This book argues that Nathaniel Clements was an enlightened patron of architecture, not a practising architect, and that he influenced upper-class residential d…
Early medieval Ireland is remembered as the 'Land of Saints and Scholars,' due to the distinctive devotion to Christian faith and learning that permeated its cu…
Prominent in the literature of early Ireland are the tales known as echtrai (adventures) and immrama (voyages), stories telling of journeys to the Otherworld of…
Describes, for the first time, the nature of the unique economic areal system of Gaelic Ireland as it developed and changed between the Early Medieval and Anglo…
The social and political opinions of the author of Piers Plowman derive from, and reflect, a personal background significantly different from that of Chaucer, G…
Translation was for centuries a locus of controversy, and the work of good translators has often been dismissed in an arbitrary, prescriptive manner. Today, suc…
The history of Jack Connor (1752) is the only, and once very popular, novel of the Irish writer of Huguenot descent, William Chaigneau (1709–81). An example of …
This book reminds us of the reasons to read, and re-read, Chaucer. The essays cast new light on the poetry and, in their careful scholarship and sensitivity to …
This book presents a picture of Portmarnock, Co. Dublin, as an important local centre for the manufacture of brick and terracotta during the Victorian period. T…
This book explores the transition that took place in a landed estate in the barony of Killian, east Galway, in the years 1820–70. It examines how the landlord, …
