From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in British hospitals. B…
Back in Print In 1836 the four provincial constabularies of the Constabulary of Ireland were amalgamated to form the Irish Constabulary, which in September 186…
Dublin Through the Ages: Killester presents new research into the rich history and heritage of Killester Demesne, tracing its earliest origins in the twelfth ce…
Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La Rochelle. After the …
Moynagh Lough is one of the most significant archaeological sites ever discovered in Ireland. From 1980 to 1998 excavations were directed by John Bradley. This …
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…
The Courts of Justice Act 1924 established the District Court, Circuit Court, High Court and Supreme Court. This book brings together legal scholars, historians…
The four Latin ‘lives’ of St Laurence O’Toole (with ancillary material) were critically edited for a doctoral thesis by Maurice Roche in 1981. Sadly Dr Roche di…
This volume presents a rich variety of new scholarly explorations of life in medieval Dublin, including an analysis by Bruce Campbell of the occupational profil…
This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later voluntary hospital and her…
Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the story of the St George family and their Carrick-on-Sh…
Dún na nGall, the Irish name for ‘Donegal’, translates as ‘Fort of the Foreigners’, but who were the foreigners in question? This book considers that they were …
