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The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond

Histories, memories and legacies

Bridget McAuliffe, Mary McAuliffe and Owen O’Shea, editors

The Irish Civil War was fought with a greater intensity, violence and longevity in Co. Kerry than in any other Irish county, leaving behind a bitter and divisiv…

Finding Mary

The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844

Angela Byrne

During a robbery on 10 March 1844, 14-year-old servant Mary Doherty was murdered in a farmhouse near Culdaff, Co. Donegal. There was no doubt locally about the …

The Lismore (O’Callaghan) estate under William Robert Hood Rochfort, 1891-1902, in Counties Cork, Limerick and Tipperary

Margaret O'Sullivan

In this study, using the words of both the land agent, William Rochfort (1847–1940), and the tenants on the Lismore (O’Callaghan) estate in Counties Cork, Limer…

Building Mitchelstown, 1779-1830

David A. Fleming

Mitchelstown in Co. Cork was one of over 750 Irish towns built or remodelled between 1690 and 1840. Its regular street plan, linear building plots and uniform a…

Factory life in Industrial Yarns Ltd, Bray, 1958-98

Kieran Devenish

Industrial Yarns Ltd, a large textiles factory and one of Seán Lemass’s flagship industrial projects, provided well-paid employment for hundreds of workers in B…

Dublin’s women street traders, 1882-1932

Susan Marie Martin

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…

Pre-Famine Fever Epidemics

A case study of the Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin

Ciarán McCabe

This book explores the workings of the Cork Street Fever Hospital in Dublin’s south-western quarter in the decades after its opening in May 1804. The foundation…

Cenél nEógain and the Donegal kingdoms, AD 800–1200

Brian Lacey

Cenél nEógain, a royal dynasty from Inishowen in Donegal, defeated its previously more successful opponent, Cenél Conaill – also from Donegal – at the battle of…

Dublin’s Stained Glass

A guide to the finest twentieth-century windows

David Caron

Dublin's Stained Glass features the thirty-eight sites with the finest twentieth-century stained glass in Dublin city and county. The majority of the windows we…

National Hunt and Point-to-Point Racing in Ireland

A history

Frances Nolan

The Irish people have a deep affinity for horses and an enduring passion for the sport they make possible. Jump racing - often regarded as the "poor relation" o…

Medieval Dublin XX

Seán Duffy, editor

This, the twentieth volume in the series, is the most ambitious yet. It presents a rich variety of new scholarly explorations of life in medieval Dublin, includ…

Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150

Patrick Gleeson

This book represents the first interdisciplinary study of early Irish kingship. Kingship represents the core institution and central problem of early medieval I…