This book explores the career in Ireland of Strongbow, the first Anglo-Norman lord of Leinster, in the broader context of his interests and that of his family w…
This monograph provides the first book-length transnational history of the Marshal family between the 1189 marriage of the flower of chivalry William Marshal to…
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 …
From the earliest Ice Age cave paintings to the metalwork and statuary in the pre-Roman Celtic world, western Europe has had over 40,000 years of prehistoric ar…
Michael Noyk was a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania who came to Ireland as a small child. Embarking on a career as a solicitor he gained the trust of Arthur Grif…
Events in County Cork during the Irish Revolution point to there being many Corks between 1912 and 1923. The county contributed some of the most prominent aspec…
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 …
Although numbers varied, at any one time the Irish Jacobite army mustered about forty-five regiments of infantry and nineteen of cavalry and dragoons. In all, j…
Collecting essays from leading international academic experts on St Brigit of Kildare and early medieval Ireland, this book marks a unique historical and schola…
Located in south Ulster adjacent to Counties Fermanagh and Monaghan, but also bordering Leitrim in north Connacht and the three north Leinster counties of Longf…
This collection of essays explores various aspects of Irish life from the beginning of the eighteenth century until the Great Famine, reflecting the interests a…
