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Early Irish Literature

Early Irish Literature

Myles Dillon

An incandescent vision, a wildness of imagination, sensibility to sound and colour and form … human passion, love, sorrow and anger’. Thus Myles Dillon describe…
The Proctors' accounts for the parish church of St Werburgh, Dublin, 1481–1627
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The Proctors' accounts for the parish church of St Werburgh, Dublin, 1481–1627

Adrian Empey, editor

The proctors’ accounts of St Werburgh’s are unique in that no similar body of material has survived for any other Irish parish. These lay sources reveal the wor…
The manor in medieval and early modern Ireland

The manor in medieval and early modern Ireland

James Lyttleton & Tadhg O'Keeffe, editors

This book, published in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, is a collection of interdisciplinary essays by young scholars on …
Soldiers of Christ

Soldiers of Christ

The Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar in medieval Ireland

Martin Browne OSB & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors

The Military and Hospitaller Orders emerged in the twelfth century as Christendom engaged with the threats and the opportunities offered by its Muslim and non-C…
Four Offaly Saints
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Four Offaly Saints

The Lives of Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Ciarán of Seir, Colmán of Lynally and Fíonán of Kinnitty

Pádraig Ó Riain

Lying just south of the line that divided Ireland’s two halves, Leath Chuinn to the north and Leath Mhogha to the south, the churches of the present county of O…
Social Life in Pre-Reformation Dublin, 1450–1540

Social Life in Pre-Reformation Dublin, 1450–1540

Peadar Slattery

This is an account of social life in pre-Reformation Dublin, telling of its ruling class, its wealthy merchants, its all-powerful traditional church, the cityʼs…
Ireland and the Crusades

Ireland and the Crusades

Edward Coleman, Paul Duffy & Tadhg O'Keeffe, editors

The crusades – a broad term encompassing a disparate series of military expeditions, with the avowed intent of preserving/expanding Christianity and the heterod…
Sport in Ireland, 1600–1840

Sport in Ireland, 1600–1840

James Kelly

This is the first book to examine all the main sports played in Ireland over a period of nearly two-hundred-and-fifty years, from the beginning of the 17th cent…
Thomas Aquinas: teacher and scholar

Thomas Aquinas: teacher and scholar

The Aquinas lectures at Maynooth, volume 2: 2002–2010

James McEvoy, Michael Dunne & Julia Hynes, editors

This is the second volume of Maynooth Aquinas Lectures. The annual series was founded by the late Professor James McEvoy in 1995. Its aim is to examine the thou…
Cultural identity and cultural integration

Cultural identity and cultural integration

Doris Edel editor

Ireland occupies a distinctive position in the cultural history of early medieval Europe. Uniquely untouched by Roman cultural influence, yet deeply informed by…