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The Ormond lordship in County Kilkenny, 1515–1642

The rise and fall of Butler feudal power

David Edwards

New Paperback Edition

During the 16th century Ireland was dominated by a handful of great feudal dynasties controlling entire regions of the country by ancest…

Early Irish lyrics

Eighth to twelfth century

Gerard Murphy

New Paperback edition, with a new foreword by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh

Irish poetry is unique in the Middle Ages in freshness of spirit and perfection of form.' So w…

The Judges of Ireland, 1866-1921

Daire Hogan

The late 1860s and the 1870s are important years in the history of the Irish judiciary, and for the structure and culture of the courts. On New Year’s Day 1878 …

John Boyle, the Freeholder and pre-Famine Cork society

‘This Wild Infuriate’

Neil Cronin

John Boyle was an orphan with a difficult upbringing, impoverished and a social misfit, yet he achieved great prominence in early nineteenth-century Cork. A dis…

The Political World of Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde of Ballynastragh, Co. Wexford, 1862–1935

Brian Fennell

This book examines the life and political career of a significant yet often overlooked figure in Irish nationalism. Politically active from 1885 to 1934, Thomas…

Ireland’s first sanitorium

The St Ann’s Hill Hydro, County Cork, 1843–1953

Sinéad McSweeney and Ronan Foley

The St Ann’s Hill Hydropathic Establishment, or The Hydro, was Ireland’s first and pre-eminent sanitorium. The Hydro was built in in Co. Cork in 1843 and closed…

Donegal town, 1474–1974

Matthew Potter

Donegal town is one of the most historic places in Ireland, and has given its name to Co. Donegal. It has been a Gaelic town, a Plantation town, an estate town …

‘A miserable thing to be a woman’

Mary Anne Tyrrell (1821–94) and her landed estate

Lesley Whiteside

This study of a woman’s management of a middle-sized estate contributes to the understanding of agrarian society and the role of women in it. At the age of 32, …

Scandal, satire and the battle for reputation in Limerick’s ascendancy, 1815–20

‘Unconquerable Malice’

Brian Leahy

Step into the turbulent world of nineteenth-century Limerick, where scandal, ambition and razor-sharp wit collide. This gripping account unravels the explosive …

The Irish-Scottish World in the Middle Ages

Peter Crooks, David Ditchburn & Seán Duffy, editors

Few countries in Europe boast such long-standing connections as Ireland and Scotland. The very name ‘Scotland’ testifies to this bond: to the Romans, the Scoti …

Invasion 1169

Peter Crooks & Seán Duffy, editors

May 2nd, 2019, marked the 850th anniversary of the first landing in Co. Wexford in 1169 of the Anglo-Norman adventurers enlisted by the king of Leinster, Diarma…

Moynagh Lough

Studies 1

Michael Potterton, editor

Moynagh Lough is one of the most important archaeological sites ever excavated in Ireland. Situated in the rolling terrain of north Co. Meath, it preserves an e…