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The alchemy of medicine and print

The alchemy of medicine and print

The Edward Worth Library, Dublin

Danielle Westerhof, editor

This volume arises from a conference held in November 2008 at the Royal Society in London to mark the 275th anniversary of the establishment of the Edward Worth…
The Christological assimilation of the apocalypse

The Christological assimilation of the apocalypse

An essay on fundamental eschatology

Paul O'Callaghan

Biblical apocalyptic texts that make imminent predictions of the end of the world as we know it, have fascinated Christians from the earliest times. Understanda…
Who killed the Franks family?

Who killed the Franks family?

Agrarian violence in pre-Famine Cork

Denis A. Cronin

This study examines the violent world of north Cork during the Rockite disturbances of the early 1820s. Agrarian gangs attempted to regulate rural society, thre…
Dublin, 1745–1922

Dublin, 1745–1922

Hospitals, spectacle & vice

Gary A. Boyd

Based on material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dubli…
The registers of Christ Church Cathedral

The registers of Christ Church Cathedral

Raymond Refaussé & Colm Lennon, editors

Among the most important of modern documents associated with Christ Church Cathedral are the registers of baptisms, marriages and burials which stretch from 171…
Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic world

Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic world

Religion, politics and identity

Mark G. Spencer & David A. Wilson, editors

In this collection of essays American and Canadian historians explore the changing transatlantic character of the Ulster Presbyterianism in the eighteenth and n…
Enemies of empire

Enemies of empire

New perspectives on imperialism, literature and history

Eóin Flannery & Angus Mitchell, editors

Enemies of empire addresses a conspicuous gap in the current literature on colonial and postcolonial literary, theoretical and historical studies and introduces…
The seafaring saint

The seafaring saint

Sources and analogues of the twelfth-century Voyage of Saint Brendan

Clara Strijbosch

The Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written in Latin around AD 800, describes how the 6th-century Irish saint Brendan set sail for an island paradise on the …
Marsh's Library: a mirror on the world

Marsh's Library: a mirror on the world

Law, learning and libraries, 1650–1750

Muriel McCarthy & Ann Simmons, editors

In 1707 an act of parliament established Marsh’s Library as ‘a publick library for ever’. This volume contains the papers presented at a conference to commemora…
A short history of the Catholic church

A short history of the Catholic church

José Orlandis

The history of the Catholic Church is an essential part of world history over the past two thousand years. This book is meant for readers who are looking for a …