Moygara Castle, County Sligo and the O’Gara's of Coolavin

Carrick, County Wexford

Ireland’s first Anglo-Norman stronghold

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Carrick, Co. Wexford, is one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood medieval sites in Ireland. Built in the autumn and winter of 1169 by Robert Fitz Stephen,...
Author/Editor: Denis Shine, Michael Potterton, Stephen Mandal & Catherine McLoughlin, editors

Blarney Castle

An Irish tower house

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Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland’s best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the castle...
Author/Editor: James Lyttleton

Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600

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The Irish landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. They are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for making sense of medieval...
Author/Editor: Tadhg O'Keeffe

Roscommon

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

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The history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 period is one of transition to new political allegiances while retaining old economic desires. Almost wholly dependent on agriculture to fuel...
Author/Editor: John Burke

The Burning of Knockcroghery Village, Co. Roscommon, 1921

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On the evening of 20 June 1921, Colonel-Commandant Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated at Benown near Glasson in Co. Westmeath. Hours later, the small village of Knockcroghery in...
Author/Editor: Regina Donlon

Charles Owen O’Conor, the O’Conor Don

Landlordism, liberal Catholicism and unionism in nineteenth-century Ireland

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This book uncovers the world of Charles Owen O’Conor, the O‘Conor Don (1838–1906), one of the most prominent Catholic landlords and Liberal MPs of his generation. The scion of the last high...
Author/Editor: Aidan Enright

Discovering Medieval Ferns, Co. Wexford

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Medieval Ferns was one of south-eastern Ireland’s most important settlements. It played a key role in local, regional and national history from its foundation by St Aidan in...
Author/Editor: Stephen Mandal, Michael Potterton & Denis Shine, editors

Ireland Encastellated, AD 950–1550

Insular castle-building in its European context

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Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle-building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars....
Author/Editor: Tadhg O'Keeffe