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Mister, are you a priest?

Mister, are you a priest?

Edward Daly

Edward Daly was Bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1993. Before then he had been a curate in the Bogside during some of the most turbulent and dramatic years of the N…
Propagating the word of Irish dissent, 1650–1800

Propagating the word of Irish dissent, 1650–1800

Kevin Herlihy, editor

The fourth book in this series on Irish Protestant dissent studies aspects of preaching and teaching. Professor David Hall sets the theme in the wider context o…
Derry labour in the age of agitation, 1889–1923: volume 2
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Derry labour in the age of agitation, 1889–1923: volume 2

Larkinism and syndicalism, 1907–23

Emmet O'Connor

Following on from volume 1 on new unionism and old (1889–1906), volume 2 reviews the impact of Larkinism and syndicalism on Derry. After impressive progress in …
He was Galway
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He was Galway

Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934

Jackie Uí Chionna

Martin ‘Máirtín Mór’ McDonogh was, in every sense of the word, Galway’s ‘big man’. A natural entrepreneur, and a man of drive, ambition and no small intellect, …
The tenement dwellers of Church Street, Dublin, 1911

The tenement dwellers of Church Street, Dublin, 1911

Janet Moody

This publication aims to re-constitute a micro-community of 132 families living in Church Street in the heart of the worst slums in Dublin, using the 1911 censu…
The cultural reception of the Bible

The cultural reception of the Bible

Explorations in theology, literature and the arts

Salvador Ryan & Liam M. Tracey OSM, editors

The Bible is undoubtedly the most influential ‘book’ that the world has ever known. In thirty essays, this wide-ranging volume examines the cultural impact of b…
Rural tensions in nineteenth-century Knock, County Mayo

Rural tensions in nineteenth-century Knock, County Mayo

Frank Mayes

In 1879 the parish of Knock witnessed both the outbreak of the ‘land war’ and also a reported apparition of the Virgin Mary. The press coverage that resulted fr…
Laois

Laois

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Cormac Moore

The turbulent period from 1912 to 1923 had a profound impact on 
Laois – politically, economically and socially. The land question 
became prominent in Laois fr…
Dublin’s Stained Glass

Dublin’s Stained Glass

A guide to the finest twentieth-century windows

David Caron

Dublin's Stained Glass features the thirty-eight sites with the finest twentieth-century stained glass in Dublin city and county. The majority of the windows we…
Finding Mary

Finding Mary

The untold story of an Inishowen murder, 1844

Angela Byrne

During a robbery on 10 March 1844, 14-year-old servant Mary Doherty was murdered in a farmhouse near Culdaff, Co. Donegal. There was no doubt locally about the …