Poetry inspired by the Leitrim Observer, with prose and poetry from Leitrim writing groups, plus Brian Leyden, DBC Pierre, Alice Lyons, Vincent Woods, Belinda M

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analy

Examines the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and its impact on Anglo-Irish relations.

The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of a

Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown