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Treasure Islands

Treasure Islands

Studies in children's literature

Celia Keenan & Mary Shine Thompson editors

Ranging from Daniel Defoe to Siobhán Parkinson, from Shakespeare to Enid Blyton, this collection of essays takes the reader on a fascinating voyage to the Treas…
Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world

Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world

Dáire Keogh & Albert McDonnell editors

From the mid-nineteenth century, the authority of Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803–78) was ubiquitous within Irish society and the English-speaking world. Contemporar…
Edmund Rice and the first Christian Brothers

Edmund Rice and the first Christian Brothers

Dáire Keogh

In 1944, W.T. Cosgrave described the Christian Brothers as 'Ireland's gift to civilization'. More recently, a former government minister called them 'a shower o…
Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women

Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women

Essays in honour of Christine Meek

Conor Kostick editor

This book pays tribute to Professor Christine Meek with sixteen essays that present the latest research in the evolution of Italian society towards the Renaissa…
Wise-woman of Kildare

Wise-woman of Kildare

Moll Anthony and popular tradition in the east of Ireland

Erin Kraus

The retrieval and preservation of local Irish traditions has long been a preoccupation of Irish scholars but interest and research has been focused on the weste…
Subversive law in Ireland, 1879–1920

Subversive law in Ireland, 1879–1920

From 'unwritten law' to the Dáil courts

Heather Laird

The primary focus of this book is subversive law from the Land War period to the establishment of the Dáil courts. More specifically, Subversive law in Ireland …
Print culture in Loughrea, 1850–1900
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Print culture in Loughrea, 1850–1900

Reading, writing and printing in an Irish provincial town

Bernadette Lally

This study examines the demand for and supply of print in Loughrea in the second half of the nineteenth century. Literacy levels grew steadily throughout the pe…
Librarians, poets and scholars

Librarians, poets and scholars

A festschrift for Dónall Ó Luanaigh

Felix M. Larkin, editor

A collection of essays and poems presented by the National Library of Ireland Society to Dónall Ó Luanaigh, Keeper of Collections at the National Library of Ire…
Fugitive Ireland

Fugitive Ireland

European minority nationalists and Irish political asylum, 1937–2008

Daniel Leach

From 1937 to 1950 the Irish government granted political asylum to a number of European minority nationalists, many of whom were wanted for crimes of collaborat…
Newspapers and nationalism

Newspapers and nationalism

The Irish Provincial Press, 1850–1892

Marie-Louise Legg

This book places the provincial press in context and provides information about the newspapers themselves, the people who ran them, and the people who read them…