Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas about society, culture, and government are pivotal in the his...

Owen Sheehy Skeffington was one of the few Irish public figures who carried a flame for individua...

Conor Cruise O'Brien's brilliant and hugely controversial 1965 essay on the political c...

July 1960: The newly independent Congo is hit by the secession of its mineral rich-province Katan...

"e;All my life,"e; writes Conor Cruise O'Brien, "e;I have been fascinated and puzzled...

In Herod: Reflections on Political Violence (first published in 1978) Conor Cruise O'Brien c...

The first literary phase in the brilliant and protean career of Conor Cruise O'Brien was his...

Arguably Conor Cruise O'Brien's most influential and admired book was this brilliant co...

Essential reading for old fans and new admirers of Albert Camus' classic quarantine novel TH...

Written in 1972 in the wake of Bloody Sunday and direct rule, States of Ireland was Conor Cruise ...

The Suspecting Glance (first published in 1972) collects Conor Cruise O'Brien's four T....

Tells the story of how a brilliant Irish diplomat found himself in Africa amid one of history's m...