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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

Shortlisted for the Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction. Winner to be announced in October 2026.

Dublin's Stained Glass features the thirty-eight sites with the …
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 …
John Boyle, the Freeholder and pre-Famine Cork society

John Boyle, the Freeholder and pre-Famine Cork society

Neil Cronin

John Boyle was an orphan with a difficult upbringing, impoverished and a social misfit, yet he achieved great prominence in early nineteenth-century Cork. A dis…
The languages of Ireland
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The languages of Ireland

Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin & Michael Cronin, editors

For over a thousand years Ireland has been a host to a surprising variety of languages and cultures. Every area of Irish life and cultural expression has been i…
The lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages

The lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages

Revised edition

James Lydon

The lordship of Ireland in the middle ages was vested in the English crown by the famous grant of Pope Adrian IV in 1155, resulting in the invasion of 1169. Thi…