This book is an original and comprehensive exposition of both native and 'settler' Corkonians, covering such areas as politics, industry, sport, church history …
This revised and expanded second edition of a book first published in 1997 offers sketches of a wide range of Irish Quakers, mostly 18th- and 19th-century figur…
This guide is designed to help those conducting research in to all aspects of Irish military history. Commissioned by the Military Heritage of Ireland Trust, wh…
The book deals with changing methods of crop and livestock production during the ‘Age of Improvement’ in Ireland, and some of the ways in which they shaped rura…
Queen's, Belfast, grew out of the Queen's University in Ireland founded in 1845. It became independent in 1908-9 and until 1965 it was the only university in No…
This book presents the proceedings of a conference held at the Pontifical Irish College to honour Cardinal Desmond Connell on his eightieth birthday. The papers…
The 17th century was a period of significant political and religious upheavals and was also a formative period in terms of landscape and settlement development …
This book recounts in detail each of the incidents in respect of which members of An Garda Síochána, even today an unarmed police force, were awarded the Scott …
William King, archbishop of Dublin, was one of the most influential ecclesiastical and political figures of his day – a cleric, theologian and statesman whose s…
Born in Antrim of Scottish Presbyterian parents, William King (1650–1729) rose, following his conversion to Anglicanism, to become one of the principal ecclesia…
