Brian Friel

Donegal

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

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This new assessment of Donegal in the revolutionary period expands and refines our understanding of the nature of the Irish Revolution itself. While not in the vanguard...
Author/Editor: Pauric Travers

Brendan Behan

Cultural nationalism and the revisionist writer

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This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Brendan Behan (1923–64), author of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. It charts Behan’s intellectual...
Author/Editor: John Brannigan

Patrick Pearse and the theatre

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This book focuses on Patrick Pearse the theatre man. Pearse, like many among the revolutionary generation, was deeply interested in the theatre and its possibilities. Best known as...
Author/Editor: Eugene McNulty & Róisín Ní Ghairbhí, editors

Michael Healy, 1873-1941

An Túr Gloine’s stained glass pioneer

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This book tells the story of the reclusive stained glass artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, established the bar...
Author/Editor: David Caron

The Bell magazine and the representation of Irish identity

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This new study of The Bell magazine opens a window onto the Irish literary and cultural landscape of the mid-20th century. The Bell, which appeared monthly from...
Author/Editor: Kelly Matthews

The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey

Taxation, townlands and topography

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Since 1824, the Ordnance Survey (now Tailte Éireann and OSNI) has become the essence of cartographic accuracy in Ireland, documenting the ever-changing relationship between people and the environment....
Author/Editor: Finnian O'Cionnaith