharsky, October 1917-1921 (Cambridge University Press, 1970)
  • Dominic Lieven - Towards the flame : empire, war and the end of Tsarist Russia (Penguin, 2015)
  • John Reed - Ten days ghat shook the world (Modern Library, 1935 (orig. 1919))
  • Victor Serge - Year One of the Russian Revolution (Allen Lane, 1972 (orig. 1930))
  • N.N. Sukhanov - The Russian Revolution 1917 : a personal record (Oxford University Press, 1955 (oriog. 1922))
    Franco Venturi - Roots of revolution : history of populist and socialist movements in 19th century Russia (Universal Library, 1960 (orig. 1952))

New titles : May - June 2017

  • Michael E.A. Connell Jnr. - Michael Collins : Dublin 1916-1922 (Wordwell, 2017)
  • Gerald Dawe - Of war and war's alarms : reflections on modern Irish writing (Cork University Press, 2015)
  • Valeris Jones - Rebel Prods : the forgotten story of Protestant radical nationalists and the 1916 Rising (Ashfield Press, 2016)
  • Barry Keane - Cork's revolutionary dead, 1916-1923 (Mercier Press, 2017)
  • The Kerryman - Rebel Kerry : story of the Rebellion (Mercier Press, 2017)
  • China Miéville - October : the story of the Russian Revolution (Verso, 2017)
  • William Murphy - Political imprisonment and the Irish, 1912-1921 (Oxford University Press, 2016)
  • Michael Quinn - Irish-Soviet diplomatic and friendship relations 1917-1991 (Umiskin Press, 2016)

New titles : January 2017

  • Sean Crossan & W. Huber (eds.) - Towards 2016 : 1916 and Irish literature, culture & society (Wissenschaftlicher, 2016)
  • Terernce Dooley (ed.) - The country house and the Great War : Irish and British experiences (Four Courts Press, 2016)
  • Boris Dralyuk - Stories and poems from the Russian Revolution (Pushkin Press, 2016)
  • John Gibney (ed.) - Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising (Dublin City Council, 2016)
  • Paul Gorry - Seven signatories : tracing the family histories of the men who signed the Proclamation (Merrion Press, 2016)
  • K.T. Hoppen - Governing Hibernia : British politicians and Ireland, 1800-1921 (Oxford university Press, 2016)
  • Catherine Merridale - Lenin on the train (Allen Lane, 2016)

Titles on 1916

New titles : December 2016

  • Cork City Libraries - Cherish, cherish, cherish : reflections on the 1916 Proclamation (Collins Press and Cork City Council, 2016)
  • Daragh Gannon - Proclaiming a republic : Ireland, 1916 and the National Collection (Irish Academic Press, 2016)
  • Cork City Council - Laochra Chorcaí : commemorating Cork's patriots, a city guide (Cork City Council, 2016)
  • Tim Marshall - Worth dying for : the power and politics of flags (Elliott and Thompson, 2016)
  • Diarmuid Ó Drisceoil - Blackrock : a portrait of a Cork suburb in 1916 (OD Books, 2016)
  • Cormack O'Malley (ed.) - Modern Ireland and revolution : Ernie O'Malley in context (Irish Academic Press, 2016)
  • Tina O'Toole (ed.) - Women writing war : Ireland, 1880-1922 (U.C.D. Press, 2016)

New titles : October - November 2016

  • Capuchin Annual 1966- 1916 Rising commemorative pages (2016 reprint)
  • Michael Dervan - The invisible art : a century of music in Ireland (New Island, 2016)
  • Robert Gerwarth - The vanquished : why the First World War failed to end, 1917-1923 (Allen Lane, 2016)
  • Robert Kershaw - 24 Hours at the Somme : 1 July 2016 (W.H. Allen, 2016)
  • Janie Leatherman - Sexual violence and armed conflict (Polity, 2011)
  • Ronan McGreevy - Wherever the firing line extends : Ireland and the Western Front (History Press, 2016)
  • Stephen Moore - 100 Irish stories of the Great War : Ireland's experience of the 1914-18 conflict (Colourpoint, 2016)
  • Paul Muldoon - Rising to the Rising (Gallery Press, 2016)

Somme 1916

  • Edmund Blunden—Undertones of war - Penguin, 1982, (orig. 1928)
  • Séan Boyne—Emmet Dalton—Somme soldier, Irish general, film pioneer. Merrion Press, 2015
  • Christopher Duffy —Through German eyes: the British and the Somme 1916. Phoenix, 2006
  • Geoff Dyer—The missing of the Somme. H. Hamilton, 1994
  • Robert Graves—Goodbye to all that. J. Cape, 1929
  • Lyn MacDonald—Somme. M. Joseph, 1983
  • John Masefield—The old front line. Heinemann, 1917
  • M. Middlebrook—The Somme battlefields. Viking, 1991
  • Philip Orr—The road to the Somme: men of the Ulster Division tell their story.Blackstaff Press, 1987
  • Simon Armitage — Still: a poetic response to photographs of the Somme Battlefield. Enitharmon Press, 2016
  • John Keegan—Face of battle : A study of Agincourt, Waterloo & the Somme. Bodley H. 2014
  • Joshua Levine— Forgotten voices of the Somme. Ebury Press, 2009
  • Lucy London (comp.) - The Somme 1916 : A centenary collection of poets, writers and artists. P.U.N Publ., 2016
  • Stephen Moore—The Irish on the Somme: battlefield guide to the Irish regiments in the Great War. Colourpoint, 2016
  • Anthony Richards—The Somme : a visual history. Imperial War Museum, 2016
  • Hugh Sebag-Montefiore—Somme: into the breach. Viking, 2016
  • Catherine Switzer—Ulster, Ireland and the Somme. History Press, 2013

August - Sept 2016

  • Gail Braybon (ed.) - Evidence, history and the Great War: historians and the impact of 1914-1918. Berghahn Books, 2008
  • Adrian Grant — Irish socialist republicanism 1909-1936. Four Courts Press, 2012
  • Nicola Henry — War and rape : law, memory and justice. Routledge, 2011
  • Heather Jones — Violence against prisoners of war in the First World War. C.U.P., 2011
  • Ronan McGreevy (ed.) - Was it for this: reflections on the Easter Rising and what it means to us now 1916-2016. Irish Times Books, 2016
  • Angus Mitchell (ed.) - One bold deed of open treason : Berlin diary of Roger Casement. Merrion Press, 2016
  • George L. Mosse — Fallen soldiers: reshaping the memory of the world wars. O.U.P, 1990
  • Terry Moylan (ed.) - The indignant muse: poetry and songs of the Irish Revolution 1887-1923. Lilliput Press, 2015

June - July 2016

  • Taylor Downing — Breakdown: the crisis of shell shock on the Somme, 1916. Little, Brown, 2016
  • Edwards, Ruth Dudley — The Seven: the lives and legacies of the founding fathers of the Irish Republic. Oneworld, 2016
  • Frances Flanagan — Remembering the revolution: dissent, culture and nationalism in the Irish Free State. O.U.P., 2015
  • R.S. Grayson & F. McGarry (eds.) - Remembering 1916: the Easter Rising, the Somme and the politics of memory in Ireland. C.U.P., 2016
  • Stefan Ihrig — Justifying genocide : Germany and the Armenians from Bismarck to Hitler. Harvard Univ. Press, 2016
  • Kevin Kenna — All the risings: Ireland 1014-1916. Currach Press, 2016
  • Frank Richards — Old soldiers never die. Parthian, 2016 (orig. 1933)
  • Jack Sheldon — The German army on the Somme 1914-1916. Pen & Sword

April - May 2016

  • Kieran Allen — 1916: Ireland’s revolutionary tradition. Pluto Press, 2016
  • Myles Dungan — On this day. New Island Books, 2015
  • History Ireland — 1916: dream & death: the impact of the Irish Rising, 2015
  • Keith Jeffrey — 1916: a global history. Bloomsbury, 2015
  • Ian Kershaw —To hell and back: Europe 1914-1949. Viking, 2015
  • Bríona Nic Dhiarmada—The 1916 Irish rebellion. Cork University Press, 2016
  • Helene O’Keeffe—To speak of Easter Week: family memories of the Irish revolution. Mercier Press, 2015
  • The Stinging Fly—In the wake of the Rising [Vol. 2, no. 33, Spring 2016]
  • Stefan Zweig—Messages from a lost world : Europe on the brink. Pushkin Press, 2016 [orig. 1914-1941]

March 2016

  • Sebastian Faulks - A broken world: letters, diaries and memories of the Great War. (Hutchinson, 2014)
  • Diarmaid Ferriter & Susannah Riordan (eds.) - Years of turbulence: the Irish revolution and its aftermath. (U.C.D. Press, 2015)
  • Matthew Green - Aftershock : the untold story of surviving peace. (Portobello, 2015)
  • Gavin Hughes - Fighting Irish: the Irish regiments in the First World War. (Merrion Press, 2015)
  • Fearghal McGarry. The Abbey rebels of 1916: a lost revolution. (G.&M., 2015)
  • Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (ed.). The GAA & revolution in Ireland 1913-1923.(Collins Press, 2015)
  • Gary Sheffield. The First world War in 100 objects. (Andre Deutsch, 2015)
  • Sonja Tiernan (ed.). The political writings of Eva Gore-Booth. (Manchester Univ. Press, 2015)

The 1916 Rising

  • James Connolly — Labour and Easter Week (a selection of his writings) (1898-1916)
  • John Cowell — A noontide blazing : Brigid Lyons Thornton—rebel, soldier, doctor. (2005)
  • Stephen Ferguson — GPO staff in 1916 (2005)
  • J. Anthony Gaughan — Austin Stack: portrait of a separatist. (1977)
  • Peter Hart — The I.R.A. at war (2003)
  • Bulmer Hobson — Ireland: yesterday and tomorrow. (1968)
  • Diarmuid Lynch — The I.R.B. and the 1916 insurrection : a record of the preparations for the rising. (edited by Florence O’Donoghue in 1957)
  • W.J. McCormack — Dublin 1916: the French connection. (2012)
  • Desmond Ryan — The rising ; the complete story of Easter Week. (1949)
  • W.I. Thompson — The imagination of an insurrection : Dublin, Easter 1916. (1967)

Old and new, Irish and international

  • Kevin Curran - Citizens. Liberties Press, 2016
  • Roddy Doyle - A star called Henry. J. Cape, 1999
  • Marc Dugain - The officers’ ward. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998
  • Emilio Lussu - Sardinian brigade : the classic Italian novel of world War 1. Prion, 1964 (orig. 1938)
  • Richard Marius - After the war. Rutledge Hill Press, 1992
  • L.M. Montgomery - Rilla of Ingleside. Lippincott, 1944 (orig. 1921)
  • Eoghan Ó Tuairisc - Dé Luain. Sáirséal, 1988 (orig. 1966)
  • Jean-Christophe Rufin - The red collar. Europa Editions, 2015
  • Gregor Von Rezzori - An ermine in Czernopol. N.Y.R. Books, 2011 (orig. 1966)

January - February 2016

  • 16 Lives Series — A series of biographies of the 1916 Easter Rising’s 16 executed men. O’Brien Press, 2012-2016
  • Connell, J.E.A.— Dublin Rising 1916, Wordwell, 2015
  • Coogan, Tim Pat — 1916: the mornings after. Head of Zeus, 2015
  • Joe Duffy — Children of the Rising. Hachette, 2015
  • Ronan Fanning — Éamon De Valera. Faber & Faber, 2015
  • Gene Kerrigan — The scrap: a true story from the 1916 Rising. Doubleday, 2015
  • Lucy McDiarmid — At home in the revolution : what women said and did in 1916. R.I.A., 2015
  • Conor McNamara — Easter Rebellion 1916 : a new illustrated history. Collins, 2015
  • Anne-Marie Ryan —16 dead men : the Easter rising executions. Mercier Press, 2014
  • L.W. White & J. Quinn (eds.) - 1916 : portraits and lives. R.I.A., 2015

Titles on 1915

New titles January - February 2015

  • Max Arthur - The faces of World War I (Cassell, 2014)
  • Joanna Bourke - Wounding the world (Virago, 2014)
  • Turtle Bunbury - Glorious madness: tales of the Irish and the Great War (Gill & Macmillan, 2014)
  • R.F. Foster - Vivid faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 (Allen Lane, 2014)
  • Sinead McCoole - Easter widows: 7 Irish women who lived in the shadow of the 1916 Rising (Doubleday, 2014)
  • Kevin Myers - Ireland's Great War (Lilliput, 2014)
  • Stephen Sandford - Neither Unionist nor Nationalist: the 10th (Irish) Division in the Great War (Irish Academic Press, 2015)
  • David Welch - Germany and propaganda in World War I (I.B. Tauris, 2014)

New titles March - April 2015

  • A.J. Doran & Andrew McCarthy - The Huns have got my gramophone: advertisements from the Great War (Bodleian Library, 2014)
  • Nina Edwards - Dressed for war: uniform, civilian clothing and trappings, 1914-1918 (I.B. Tauris, 2015)
  • Brendan Kelly - 'He lost himself completely': shell shock and its treatment at Dublin's Richmond War Hospital, 1916-1919 (Liffey Press, 2015)
  • Helen McPhail - The long silence: the tragedy of occupied France in World War I (I.B. Tauris, 2014)
  • Alfred Rieber - The struggle for the Eurasian borderlands: from the rise of early modern empires to the end of the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
  • Eugene Rogan - The fall of the Ottomans: the Great War in the Middle East, 1914-1920 (Allen Lane, 2015)
  • Tolga Omek (dir.) - Gallipoli: the frontline experience (DVD)

From our shelves March - April 2015

  • Paul Fussell - The Great War and modern memory (Oxford University Press, 1975)
  • David Olusoga and C.W. Erichsen - The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's forgotten genocide and the roots of Nazism (Faber, 2010)
  • John Protasio - The day the world was shocked: the Lusitania disaster and its influence on the course of World War I(Casemate, 2011)

Fiction:

  • Roger McDonald - 1915: a novel (Faber, 1982 ;orig. 1979)
  • Patrick MacGill - The great push (Birlinn, 2000 ; orig. 1916)
  • Liam O'Flaherty - Return of the brute (Wolfhound Press, 1988 ; orig. 1929)
  • Jules Romains - Verdun: Prelude to battle (Alfred Knopf, 1939)
  • Arnold Zweig - Outside Verdun: a novel from the First World War (Freight Books, 2014 ; orig. 1935)

New titles May - June 2015

  • Damien Burke (ed.) - Irish Jesuit chaplains in the First World War (Messenger Publications, 2014)
  • P.J. Casey et al - Irish doctors in the First World War (Merrion Press, 2015)
  • Peter Fitzsimons - Gallipoli (Bantam Press, 2014)
  • Robert Gerwarth and Erez Manela (eds.) - Empires at war, 1911-1923 (Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • George Kalandia (compiler) - Georgians in World War I (Georgian State Museum, 2014)
  • Joshua A. Sandborn - Imperial apocalypse: the Great War and the destruction of the Russian Empire (Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • Chris Walsh - Cowardice: a brief history (Princeton University Press, 2014)

Gallipoli reading list

  • Heber Maitland Alexander - On two fronts: being the adventures of an Indian Mule Corps in France and Gallipoli (1917)
  • C.E.W. Bean – Gallipoli correspondent: the frontline diary of C.E.W. Bean. (1983)
  • Kenneth Best - War diaries: a chaplain at Gallipoli: the Great War diaries of Kenneth Best (2011)
  • Harvey Broadbent – Gallipoli: the fatal shore (2005)
  • Les Carlyon - Gallipoli (2002)
  • David Campbell (capt.) - Forward the rifles: war diaries of an Irish soldier (2009)
  • Stephen Chambers - Gully Ravine (2003)
  • Bryan Cooper - The tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli (1918)
  • Kevin Fewster - Gallipoli: the Turkish story (2003)
  • Peter Fitzsimons - Gallipoli (2015)
  • Henry Hanna – The pals of Suvla Bay: being the record of “D” Company of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers (facsimile ed. of 1917 publ.)
  • Peter Hart - Gallipoli (2013)
  • Trumbull Higgins - Winston Churchill and the Dardanelles (1963)
  • Oliver Hogue - Love letters of an Anzac (1916).
  • Robert Rhodes James - Gallipoli (1965)
  • Hans Kannengiesser Pasha – The campaign in Gallipoli (facsimile ed. of  1927 publ.)
  • Roger Keyes – The fight for Gallipoli: from the naval memoirs of Admiral of the Fleet : Sir Roger Keyes (1941)
  • Jonathan King - Gallipoli : our last man standing: the extraordinary life of Alec Campbell (2003)
  • Roy Kyle & Bryce Courtenay - An Anzac’s story (2003)
  • Sydney Loch - To hell and back: the banned account of Gallipoli (2008)


New Titles July - August 2015 

  • Richard Bessell - Violence: a modern obsession (Simon & Schuster, 2015)
  • Ernst Friedrich - War against war. (Spokesman,2014 ; originally published in Germany, 1928)
  • Hans Kannengiesser - The campaign in Gallipoli. (Naval & Military Press, 2011) [orig. 1928]
  • Shane Kenna - Conspirators: a photographic history of Ireland’s revolutionary Underground. (Mercier Press, 2015)
  • Erik Larson - Dead wake: the last crossing of the Lusitania. (Doubleday, 2015)
  • Maurice Walsh - Bitter freedom : Ireland in a revolutionary world 1918-1923. (Faber & Faber, 2015)
  • Jean Moorcroft Wilson - Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras. (Bloomsbury, 2015) 

New Titles September 2015

  • Bruce Bradley (ed.) - The pity of war 1914-1918 (Studies vol. 106, no. 414, Summer 2015)
  • Thomas De Waal - Great catastrophe: Armenians and Turks in the shadow of genocide. Oxford University Press, 2015
  • Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald (comp) - a terrible beauty: poetry of 1916. O’Brien Press, 2015
  • James Hamilton-Paterson - Marked for death : the first war in the air. Head of Zeus, 2015
  • Jenny Macleod - Gallipoli (Great Battles) Oxford University Press, 2015
  • Wolfgang Natter - Literature at war 1914-1940 [representing the “Time of Greatness” in Germany]. Yale University Press, 1999
  • Diana Preston - A higher form of killing : six weeks in WW1 that changed the nature of warfare. Bloomsbury, 2015

New Titles October 2015

  • Michael Barry - The green divide: illustrated history of the Irish Civil War. Andalus Press, 2014
  • Robert Lynch - Revolutionary Ireland 1912-25. Bloomsbury, 2015
  • Niall MacMonagle (ed.) - Windharp: poems of Ireland since 1916. Penguin, 2015
  • Ní Ghairbhí, Róisín - Willie Pearse [16 Lives] O’Brien Press, 2015
  • Mitch Peeke et al. - The Lusitania story : the atrocity that shocked the world. Pen & Sword, 2002, 2015
  • Robyn Rowland - This intimate war : Gallipoli/Canakkale 19155 Islands Press, 2015
  • John Sifton - Violence all around. Harvard Univ. Press, 2015
  • Stephen Walker - Ireland’s call : Irish sporting heroes who fell in the Great War. Merrion Press, 2015


New Titles November - December 2015

  • Terry Charman - The First World War on the home front. Andre Deutsch, 2014 Ashley Ekins (ed.) - Gallipoli: a ridge too far. Exisle, 2015 
  • Peter Hart - Voices from the Front : an oral history of the Great War. Profile books, 2015 
  • Ian Kershaw - To hell and back: Europe 1914-1949. Allen Lane, 2015
  • Declan Kiberd & P. J. Matthews(ed.) - Handbook of the Irish Revival: an anthology of Irish cultural and political writings 1891-1922. Abbey Theatre Press, 2015 
  • Sean McMeekin - The Ottoman endgame : war, revolution and the making of the modern Middle East 1908-1923. Allen Lane, 2015
  • Andrew Roberts - Elegy: the first day of the Somme. Head of Zeus 2015

Titles on 1914

From our shelves February - March 2014

  • M.J. Carter — The three emperors: three cousins, three empires and the road to World War One [Fig Tree Press, 2009]
  • David Fromkin — Europe's last summer: why the world went to war in 1914 [Heinemann, 2004]
  • Ernst Junger — Storm of steel [Allen Lane, 2003, orig. 1920]
  • Ann Matthews — Renegades: Irish Republican women, 1900-1922 [Mercier Press, 2010]
  • Liam Ó Murchú — Black cat in the window [Collins Press, 1999]
  • Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc — Revolution: a photographic history of revolutionary Ireland, 1913-1923 [Mercier Press, 2011]
  • Gerry White and Brendan O'Shea — A great sacrifice: Cork servicemen who died in the Great War [Echo Publications, 2010]
  • Jean Moorcroft Wilson — Siegfried Sassoon: the journey from the trenches [Duckworth, 2003]
  • Stefan Zweig — The world of yesterday [Pushkin Press, 2009, orig. 1942]
  • Denis Gwynn — The life of John Redmond [Harrap, 1932]


New Titles February - March 2014

  • Kate Adie — Fighting on the home front: the legacy of women in World War One [Hodder & Stoughton, 2013]
  • Mark Adkin — The Western Front companion: complete guide to how the armies fought for four devastating years 1914-1918 [Aurum, 2013]
  • Pete Ayrton (Compiler) — No man's land: writings from a world at war [Serpent's Tail, 2013]
  • Mark Bostridge — Fateful year: England 1914: a year that began in peace and ended in war [Viking, 2014]
  • David Crane — Empires of the dead: how one man's vision lead to the creation of WWI's war graves [2013]
  • Martin Gilbert — Routledge Atlas of the First World War [Routledge, 3rd ed.]
  • Greg King and Sue Woolams — The assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the murder that changed the world [Macmillan, 2013]
  • Neil Hanson — Escape from Germany: the greatest POW break-out of WWI [Doubleday, 2011]
  • David Reynolds — The long shadow: the Great War and the twentieth century [Simon & Schuster, 2013]
  • Richard Van Emden — Meeting the enemy: the human face of the Great War [Bloomsbury, 2013]

New Irish Titles February - March 2014

  • Brian Crowley — Patrick Pearse: a life in pictures [Mercier Press, 2013]
  • Ciara Cullen — The world upturning: Elsie Henry's Irish Wartime Diaries, 1913-1919 [Merrion, 2013]
  • John Horne (editor) — Towards commemoration: Ireland in war and revolution, 1912-1923 [Royal Irish Academy, 2013]
  • F.X. Martin (editor) — The Irish Volunteers 1913-1915: recollections & documents [Merrion: new ed., 2013]
  • Dermot Meleady — John Redmond: the national leader [Merrion, 2014]
  • Neil Richardson — A coward if I return, a hero if I fall: stories of Irishmen in World War One [O'Brien Press: new ed., 2013]
  • Phil Tomkins — Twice a hero: from the trenches of the Great War to the ditches of the Irish midlands, 1915-1922 [Memoirs Publ., 2013]
  • Pádraig Yeates — A city in wartime: Dublin 1914-1918 [Gill & Macmillan, 2012]

From our shelves - April 2014

  • Max Arthur - When this bloody war is over: soldiers' songs of the First World War [Piatkus, 2001]
  • Anthony and Nicholas Bird (eds.) - Voices from the front line [Summersdale, 2006]
  • Will Ellsworth-Jones - We will not fight: the untold story of WWI's conscientious objectors [Aurum, 2008]
  • Adam Hochschild - To end all wars: a story of protest and patriotism in the First World War [Pan, 2011]
  • Paddy McCarthy - Cork during the years of the Great War, 1914-1918 [P. McCarthy, 2009]
  • Patrick MacGill - The red horizon [orig. publ. 1916]
  • James Moran - Four Irish rebel plays [I.A.P., 2007]
  • Geraldine Neeson - In my mind's eye: the Cork I knew and loved [Prestige Books, 2001]
  • Barbara Tuchman - The guns of August (or, August 1914) [Macmillan, 1962]
  • Barbara Tuchman - The proud tower: a portrait of the world before the war, 1890-1914 [Macmillan, 1966]

New titles - April 2014

  • Christopher Clarke - The sleepwalkers: how Europe went to war in 1914 [Penguin, 2013]
  • Saul David - 100 days to victory: how the Great War was fought and won [Hodder & Stougton, 2013]
  • Niall Ferguson - The pity of war : 1914-1918 [Penguin, new ed. (orig. 1999)]
  • David Fromkin - A peace to end all peace: the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the creation of the modern Middle East (Henry Holt & Co., new ed., 2009]
  • Frank Furedi - First World War: still no end in sight [Bloomsbury, 2014]
  • Joe Gleeson - Irish aviators of World War I. Vol. 1, Irish aces [J. Gleeson, 2012]
  • Felicity Goodall - We will not go to war: conscientious objectors during the world wars [History Press, 2010, orig. publ. 1997 as 'A question of conscience']]
  • Richard Ned Lebow - Archduke Franz Ferdinand lives!: a world without World War I [Palgrave, 2014]
  • Sean McMeekin - The Berlin-Baghdad Express: the Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 [Penguin, 2011]
  • Haluk Oral - Gallipoli 1915 through Turkish eyes [Bahcesehir University Press, 2012]
  • Jeremy Paxman - Great Britain's Great War [Viking, 2013]

New titles - June 2014

  • Mark Cronin - Blackpool to the front: a Cork suburb and Ireland's Great War, 1914-1918 (Collins Press, 2014)
  • John Dorney - Peace after the final battle: the story of the Irish revolution, 1912-1924 (New Island, 2014)
  • John Hughes-Wilson - A history of the First World War in 100 objects (Cassell, 2014)
  • Mandy Kirby (ed.) - Love letters of the Great War (Macmillan, 2014)
  • John Lewis-Stempel - The war behind the wire: the life, death and glory of British POWs 1914-1918 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014)
  • William Mulligan - The great war for peace (Yale University Press, 2014)
  • Richard Overy (ed.) - World War I: the definitive visual guide (D.K., 2014)
  • Joe Sacco - The Great War: an illustrated panorama (graphic) (Jonathan Cape, 2013)

From our shelves - June 2014

  • Ian F. W. Beckett - The making of the first World War (Yale University Press, 2012)
  • A. & N. Bird (ed.) - Voices from the front line: words from the field of human conflict (Summersdale, 2006)
  • Winston Churchill - The world crisis 1911-1914 (Thornton Butterworth, 1923)
  • Martin Farrar - News from the front: war correspondents on the Western Front 1914-1918 (Sutton, 1998)
  • John Keegan - The first World War (Bodley Head, 1998, reissued 2014)
  • L. & J. E. Nolan - Secret victory: Ireland and the war at sea 1914-1918 (Mercier Press, 2009)
  • Philip Orr - Field of bones: an Irish division at Gallipoli (Lilliput Press, 2006)
  • Alan Palmer - The gardeners of Salonika: the Macedonian Campaign, 1915-1918 (Faber, 2009, orig. 1965)
  • Henry Williamson - The wet Flanders plain (Gliddon Books, 1987, orig. 1929)

New titles - July 2014

  • Mildred Aldrich - A hilltop on the Marne: an American's letters from war-torn France (Hesperus Press, 2014)
  • Tim Butcher - The trigger: hunting the assassin who brought the world to war (Chatto & Windus, 2014)
  • Harry Drinkwater - Harry's war : the Great War diary of Harry Drinkwater (Ebury Press, 2013)
  • Paul Ham - 1914: the year the world ended (Doubleday, 2014)
  • Ian Morris - War: what is it good for? (Profile Books, 2014)
  • Sara-Beth Watkins - Ireland's suffragettes: the women who fought for the vote (History Press, 2014)
  • Ypres & Ghent Museums - War and trauma: soldiers and ambulances, 1914-1918, soldiers and psychiatrists, 1914-2014 (Hannibal, 2013)

From our shelves - July 2014

  • Darrell Figgis - Recollections of the Irish War (Ernest Benn Ltd., 1927)
  • Adrian Gregory & Senia Paseta (eds.) - Ireland and the Great War: a war to unite us all? (Manchester University Press, 2002)
  • John J. Horgan - Parnell to Pearse: some recollections and reflections (Browne & Nolan Ltd., 1948)
  • Henri Isselin - The Battle of the Marne (Elek Books, 1965)
  • Patrick MacGill - The great push: an episode of the Great War (Birlinn Ltd., 2000 ; originally published 1916)
  • Clive Ponting - Thirteen days: the road to the first World War (Chatto & Windus, 2002)
  • Mark Thompson - The white war: life and death on the Italian front, 1915-1919 (Faber & Faber, 2008)

New titles - August 2014

  • Ekins & Stewart (eds.) - War wounds: medicine and the trauma of conflict (Exisle, 2011)
  • Peter Doyle - The First World War in 100 objects (History Press, 2014)
  • Gordon Martel - The month that changed the world: July 1914 (O.U.P., 2014)
  • Emily Mayhew - Wounded: from battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918 (Charnwood, 2013 [large print ed.])
  • T.G. Otte - July Crisis: the world's descent into war, summer 2014 (C.U.P., 2014)
  • John Stuart Roberts - Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1937) (Metro, 2014)
  • Adam Tooze - The deluge: the Great War and the remaking of the global order (Allen Lane, 2014)
  • Geoffrey Wawro - A mad catastrophe: the outbreak of WWI and the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire (Basic Books, 2014)

From our shelves - August 2014

  • Max Arthur - Forgotten voices of the Great War (Ebury Press/Imperial War Museum, 2006)
  • Rudyard Kipling - The Irish Guards in the Great War (Spellmount, 2008 [orig. 1923])
  • Alan Kramer - Dynamic of destruction: culture and mass killing in the First World War (O.U.P., 2007)
  • F.X. Martin (ed.) - The Howth gun-running and the Kilcoole gun-running, 1914 (Browne & Nolan, 1964 [new ed. 2014])
  • John Masefield - The Battle of the Somme (Chivers, 1968 [orig. 1919])
  • Andy Simpson - Hot blood and cold steel: life and death in the trenches of WWI (Spellmount, 1993)
  • Barbara Tuchman - The Zimmerman telegram (Constable, 1959)

New titles - September 2014

  • Lavinia Greenlaw (ed.) - Goodbye to all that: writers on the conflict between life & art (Pushkin Press, 2014)
  • Peter Hart - Gallipoli (Profile Books, 2013)
  • Leonard James - Myths and mysteries of the The First World War (Bretwalda Books, 2014)
  • Paul O'Brien - A question of duty: the Curragh Incident 1914 (New Island Books, 2014)
  • E.E. O'Donnell - Father Browne's First World War (Messenger Publications, 2014)
  • David Olusoga - The world's war (Head of Zeus, 2014)
  • William Philpott - Attrition: fighting the First World War (Little Brown, 2014)
  • To end all wars: the graphic anthology of the First World War (Soaring Penguin Press, 2014)

Rory Gallagher Music Library - Sound recordings relating to World War I - new titles

  • Centenary: Words and music of the Great War - music and poetry readings
  • Forever: the official album of the World War I commemorations
  • The Great War: a portrait in music, voices and sound
  • Heroes and sweethearts: popular songs from the First World War
  • Seventy-five songs of World War I
  • Songs of the Great War: Keep the home fires burning
  • Songs of World War I: 1914-1918
  • We will remember: words and music for remembrance

New titles - October 2014

  • Neil Astley (ed.) - The hundred years' war: modern war poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2014)
  • Gavin Fuller (ed.) - The Telegraph book of readers' letters from the Great War (Aurum Press, 2014)
  • Herbert Hart - The devil's own war: the diary of Herbert Hart: Gallipoli, the Somme and Passchendaele as they happened (Exisle, 2009)
  • Keith Jeffery - Ireland and the Great War: 1914-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
  • Ken Kinsella - Out of the dark: 1914-1918 (Merrion, 2014)
  • Eugene Ryan (ed.) - Haig's medical officer: the papers of Col. Eugene 'Micky' Ryan (Pen & Sword, 2013)
  • Irish Life and Lore - The Irish country house and the Great War ( a series of recordings by the descendants and close relatives of veterans of the Great War

New titles November - December 2014

  • Kathryn J. Atwood - Women heroes of World War I (Chicago Review Press, 2014)
  • Tom Burnell - Irishmen in the Great War: reports from the front, 1914 (Pen & Sword, 2014)
  • Jon Stallworthy (ed.) - The new Oxford book of war poetry (O.U.P., 2014 (orig. 1984)
  • Alexander Watson - Ring of steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary at war, 1914-1918 (Allen Lane, 2014)
  • Bela Zombory-Moldovan - The burning of the world: a memoir of 1914 (New York Review Books, 2014)
  • A. W. Zurbrugg (ed.) - Not our war: writings against the First World War (Merlin Press, 2014)
  • Military History DVD series - Battle of Verdun; Battle of the Somme; Tunnel raiders; Clash of warriors; Haig vs Ludendorff; Masters of the skies; Disaster in the Dardanelles

General and 1913

General

  • Joanna Bourke — An intimate history of killing [Granta Books, 1999]
  • Bryan Cooper — The tenth (Irish) division in Gallipoli [Irish Academic Press, 1993 (orig. 1918)]
  • Terence Denman — Ireland’s unknown soldiers : the 16th (Irish) division in the Great War [Irish Academic Press, 2008]
  • Myles Dungan — They shall not grow old : Irish soldiers and the Great War [Four Courts Press, 1997]
  • H.E.D. Harris — The Irish regiments in the First World War [Mercier Press, 1968]
  • Jean Hood — War correspondent: reporting under fire since 1850 [Conway, 2011]
  • Horne, John (ed.) — Our war: Ireland and the Great War [Royal Irish Academy, 2008]
  • Cal McCarthy— Cumann na mBan and the Irish Revolution [Collins Press, 2007]
  • Sinead McCoole — No ordinary women: Irish female activists in the revolutionary years 1900-1923 [O’Brien Press, 2003]
  • Carmel Quinlan — Genteel revolutionaries : Anna  & Thomas Haslam & the Irish Women’s Movement [Cork University Press, 2002]
  • Ian Westwell — An illustrated history of the weapons of World War One [Southwater, 2011]

New Titles - December 2013

  • David Campbell (Cpt.) — Forward the rifles: the war diary of an Irish soldier 1914-1918 [Nonesuch, 2009]
  • Carol Ann Duffy — 1914: Poetry remembers [Faber & Faber, 2013]
  • Darrell Figgis — A.E. Russell: a study of a man and a nation [Nonsuch, 2006 (orig. 1916)]
  • Max Hastings — Catastrophe: Europe goes to war 1914 [Wm. Collins, 2013]
  • Margaret MacMillan — The war that ended peace: how Europe abandoned peace for the First World War [Profile Books, 2013]
  • Sean McMeekin — July 1914: countdown to war [Icon, 2013]
  • Angus Mitchell — 16 Lives: Roger Casement [O’Brien Press, 2013]
  • George Morrison — Revolutionary Ireland: a photographic record [Gill & Macmillan, 2013]
  • Mick O’Farrell — 1916: what the people saw [Mercier Press, 2013]
  • Fergal Tobin — The Irish revolution: an illustrated history, 1912-1925 [Gill & Macmillan, 2013]

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