The Michael Collins Album is a unique collection of photographs that catalogue the life of this great man.

This stunning compilation also covers his relationship with the love of his life Kitty Kiernan, and includesa close up of Kitty Kiernan's watch, a pre-engagement present from Collins. A must have for all Michael Collins enthusiasts, this book is a pictorial

In 1780, Ireland was a pre-modern society. Then, under the twin effects of the industrial revolution and the French revolution, the whole world was turned upside down and Ireland with it.

The main legacy of the French revolution was nationalism, the demand for separate nation states independent of multi-national and multi-lingual empires. Irish nationalism was no exception. Its first early manifestation was the 1798 Rebellion, but the actual form that nationalism took in the course of the nineteenth century relied less on abstract principle than on a demand for Catholic rights. This proved difficult in the context of the pan-Protestant United Kingdom.

Excerpts from the speeches of many of Ireland’s political heroes including Wolfe Tone, Thomas Davis, John O’Leary, Bobby Sands, etc; the Marx Family on the Fenians; rebel songs and extracts from classic revolutionary texts.

While the original Fenians were a secretive Republican organisation founded by John O’Mahony in America and James Stevensin Dublin in 1858 [150 years ago this year], this volume seeks to broaden that moniker and to reclaim what for centuries hasbeen used by oppressors and occupiers as a term of abuse to demean those who believe in a free Ireland. It is also an attemptto give readers a taste of the literary talent of our finest patriotic writers.