1. "All changed, changed utterly": The historical significance of the Irish Revolution
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   The problem with political anniversaries is that they often focus on specific dates in the past without any recognition that they are part of a longer process. Easter Monday 1916 is an iconic date in Irish history that all and sundry seek to appropriate, but it can only be understood by what preceded and followed it.
2. Banned Books
   Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1970
   
3. Blood and Belonging
   Journey into the New Nationalism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993   Published: 1994
   Essays on nationalism in Serbia, Croatia, Germany, Ukraine, Quebec, Kurdistan, and Northern Ireland.
4. Buda's Wagon
   A Brief History of the Car Bomb
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Mike Davis traces the car bomb's worldwide use and development. In his analysis, he also exposes the role of state intelligence agencies - particularly those of the United States, Israel, India, and Pakistan - in globalizing urban terrorist techniques
5. Canada Remapped
   How the Partition of Quebec Will Reshape the Nation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1993
   Explores what might happen in the event of a decision by Quebec to separate from Canada.
6. Das Capital, Volume 1 
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1867   Published: 1890
   Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
7. The Commons and the Centennial of the Easter Rising
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2016
   A hundred years ago today in Dublin the Easter Rebellion commenced. This was an urban insurrection, in the revolutionary tradition. Not more than a thousand participated. It lasted five days, before the British military killed hundreds, and executed sixteen including those who had signed the Proclamation of the Republic.
8. The Counter-Revolution in Ireland
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1972   Published: 1974
   
9. Embassy Row Online
   Resource Type: Website
   Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
10. Fighting Fascism: the Irish at the Battle of Cordoba
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A history of the role played by Irish citizens who enlisted to fight against General Franco's fascist forces in Spain in 1936.
11. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   Published: 1999
    Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
12. How the Easter Rising changed the world
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Chris Bambery argues that the Easter Rising relaunched the struggle for independence in Ireland and inspired national liberation movements globally.
13. An Interview with Patricia Campbell
    Against The Current vol. 123
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Patricia Campbell is President of the Irish Independent Workers Union (IWU), an independent trade union and social movement in both the north and south of Ireland. She is a deputy editor of the journal Fourthwrite, founded by a group of Irish Republicans most of whom are former political prisoners from the Republican movement.
14. Ireland and the Irish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
15. IRELAND: Slaying the Celtic Tiger
    Against The Current vol. 151
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Like most nations, Ireland has its share of myths and legends. Most of us know a few of them — Saint Patrick drove out the snakes, the Children of Lir were turned into swans, the ancient warrior Cúchulainn took on all comers. And, since the mid-1990s, Ireland and the international community trumpeted a new myth and legend, the so-called Celtic Tiger.
16. Ireland's Unfinished Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The revolutionary period sparked by the 1916 Easter Rising offered a vision of a truly democratic Ireland.
17. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
18. Left Behind by Good Friday 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    In 1969 Bernadette Devlin traveled to the United States on a fundraising tour. At age twenty-two, she was the youngest woman ever elected to Westminster and already a veteran of the Northern Irish Civil Rights Movement and the radical student group People's Democracy.
19. The Macmillian Atlas of Irish History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A full-colour atlas of Irish history.
20. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 17
    Marx and Engels 1859 - 1860
    Resource Type: Book
    Includes Herr Vogt and articles on military matters.
21. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 21
    Marx and Engels 1867 - 1870
    Resource Type: Book
    Materials related to the International Workingmen's Association.
22. Marx at the Margins 
    On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2016
    Marx’s critique of capital was far broader than is usually supposed. To be sure, he concentrated on the labor-capital relation within Western Europe and North America. But at the same time, he expended considerable time and energy on the analysis of non-Western societies, as well as race, ethnicity, and nationalism.
23. Memory Against Forgetting: the Resonance of Bloody Sunday
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The museum John guards is a physical manifestation of the moral necessity of remembering that day’s cataclysmic violence. An attempt to remember the silences imposed on peoples’ experiences by time and traumatised memory, and, most of all, murderous rampage. And of course, if those left behind do not remember who will? It certainly will not be the guilty.
24. More Than the Troubles
    A Common Sense View of Northern Ireland
    Resource Type: Book
    The authors argue that religion is only one of many factors stemming from differing traditional, cultural, and historical allegiances that separate the people of Northern Ireland.
25. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
26. Northern Ireland's Marching Season Crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    IT IS DIFFICULT for those fortunate enough to live in more sophisticated communities to understand and appreciate the deep sense of fear, outrage and humiliation that marks these annual incursions into the little streets of this little town. . . .
    So begins an editorial which appeared in the Belfast-based Irish News a number of years ago.
27. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
28. Poor No More
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    In the present economic crisis, many Canadians are destititute and many others are on the brink. Against this climate, a couple of Canadians go on a road trip to Ireland and Sweden, with comedian Mary Walsh as their guide, and get a chance to see how other countries have helped people like themselves.
29. The Rape of Irish Children
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A State which had genuine concern for its children would have responded to the report by taking decisive action to remove the Catholic bishops as patrons of primary schools. Three thousand of 3,200 primaries in the Republic have bishops as patrons - with the power to hire and fire and complete control over the school's 'ethos'. No less appropriate category of men could be imagined to have such power over the moral formation of children.
30. Remembering Ireland's Great Famine
    A review of Black '47 a soon to be released film about the famine in Ireland
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The Irish film, Black 47 (Director Lance Daly) is about the worst year of the catastrophic Irish famine and is set in the west of Ireland in 1847. The story centers around an Irish soldier, Feeney (James Frecheville), returning from serving the British Army in Afghanistan only to find most of his family have perished in the Famine or An Gorta Mor (the Great Hunger) as it is known in Gaelic.
31. The Socialist Register 1972
    Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1972
    
32. The Socialist Register 1977
    Volume 14: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    

Experts on Irland in the Sources Directory

1. European Union
2. National Print Museum
3. United Nations