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The Irish Annals

The Irish Annals

Their genesis, evolution and history

D.P. Mc Carthy

New Paperback edition

Collectively the Irish annals represent a substantial and important source for the history and culture of Ireland. These texts provide th…
Manx Kingship in its Irish Sea Setting, 1187–1229

Manx Kingship in its Irish Sea Setting, 1187–1229

King Rognvaldr and the Crovan dynasty

R. Andrew McDonald

For over forty years King Rognvaldr Godredsson of Man and the Isles (r. 1187–1226) was a power to be reckoned with in the seas between Britain and Ireland. Prai…
Culture and society in early modern Breifne/Cavan

Culture and society in early modern Breifne/Cavan

Brendan Scott, editor

The Breifne region of south Ulster/north Connacht (roughly, modern-day Counties Cavan and Leitrim), has been a traditional buffer zone throughout the late medie…
William Marshal and Ireland

William Marshal and Ireland

John Bradley, Cóilin Ó Drisceoil & Michael Potterton, editors

This richly illustrated collection of essays examines for the first time the important Irish career of one of the most famous personalities of medieval Europe, …
Monksgrange

Monksgrange

Portrait of an Irish house and family, 1769–1969

Philip Bull

A County Wexford Ascendancy house saved twice by rebel intervention, in 1798 and 1922, Monksgrange tells a compelling story of Irish history from the eighteenth…
Adomnán, Adhamhnán, Eunan

Adomnán, Adhamhnán, Eunan

Life and afterlife of a Donegal Saint

Brian Lacey

Adomnán (c.625–704) was ninth abbot of the monastery on Iona off the Scottish coast, and comarba (head) of the confederation of churches associated with St Colu…
Iona, Kells, and Derry

Iona, Kells, and Derry

The history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba

Máire Herbert

First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north Britain in the era between the sixth a…
A Dictionary of Irish Saints

A Dictionary of Irish Saints

Second Edition

Pádraig Ó Riain

Second Edition

Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical …
Medieval Studies

Medieval Studies
Medieval Dublin series

Medieval Dublin series