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The Irish Ringfort

The Irish Ringfort

Matthew Stout

This book, first published in 1997, examines all aspects of Irish ringforts – their shape and size, their date and function – with special attention to national…
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…
Medieval and monastic Derry

Medieval and monastic Derry

Sixth century to 1600

Brian Lacey

According to legend, Derry originated as a monastery founded by St Columba/Colum Cille. That story was almost certainly a later rationalization and simplificati…
James Hogan

James Hogan

Revolutionary, historian and political scientist

Donnchadh Ó Corráin

Studies on the life and work of James Hogan (1898–1963), Director of Intelligence in the National Army during the Civil War and Professor of History at Universi…
The account roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, 1337–1346

The account roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, 1337–1346

James Mills, editor

With introductions by James Lydon & Alan J. Fletcher.

One of the most important documents for the medieval history of the cathedral and for the economic of lat…
Studies in late medieval and early renaissance texts in honour of John Scattergood
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Studies in late medieval and early renaissance texts in honour of John Scattergood

Anne Marie D'Arcy & Alan J. Fletcher, editors

Essays published in honour of the Trinity College-based scholar who has been at the forefront of Middle English studies in Ireland for many years.

Anne Marie D…
Medieval Dublin VI

Medieval Dublin VI

Seán Duffy, editor

The symposium, which was held in Dublin on 29 May 2004, was the sixth annual symposium held under the auspices of the ‘Friends of medieval Dublin’.

Seán Duffy …