An oral history of University College Galway, 1930–1980

He was Galway

Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934

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Martin ‘Máirtín Mór’ McDonogh was, in every sense of the word, Galway’s ‘big man’. A natural entrepreneur, and a man of drive, ambition and no small intellect,...
Author/Editor: Jackie Uí Chionna

Family histories of the Irish Revolution

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Some of the stories from current and retired staff at NUI Galway have been buried for generations, and their publication sheds new light on the complex politics...
Author/Editor: Ciara Boylan, Sarah-Anne Buckley and Pat Dolan, editors

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

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This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimean War painting The Roll Call in...
Author/Editor: Catherine Wynne

Medieval Irish pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela

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There has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. In this book the author reveals a story of a much longer connection...
Author/Editor: Bernadette Cunningham

Fleeing from famine in Connemara

James Hack Tuke and his assisted emigration scheme in the 1880s

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Between 1882 and 1884, the English Quaker and philanthropist James Hack Tuke assisted nearly 5,000 people, mainly families, to emigrate from Connemara – paying for their passage and...
Author/Editor: Gerard Moran

Ireland, 1916–2016

The promise and challenge of national sovereignty (Dóchas agus dúshlán na ceannasachta náisiúnta)

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In this conference volume six distinguished scholars of Irish birth or descent – Philip Pettit, Roy Foster, Kevin O’Rourke, Clair Wills, Louise Richardson and Brendan O’Leary – who...
Author/Editor: Tom Boylan, Nicholas Canny & Mary Harris, editors