Books - Local Histories

Author(s)/ Editor(s)

Name

Where?

Publisher

Year

Anvil Books

Rebel Cork's Fighting Story from 1919 to the Truce with Britain

Tralee

Anvil Books

1961

Aubane Historical Society

Kilmichael: The False Surrender

Aubane

Aubane Historical Society

1999

Augusteijn, Joost

From Public Defiance to Guerrilla Warfare - The Experience of Ordinary Volunteers in the Irish War of Independence 1916-1921

Dublin

Irish Academic Press

1996

Baker, J.

The McMahon Family Murders and the Belfast Troubles 1920-2

Belfast

 

Undated

Begley, D.

The Road to Crossbarry: The Decisive Battle of the War of Independence

Bandon

 

1999

Bonsall, John; Dowd, Marion and Mulraney, Robert

The Six: The Lives and Memorialisation of Sligo's Noble Six

 

Glencar Press

2022

Borgonovo, John

The Battle for Cork - July-August 1922

Cork

Mercier Press

2011

Borgonovo, John

The Dynamics of War and Revolution: Cork City, 1916-1918

Cork

Cork University Press

2013

Boyd, A.

Holy War in Belfast

Tralee

 

1969

Boyle, Ken and Desmond, Tim

The Murder of Dr Muldoon

Cork

Mercier Press

2019

Browning, Edward

Slaughtered Like Animals: A detailed examination of the killing of 17 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliary Division by the IRA at Macroom, County Cork on 28th November 1920 and similar notorious incidents

London

Grosvenor House Publishing

2011

Buckley, Patrick

The Battle of Tourmakeady - Fact or Fiction

Dublin

Nonsuch Publishing

2008

Burke, John

Roscommon - The Irish Revolution 1912-23

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2022?

Butler, Ewan

Barry's Flying Column

London

Leo Cooper

1971

Cahill, Liam

Forgotten Revolution - The Limerick Soviet 1919

Dublin

O'Brien Press

1900

Campbell, Fergus

Land and Revolution: Nationalist Politics in the West of Ireland (1891-1921)

Oxford

 

2005

Coleman, Marie

County Longford and the Irish Revolution

Dublin

Irish Academic Press

2003

Connell, Joseph E. A.

Dublin in Rebellion - A Directory 1913-1923

Dublin

Lilliput Press

2009

Connell, Joseph E. A.

Michael Collins: Dublin 1916-22

Dublin

Wordwell Books

2017

Coogan, Oliver

Politics and War in Meath 1913-23

 

Meath County Council

2014

Cowell, John

Where they Lived in Dublin

Dublin

O'Brien Press

1980

Cullen, Seamus

Kildare: the Irish Revolution 1912-23

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2020

Deane, Ciarán (Ed)

Wicklow and the War of Independence

Wicklow

Wicklow County Council

2021

Donlon, Regina

The Burning of Knockcroghery Village, Co. Roscommon, 1921

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2022

Dooley, Gerard

Nenagh, 1914-21: Years of Crisis

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2015

Dooley, Terence

The Plight of Monaghan Protestants

Dublin

Irish Academic Press

2000

Doyle, Tom

The Civil War in Kerry

Blackrock

Mercier Press

2008

Doyle, Tom

The Summer Campaign in Kerry

Cork

Mercier Press

2010

Durney, James

On the Road - Political Unrest in Kildare 1913-1994

Kildare

Gual House

2001

Durney, James

The Civil War in Kildare

Cork

Mercier Press

2011

Durney, James

The War of Independence in Kildare

Cork

Mercier Press

2013

Farry, Michael

Sligo, 1914-1921: a chronicle of conflict

Trim

 

1994

Farry, Michael

The Aftermath of Revolution: Sligo 1921-23

Dublin

UCD Press

2000

Farry, Michael

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23 - Sligo

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2012

Feehan, John M

The Shooting of Michael Collins - Murder or Accident?

Cork

Royal Carbery Books

1991

Feeney, Brian

Antrim - The Irish Revolution 1912-23

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2021

Feeney, P.J.

Glory O, Glory O, Ye Bold Fenian Men: A history of the 6th Battalion, Cork 1st Brigade, 1913-1921

Dripsy

 

1996

Ferriter, Diarmaid (Introduction)

Dublin's Fighting Story 1916-1921: Told by the Men Who Made It

Cork

Mercier Press

2009

Fewer, Michael

The Battle of the Four Courts

London

Head of Zeus

2018

Fitzpatrick, Billy

Rebel Aghada 1798-1923: The Untold History of an East Cork Parish

 

Iontas Press

2021

Foley, Michael

Bloodied Field: Croke Park, Sunday 21 November 1920

Dublin

O'Brien Press

2014

Follis, Bryan. A. 

A State under Siege - The Establishment of Northern Ireland

Oxford

 

1995

Fox, Colm

The Making of a Minority:  Political Developments in Derry and the North, 1912-1925

Derry

 

1997

Gallagher, Ronan

Violence and Nationalist Politics in Derry City, 1920-1923

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2003

Galvin, Michael

Kilmurray Volunteers 1915-1921

Middleton

?

?

Gaughan, J Anthony

Listowel and Its Vicinity

Cork

Mercier Press

1973

Gibney, John

Revolution and Civil War in Dublin 1918-1923: An Illustrated History

Cork

Collins Press

2018

Gillis, Liz

Revolution in Dublin - A Photographic History 1913-23

Cork

Mercier Press

2013

Gillis, Liz

May 25: Burning of the Custom House 1921

Dublin

 

2017

Gillis, Liz

The Fall of Dublin

 

Mercier Press

 

Glesson, James

Bloody Sunday

London

Four Square

1962

Grant, Adrian

Derry: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2018

Hall, Donal 

Louth: the Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2019

Hall, Donal and Maguire, Martin (Eds)

County Louth and the Irish Revolution 1912-1923

Newbridge

Irish Academic Press

2017

Harnden, Toby

Bandit Country' - The IRA and South Armagh

1999

Hodder and Stoughton

2000

Harrington, Michael

The Munster Republic - The Civil War in North Cork

Cork

Mercier Press

2009

Hart, Peter

The IRA and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923

Oxford

OUP

1998

Hart, Peter (Introduction)

Rebel Cork's Fighting Story 1916-21: Told by the Men Who Made It

Cork

Mercier Press

2009

Heaney, Paddy et al

Coolacrease - The True Story of the Pearson Executions - an Incident in the Irish War of Independence

Aubane

Aubane Historical Society

2008

Hegarty Thorne, Kathleen

They Put the Flag a-Flyin': The Roscommon Volunteers 1916-1923

 

Generation Organization

2005

Henry, William

Blood for Blood - The Black and Tan War in Galway

Cork

Mercier Press

2012

Hepburn, A. C.

Catholic Belfast and Nationalist Ireland in the era of Joe Devlin, 1971-1934

Oxford

Oxford University Press

 

Hogan, Seán

The Black and Tans in North Tipperary: Policing, Revolution and War, 1913-1922

 

Untold Stories

2014

Horgan, Tim

Dying for the Cause: Kerry's Republican Dead, 1916-23

 

Mercier Press

2018

Joy, Sinead

The IRA in Kerry 1916-1921

Cork

Collins Press

2005

Keane, Barry

Massacre in Cork - The Dunmanway and Ballygroman Killings

Cork

Mercier Press

2014

Keane, Barry

Cork's Revolutionary Dead 1916-1923

Cork

Mercier Press

2017

Kleinrichert, Denise

Republican Internment and the Prison Ship - Argenta 1922

Dublin

Irish Academic Press

2001

Lawlor, Pearse

The Burnings 1920

Cork

Mercier Press

2009

Lawlor, Pearse

The Outrages - The IRA and the Ulster Special Constabulary in the Border Campaign

Cork

Mercier Press

2011

Lee, J. J.  (Introduction)

Kerry's Fighting Story 1916-21: Told by the Men Who Made It

Cork

Mercier Press

2009

Mac Conmara, Tomás

The Time of the Tans: An Oral History of the War of Independence in County Clare

Cork

Mercier Press

2019

Mac Conmara, Tomás

The Scariff Martyrs - War, Murder and Memory in East Clare

Cork

Mercier Press

2021

Magill, Christopher

Political Conflict in East Ulster 1920-22: Revolution and Reprisal

 

Boydell Press

2020

Maher, Jim

The Flying Column, West Kilkenny 1916-1921

Dublin

Geography Publications

1987

Mahon, Tom

The Ballycotton Job - An Incredible True Story of IRA Pirates

Cork

Mercier Press

2022

McCarthy, Kieran & O'Mahony, John

Witness to Murder: the Tomás MacCurtain Inquest

Cork

Irish Examiner

2020

McCarthy, Pat

The Irish Revolution 1912-23: Waterford

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2015

McGarty, Patrick

Leitrim: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2020

McGeough, Kevin Michael

Unsung Heroes: The War of Independence in Monaghan

 

McGeough

2000

McGowan, Joe

Even the Heather Bled

 

Aeolus Publications

2021

Molyneux, Derek and Kelly, Darren

Killing at its very Extreme - Dublin: October 1917 - November 1920

Cork

Mercier Press

2020

Molyneux, Derek and Kelly, Darren

Someone has to Die for This - November 1920-July 1921

Cork

Mercier Press

2021

Mooney, Tommy

Cry of the Curlew: a History of the Déise Brigade IRA and the Civil War

Dungarvan

de Paor

2012

Mooney, Tommy

The Déise Divided - A History of the Waterford Brigade IRA and the Civil War

Dungarvan

de Paor

2014

Morrison, Eve

Kilmichael - The Life and Afterlife of an Ambush

2022

Irish Academic Press

2002

Muldowney, Pat and others

The Pearson Executions in Co. Offally

Aubane

Aubane Historical Society

2007

Murphy, Brian P.

The Life and Tragic Death of Winnie Barrington: the Story of the Barrington Family of Glenstal Castle, Co. Limerick, c1850-1925

Limerick

 

 

Murphy, Gerard

The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

2011

Murphy, Seán

Kilmichael - A Battlefield Study

Skibbereen

Four Roads

2014

Murphy, Seán and Murphy, Sile

The Comeraghs, Gunfire and Civil War

Waterford

 

2003

Neeson, Eoin

The Battle of Crossbarry

Cork

 

2008

Noonan, Gerard

The IRA in Britain, 1919-1923, 'In the Heart of Enemy Lines'

Liverpool

Liverpool University Press

2014

Ó Comhraí, Cormac

Revolution in Connaught - A Photographic History 1913-23

Cork

Mercier Press

2013

Ó Duibhir, Liam

The Donegal Awakening - Donegal and the War of Independence

Cork

Mercier Press

2009

Ó Murchú, Noel

War in the West 1918-1923: The Irish Struggle for Independence on the Dingle Peninsula

 

Mountian Range Press

2020

Ó Ruairc, Padraig Óg

The Battle for Limerick City

Cork

Mercier Press

2010

O'Callaghan, John

Revolutionary Limerick:  the Republican Campaign for Independence in Limerick, 1913-1921

Dublin

 

2010

O'Callaghan, John

The Battle for Kilmallock

Cork

Mercier Press

2010

O'Callaghan, John

Limerick The Irish Revolution 1912-23

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2018

O'Callaghan, Michael

For Ireland and Freedom - Roscommon's Contribution to the Fight for Independence

Cork

Mercier Press

2012

O'Callaghan, Sean

Execution

London

Frederick Muller

1974

O'Carroll, Declan

Finner Camp - A History

Dublin

Defence Forces

2007

O'Connor, Lysaght D. R.

The Story of the Limerick Soviet: the 1919 Strike against British Militarism

Limerick

 

2003

O'Donnell, Ruán  (Introduction)

Limerick's Fighting Story 1916-21: Told by the Men Who Made It

Cork

Mercier Press

2009

O'Dwyer, Martin

Tipperary's Sons and Daughters 1916-1923

Dublin

Mentor Press

2001

O'Mahony, S.

The Burning of the Customs House, 1921

Dublin

 

2000

O'Mahony, S.

Three Murders in Dublin Caste, 1921

Dublin

 

2005

O'Malley, Ernie

Rising Out: Sean Connolly of Longford

Dublin

UCD Press

2017

O'Meara, M.

Bloody Sunday, 1920-1995: A Commemorative Booklet

Dublin

 

1995

O'Riordan, John

Kiskeam Versus the Empire

Tralee

 

1885

O'Riordan,Ann

East Galway Agrarian Agitation and the Burning of Ballydugan House, 1922

Dublin

Four Courts Press

 

O'Riordan,Tomas

Where Martyred Heros Rest: The Story of the Republican Plot Kilcrumper, Fermoy

Cork

 

1987

O'Shea, Owen

Ballymaccandy - The Story of a Kerry Ambush

Newbridge

Merrion Press

2021

Ozsenker, Okan

Forging the Border - Donegal and Derry in Times of Revolution 1911-1925

Newbridge

Irish Academic Press

2019

Parkinson, Alan F.

Belfast's Unholy War

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2004

Patterson, Henry

Class Conflict and Sectarianism:  the Protestant Working Class and the Belfast Labour Movement, 1868-1920

Belfast

 

1980

Power, Joe

Clare and the War of Independence

 

Eastwood Books

2020

Power, Joe

Clare and the Civil War

Dublin

Eastwood Books

2020

Power, Patrick C

A History of Durgarvan

Dungarvan

de Paor

2000

Price, Dominic

The Flame and the Candle - War in Mayo 1919-1924

Cork

Collins Press

2012

Reddiough, James (Ed)

But They are Forever Young:  A History of the East Mayo Brigade 1913 to 1921

Mayo

 

2005

Sheehan, Tim

Execute Hostage Compton-Smith

Dripsey

?

1993

Sheehan, William

Fighting for Dublin - The British Battle for Dublin 1919-1921

Cork

Collins Press

2007

Sheehan, William

Hearts & Mines - The British 5th Division, Ireland, 1920-1922

Cork

Collins Press

2009

Sheehan, William

A Hard Local War: The British Army and the Guerilla War in Cork 1919-1921

Dublin

The History Press

2017

Shelly, J. R.

A Short History of the Third Tipperary Brigade

Cashel

 

1996

Stanley,Alan

I met Murder on the Way - The Story of the Pearsons of Coolacrease

Carlow

?

2007

Toomey, Thomas

The War of Independence in Limerick 1912-1921

Limerick

 

2010

Travers, Pauric

Donegal: The Irish Revolution 1912-23

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2022

Twohig, Patrick J

Green Tears for Hecuba

Ballincollig, Co Cork

Tower Books

1994

Walsh, Eoin Swithin

Kilkenny -  In Times of Revolution 1900-1923

Dublin

Merrion Press

2018

Yeates, Pádraig

A City in Turmoil - Dublin 1919-1921

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

2012

Yeates, Pádraig

A City in Civil War - Dublin 1921-4

Dublin

Gill & Macmillan

2015

Burke, John

Athlone 1900-1923

Dublin

History Press

2015

Connell, Joseph E. A.

Where's Where in Dublin - A Directory of Historic Locations 1913-1923

Dublin

Dublin City Council

2006

Cummins, Seamus A.

Mullaney's Men' - The Rise and Fall of the anti-Treaty forces in North Kildare, Grangewilliam 1922

Kildare

Kildare Library Services

2022

Dooley, Terence

Monaghan - The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2017a

Dorney, John

The Civil War in Dublin: The Fight for the Irish Capital

Newbrige

Merrion Press

2017

Dwyer, T. Ryle

Tans, Terror and Troubles - Kerry's Real Fighting Story 1913-23

Cork

Mercier Press

2001

Fitzpatrick, David

Politics and Irish Life 1913-1921: Provincial Experience of War and Revolution

Cork

Cork University Press

1998

Lenihan, Michael

Cork Burning

Cork

Mercier Press

2014

Lynch, Robert

The Northern IRA and the Early Years of Partition 1920-1922

Dublin

Irish Academic Press

2006

Macardle, Dorothy

Tragedies of Kerry

Dublin

Irish Freedom Press

1991

McCarthy, Kieran

Republican Cobh & the East Cork Volunteers

Dublin

Nonsuch Publishing

2008

McCluskey, Fergal

The Irish Revolution 1913-1923: Tyrone

Dublin

Four Courts Press

2014

McDermott, Jim

Northern Divisions - The Old IRA and the Belfast Pogroms 1920-22

Belfast

Beyond the Pale

2001

McNamara, Cormac

War and Revolution in the West of Ireland - Galway 1913-1922

Newbridge

Irish Academic Press

2018

Ó Duibhir, Liam

Donegal and the Civil War: The Untold Story

Cork

Mercier Press

2011

Ó Gadhra, Nollaig

Civil War in Connacht 1922-1923

Cork

Mercier Press

1999

Ó Ruairc, Padraig Óg

Blood on the Banner - The Republican Struggle in Clare

Cork

Mercier Press

2009

O'Carroll, Declan

Rockhill House - Letterkenny, Co Donegal

Dublin

Defence Forces

1998

O'Neill, Tom

The Battle of Clonmult and the IRA's Worst Defeat

Dublin

Nonsuch Publishing

2006

O'Shea, Owen

No Middle Path - The Civil War in Kerry

Newbridge

Merrion Press

2022

Phoenix, Eamon

Northern Nationalism - Nationalist Politics, Partition and the Catholic Minority in Northern Ireland 1890-1940

Belfast

Ulster Historical Foundation

1994

Price, Dominic

We Bled Together - Michael Collins, the Squad and the Dublin Brigade

Cork

Collins Press

2017

Sheehan, Tim

Lady Hostage (Mrs Lindsay)

Dripsey

?

1990

White, Gerry and O'Shea, Brendan

 

Cork

Mercier Press

2006

Whyte, Louis

The Wild Irish Heather

Cork

Kilmichael/Crossbarry Commemoration Committee

1995

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