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Learn about revolutionary women in Irish history:
Dorothy Macardle
Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
Kathleen Lynn
Mary MacSwiney
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🔗 Read more at www.ucdpress.ie under the Special Offer section and enjoy a 20% discount until the end of May.
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Many thanks to Hodges Figgis for such a beautiful showcase of our books! (And the fabulous handwritten notes 📝)
👣Come and take an ‘Irish Room tour’ at Hodges Figgis.
🔎Books are also available on our website www.ucdpress.ie
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🌍 Happy World Health Day!
🩺 Explore our Social Science books covering topics from physical and mental health, food and health, environmental health, to the historical development of social policy in Ireland, featured in our signature Irish Social Policy Series.
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Thanks to Ireland's Own for including a piece I wrote on the early years of Fianna Fáil in Kerry in their special edition to mark the centenary of the foundation of the party in 1926.
Based on my recent book from @ucdpress.bsky.social on post-Civil War politics in Kerry
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Bullets to Ballots is available in local Kerry bookshops, bookshops nationwide and at www.ucdpress.ie
A wonderful double page spread in the Special Easter Edition of Ireland's Own for our fascinating account of Kerry during the Irish Revolutionary period from Civil War to peaceful election.
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🎂We're celebrating the 150th birthday of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington with a selection of books about important women in Irish history are currently 20% off through the end of May.
📚Browse them all at www.ucdpress.ie/page/offers/ to hear women's voices.
Read more at positionpapers.ie/2026/02/the-...
The Irish are wrong to regret the failure of 1798
- Position Papers REVIEW 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Bloody Summer is available in bookshops nationwide and at ucdpress.ie
positionpapers.ie/2026/02/the-...
'The talented historian James Quinn looks at the rebellion afresh, and provides a concise, readable and profound overview of what happened and why the legacy of “Ninety-Eight” still lives with us.'
Thanks to the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society for hosting my talk last night at Killarney Library on the early years of Fianna Fáil in Kerry.
Recording will be available in due course.
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'March to success through provocation and danger without resorting to the wild justice of revenge' - Davitt
Pictured:
Jottings in Solitary (Classics of Irish History) by Michael Davitt
Michael Davitt (Classics of Irish History) by John Devoy with an introduction by Carla King and W. J. McCormack
Michael Davitt (Life and Times) by Carla King
Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882–1906 by Carla King
Today marks the birthday of Irish radical republican Michael Davitt (1846–1906), founder of the National Land League and lifelong defender of workers’ rights.
📚 Learn more about Davitt with a selection of books from UCD Press at www.ucdpress.ie
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🔔 Special Offer reminder: The Idea of a Nation
A selection of books about Ireland and Northern Ireland are currently 20% off through the end of March at www.ucdpress.ie
‘this pioneering volume serves as an impressive foundation for further research into Dublin during the years 1845-52.’
- Australasian Journal of Irish Studies
📰Dublin and the Great Irish Famine is available at www.ucdpress.ie
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Happy St. Patrick’s Day from UCD Press ☘️
For North American readers celebrating today, discover books on Irish history, culture, and heritage in the Great Chicago Book Sale through our North American distributor, The University of Chicago Press, as featured in their recent newsletter.
🎧Listen to Paul Muldoon, Ireland Professor of Poetry (2022–2025) discussing his recently published Talking Heads on Arena, RTÉ Radio 1 @rteradio1.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22591100/
Talking Heads is available for purchase at www.ucdpress.ie
This book aims to raise awareness of Ireland’s fantastic and often undervalued river resource, and the importance of changing our behaviour and policies to ensure that we keep it in a healthy condition for its sustainable benefits, as well as protection of its biodiversity.
Today marks the International Day of Action for Rivers 🌊
Ireland’s Rivers, edited by Mary Kelly-Quinn and Julian D. Reynolds, examines freshwater resources, conservation and biodiversity.
Back in stock soon – Preorder now!
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London Book Fair you never disappoint! Inspiring displays from publishers worldwide, enlightening talks and important reconnections and new connections in the wonderful world of books
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A strong advocate for women's education; supported the establishment of the Ladies Land League with the too often forgotten Parnell sisters Fanny and Anna; and a life long defender of workers' rights including the right to pension support in later life.
We have published a number of books relevant to Davitt, including a Life and Times (pictured), Michael Davitt: From the Gaelic American, Jottings in Solitary, and Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882–1906.
Browse them all on www.ucdpress.ie
Son of evicted Mayo tenants, Fenian treason-felony prisoner Michael Davitt (1846–1906) was to become a ‘founding father of Irish democracy’ and the driving force behind the Irish National Land League, an organisation that mobilised Irish farmers in the first mass challenge to landlordism in Ireland.
🌍 UCD Press was delighted to visit ‘Character is Better than Wealth: the Enduring Legacy of Michael Davitt’, an exhibition in the Long Room at Trinity College Dublin – now showing as part of the Book of Kells tour.
Happy International Women’s Day from UCD Press 💐
We’re proud to have published a variety of books showcasing important women and their often overlooked stories in Irish history, from biographies to gender studies to social justice.
Browse them all on www.ucdpress.ie
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