From the May 2019 Issue Ruled by the Waves On the Edge: Ireland’s Offshore Islands – A Modern History By Diarmaid Ferriter LR
From the March 2019 Issue Line of Troubles The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics By Diarmaid Ferriter LR
From the June 2015 Issue Independence Days A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–1923 By Diarmaid Ferriter Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918–1923 By Maurice Walsh LR
From the November 2012 Issue North and South Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s By Diarmaid Ferriter LR
From the November 2009 Issue Country Matters Occasions of Sin: Sex & Society in Modern Ireland By Diarmaid Ferriter LR
From the October 2004 Issue The Introspective Nation The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 By Diarmaid Ferriter LR
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