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Irish music in the twentieth century

Irish music in the twentieth century

Irish musical studies 7

Gareth Cox & Axel Klein, editors

This seventh volume in the Irish Musical Studies Series examines the development of art music in Ireland from different perspectives. The book includes historic…
St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin

St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin

A history

John Crawford & Raymond Gillespie, editors

Dublin is an unusual city in having two Anglican cathedrals within a few hundred yards of each other, St Patrick’s cathedral and the diocesan cathedral of Chris…
The death of Fr John Walsh at Kilgraney

The death of Fr John Walsh at Kilgraney

Community tensions in pre-Famine Carlow

Maura Cronin

On 31 July 1835 the body of a local catholic curate, Fr John Walsh, was found near Kilgraney bridge near Borris in County Carlow. How had he died? It was likely…
A troubled see

A troubled see

Memoirs of a Derry bishop

Edward Daly

A troubled see: memoirs of a Derry bishop continues the story begun in Edward Daly’s bestselling Mister, are you a priest? (2000), which focused on his years as…
Franco-Irish military connections, 1590–1945
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Franco-Irish military connections, 1590–1945

Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac & David Murphy, editors

The connection between France and Ireland is an historic one. For generations of Irish exiles, France has provided a new home and it is often forgotten that the…
Irish art historical studies in honour of Peter Harbison

Irish art historical studies in honour of Peter Harbison

Colum Hourihane, editor

The essays in this book are accompanied by original illustrations from Louis le Brocquy and Imogen Stuart in honour of Peter Harbison on the occasion of his 65t…
The Liberty and Ormond boys

The Liberty and Ormond boys

Factional riots in eighteenth-century Dublin

James Kelly

This study of factional disorder sets the Liberty and Ormond Boys in their contemporary context. The conditions necessary to enable factions to develop and flou…
Jack B. Yeats
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Jack B. Yeats

Old and new departures

Yvonne Scott, editor

A symposium on the work of Jack Yeats was held by the Irish Art Research Centre in Trinity College Dublin to mark the exhibition Jack B. Yeats, amongst friends,…
Adomnán of Iona

Adomnán of Iona

Theologian, lawmaker, peacemaker

Jonathan Wooding, editor

With Rodney Aist, Thomas Clancy & Thomas O'Loughlin.

The abbot of Iona in the late 7th century, Adomnán, a kinsmen of the founder St Columba, was one of the mo…
Julius Pokorny, 1887–1970

Julius Pokorny, 1887–1970

Germans, Celts and nationalism

Pól Ó Dochartaigh

Julius Pokorny (1887–1970) was the foremost Celtic scholar of his generation on the European mainland. Born in Prague, he studied at Vienna University, and lear…