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The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey
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The origin of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey

Finnian O'Cionnaith

Since 1824, the Ordnance Survey (now Tailte Éireann and OSNI) has become the essence of cartographic accuracy in Ireland, documenting the ever-changing relation…
The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland

The politics of gender and sexuality in modern Ireland

A Reader

Jennifer Redmond & Mary McAuliffe, editors

This collection of focused, cohesive and persuasive essays is based on the newest research on gender, sexuality and sexual politics. It offers historical reflec…
Anglesey in Ireland, 1828 to 1833

Anglesey in Ireland, 1828 to 1833

Worse than War

Síle McGuckian

Lord Anglesey was a war hero and a glamorous figure in London society when he was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1828. Within months of his arrival he …
Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon

A hidden Irish history

Margarita Cappock

This book will shed new light on the Dublin-born artist, Francis Bacon (1909-92), and explore how the complex origins of Bacon’s artistic life can be traced to …
The woods of Ireland

The woods of Ireland

A history, 700–1800

Nigel Everett

The accepted view of Irish woodlands is that Ireland was covered in trees until the English came and chopped them down. While admirable in its brevity, this int…
The decline and fall of the dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948

The decline and fall of the dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948

Love, war, debt and madness

Terence Dooley

This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland’s premier aristocratic family – the dukes of Leinster – who, for almost 300 years, lived amidst glo…
Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo
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Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo

A military and diplomatic history, 1960–1

Michael Kennedy & Art Magennis

In 1961 Irish United Nations peacekeepers went into combat in the Congolese province of Katanga. It was the Irish Defence Forces’ first experience of active ser…
Children, childhood and Irish society

Children, childhood and Irish society

1500 to the present

Maria Luddy & James Smith editors

Studies of Irish children’s literature are relatively numerous in Ireland, and yet the study of children and childhood, and the concepts associated with these w…
Nathaniel Clements (1705–77)

Nathaniel Clements (1705–77)

Politics, fashion and architecture in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland

Anthony Malcomson

This book argues that Nathaniel Clements was an enlightened patron of architecture, not a practising architect, and that he influenced upper-class residential d…
The country of the young

The country of the young

Interpretations of youth and childhood in Irish culture

John Countryman & Kelly Mathews, editors

Throughout the history of modern Ireland, cultural representations of youth and childhood have served as focal points for discussions of social and political is…