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Representing the Troubles

Text and images, 1970–2000

Brian Cliff & Eibhear Walshe, editors

In the second half of the twentieth century, Ireland experienced thirty years in which the political status of Northern Ireland was challenged by numerous acts …

'Civilizing' Gaelic Leinster

The extension of Tudor rule in the O'Byrne and O'Toole lordships

Christopher Maginn

This book charts the extension of Tudor government into the independent Gaelic lordships of the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles (Wicklow, Kildare, Dublin) from the origin…

The Royal Dublin Society, 1815–45

Kevin Bright

The period 1815–45 was seminal in the evolution of the Society into a philanthropic institution wholly independent of government. This book examines the history…

A university in troubled times

Queen's, Belfast, 1945–2000

Leslie A. Clarkson

Queen's, Belfast, grew out of the Queen's University in Ireland founded in 1845. It became independent in 1908-9 and until 1965 it was the only university in No…

The first century of Anglo-Irish relations, AD600–700

The O'Donnell Lecture 2003

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Published by the National University of Ireland.

Charles James O’Donnell, born in Donegal and educated in Galway, provided in his will (1935) for a bequest to …

Culture and conflict in seventeenth-century France and Ireland

Sarah Stacey & Véronique Desnain, editors

This collection of essays, assembled to celebrate the acquisition of the Geoffrey Aspin collection of 17th-century books by Trinity College Dublin, focuses on t…

Piers Plowman and the Poor

Anne M. Scott

This book will be of interest to scholars in the field of medieval literature in general, and Piers Plowman in particular, as well as to cultural historians of …

Toleration and religious identity

The Edict of Nantes and its implications in France, Britain and Ireland

Ruth Whelan & Carol Baxter, editors

The Edict of Nantes, passed in 1598, established an uneasy truce between the Protestants and Roman Catholics in France, ushering in an era of religious pluralis…

Dante Metamorphoses

Episodes in a literary afterlife

Eric Haywood, editor

These essays show how Dante’s Commedia was appropriated across Europe through the ages, beginning in 15th-century Spain and finishing in 19th-century Italy. Pub…

Reading Irish histories

Texts, contexts and memory in modern Ireland

Lawrence W. McBride editor

An array of historians, social scientists, and scholars of literature examines how representatives of various political, social, and educational institutions an…

Julius Pokorny, 1887–1970

Germans, Celts and nationalism

Pól Ó Dochartaigh

Julius Pokorny (1887–1970) was the foremost Celtic scholar of his generation on the European mainland. Born in Prague, he studied at Vienna University, and lear…

The languages of Ireland

Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin & Michael Cronin, editors

For over a thousand years Ireland has been a host to a surprising variety of languages and cultures. Every area of Irish life and cultural expression has been i…