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October 2024
Caricature and the Irish
Satirical prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780-1830
From the author’s extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that poke fun at the Irish during London’s golden age of caricature. Some of them lampoon (or, occasionally, stand up...
From the author’s extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that poke fun...
Author/Editor:
Nicholas K. Robinson
October 2024
The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland
A Reader
This collection of focused, cohesive and persuasive essays is based on the newest research on gender, sexuality and sexual politics. It offers historical reflections and contemporary analyses of issues related to the contested and often hidden histories of sexual...
This collection of focused, cohesive and persuasive essays is based on the newest research on gender, sexuality and sexual politics. It offers...
Author/Editor:
Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe, editors
November 2024
Invasion 1169
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, Diarmait Mac Murchada. Their arrival marked the start of the Anglo-Norman invasion of...
May 2nd, 2019, marked the 850th anniversary of the first landing in Co. Wexford in 1169 of the Anglo-Norman adventurers enlisted by...
Author/Editor:
Peter Crooks & Seán Duffy, editors
November 2024
Visualizing the Celtic Revival
The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland – selected writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe
This volume brings together Nicola Gordon Bowe’s most important writings on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, including insightful essays on its cultural and art historical background and contexts, the leading patrons and artists of the movement, as...
This volume brings together Nicola Gordon Bowe’s most important writings on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, including insightful essays on...
Author/Editor:
Róisín Kennedy
November 2024
Moynagh Lough Studies 1
Moynagh Lough is one of the most significant archaeological sites ever discovered in Ireland. From 1980 to 1998 excavations were directed by John Bradley. This exceptional multi-period wetland site yielded a rich artefactual assemblage from multiple levels and phases...
Moynagh Lough is one of the most significant archaeological sites ever discovered in Ireland. From 1980 to 1998 excavations were directed by...
Author/Editor:
Michael Potterton, editor
September 2024
Iona, Kells, and Derry
The history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba
First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north Britain in the era between the sixth and twelfth centuries. Three major works of hagiography were produced within the...
First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north Britain in...
Author/Editor:
Máire Herbert
November 2024
Élie Bouhéreau
The collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee
Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La Rochelle. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes Bouhéreau fled France, and the personal library and...
Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La...
Author/Editor:
Amy Boylan & Janée Allsman, editors
November 2024
The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain
Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In varying degrees their occupants thought, conversed, read, and responded to their milieu through...
Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and...
Author/Editor:
Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors
December 2024
Killester
Dublin Through the Ages
Dublin Through the Ages: Killester presents new research into the rich history and heritage of Killester Demesne, tracing its earliest origins in the twelfth century through to its more modern development. An archaeological assessment of the area reviews its...
Dublin Through the Ages: Killester presents new research into the rich history and heritage of Killester Demesne, tracing its earliest origins in...
Author/Editor:
Ruth McManus, Joe Brady & Antoine Giacometti
April 2025
The Irish Volunteers, 1913–19
A history
No organization was more central to the history of Ireland in the 20th century than the Irish Volunteers. This is the first authoritative history of that body from its inception in November 1913 to its rebranding as the...
No organization was more central to the history of Ireland in the 20th century than the Irish Volunteers. This is the first...
Author/Editor:
Daithí Ó Corráin
April 2025
The Mansion House Fund 1880
The Little Famine of 1880 resulted from disastrous harvest failures in Ireland in the late 1870s. Hunger and poverty were evident throughout the country and a rapid response was needed to prevent the catastrophic loss of life which occurred...
The Little Famine of 1880 resulted from disastrous harvest failures in Ireland in the late 1870s. Hunger and poverty were evident throughout...
Author/Editor:
David O’Regan, editor
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