Four Courts Press logo
Cart (0 item items) ►
Search

Search Results

Law and revolution in seventeenth-century Ireland

Law and revolution in seventeenth-century Ireland

Coleman A. Dennehy, editor

In October 1641, violence erupted in mid-Ulster that spread throughout the whole kingdom and lasted for more than a decade. The war was neither unpredictable no…
Periodicals and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland 2

Periodicals and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland 2

A variety of voices

Mark O'Brien & Felix M. Larkin, editors

Periodicals have been at the core of journalistic activity since before the foundation of the state but have remained an area long neglected within media histor…
Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland

Novelty, experiment and widening horizons

Toby Barnard & Alison FitzGerald, editors

Between 1750 and 1837 Ireland encountered new ideas, commodities and experiences. While political upheavals and international warfare have been thoroughly explo…
James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1892-1970

James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1892-1970

Michael Loughman

Few figures in twentieth-century Ireland remained at the centre of Irish public life as long as James Ryan. First coming to prominence as the GPO’s medical offi…
Gothic

Gothic

Building Castles in post-Union Ireland

Judith Hill

Click below for a sneaky glimpse of the insides of this stunning new book.

https://online.flippingbook.com/view/170164431/

Castles speak. Especially in an age…
Anglesey in Ireland, 1828 to 1833

Anglesey in Ireland, 1828 to 1833

Worse than War

Síle McGuckian

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess Anglesey (1768–1854), was a war hero who had fought alongside the duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo. A glamorous and engagi…
Philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland
US Customers Only

Philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland

Laurence M. Geary & Oonagh Walsh editors

This collection of essays offers new and challenging perspectives on the history of philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland, shifting and extending standard …
Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare

Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare

Life and works

Luke Gibbons & Kieran O'Conor, editors

Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare (1710–91) was one of 18th-century Ireland’s greatest scholars. Writing in both Irish and English, his work was clearly influenced…
A supplement to the dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland

A supplement to the dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe

In a preface to his ground-breaking and highly praised Dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland, the author wrote that what he r…
Colonial Ireland, 1169–1369

Colonial Ireland, 1169–1369

Robin Frame

Between 1169 and around 1240, large parts of Ireland were occupied by members of an Anglo-Norman upper class, which had already advanced into Wales and which wa…