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National cinemas and world cinema

National cinemas and world cinema

Studies in Irish film 3

Kevin Rockett & John Hill editors

This is the third volume of papers from the Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar designed to encourage Irish film scholarship and the study of Irish film. T…
Benedict XVI and beauty in sacred art and architecture

Benedict XVI and beauty in sacred art and architecture

D. Vincent Twomey SVD & Janet E. Rutherford, editors

In an historic meeting with artists in 2009, Pope Benedict XVI summoned the Church and the world to engage in ‘an authentic “renaissance” of art’. The Second Fo…
Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world

Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world

Dáire Keogh & Albert McDonnell editors

From the mid-nineteenth century, the authority of Cardinal Paul Cullen (1803–78) was ubiquitous within Irish society and the English-speaking world. Contemporar…
Spectral Mansions

Spectral Mansions

The making of a Dublin tenement, 1800–1914

Timothy Murtagh

In 1800, Dublin was one of the largest and most impressive cities in Europe. The city’s town houses and squares represented the pinnacle of Georgian elegance. H…
Mayo

Mayo

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

Joost Augusteijn

The land question had a crucial formative influence on Mayo politics in the decades before the First World War and this book shows the part played by many promi…
Regions and rulers in Ireland, 1100–1650

Regions and rulers in Ireland, 1100–1650

David Edwards

For over thirty-five years much of the most original and most exciting research into the history of medieval and early modern Ireland has been the world of one …
Saint Patrick's world

Saint Patrick's world

The Christian culture of Ireland's apostolic age

Liam de Paor

The story of Ireland’s conversion to Christianity will never be known in detail. Too few records survive. Yet there are some, including two writings of St Patri…
The Irish-Scottish World in the Middle Ages

The Irish-Scottish World in the Middle Ages

Seán Duffy, David Ditchburn & Peter Crooks, editors

In this volume, the proceedings of the second Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium (marking the 700th anniversary of the invasion of Ireland by Edward, brother of…
Irish leaders and learning through the ages

Irish leaders and learning through the ages

Paul Walsh

Essays collected, edited and introduced by Nollaig Ó Muraíle.

Described as 'the prince of Irish historians' by the great Belgian medievalist Paul Grosjean, SJ,…
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…