16th/17th-century history

Schools and schooling, 1650–2000

New perspectives on the history of education – the eighth Seamus Heaney lectures

James Kelly & Susan Hegarty, editors

This collection pursues new areas of inquiry and offers new perspectives on familiar subjects in the history of education in Ireland and Europe from the sevente…

Religion and politics in urban Ireland, c.1500–c.1750

Essays in honour of Colm Lennon

Salvador Ryan & Clodagh Tait, editors

This collection celebrates the career of Colm Lennon, one of Ireland's most respected early modern historians. It examines the interplay between politics and re…

Frontiers, states and identity in early modern Ireland and beyond

Essays in honour of Steven G. Ellis

Christopher Maginn & Gerald Power, editors

The scholarship of the influential historian Steven G. Ellis provides inspiration and coherence to this collection of original essays assembled in his honour. E…

The Nugents of Westmeath and Queen Elizabeth's Irish primer

Denis Casey

This is the first in-depth study of the oldest surviving ‘beginner’s guide’ to the Irish language. Christopher Nugent, baron of Delvin, presented Queen Elizabet…

The world of Thomas Ward

Sex and scandal in late-17th century Co. Antrim

Eamon Darcy

Why do a number of children look like the local dean? Did you hear that the bishop did not like the communion wine and spat it out, exclaiming “this is the base…

The world of the galloglass

Kings, warlords and warriors in Ireland and Scotland, 1200–1600

Seán Duffy, editor

The intersection of Scottish and Irish politics and culture in the late Middle Ages is encapsulated in the figure of the galloglass. These West Highland and Heb…

Grave Matters

Death and dying in Dublin, 1500 to the present

Lisa Marie Griffith & Ciarán Wallace, editors

Grave Matters examines the universal subject of death – looking at the particular experience of death, burial and commemoration in Dublin since the sixteenth ce…

The Dublin Civic Portrait Collection

Patronage, politics and patriotism, 1603–2013

Mary Clark

Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017

Beginning in the early 17th century and continuing to the present day, the city of Dubli…

Ireland and Quebec

Multidisciplinary perspectives on history, culture and society

Margaret Kelleher & Michael Kenneally, editors

The essays in this volume bring together leading Irish and Québécois scholars from eight different disciplines (history, literature, linguistics, design and mat…

Irish demesne landscapes, 1660–1740

Vandra Costello

This book charts the history and development of formal gardening in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and in particular the grand …

The Tudor discovery of Ireland

Christopher Maginn & Steven G. Ellis

The rapid acquisition of knowledge about Ireland in Tudor times constituted a discovery of no small importance for the development of the early modern English s…

Agriculture and settlement in Ireland

Margaret Murphy & Matthew Stout, editors

Published in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement and the Agricultural History Society of Ireland, this book explores the relat…