Northern Irish & Irish History

At 7.30am on 1st July 1916, some 60,000 men climbed out of their trenches and walked...

A short, accessible and entertaining history from one of Ireland's best-loved writers,...

If you want to know who the linen lappers of Edenderry were, see the inside front...

These villages are now quiet places with little or no industry. In the early twentieth...

In the 19th and 20th centuries this market town in the centre of County Down developed...

Featuring fifty-three rare period photographs complimented by in-depth captions, this...

Read about the long history of the canal, the docks, the streets, the shops, the...

Step back to a time when 'Derry's prosperity was evident in its buildings - The Court...

Fifty-seven lively photographs of Portadown from the days when the town could still...

Even before St Patrick founded his first church there in AD 444, Armagh had already...

This collection of fifty-two photographs from the early 1900s gives an insight into the...