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Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland, c.1170–1540
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Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland, c.1170–1540

Gillian Kenny

Gillian Kenny provides a coherent picture of the lives of women in medieval Ireland through an examination of their marital circumstances. By comparing and cont…
Government, war and society in medieval Ireland

Government, war and society in medieval Ireland

Essays by Edmund Curtis, A.J. Otway-Ruthven and James Lydon

Peter Crooks, editor

In the late twelfth century, Ireland was absorbed into the dominions of the kings of England. This transformed the social and political life of the island, with…
Mapping Death

Mapping Death

Burial in Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Ireland

Elizabeth O'Brien

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Burial rites and associated events can provide a unique insight into the attitudes and beliefs of diverse communities at any given moment…
Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150

Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150

Patrick Gleeson

This book represents the first interdisciplinary study of early Irish kingship. Kingship represents the core institution and central problem of early medieval I…
Preaching in Belfast, 1747–72

Preaching in Belfast, 1747–72

A selection of the sermons of James Saurin

Raymond Gillespie & Roibeard Ó Gallachóir, editors

In 1747 James Saurin, a descendant of a prominent Huguenot family, was appointed as vicar of Belfast. One of his first acts was to write a series of sermons tha…
A road less travelled
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A road less travelled

Tales of the Irish missionaries

Aidan Clerkin and Brendan Clerkin, editors

From the Amazon rainforest to the South Pacific islands, and from India to the African plains, thousands of Irish missionaries devote themselves to the practica…
Irish culture and wartime Europe, 1938–48

Irish culture and wartime Europe, 1938–48

Dorothea Depner & Guy Woodward, editors

The decade between 1938 and 1948 was a time of immense upheaval across Europe which deeply affected Irish writers and artists. Many of them had travelled extens…
A history of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry

A history of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry

Making medicines for the World

Pat McCarthy

Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish man…
Medieval Irish Dominican studies

Medieval Irish Dominican studies

Hugh Fenning, editor

These studies on the Dominicans or Friars Preachers of medieval Ireland are unique, for no other account of equal length exists. The author, Father Benedict O’S…
Invasion 1169

Invasion 1169

Peter Crooks & Seán Duffy, editors

May 2nd, 2019, marked the 850th anniversary of the first landing in Co. Wexford in 1169 of the Anglo-Norman adventurers enlisted by the king of Leinster, Diarma…