A rare account of life in Armagh women's prison in the 1970s and 1980s. The author describes how the women IRA prisoners were treated and how they developed different forms of protest and resistance, including hunger strikes. This edition includes a new introduction and the transcript of a discussion held in October 2021.

A forensic account of the Stalker inquiry into RUC shoot-to-kill operations in 1982. It attacks the official narrative that there was no conspiracy to remove Stalker and details the efforts by his own police force to invent disciplinary charges. MI5's secret security strategy in N Ireland is central and remains so to this day.

For most of WW II the two most important international organisations in the world, the League of Nations and the International Labour Organization, were headed by Sean Lester and Edward Phelan from Ireland. This book traces the careers of these two men who played a significant role in the development of international relations in the 20th century.