Gill Books: 392 books
A City in Civil War – Dublin 1921–1924
The Irish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The long-awaited concluding volume of Pádraig Yeates’ ‘Dublin at War’ trilogy
In A City in Civil War: Dublin 1921–1924, acclaimed historian Pádraig Yeates turns his attention to Ireland’s bloody and hard-fought Civil War and its impact on the capital city and its inhabitants.
The...
The Year of Disappearances
Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010
‘Every spy who was shot in Cork was buried so that nothing was known about them. They just disappeared.’ These are the words of an IRA commander recalling the War of Independence in Cork city.
The Year of Disappearances examines this claim and others like it.
It uncovers a web of...
The Bombing of Dublin's North Strand by German Luftwaffe
The Untold Story of World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
On the Whit bank holiday weekend of 1941, the neutral Irish capital was suddenly and inexplicably bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
On a gloriously starry night four bombs fell, the last and most devastating at precisely 2:05 a.m. on 31 May. There was a thunderous explosion and the earth quaked....
1847
A Chronicle of Genius, Generosity & Savagery
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Capture the spirit of an industrial, social and cultural revolution through this invigorating collection of historical portraits from the dawn of the industrialised world!
Though it feels like an era marooned almost irretrievably in the distant past, the 1840s &ndash a decade of blistering...
King Dan Daniel O'Connell 1775-1829
The Rise of King Dan
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Daniel O'Connell, often referred to as The Liberator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century. One of the most remarkable historical figures in Irish history, he campaigned for Catholic Emancipation, including the right for Catholics to sit in the Westminster Parliament,...
by Paul Bew
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable.
He hated the colour green. He was not a dynamic speaker. He was cold and aloof and lacked the...
Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography
The Definitive Biography of the Uncrowned King of Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
In this masterly biography, F.S.L. Lyons tackles the life and times of one of the greatest Irish statesmen of modern times. One of modern Irish biography’s great triumphs, Charles Stewart Parnell has never been approached or surpassed.
Charles Stewart Parnell, an enigmatic, icy aristocrat,...
Irish Ghost Stories
Previously Unpublished Well-known Ghost Stories and Some Lesser-known Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2004
The ghost story holds a special place in Ireland. It provided the raw material for evenings of storytelling that were a common feature of country life up to the 1950s (and frequently beyond).
Unexplained psychic phenomena fascinate people from all walks of life. Many are afraid, ashamed and...
Dublin Tenement Life
An Oral History of the Dublin Slums
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
For nearly 150 years, the wretched, squalid tenements of Dublin were widely judged to be the worst slums in all of Europe. By the 1930s, 6,400 tenements were occupied by almost 112,000 tenants. Some districts had up to 800 people to the acre, up to 100 occupants in one building, and twenty family...
Dublin Voices
An Oral Folk History
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2001
For nearly thirty years, Kevin C. Kearns collected the memories and recollections of Dubliners on tape. These interviews have formed the basis of an extraordinary body of work, one whose subjects have included the life of the Dublin pub and the tenement house. In this ambitious book, he considers...
Grace O'Malley
The Biography of Ireland's Pirate Queen 1530–1603 with a Forward by Mary McAleese
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Grace O’Malley is unique as the only woman recorded on the famous Baptista Boazio map of Ireland (1599), a tribute to the status she achieved as a leader on land and at sea in the 16th century. In 1979 Anne Chambers’ original biography of this famous Irishwoman, who over the centuries had been...
The Plantation of Ulster
War and Conflict in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2011
In this vivid account, the author punctures some generally held assumptions: despite slaughter and famine, the province on the eve of the Plantation was not completely depopulated as was often asserted at the time; the native Irish were not deliberately given the most infertile land; some of the most...
Words We Don't Use (Much Anymore)
The Meaning of Words And Where They Come From
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Diarmaid O Muirithe's column Words We Use was a feature of The Irish Times over many years and has formed a critically acclaimed book of the same name. Words We Don't Use (much anymore) is a highly entertaining compendium of words which are either on the brink of extinction or have already been deemed...
Ancient Ireland
Life Before the Celts
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1998
When the Celts first arrived in Ireland around 200 B.C., the island had already been inhabited for over 7000 years. Drawing on a wealth of archaeological evidence and the author's own mastery of the subject, Ancient Ireland returns to those pre-Celtic roots in a bid to discover the secrets of the...