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Lorg na Leabhar

Lorg na Leabhar

A Festschrift for Pádraig A. Breatnach

The present volume contains a collection of essays to honour the enormous contribution by Professor Pádraig A. Breatnach to learning in a diverse range of fields including Medieval Latin, Early Modern Irish, palaeography, literary history, eighteenth-century verse, and Modern...The present volume contains a collection of essays to honour the enormous contribution by Professor Pádraig A. Breatnach to learning in a...
Author/Editor: Caoimhín Breatnach, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Gordon Ó Riain, editors
Eigse XL
Coming Winter 2019

Eigse XL

A Journal of Irish Studies [Vol. 40]

Published by the National University of Ireland. Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Many hitherto unpublished texts in prose and verse ranging from Old Irish...Published by the National University of Ireland. Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field...
Author/Editor: Liam Mac Mathúna, editor
The Churchwardens’ Accounts of the Parishes of St Bride, St Michael Le Pole & St Stephen, Dublin 1663–1742
Coming January 2020

The Churchwardens’ Accounts of the Parishes of St Bride, St Michael Le Pole & St Stephen, Dublin 1663–1742

This is the ninth volume in the texts and calendars series published by Four Courts Press in association with the Representative Church Body Library, which seeks to provide critical editions of significant Church of Ireland archives and manuscripts with...This is the ninth volume in the texts and calendars series published by Four Courts Press in association with the Representative Church...
Author/Editor: W.J.R. Wallace, editor
Archives of the Tholsel Court Dublin
Coming 2020

Archives of the Tholsel Court Dublin

Dublin’s Tholsel Court was a recourse for creditors to bring debtors to account. Ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, although fragmentary in nature, the surviving archives give an insight into the lives of middle-class Dubliners, who followed...Dublin’s Tholsel Court was a recourse for creditors to bring debtors to account. Ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, although...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard and Bridget McCormack, editors
Learned families, scholarly networks and sites of native learning in late medieval Thomond
Coming 2020

Learned families, scholarly networks and sites of native learning in late medieval Thomond

This study explores the learned Gaelic families (poets, historians and physicians) and the context in which they lived. A wide-ranging survey, it looks at the landholdings and structures of individual learned families that were settled in Thomond during the...This study explores the learned Gaelic families (poets, historians and physicians) and the context in which they lived. A wide-ranging survey, it...
Author/Editor: Luke McInerney
The Irish-Scottish World in the Middle Ages
Coming 2020

The Irish-Scottish World in the Middle Ages

In this volume, the proceedings of the 2nd Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium (marking the 700th anniversary of the invasion of Ireland by Edward, brother of King Robert Bruce of Scotland), a host of experts here explore crucial aspects of...In this volume, the proceedings of the 2nd Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium (marking the 700th anniversary of the invasion of Ireland by...
Author/Editor: Seán Duffy, David Ditchburn & Peter Crooks, editors
Through the builder's lens
Coming 2020

Through the builder's lens

Dublin's evolving streetscapes

Many people have helped create Dublin’s unique streetscapes. This book looks at the builders and their projects and draws on the extraordinarily rich photographic archive of one of Dublin’s foremost construction companies, G. & T. Crampton, as it explores...Many people have helped create Dublin’s unique streetscapes. This book looks at the builders and their projects and draws on the extraordinarily...
Author/Editor: Ruth McManus
The daughters of the first earl of Cork
Coming Spring 2020

The daughters of the first earl of Cork

Writing family, faith, politics and place

Based on the recovery and analysis of the letters and private papers of the wife, daughters, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters of Richard Boyle (1566–1643), first earl of Cork, this book examines how these women perceived and wrote their lives as...Based on the recovery and analysis of the letters and private papers of the wife, daughters, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters of Richard Boyle...
Author/Editor: Ann-Maria Walsh
Athassel Priory and the Cult of St. Edmund in medieval Ireland
Coming 2020

Athassel Priory and the Cult of St. Edmund in medieval Ireland

The English royal saint Edmund, king and martyr (d. 869) was venerated in Ireland from at least the twelfth century, and Athassel priory in Co. Tipperary was the centre of a cult focussed on a miraculous statue of...The English royal saint Edmund, king and martyr (d. 869) was venerated in Ireland from at least the twelfth century, and Athassel...
Author/Editor: Francis Young
Medieval Dublin XVIII
Coming Spring 2020

Medieval Dublin XVIII

Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium 2016

This volume contains a wealth of new research on Dublin’s medieval past, including paired papers by Joseph Harbison and René Gapert that re-examine skulls found on the site of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, Thomas Street....This volume contains a wealth of new research on Dublin’s medieval past, including paired papers by Joseph Harbison and René Gapert that...
Author/Editor: Seán Duffy, editor
Law and revolution in seventeenth-century Ireland
Coming Spring 2020

Law and revolution in seventeenth-century Ireland

In October 1641, violence erupted in mid-Ulster that spread throughout the whole kingdom and lasted for more than a decade. The war was neither unpredictable nor was it out of step with the rest of the Stuart kingdoms,...In October 1641, violence erupted in mid-Ulster that spread throughout the whole kingdom and lasted for more than a decade. The war...
Author/Editor: Coleman A. Dennehy, editor
Adomnan's Lex Innocentium and the jurisprudence of warfare
Spring 2020

Adomnan's Lex Innocentium and the jurisprudence of warfare

This book studies the Irish law dating from AD 697, called Lex Innocentium or the Law of the Innocents. It is also known as Cáin Adomnáin, being named after Adomnán (d. 704), ninth abbot of Iona, who was...This book studies the Irish law dating from AD 697, called Lex Innocentium or the Law of the Innocents. It is...
Author/Editor: James W. Houlihan