April 2023 Issue Richard Vinen One Day in October Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown By Rory Carroll
March 2022 Issue Andrew Gailey Don’t Forget the Titians Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution, 1914–23 By Terence Dooley LR
May 2021 Issue Andrew Gailey Six Degrees of Separation The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885–1925 By Charles Townshend LR
March 2019 Issue Marc Mulholland Line of Troubles The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics By Diarmaid Ferriter LR
May 2016 Issue Mary Kenny Of Myths & Martyrs The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic By Ruth Dudley Edwards LR
June 2015 Issue Paul Bew 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
May 2008 Issue Paul Bew The Long Good Friday Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland By Jonathan Powell LR
December 2011 Issue Vernon Bogdanor Lion, Harp & Unicorn The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007 By Alvin Jackson LR
November 2012 Issue Paul Bew North and South Ambiguous Republic: Ireland in the 1970s By Diarmaid Ferriter LR
October 2013 Issue Mary Kenny Unsceptring the Isle Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910–1922 By Ronan Fanning The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918–1923 By Charles Townshend LR
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