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Partition: How and Why Ireland was Divided

Partition tells us how the idea of dividing Ireland came about, how it gained acceptance and popular support, about its complex and controversial implementation, and the turmoil of the years that followed.
Ivan Gibbons
Published: February / 
2022
Haus Publishing
9781913368456
192  Pages
£9.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
British & Irish history

Northern Ireland, the United States and the Second World War

In Northern Ireland, The United States and the Second World War, Simon Topping analyses the American military presence in Northern Ireland during the war, examining the role of the government at Stormont in managing this 'friendly invasion', the diplomatic and military rationales for the deployment, the attitude of Americans to their posting, and the effect of the US presence on local sectarian dynamics.
Dr Simon Topping (Plymouth University, UK)
Published: February / 
2022
Bloomsbury Academic
9781350037595
328  Pages
£85
Hardback
United Kingdom
British & Irish history

Masterpieces: An Art Lover’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland

An expert guide to the highlights and unexpected treasures of British collections.
Christopher Lloyd
Published: February / 
2022
Thames & Hudson Ltd
9780500296547
496  Pages
£20
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides

Little Girl Lost: an addictive crime thriller set in Northern Ireland

The first in Brian McGilloway's thrilling DS Lucy Black series, Little Girl Lost is an addictive crime thriller set in Northern Ireland about corruption, greed and vengeance, and a father's love for his daughter.
Brian McGilloway
Published: February / 
2022
Constable
9781472133403
336  Pages
£9.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Crime & mystery

Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

This volume explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience.
Rebecca Anne Barr; Sarah-Anne Buckley; Muireann O'Cinneide
Published: February / 
2022
Liverpool University Press
9781800854727
232  Pages
£24.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Literacy

The Law and Practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol

This edited collection provides expert commentary in each of the areas of legal practice that the complex Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol affects. It provides comprehensive examination of the legal meaning and interpretation of the Protocol, offering insights from international law, European Union Law, domestic constitutional and public law.
Christopher McCrudden (Queen's University Belfast)
Published: February / 
2022
Cambridge University Press
9781009100205
240  Pages
€105.03
£89.99
Hardback
United Kingdom
Constitutional & administrative law

The Law and Practice of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol

This edited collection provides expert commentary in each of the areas of legal practice that the complex Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol affects. It provides comprehensive examination of the legal meaning and interpretation of the Protocol, offering insights from international law, European Union Law, domestic constitutional and public law.
Christopher McCrudden (Queen's University Belfast)
Published: February / 
2022
Cambridge University Press
9781009111027
240  Pages
€35
£29.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Constitutional & administrative law

Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The “Returned Yank” in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to present

Drawing on literary, historical and cultural studies perspectives, this book examines the phenomenon of the "Returned Yank" in the cultural imagination. Taking as its point of departure The Quiet Man (1952), it provides a cultural history that charts the ways in which the Returned Yank indexes a set of recurring anxieties in Ireland from 1952 to the present.
Sinead Moynihan
Published: February / 
2022
Liverpool University Press
9781800854758
288  Pages
£24.99
Paperback / softback
United Kingdom
Literary studies: from c 1900 -

The History of Physical Culture in Ireland

This book is the first to deal with physical culture in an Irish context, covering educational, martial and recreational histories. Tracing four decades of Irish history, the work also examines the influence of foreign fitness entrepreneurs in Ireland and contrasts them with their Irish counterparts.
Conor Heffernan
Published: February / 
2022
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
9783030637293
280  Pages
£54.99
Paperback / softback
Switzerland
British & Irish history

Disorder Contained: Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840 – 1900

A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between prison regimes and mental distress, the complex role of prison medical officers in identifying and mediating mental illness and prisoners' experiences of mental breakdown.
Catherine Cox (University College Dublin); Hilary Marland (University of Warwick)
Published: February / 
2022
Cambridge University Press
9781108834551
320  Pages
€87.53
£75
Hardback
United Kingdom
History of medicine