Many people have helped create Dublin’s unique streetscapes. This book looks at the builders and their projects and draws on the extraordinarily rich photograph…
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 r…
Guilds were mutual benefit associations which flourished in the towns and cities of medieval Europe. The guild system was brought to Dublin by the Normans in th…
This edited volume presents some thirty chapters by a team of international scholars reviewing the Irish military experience throughout the world over the past …
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, th…
This volume contains an abundance of new scholarship to shed light on Dublin’s fascinating medieval past, including reports of major archaeological excavations:…
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…
This book will shed new light on the Dublin-born artist, Francis Bacon (1909-92), and explore how the complex origins of Bacon’s artistic life can be traced to …
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 …
To augment the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Land War, 1879–82, a new auxiliary police force was raised, entitled the Royal Irish Constabulary Auxiliary F…
W.N. Osborough was described by the Irish Times on his death in 2020 as Ireland’s ‘greatest legal historian’. He wrote prolifically on Irish legal history and c…
A ballad about a woman street trader is widely regarded as Dublin’s anthem, yet the city’s relationship with those who traded on its streets was often acrimonio…
