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Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story."Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing light into the dark recesses of her family’s history—and the history of Ireland. Missing Persons is a stunningly eloque... Read More about Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets

Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the holes in the fabric of modern Ireland, and in her own family story."Clair Wills shines a brilliant, unsparing light into the dark recesses of her family’s history—and the history of Ireland. Missing Persons is a stunningly eloque... Read More about Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets

Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of post-war Irish emigrant culture. Wills analyses representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish immigrants in Britain across a range of discourses, including official documents, sociological texts, clerical literatur... Read More about The Best Are Leaving: Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture

Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is an important and wide-ranging study of post-war Irish emigrant culture. Wills analyses representations of emigrants from Ireland and of Irish immigrants in Britain across a range of discourses, including official documents, sociological texts, clerical literatur... Read More about The Best Are Leaving: Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture

On Easter Monday 1916, while much of Dublin holidayed at the seaside and placed bets at the horse races, a disciplined group of Irish Volunteers seized the city's General Post Office in what would become the defining act of rebellion against British rule--and the most significant single event in mod... Read More about Dublin 1916 (Profiles in History)

When the world descended into war in 1939, few European countries remained neutral; but of those that did, none provoked more controversy than Ireland. Despite Winston Churchill's best efforts to the contrary, the Irish premier Eamon de Valera stuck determinedly to Ireland's right to remain outsid... Read More about That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War