"Nine Irish Lives," edited by Mark Bailey, is the February 2025 selection for the IrishCentral Book Club. Each month, we will ...

and Irish history at home and abroad. Though a native of Kerry, many consider him a Corkonian, thanks in part to his deeply impactful book, Ireland 1912-1985: Politics and Society, published in ...

is professor of modern Irish history at University College Dublin. He writes a weekly opinion column. His books include Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War; The Border: The Legacy of a Century ...