----------,The Royal Irish Constabulary – A short history and genealogical guide (Dublin, 1997).

Irish Guards. The first hundred years, 1900-2000 (Staplehurst, 2000).

Jourdain, H.F.N., and Fraser, E., The Connaught Rangers (Cork, 1999)

Kelleher, G.D., Gunpowder to guided missiles-Ireland's war Industries (Cork, 1993).

Kerrigan, P.M., Castles and fortifications in Ireland, 1485-1945 (Cork, 1995).

Litton, H, Irish rebellions 1798-1916, An illustrated history (Dublin, 1998)

McCance, R.S, History of the Royal Munster Fusiliers (Cork, 1995).

McConville, S., Irish political prisoners, 1848-1922 (London, 2003)

McGarry, F., Republicanism in modern Ireland (Dublin, 2003).

Murphy, D.    The Irish Brigades 1685-2006: A Gazetteer of Irish military service, past and present.  (Dublin 2007)

O'Halpin, E., Defending Ireland, The Irish State and its enemies since 1922 (Oxford, 1999).

Potter, J., A testimony to courage: the history of the Ulster Defence regiment 
(Barnsley, 2000)

Reeves-Smyth, T, Irish Castles (Belfast,1995).

Townshend, C, Political violence in Ireland: Government and resistance since 1848 (Oxford, 1983)

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iii.    Medieval Ireland

Barry, T.B., The Archaeology of Medieval Ireland (London, 1999).

Duffy, S, Ireland in the Middle Ages (Dublin, 1997).

--------, Robert the Bruce's Irish Wars: the invasions of Ireland 1306-1329 
             (Gloucestershire, 2002).  

Kenyon, J.R., and O'Conor, K., (eds.), The medieval castle in Ireland and Wales
(Dublin, 2003)

McNeill, T, Castles in Ireland; feudal power in a Gaelic World (London, 1997).

Simms, K, From kings to warlords (Suffolk, 2000).

Smith, B, Colonisation and conquest in medieval Ireland (Cambridge, 1999).

Sweetman, D, The medieval castles of Ireland (Cork, 1999).

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iv.    The 1500s 

Brady, C, A viceroy's vindication? Sir Henry Sidney's memoir of service in Ireland, 1556-78 (Cork, 2001).

Henry, G), Irish military communities in Spanish Flanders, 1586-1621 (Dublin, 1992).

Morgan, H, Tyrone's rebellion: the outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland (London, 1993).

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v.    The 1600s - 1700s

Doherty, R, The Williamite war in Ireland, 1688-1691 (Dublin, 1998).

Flanagan, L., Irish wrecks of the Spanish Armada (Dublin, 1995)

French, Noel., The battle of the Boyne (Trim, 2000)

Litton, H., Cromwell, An illustrated history, (Dublin, 2000).

Kelly, W., (ed) The Sieges of Derry (Dublin, 2001).

Lenihan, P., Confederate Catholics at war (Dublin, 2001).

MacCuarta, B., (ed) Ulster 1641: aspects of the rising (Belfast, 1993).

Maguire, W (ed) Kings in Conflict: the Revolutionary War in Ireland and its aftermath, 1689-1750 (Belfast, 1990).

McCavitt, J., The Flight of the Earls (Dublin, 2002).

McGurk, J., The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland (Manchester, 1997).

McKenny, K., The Laggan army in Ireland , 1640-80 (Dublin, forthcoming)

Ohlmeyer, J., (ed) Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms: the  Career 
                of Randal McDonnell, 1609-1683 (Dublin 2001)
---------, Ireland from independence to occupation 1641-1660 (Cambridge, 1995).
---------, The civil wars: a military history of England, Scotland and Ireland 1638-1660
               (Oxford , 2002)

O'Ciardha, E., Ireland and the Jacobite Cause, 1685-1766: a fatal attachment (Dublin, 2002).

O'Siochru, M., Confederate Ireland 1642-1649 (Dublin, 1999).

------------, Kingdoms in Crisis, Ireland in the 1640s (Dublin, 2001).

O'Snodaigh, P., The Irish volunteers; a list of the units 1715-1793 (Dublin, 1995)

Reilly, T., Cromwell: an honourable enemy (Kerry, 1999).

Silke, J.J., Kinsale: the Spanish intervention in Ireland at the end of the Elizabethan
wars (Dublin, 2000)

Stradling, R.A., The Spanish monarchy and Irish mercenaries, 1618-68 (Dublin, 1993).

Wauchope, P, Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War (Dublin, 1992).

Wheeler, J. S, Cromwell in Ireland (Dublin, 1999).

----------, The Irish and British Wars 1637-1654: triumph, tragedy and failure (London, 2002).

Wiggins, K, Anatomy of a siege: King John's Castle, Limerick, 1642 (Bray, 2000).

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vi.    The 1798 & 1803 Rebellions

Barry, J.M., Pitchcap and triangle – The Cork militia in the Wexford rising (Cork, 1998).

Bartlett,T., Dickson,D., Keogh,D., Whelan,K., (eds) 1798: a bi-centennial Perspective (Dublin, 2001).

Beatty, J.D, Protestant women's narratives of the Irish rebellion of 1798 (Dublin, 2001).

Chambers, L., Rebellion in Kildare 1798-1803 (Dublin, 1998).

Corrigan, M, All that delirium of the brave – Kildare in 1798 (Kildare, 1998).

Cullen, S & Geissel, H, (eds) Fugitive Warfare – 1798 in North Kildare (Kildare, 1998).

Dickson, C, The Wexford rising in 1798 (London, 1998).

---------, The Revolt in the North (London, 1997).

Dickson, D., Keogh,D., Whelan, K., (eds) The United Irishmen (Dublin, 1993).

Doyle, E., The Wexford insurgents of '98 and their march into Meath (Meath, 1998).

Flynn, K & McCormack, S., Westmeath 1798 – A Kilbeggan rebellion (Westmeath, 1998).

Gahan, D., The people's rising – Wexford 1798 (Dublin, 1995).

Geoghegan, P., Robert Emmet: a life (Dublin, 2002).

Hill,M., Turner,B., & Dawson,K., 1798 Rebellion in Co. Down (Down, 1998).

Kelly, L, A flame now quenched, rebels and Frenchmen in Leitrim 1793-1798 (Dublin, 1998).

Keogh,D., & Furlong,N., (eds.) The mighty wave: the 1798 rebellion in Wexford (Dublin, 1998).
-------------------------, The Women of 1798 (Dublin, 1998)

McHugh, R., (ed.) Voice of rebellion – Carlow in 1798 (Dublin, 1998).

O'Donnell,R., (ed.) Insurgent Wicklow 1798 – the story as written by Luke Cullen O.D.C. (Bray, 1998).
-------------, The Rebellion in Wicklow (Dublin, 1998).
-------------, Aftermath-post-rebellion insurgency in Wicklow, 1799-1803. (Dublin, 2000).
-------------, Robert Emmet and the rising of 1803 (Dublin, 2002).

O'Loinsigh, S., The 1798 rebellion in Meath (Meath, 1997).

O'Shaughnessy, P., (ed.) Rebellion in Wicklow - General Holt's personal account of 1798 (Dublin, 1998).

Power, P., The courts martial of 1798-1799 (Carlow, 1997).

Stewart, A.T.Q., The summer soldiers, the 1798 rebellion in Antrim and Down (Belfast, 1995).

Thompson, F.G., The Uniforms of 1798-1803 (Dublin, 1998).

Turner, B.S., A man stepped out for death; Thomas Russell and County Down
(Newtownards, 2003)

Tyrell, J, Weather & warfare:a climatic history of the 1798 Rebellion (Dublin, 2001).

Ulster Local Studies, The Turbulent Decade, Ulster in the 1790s (Belfast, 1997).

Whelan, K, The Tree of Liberty (Cork, 1996)
-----------, Fellowship of Freedom (Cork, 1997)

Wilsdon, B., Sites of the 1798 rising in Antrim and Down (Belfast, 1997)

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vii.    The Crimean War

Luddy, M., (ed.), The Crimean journals of the Sisters of Mercy, 1854-6
(Dublin, forthcoming)

Murphy, D., Ireland and the Crimean War (Dublin, 2002)

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viii.    The Boer  War

McCracken, D., MacBride's brigade: Irish commandos in the Anglo-Boer War (Dublin, 1999)

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ix.    The First World War

Bandon Memorial Committee, Bandon and district and the First World War (Bandon, 1996)

Bourke,J., (ed.) The misfit soldier: Edward Casey's war story, 1914-1918 (Cork, 1999).

Bowman, T., The Irish regiments in the Great War: discipline and morale 
(Manchester, 2003)

Boyce, G, The sure confusing drum: Ireland and the First World War (Swansea, 1993).

Canning, W.J., Ballyshannon, Belcoo, Bertincourt: the History of the 11^th Battalion The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Donegal & Fermanagh Volunteers) in World War One (Antrim, 1996).

Cooper, B, The Tenth (Irish) Division at Gallipoli (Dublin, 1993).

Denman, T, Ireland's unknown soldiers: the 16^th (Irish) Division in the Great War (Dublin, 1992).
---------, A lonely grave: the life and death of William Redmond (Dublin, 1995).

Doherty, R., Irish generals: Irish generals in the British army in the Second World War
(Belfast, 1993)

Dooley, T.P., Irishmen or English soldiers?: the times and world of a southern Catholic Irishman (1876-1916) enlisting in the British Army During the First World War (Liverpool, 1995).

Dungan, M, Irish voices from the Great War (Dublin, 1995)
-----------, They Shall Not Grow Old: Irish Soldiers and the Great War (Dublin, 1997).

Durney, J., Far from the short grass:Kildare men in two world wars (Kildare, 1999).

Fitzpatrick, D., (ed.) Ireland and the First World War (Dublin, 1986).

Gregory, A. & Paseta, S., Ireland and the Great War: ‘a war to unite us all'? (Manchester, 2002).

Harte, P., County Donegal book of honour: The Great War 1914-1918 (Donegal, 2002).

Hennessey, T., Dividing Ireland: World War I and partition (London, 1998).

Irish National War Memorial, Ireland's memorial records 1914-1918 (8 volumes, Dublin, 1923)

Jeffery, K., Ireland and the Great War, (Cambridge, 2000).

Jervis, H.S., The 2nd Munsters in France (Cork, 1998)

Johnstone, T, Orange, green and khaki: the story of the Irish Regiments in the Great War, 1914-1918 (Dublin, 1992).

Kipling, R, The Irish Guards in the Great War (Staplehurst, 1997).

MacFhionnghaile, N., Donegal, Ireland and the First World War (Letterkenny, 1987).

McGuinn, J., Sligo Men in the Great War, 1914-1918 (Sligo, 1994).

Mitchell, G.S., ‘Three cheers for the Derrys': a History of the 10^th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in the 1914-1918 War (Derry, 1991).

Orr, P., The Road to the Somme: Men of the Ulster Division tell their story (Belfast, 1987).

Robertson, D., Deeds not words: Irish Soldiers, sailors and airmen in two world wars. (Westmeath, 1998).

Sheen, J., Tyneside Irish: a history of the Tyneside Irish Brigade....in Northumberland in
World War One (Barnsley, 1998)

Spencer, W., Army service records of the First World War (London, 2002).

Stokes, R., Death in the Irish Sea (Cork, 1998)

Taylor, J., The 1^st Royal Irish Rifles in the Great War (Dublin, 2002)

Thompson, R, Bushmills Heroes 1914-1918 (Coleraine, 1994).

United Kingdom War Office, Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-1919, 80 parts (London 1981: facsimile edn, 1988).

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x.    The Revolutionary Period 1916-1923

Abbot, R, Police casualities in Ireland, 1919-1922 (Dublin, 2000).

Allen Library Project, Mud Island: A history of Ballybough (Dublin, 2002).

Andrews, C.S., Dublin made me: an autobiography (Dublin, 2001).

Augusteijn, J., (ed.) The Irish Revolution, 1913-1923, (Hampshire, 2002).
---------------, From public defiance to guerrilla warfare, the experience of ordinary
                   Volunteers in the Irish War of Independence, 1916-1921 (Dublin, 1996).

Babbington, A, The devil to pay: the mutiny of the Connaught Rangers, July 1920 (Barnsley, 1991).

Barrett, J.J., In the Name of the Game (Dublin, 1997).

Barry, T., Guerrilla days in Ireland (Dublin, 1981)

Bennet, R, The Black and Tans (New York, 1995).

Barton, B., From behind a closed door: secret court martial records of the Easter 1916
rising (Belfast, 2002).

Bennet, R., The Black and Tans (New York, 1995).

Breen, D., My fight for Irish freedom (Dublin, 1981).

Brennan-Whitmore, W.J., Dublin burning: the Easter Rising from behind the barricades (Dublin, 1996).

Carey, T., Hanged for Ireland (Dublin, 2001).

Coleman, M., County Longford and the Irish Revolution, 1910-1923 (Dublin, 2002).

Coogan, T.P., Michael Collins (London, 1991).
--------------, 1916: The Easter Rising   (London, 2002)
-------------- & Morrison, G., The Irish Civil War, (London, 1999).

Costello, F., The Irish revolution and its aftermath, 1916-1923 (Dublin, 2002).

Deasy, L., Brother against brother (Cork, 1998)
----------, Towards Ireland free (Cork, 2000).

Doherty, G. & Keogh, D., Michael Collins and the making of the Irish State (Cork, 1998).

Dolan, A., Commemorating the Irish civil war: history and memory, 1923-2000 (Oxford 2003).

Doyle, J., Clarke,F., Connaughton, E., & Somerville, O., An introduction to the Bureau of 
Military History, 1913-1921 (Dublin, 2003).

Durney, J., On the one road: political unrest in Kildare, 1913-1994 (Kildare, 2001)

Dwyer, T. Ryle, Michael Collins, ‘The man who won the war' (Cork, 1990).
----------, Big fellow, long fellow (Dublin, 1999).
----------, Tans,terror and troubles, Kerry's Real Fighting Story 1913-23 (Cork, 2001).

English, R., Ernie O'Malley, IRA intellectual (Oxford, 1998).

English, R., and O'Malley, C., Prisoners: Civil War letters of Ernie O'Malley (Dublin 1991)

Farry, M, Sligo 1921-23, The aftermath of revolution (Dublin, 2000).

Fitzpatrick, D.,(ed.), Revolution?: Ireland, 1917-1923 (Dublin 1990)
---------------, Politics and Irish Life 1913-1921 (Cork, 1998).
-------------, Harry Boland's Irish revolution (Cork, 2003)

Foy, M., & Barton, B., The Easter Rising (Surrey, 1999).

Gallagher, R., Violence and nationalist politics in Derry City, 1920-1923 (Dublin, 2003)

Good, J., Enchanted by dreams: the journal of a revolutionary, Joe Good (Dingle, 1996)

Griffith,K., & O'Grady, T., Curious journey: an oral history of Ireland's unfinished revolution (Cork, 1998).

Hanley, B., The IRA, 1926-1936 (Dublin, 2002).

Harnett, M., Victory and woe: the West Limerick Brigade in the War of Independence (Dublin, 2002).

Harrington, N.C., Kerry Landing (Dublin, 1992).

Hart, P, The IRA and its enemies, violence and community in Cork 1916-1923 (Oxford, 1998).
-------,(ed.), British Intelligence in Ireland, 1920-1921 (Cork, 2002).

Hopkinson, M.,  Green Against green, the Irish Civil War (Dublin, 1988).
---------------, (ed) Frank Henderson's Easter Rising: Recollections of a Dublin Volunteer
                    (Cork, 1998).
-------------, (ed.), The last days of Dublin Castle: the diaries of Mark Sturgis
                    (Dublin,1999).
-------------, The Irish War of Independence ( Dublin, 2002)

Kiberd, D., (ed.) Irish Times, 1916 Rebellion handbook, ( Dublin, 1998).

Kleinrichert, D., Republican internment and the prison ship 'Argenta', 1922 (Dublin, 2001).

Kostick, C,  Revolution in Ireland: popular militancy 1917 to 1923 (London, 1996)
-----------,& Collins, L., The Easter Rising – a guide to Dublin in 1916 (Dublin, 2000).

Litton, H., The Irish Civil War, An illustrated history (Dublin, 1995).

Maher, J., Harry Boland: A biography (Cork, 1998).

MacEoin, U, Survivors, (Dublin, 1981).
------------, The IRA in the twilight years, 1923-48 (Dublin, 1997).

McCoole, S., Guns and chiffon: women revolutionaries and Kilmainham Jail, 1916-1923
(Dublin, 1997)

McDermott, J, Northern Divisions, The Old IRA and the Belfast pogroms 1920-1922 (Belfast, 2001).

McGarry, F., Frank Ryan (Dundalk, 2002)

Murphy, J., When youth was mine: a memoir of Kerry, 1902-1925 (Dingle, 1998)

Neligan D., The spy in the castle (London, 1999)

Neeson, E, The Civil War 1922-23 (Dublin, 1995).

Ni Chuilleanan, E., ‘As I was among the captives' Joseph Campbell's prison diary, 1922-1923 (Cork, 2001).

O' Corrain, D., (ed.) James Hogan, revolutionary, historian, political scientist (Dublin, 2001).

O'Drisceoil, D, Peadar O'Donnell (Cork, 2001).

O'Duignein, P., Linda Kearns: a revolutionary Irish woman (Manorhamilton, 2003)

O'Farrell, M, A walk through rebel Dublin in 1916 (Cork, 1999).

O'Farrell, P., Who's who in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War 1916-1923 (Dublin, 1997).

O'Gradhra, N, Civil War in Connaught, 1922-1923 (Dublin, 1999).

O'Mahony, S., Frongock: university of revolution (Dublin, 1987)

O'Malley, E, On Another Man's Wound (Dublin, 2002).
------------, The singing flame (Dublin, 1978).
------------, Raids and rallies (Dublin, 1982).  

Regan, J.M., The Irish counter-revolution, 1921-1936 (Dublin, 1999)

Ryan, M, The Day Michael Collins Was Shot (Dublin, 1990).

Stewart, A.T.Q., The Ulster crisis ( Belfast, 1997)
---------------, (ed.) Michael Collins: the secret file (Belfast, 1997)

Taillon, R., When history was made the women of 1916 (Belfast, 1996)

Townshend, C, The British campaign in Ireland: the development of political and military policies (Oxford, 1975)

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xi.    The Spanish Civil War

Klaus, H.G., (ed) Strong Words, brave deeds (Dublin, 1994)

McGarry, F., Irish politics and the Spanish Civil War (Cork, 1999).

O'Riordan, M., Connolly column (Dublin, 1979)

Stradling, R, The Irish and the Spanish Civil War (Manchester, 1999)

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xii.    The Second World War

Allen, T., The storm passed by: Ireland and the battle of the Atlantic, 1940-41 (Dublin 1996)

Barton, B, Northern Ireland in the Second World War (Belfast, 1995).  
-----, The Blitz, Belfast in the war years (Belfast, 1999)

Blake, J.W., Northern Ireland in the Second World War (Belfast, 2000).

Boyd, G., Boyd's war: the story of a Royal Navy Volunteer reserve fighter pilot during the Second World War (Newtownards, 2002)

Doherty, R, Clear the Way. A history of the 38^th (Irish) Brigade, 1941-1947. (Dublin, 1993).
---------, Key to Victory: The Maiden City in the Second World War (Antrim, 1995).
---------, Irish men and women in the Second World War (Dublin, 1999)
---------, Irish volunteers in the Second World War (Dublin, 2001)

Doorly, M.R., Hidden memories: the personal recollections of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust living in Dublin (Dublin, 1994)

Duggan, J.P., Neutral Ireland and the Third Reich (Dublin, 1989).
------------, Herr Hempel at the German legation in Dublin, 1937-1945 (Dublin, 2003)

Durney, J, Far from the short grass:Kildare men in two world wars, (Kildare, 1999).

Dwyer, T. Ryle, Guests of the Nation: The Story of Allied and Axis servicemen Interned in Ireland during World War II (Dingle, 1994).

Fleming, G., Magennis VC:The story of Northern Ireland's only winner of the Victoria Cross (Dublin, 1998).

Forde, F, The long watch: the history of the Irish mercantile marine in World War Two (Dublin, 2000).

Girvan, B., & Roberts,G., Ireland and the Second World War: politics, society and remembrance (Dublin, 2000)

Gray, T., The lost years, The Emergency in Ireland 1939-45 (London, 1997).

Gorman, J., The times of my life (Barnsley, 2002)

Gunner, C.J., Front of the line: adventure with the Irish Brigade (Antrim, 1991).

Hull, M., Irish Secrets-German espionage in Wartime Ireland, 1939-1945 (Dublin, 2002).

Keefer, R., Grounded in Éire: the story of the RAF flyers interned during World War Two (Montreal, 2001).

Kelly, M.P., Home away from home: the Yanks in Ireland (Belfast, 1994)

Litton, H, The World War Two Years: the Emergency in Ireland, an illustrated history (Dublin, 2001).

McCarron, D, ‘Step Together!' Ireland's Emergency army 1939-46 as told by its veterans (Dublin, 1999).
--------------, Landfall in Ireland: Allied and German aircraft which came down in Éire in
                  WW", (Newtownards, 2003)

McCusker, B., Castle Archdale and Fermanagh in World War 2 (Irvinestown, 2000)

McKeever, I., and McCarron, M., The war years, Derry, 1939-45 (Derry, 1992)

Mawhinney, G., (ed.), Toome's wartime airfield fifty years ago (Draperstown, 1995)

Nolan, J., Condition red: a west Belfast memoir of the German air raids of Easter Tuesday 7-8 April 1941 and Sunday 4-5 May 1941 (Belfast, 1999)

O'Donoghue, D., Hitler's Irish Voices, (Belfast, 1998).

O'Drisceoil, D, Censorship in Ireland 1939-1945: Neutrality, Politics and Society (Cork, 1996).

O'Halpin, E., (ed.) MI5 and Ireland, 1939-1945:The Secret History (Dublin, 2002).

Quigley, M.S., A US Spy in Ireland (Dublin, 1999).

Quinn, J., Wings over the Foyle – A history of Limavady airfield in World War II (Belfast, 1995).
---------,  Covering the approaches, the war against the U-Boats: Limavady and Ballykelly's role in the battle of the Atlantic (Coleraine, 1996).

--------, Down in a Free State: Wartime air crashes in Éire, 1939-1945 (Belfast, 1999).

Redmond, S., 'Belfast is burning', 1941 (Dublin, 2002)

Robertson, D., Deeds not words: Irish Soldiers, sailors and airmen in Two World Wars. (Westmeath, 1998).

Ross, P., All valiant lost: an Irishman abroad (Dublin, 1992).

Tresdale, D., Brotherhood of the cauldron (Newtownards, 2003).

Walsh, R.R., The Irish Guards roll of honour, 1939-1945 (Blackburn, 1999)

Wilson, I., From Belfast Lough to D-Day (Bangor, 1994)

Wood, I.S., Ireland during the Second World War (London, 2002)

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xiii.    The Irish Defence Forces

Brunicardi, D., The seahound, (Dublin, 2001).

Duggan, J.P., A history of the Irish Army (Dublin, 1991).

Harvey, D, The barracks: a history of Victoria/Collins Barracks, Cork (Cork, 1997).
-----------, Peacekeepers, Irish soldiers in the Lebanon (Dublin, 2001).

Gavin, J., Military barracks, Dundalk: a brief history (Dundalk, 1999).

MacDonald, H., Irish Batt: The Story of Ireland's Blue Berets in the Lebanon (Dublin, 1993).

MacGinty, T., The Irish navy: a story of courage and tenacity (Tralee, 1995).

McCarron, D, Wings over Ireland: the story of the Irish Air Corps (Leicester, 1996).
-------------,  ‘Step Together!' Ireland's Emergency Army 1939-46 as told by its veterans (Dublin, 1999).

McIvor, A., A History of the Irish naval service (Dublin, 1994).

Martin, K., Irish army vehicles:transport and armour since 1922 (Dublin, 2002)

O'Shea, B, (ed) In the service of peace, memories of Lebanon (Dublin, 2001)

Tormy, Comdt P & Byrne, Captain, The Irish Air Corps: a view from the tower (Dublin, 1991)

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