This is a major, collaborative study of organised military activity and its broad impact on Ireland over the last thousand years or so, from the middle of the f

Born in the Civil War of 1922–23, the army of the Republic of Ireland occupied a sensitive place in the national culture for many years. In World War II, it f

The Irish Army draws its traditions from three sources: the 1916 Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. This book charts the history of the Irish Ar

This fascinating and original book is the first to analyse the evolution of internal security policy and external defence policy in Ireland from independence to