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Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850

Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850

Elizabethanne Boran, editor

This volume explores the world of book collecting in early modern Ireland and Britain. It investigates the modalities of collecting texts, both manuscript and p…
Irish Europe, 1600–1650

Irish Europe, 1600–1650

Writing and learning

Raymond Gillespie & Ruairí Ó hUiginn, editors

The experience of the Irish abroad has been a vibrant and exciting area of scholarly research in recent years. Most of that work has chronicled the political, m…
John Plunket Joly and the Great Famine in King's County

John Plunket Joly and the Great Famine in King's County

Ciarán Reilly

While a plethora of works have been published about the Great Famine, particularly during the sesquicentenary commemoration in the mid-1990s, few have examined …
Ireland and the Crimean War

Ireland and the Crimean War

David Murphy

In 1854 four of the major powers in Europe, Britain, France, Turkey and Russia became embroiled in a devastating and costly war. While hostilities began in Turk…
The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In…
Lordship in medieval Ireland
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Lordship in medieval Ireland

Image and reality

Linda Doran & James Lyttleton, editors

In this volume in the Study of Irish historic settlement series scholars from the perspectives of archaeology, art history and history offer insights into the d…
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

New paperback edition

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…