Socialist Historians Bibliography
Conor Kostick
Areas of interest include: The Crusades, Modern Irish History, Contemporary Music.
Books
Epic, O’Brien Press (Dublin, 2004).
Irish Writers Against War, O’Brien Press (Dublin, 2003) co-editor.
The Easter Rising – A Guide to Dublin in 1916, O’Brien Press (Dublin, 2000, 2002, 2004) co-author.
Revolution in Ireland, Pluto Press (London, 1996, second edition forthcoming Spring 2006).
Medieval history articles
‘Women and the First Crusade’, in C. Meek and C. Lawless (eds.) Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Vol. 3, Four Courts Press, (Dublin, 2005).
‘Laudabiliter’, History Ireland, Vol. 13, No. 3, May/June 2005, pp. 7-8.
‘William of Tyre, Livy, and the Vocabulary of Class,’ Journal of History of Ideas, Vol. 65, No. 3, July 2004, pp 353-368
‘The Crusades’, International Encyclopaedia of Military History, J. A. Bradford (ed.), Routledge (New York, 2004).
‘Ireland and the First Crusade’, History Ireland, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2003.
Other history articles
‘The O’Rahilly’, History Ireland, Vol. 13, No. 4, July/August 2005, pp. 11 –12.
‘Brian Manning,’ Saothar 29, Journal of Irish Labour History, (2004) pp. 14 - 15.
‘Workers in the War of Independence’, in Politics and the Irish Working Class, F. Lane and D. O’Driscoll (eds.), Palgrave (London, 2005 forthcoming).
‘Tragedy in the Connolly family’, History Ireland, Vol. 12, No. 3, Autumn 2004, pp 7-8.
‘Philip II Augustus’, ‘Stamford Bridge’, ‘Edgehill (1642)’, ‘Fairfax, Thomas (1612-71)’, ‘Langport (1645)’, ‘Marston Moor (1644)’, ‘Monck, George (1608-70)’, ‘Montrose, James Graham, Marquis of (1612-50)’, ‘Naseby (1645)’, ‘Newbury (1643, 1644)’, ‘Worcester (1651)’, entries in International Encyclopaedia of Military History, J. A. Bradford (ed.), Routledge (New York, 2004).
Brian Manning obituary, Irish Times Sat. 8th May 2004.
‘Mentioning the War: The Bureau of Military History’, History Ireland, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 2003.
Socialist articles and pamphlets
‘Ideas for the anti-anti-capitalist movement: International revolution’, Socialist Worker, Vol. 2, 238. March 9th – March 22nd 2005.
‘Brian Manning obituary’, Socialist Worker, Vol. 2, 222. April 22nd – May 6th 2004.
‘Robert Emmet: Urban Guerrilla’, Socialist Worker, Vol 2. 205. April 6th-26th 2003.
‘Songs of Irish Labour’, Cultural Logic, Vol. 2. No. 2, Spring 1999.
Anarquismo: ¿una promesa incumplida?, Socialismo Internacional, (Barcelona, 1999), pamphlet co-written with John Molyneux. Reprinted in several different editions in France as Une critique marxiste de l'Anarchisme.
‘Marxism in Ireland’, Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 1996.
‘Communities of Resistance’, International Socialism Journal, 53, Winter, 1991, pp103-109.
‘Myths about the North’, The Socialist, No. 1, Spring 1994.
Why the Irish Labour Party Fails, Socialist Worker Pamphlets (Dublin, 1993).
‘Reading matters – Ireland’, Socialist Worker Review 152, April 1992, p33.
Music articles
‘Bed of Soft’, Journal of Music in Ireland, Vol 5. No. 4, July/August 2005.
Many of the publications listed in this bibliography can be obtained from Bookmarks, the TUC and Socialist online book service