Hispanic scholar, musician and writer, Walter Starkie is perhaps best remembered for his travel books Raggle Taggle – subtitled ‘Adventures with a fiddle in Hun…
According to legend, Derry originated as a monastery founded by St Columba/Colum Cille. That story was almost certainly a later rationalization and simplificati…
John Toland’s Letters to Serena is one of the most important texts of the early Enlightenment. Synthesizing an array of European thought – from radical biblical…
The assimilation of the Gaelic Irish lordships into the British state marks the end of medieval Ireland and the beginning of a society more recognizable to mode…
Patrick Pye was born in Winchester, England, in 1929, but was raised in Dublin by his Irish mother. He started painting in 1943 under the sculptor Oisin Kelly, …
But for the 1916 Rising, self-governing Ireland’s founding political generation would have been drawn not from Sinn Féin and the IRA, but from among the ranks o…
'A profound and moving analysis of one of the greatest inventors of modern Ireland, this account of Alice Milligan itself displays those qualities of intellectu…
The crucifixion is at the very centre of Christian art and thought. This volume brings together leading medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines in an…
This collection of essays honours one of Ireland’s foremost Celticists. It contains contributions from some forty scholars, many of them his former students or …
In a preface to his ground-breaking and highly praised Dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland, the author wrote that what he r…
