This collection throws new light on migration patterns, and identifies who the Ulster settlers were, probing the contributions they made to New Zealand society.…
On 2 April 1878, the 3rd earl of Leitrim was brutally murdered on a public road on the edge of his estate in Co. Donegal. The identity of the killers and their …
This study examines the violent world of north Cork during the Rockite disturbances of the early 1820s. Agrarian gangs attempted to regulate rural society, thre…
This study explores the relationship of the Middle English lyric (primarily, though not exclusively, the secular lyric) to the various forms of folksong and pop…
The theme of 'community' has proved a focus of considerable interest in recent historiography, but has been neglected in its application to Ireland. Here the qu…
Although much is written about the Irish revolution and Northern Ireland, we know very little about it from the perspective of Irish policemen. This unique memo…
Tallaght has undergone dramatic change in the past forty years. Immense changes to the physical landscape in that time make very difficult any attempt to visual…
This collection of essays examines the work of Flann O’Brien, a subversive, confounding and hilarious Irish novelist. It also considers the work of Myles na Gop…
During the Second World War, aircraft (all German) dropped bombs on this officially neutral state on a number of occasions. The first such occurred on 26 August…
The last two hundred years shows the emergence of an enormous growth industry in the field of Biblical analysis, particularly on the evidence presented in the G…