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Two Lives of Saint Brigid

Two Lives of Saint Brigid

Philip Freeman

St Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at K…
Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250

Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250

Edel Bhreathnach

Shortlisted for the Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction. Winner to be announced in October 2026.

Winner of the NUI Irish Historical Research Prize 2025

Winner o…
The National University of Ireland First World War Centenary Roll of Honour and Essays

The National University of Ireland First World War Centenary Roll of Honour and Essays

Ronan McGreevy & Emer Purcell

At the beginning of the First World War, many Irish men were enticed to enlist by the promise of home rule, while others may have joined up to secure a decent l…
The Latin Lives of St Laurence of Dublin

The Latin Lives of St Laurence of Dublin

Maurice F. Roche

The four Latin ‘lives’ of St Laurence O’Toole (with ancillary material) were critically edited for a doctoral thesis by Maurice Roche in 1981. Sadly Dr Roche di…
Reforming Galway

Reforming Galway

Civic society, religious change and St Nicholas's collegiate church, 1550-1750

Raymond Gillespie

This book explores a new way of looking at the reformation in Ireland. Traditionally Irish historians have described early modern religious change on a national…
The Irish Jacobite army

The Irish Jacobite army

Harman Murtagh and Diarmuid Murtagh

The Irish Jacobite army was the largest body of Irish soldiers ever to go into battle prior to the twentieth century. Although largely a new force, for three ye…
Medieval Dublin XX

Medieval Dublin XX

Seán Duffy, editor

This, the twentieth volume in the series, is the most ambitious yet. It presents a rich variety of new scholarly explorations of life in medieval Dublin, includ…
Moynagh Lough

Moynagh Lough

Studies 1

Michael Potterton, editor

Moynagh Lough is one of the most important archaeological sites ever excavated in Ireland. Situated in the rolling terrain of north Co. Meath, it preserves an e…
Élie Bouhéreau

Élie Bouhéreau

The collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee

Amy Boylan & Janée Allsman, editors

Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La Rochelle. After the …
Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024

Peter A. Daly

This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later voluntary hospital and her…