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The murder of Major Mahon, Strokestown, County Roscommon, 1847

The murder of Major Mahon, Strokestown, County Roscommon, 1847

Padraig Vesey

On 2 November 1847 Major Denis Mahon was murdered by an assassin near his home at Strokestown House. The murder sent shock waves through Ireland. Some sent it a…
The reminiscences of Ignatius O'Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1913-18

The reminiscences of Ignatius O'Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1913-18

A life in Cork, Dublin and Westminster

Daire Hogan & Patrick Maume, editors

Ignatius O’Brien was the youngest son of a struggling Cork business family. After somewhat unhappy experiences at a Cork Vincentian school and the Catholic Univ…
Fermanagh

Fermanagh

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Daniel Purcell

In 1912, Fermanagh lay awkwardly between two competing and often hostile communities – the Ulster unionists in the north and the Irish nationalists in the south…
Armagh

Armagh

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Donal Hall & Eoin Magennis

County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy betw…
Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

Centenary essays

Jarlath Killeen editor

Despite his vampire creation, Dracula, being world-famous, and in spite of a host of academic studies of the novel in which this vampire first appeared, Stoker …
The Law School of University College Dublin

The Law School of University College Dublin

A history

W.N. Osborough

The Law School of UCD has been a key centre of legal education and research since its establishment as the Faculty of Law in 1909. The staff, students and alumn…
Waterford

Waterford

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

Patrick McCarthy

This is the first comprehensive history of Waterford during the turbulent and extraordinary years of the Irish Revolution. Drawing on an impressive array of sou…
A north light

A north light

Twenty-five years in a municipal art gallery

John Hewitt

Edited by Frank Ferguson & Kathryn White.

A North Light – John Hewitt’s own account of his life in Northern Ireland from his early years until his ‘enforced ex…
Patrick Pye, life and work

Patrick Pye, life and work

A counter-cultural story

Brian McAvera

Patrick Pye was born in Winchester, England, in 1929, but was raised in Dublin by his Irish mother. He started painting in 1943 under the sculptor Oisin Kelly, …
Women, architecture and building in the east of Ireland, c.1790–1840

Women, architecture and building in the east of Ireland, c.1790–1840

Ruth Thorpe

Until the 20th century, the world of architecture and building was considered a male domain, but long before this, women of the landed class in Ireland were des…