J. Anthony Gaughan The GPO is the nerve centre of our postal system. That system can be traced back to the political and military turmoil of the 16th and 17th centuries when communication became vital to the English policy of aggrandisement in Ireland. Then in the 1640s, Evan Vaughan, the postmaster in Dublin, established a staging system along the…

Periodicals and Journalism in Twentieth-Century Ireland ed. by Mark O’Brien and Felix M. Larkin (Four Courts Press, €55.00/£43.70)

In this large album, Galway historian Cormac Ó Comhraí attempts to mingle the story of Ireland’s involvement with the Great War in the wider world and the course of events, often moving in other directions, back in Ireland itself. His research has been assiduous, and he has collected many unusual, unknown or forgotten images of…

ed. Harry Bohan and Brian Callanan (Veritas, €9.99/£8.49)

by Jonathan Irwin with Emily Hourican (Mercier Press, €16.99/£13.50)

16 Dead Men: The Easter Rising Executions by Anne-Marie Ryan (Mercier Press, €12.99/£10.25)

by Rónán Johnston (Goodnewsbooks.net/What’s Your Story, price not supplied)