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, …
The fourteen essays in this book cover a wide range of topics within the field of legal history. Most are adaptations of discourses given at meetings of the Iri…
Ireland’s contribution to modern science is well attested, yet it is not so well known that Ireland, famed for over half a millennium for its saints and scholar…
Leading medieval scholars discuss the impact of English imperialism and the ways in which English and wider European cultural norms were transmitted outwards to…
This twelfth volume of proceedings of the annual Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium contains reports on recent archaeological excavations in and around Dublin…
