Archaeology

Anglo-Norman parks in medieval Ireland

Fiona Beglane

This illustrated volume examines the evidence for medieval parks in Anglo-Norman Ireland. It is the first book on the subject and concentrates on the parks docu…

Medieval Dublin XIV

Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin symposium 2012

Seán Duffy editor

This volume contains reports on a number of important archaeological excavations in the Dublin area in recent years, including Claire Walsh’s discovery of a med…

Ireland in the medieval world, AD400–1000

Landscape, kingship and religion

Edel Bhreathnach

Aimed at the student and general reader, this is a study of Ireland’s people, landscape and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of Brian Bórama.…

Medieval Dublin XIII

Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin symposium 2011

Seán Duffy editor

This volume has important studies on the political, social and literary history of Dublin from the Viking Age to the dawn of the modern era. Eoin O’Flynn recons…

Medieval and monastic Derry

Sixth century to 1600

Brian Lacey

According to legend, Derry originated as a monastery founded by St Columba/Colum Cille. That story was almost certainly a later rationalization and simplificati…

The Jacobean plantations in seventeenth-century Offaly

An archaeology of a changing world

James Lyttleton

The assimilation of the Gaelic Irish lordships into the British state marks the end of medieval Ireland and the beginning of a society more recognizable to mode…

Medieval Dublin XII

Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin symposium 2010

Seán Duffy editor

This twelfth volume of proceedings of the annual Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium contains reports on recent archaeological excavations in and around Dublin…

Françoise Henry in Co. Mayo

The Inishkea journals

Janet T. Marquardt, editor

French art historian Françoise Henry was one of the most important twentieth-century historians of Irish art. In 1937, she visited the island of Inishkea North …

Dunluce Castle

History and archaeology

Colin Breen

Dunluce Castle, dramatically positioned on cliffs that plunge straight into the sea, was for centuries at the centre of a maritime lordship encompassing north U…

Medieval Dublin XI

Seán Duffy, editor

The highlight of this eleventh volume of proceedings of the annual Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium is undoubtedly Linzi Simpson’s monumental update of her …

Blarney Castle

An Irish tower house

James Lyttleton

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 cas…

Landscapes of cult and kingship

Roseanne Schot, Conor Newman & Edel Bhreathnach, editors

This volume offers new perspectives on kingship and royal landscapes in Ireland and abroad in thirteen essays by leading experts which consider how topography, …