A descendant of the fireside tale, the short story has never neglected the uncanny. Indeed the development of the literary ghost story helped to make short fict…
The fifteenth century in England saw a radical shift in the idea of England as a nation and the nature of ‘Englishness’ itself, a sometimes discomfiting re-defi…
Dublin had a supply of piped water since the 13th century and a drainage service since the late 18th century. Their history is related against the backdrop of t…
Descended from one of the first Anglo-Norman invaders in the late 1160s, the Fitzgerald earls of Desmond came to dominate the political, economic and social lif…
For over forty years King Rognvaldr Godredsson of Man and the Isles (r. 1187–1226) was a power to be reckoned with in the seas between Britain and Ireland. Prai…
The brilliant Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin (J.K.L.) was the outstanding Catholic bishop of his time. This major source book is a companion volume …
Between 1910 and 1940 Dublin's suburbs grew considerably. For the first time, planned suburbanization of the working classes became a stated policy, with new an…
[Now in its 4th printing.] This definitive book studies the hedge schools and texts that were common in the country for over one hundred and thirty-six years. …
The cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, commonly called Christ Church, is by Irish standards rich in archival and architectural remains, and so it comes as s…
This book explores the role of freemasonry in the Volunteer movement of the 1780s and in the struggles over Catholic emancipation, parliamentary reform, revolut…
