This lavishly illustrated volume is published to celebrate the tercentenary of the laying of the foundation stone of the world-famous Old Library in May 1712. T…
Written in the late thirteenth century, the so-called ‘Annals of Multyfarnham’ are fascinating for many reasons. They were given their title in the seventeenth …
For many years after its foundation in 1791, the Ordnance Survey was mainly concerned with making small scale military maps of England. The department had no de…
For some years the emphasis in map-historical literature has been either on traditional cartobibliography or on various cultural, social and ideological aspects…
This is a cultural and intellectual history of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland from 1824 to 1846. Captain Thomas Larcom of the Survey intended to prod…
This book discusses the rich written heritage of the Old and Middle Irish period, 600–1200, and is suitable for students of medieval Ireland as well as the gene…
Continuing concern with the Gothic Revival in architecture is reflected in the first pair of essays, which offer corrections to the account given in the author’…
This book examines the formation of Anglican identity in Ireland throughout the long 18th century. Beginning with the 1641 Rebellion, which constitutes the inau…
In 1575 the Lord Admiral of England, Edward Clinton, appointed Ambrose Forth as the first judge of the Admiralty in Ireland. Between 1575 and 1893 an independen…
This book is an original and comprehensive exposition of both native and 'settler' Corkonians, covering such areas as politics, industry, sport, church history …
