A strong advocate for women's education; supported the establishment of the Ladies Land League with the too often forgotten Parnell sisters Fanny and Anna; and a life long defender of workers' rights including the right to pension support in later life.
We have published a number of books relevant to Davitt, including a Life and Times (pictured), Michael Davitt: From the Gaelic American, Jottings in Solitary, and Michael Davitt After the Land League, 1882–1906.
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Son of evicted Mayo tenants, Fenian treason-felony prisoner Michael Davitt (1846–1906) was to become a ‘founding father of Irish democracy’ and the driving force behind the Irish National Land League, an organisation that mobilised Irish farmers in the first mass challenge to landlordism in Ireland.
🌍 UCD Press was delighted to visit ‘Character is Better than Wealth: the Enduring Legacy of Michael Davitt’, an exhibition in the Long Room at Trinity College Dublin – now showing as part of the Book of Kells tour.
Happy International Women’s Day from UCD Press 💐
We’re proud to have published a variety of books showcasing important women and their often overlooked stories in Irish history, from biographies to gender studies to social justice.
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Bloody summer is crisply written, tightly structured and clearly the product of long familiarity with both the archival record and the interpretative debates surrounding the rebellion.
BLOODY SUMMER A NEW HISTORY OF THE 1798 REBELLION – History Ireland share.google/SH7WORetUM1O...
James Quinn’s Bloody summer sets itself an ambitious but deceptively modest task: to provide a clear, concise and up-to-date narrative history of the rebellion that is intelligible to non-specialists without flattening the scholarship of the past several decades. It succeeds impressively.
HISTORY IRELAND REVIEW
The literature on 1798 is unusually crowded for an event that remains, for many readers, oddly elusive. Its narrative complexity, geographical fragmentation & moral ambiguity have long posed challenges for historians seeking to balance explanation with coherence.
Poets published in the UCD Press Poet’s Chair series include Paul Muldoon, Frank Ormsby, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, John Montague, Paul Durcan, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Michael Longley, Harry Clifton and Paula Meehan.
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The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queen’s University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland & the Arts Council Án Chomhairle Ealaion.
Yesterday evening in Trinity College Dublin, Vona Groarke gave one of her first lectures as the newly appointed Ireland Professor of Poetry: “The Lonely Began” The Poem Alone and in Company.
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Borderlines, nation building, and national identity... Through March, we’re offering a discount on a selection of books on Ireland and Northern Ireland that provide nuance to the discussion.
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New research about the establishment of party branches, the results of elections, the role of newspapers and propaganda all form part of the display as do profiles of the seven Fianna Fáil TDs who represented Kerry between 1926 and 1933. Relatives of those TDs were present for the official opening.
'Kerry played a vital role in helping to develop a uniquely successful political party and the policies which helped our country to protect democracy while delivering social and economic progress.'
'This exhibition draws on the work carried out for Owen’s brilliant thesis and book From Bullets to Ballots ... published by UCD Press, [the book] is a striking example of the type of work being carried out by a new generation of historians', said the Taoiseach.
On Monday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin opened 'The Soldiers of Destiny, Fianna Fáil in Kerry 1926–1933', a Centenary exhibition on Fianna Fáil in Kerry curated by UCD Press author Dr. Owen O'Shea.
🖼️ The exhibition will be on display from 16 to 28 Feb in Tralee and 10 to 31 March in Killarney.
🔗Read the full article about the exhibition online: www.independent.ie/regionals/we...
David Killeen's photography from the exhibition is also showcased in Patrick Quinlan's book of the same name. Walls of Containment (UCD Press, 2021) is available for purchase on www.ucdpress.ie/page/detail/...
'These vast and oppressive buildings, designed to isolate as much to treat, remain among the most imposing architectural relics of the State ... It is this uneasy inheritance that underpins Killeen's exhibition.'
📰Our thanks to Enniscorthy Guardian for this beautiful spread on Walls of Containment.
Happy Valentine’s Day from UCD Press 💗
From our backlist to recently published books, it’s clear we’re fond of red books – any of which would make a great gift! Explore our wider catalogue on www.ucdpress.ie
Book lovers can use the code SALE2026 at checkout for discounts on a variety of thought-provoking, independently published books.
Pictured are just a handful of our titles available for reduced prices through our North American distributor, @uchicagopress.bsky.social, during their annual book sale.
For our American readers — find UCD Press books in the Great Chicago Book Sale from now through 15 June, 2026. Save up to 90% with prices as low as $4.99.
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Together with Andrea Donaldson, they’ll go behind the scenes of feminist theatre movements that transformed both Ireland and Canada, exploring how waves of activism unfolded and what continues to emerge in their wake.
As co-authors of WTF Happened – #WakingTheFeminists and the Movement That Changed Irish Theatre, Sarah and Lian have captured the story of a campaign that reshaped gender equity in Irish theatre and reverberated far beyond.
UCD Press authors Sarah Durcan and Lian Bell will be featured in Canada Ireland Foundation's upcoming Resistance, Resilience, Reflection – #WakingTheFeminists in Conversation event.
📅 February 18
🕔 5 PM EST / 10 PM Dublin
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All volumes in this extraordinary 18 volume series are now available individually and as a collection
