Item category 1: Kildare Local Studies

Stephen Travers has lived two lives. His first was as a young bass player, immersed in music, friendship, and the thrill of gigs on the road with The Miami Showband. But on July 31, 1975, that life shattered on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down when a Loyalist gang ambushed the band, murderi...

O'Ruairc reveals the forgotten history of the Irish far right from the 1920s up to the present, when secretive mobs are burning asylum centres and targeting politicians. He uncovers the pervasive anti-Semitism of the Irish political elite in the 1920s and 30s, the energetic efforts of Mosley and...

The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a referendum question would mean - for themselves, for their neighbours, and for their society. Journal...

'The GAA Covered' is a stunning visual compendium of GAA programmes. With over 100 years of material contained within, each page features striking images of that year's provincial and All-Ireland final match programmes, along with captions of context and colour.

The head of the Guinness family tells the dramatic true story of how his ancestors created the largest brewery in the world. Growing up at Farmleigh, the country house outside Dublin, Arthur Edward Guinness - Ned for short - was fascinated by the secrets and legends that surrounded the early gene...

From the inception of the National Health Service in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in British hospitals. By the 1960s approximately 30,000 Irish-born nurses were working across the NHS, constituting around 12% of all nursing staff. Based on 45 inte...

Anne Heffenan went on a one-year volunteer experience in NW Haiti, in one of the poorest countries in the world, from mid-2016 to mid-2017. It focuses on daily life in this remote area, from visiting the market, crossing rivers and streams to get to work, learning a new language and dealing with...