Ireland’s Second World War frontline troops were the men of the Coast Watching Service. From 1939–45 they maintained a continuous watch along the Irish shorelin…
Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland’s best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the cas…
The author presents from stones, mosaics, walls, brasses, inscribed artefacts, colophons etc. scores of compositions from twenty centuries, illustrating the tho…
The year 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of the Plantation of Ulster. This book explores the concept of plantation as a model for explaining change in cultura…
This is the first major publication of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. The book is a study of the medieval region that contained an…
The relationship of Ireland with the Viking World is one of the enduring themes of the study of the Viking Age. The Fifteenth Viking Congress addressed key issu…
Over two-and-a-half centuries, Viking raiders and their descendants settled in, and urbanized Ireland, connecting the Irish to long-distance trade routes. By co…
Trim is one of Ireland’s best-known medieval towns, and yet for a very long time many aspects of its early history and development were poorly understood. A ser…
A symposium on the work of Jack Yeats was held by the Irish Art Research Centre in Trinity College Dublin to mark the exhibition Jack B. Yeats, amongst friends,…
The image of Philip II (1527–98) as stern and assiduous defender of his political inheritance and of the Catholic faith is tempered and enriched by the image of…
