This new, revised, expanded and updated edition of a book first published in 1997 includes comprehensive entries on saints associated with the see; bishops (inc…
This collection of essays, memoirs and poems is an acknowledgment of the work of Pierre Joannon. Over four decades he has made an outstanding contribution to Ir…
In the early 1800s a fruitless pursuit of coal on the Shirley estate in south Monaghan led to the discovery and the intermittent exploitation of gypsum on the e…
This study examines the violent world of north Cork during the Rockite disturbances of the early 1820s. Agrarian gangs attempted to regulate rural society, thre…
In a broad-ranging series of essays this book, published in the 250th anniversary year of the birth of Robert Burns, offers a timely opportunity to re-examine t…
The connection between France and Ireland is an historic one. For generations of Irish exiles, France has provided a new home and it is often forgotten that the…
This study takes a fresh look at the economic role of North West Ireland and the port and city of Derry. It sees the region as prospering from exchanges of labo…
For some years the emphasis in map-historical literature has been either on traditional cartobibliography or on various cultural, social and ideological aspects…
Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was preferable to the devolved cons…
2009 marked the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Franciscan Order. This volume examines all aspects of the Irish Franciscans and their impact in Irela…
The book describes how the courts dealt with murder, beginning with the coroner's inquest and ending with the conviction and hanging of the murderer. Between th…
Margaret Aylward was a wealthy Waterford woman who devoted her considerable talents to improving the lot of poor families in Dublin during the second half of th…
