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September 2024
The National University of Ireland First World War Centenary Roll of Honour and Essays
At the beginning of the First World War, many Irish men were enticed to enlist by the promise of home rule, while others may have joined up to secure a decent living; however, by 1918 and the end...
At the beginning of the First World War, many Irish men were enticed to enlist by the promise of home rule,...
Author/Editor:
Ronan McGreevy & Emer Purcell
August 2023
Brides of Christ
Women and monasticism in medieval and early modern Ireland
Throughout the long history of Irish monasticism, the experience of women monastics has, until recently, been relatively sidelined. A desire to redress this inspired the decision in 2021 to dedicate the fifth Glenstal History Conference to exploring the various...
Throughout the long history of Irish monasticism, the experience of women monastics has, until recently, been relatively sidelined. A desire to redress...
Author/Editor:
Martin Browne OSB, Tracy Collins, Bronagh Ann McShane & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors
October 2023
Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny
In the early modern period Kilkenny was the largest inland town in Ireland, where several factors had come into play that enabled the growth of prosperity and a burgeoning economy. During that period the merchant elite of the...
In the early modern period Kilkenny was the largest inland town in Ireland, where several factors had come into play that enabled...
Author/Editor:
Jane Fenlon & Sarah Maguire
February 2024
Two Lives of Saint Brigid
St Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at Kildare which became one of the most powerful and influential...
St Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St Patrick, she established a...
Author/Editor:
Philip Freeman
March 2024
Spirit of Revolution
Ireland from below, 1917–1923
In the spring of 1919, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote: ‘The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit of revolution. There is a deep sense not only of discontent, but of anger and revolt, amongst...
In the spring of 1919, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote: ‘The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit...
Author/Editor:
John Cunningham & Terry Dunne, editors
April 2024
Anglicizing Tudor Connacht
The expansion of English rule in the lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the south Connacht lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many lay beyond the effective control of the Tudor government. Clanrickard was ruled by the Burke dynasty, descendants of the thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman conquerors and...
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the south Connacht lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many lay beyond the effective control of...
Author/Editor:
Joseph Mannion
April 2024
Armagh
The Irish Revolution, 1912-23
County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy between unionism and nationalism intensified during the third home rule crisis of 1912–14. To the alarm of...
County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy...
Author/Editor:
Donal Hall & Eoin Magennis
September 2024
The Irish-Scottish World in the Middle Ages
In this volume, the proceedings of the second Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium (marking the 700th anniversary of the invasion of Ireland by Edward, brother of King Robert Bruce of Scotland), experts explore crucial aspects of Irish–Scottish links in the...
In this volume, the proceedings of the second Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium (marking the 700th anniversary of the invasion of Ireland by...
Author/Editor:
Seán Duffy, David Ditchburn & Peter Crooks, editors
October 2024
Representing Belfast's pasts
From port to commercial centre, and from textile town to centre of shipbuilding, Belfast has adapted, chameleon-like, to changing circumstances. Each of these changes has resulted in a reimagination of the city’s past to make it useable for the...
From port to commercial centre, and from textile town to centre of shipbuilding, Belfast has adapted, chameleon-like, to changing circumstances. Each of...
Author/Editor:
Raymond Gillespie & Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, editors
October 2024
Limestone and River
Essays on Limerick history in honour of Liam Irwin
From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick’s long history as Ireland’s oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its natural backdrop of limestone and river. The stone circles of Lough Gur, the Norman strongholds of Askeaton...
From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick’s long history as Ireland’s oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its...
Author/Editor:
Catherine Swift, Brian Hodkinson & Tom Donovan, editors
April 2024
Evie Hone and the international avant-garde
Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to have found international fame and to have been described as ‘heroic’. Yet she was something of a paradox....
Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to have...
Author/Editor:
Joseph McBrinn
July 2024
Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250
The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by Columba of Iona and Columbanus of Bobbio, and later by the ‘reform’ spearheaded by Malachy of Armagh...
The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by...
Author/Editor:
Edel Bhreathnach
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