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Lawyers, the law and history

Lawyers, the law and history

Felix M. Larkin & N.M. Dawson, editors

The fourteen essays in this book cover a wide range of topics within the field of legal history. Most are adaptations of discourses given at meetings of the Iri…
The Viking Age: Ireland and the west

The Viking Age: Ireland and the west

Proceedings of the fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 2005

John Sheehan & Donnchadh Ó Corráin, editors

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…
Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

Joseph McBrinn

Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to have found international fame and to have been describe…
Wilhelmina Geddes

Wilhelmina Geddes

Life and work

Nicola Gordon Bowe

Shortlisted for The Apollo Awards 2016 Book of the Year and The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2016.

Also, Times Literary Supplement choice f…
Church and society in County Kildare, c.1480–1547
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Church and society in County Kildare, c.1480–1547

Mary Ann Lyons

This book investigates the socio-economic, ecclesiastical and cultural world of Garret Mor and Garret Oge Fitzgerald, 8th and 9th earls of Kildare. A profile of…
Exercise of authority

Exercise of authority

Surveyor Thomas Owen and the paving, cleansing and lighting of Georgian Dublin

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

The Dublin Paving Board (founded 1744) was a controversial organization that attempted to bring order to Dublin’s streets during the late eighteenth century. Gr…
Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present

Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present

Peter Crooks & Thomas Mohr, editors

Magna Carta is among the most famous documents in the history of the world, credited with being the first effective check in writing on arbitrary, oppressive an…
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…
Ireland, 1815–1870

Ireland, 1815–1870

Emancipation, famine and religion

Donnchadh Ó Corráin & Tomás O'Riordan, editors

This book opens by exploring how nationalist Ireland mobilized a mass democratic movement under O’Connell to secure Catholic Emancipation. This world was soon t…
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…