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The Mansion House, Dublin

The Mansion House, Dublin

300 years of history and hospitality

Mary Clark, editor

Dublin’s Mansion House is the only mayoral residence in Ireland and is older than any surviving in Great Britain. Originally the town house of merchant and prop…
The Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin

The Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin

Michael English

Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge is one of the symbols of the city. Opened on 19 May 1816, the first dedicated footbridge over the river Liffey, it was also the first i…
Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising

Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising

John Gibney, editor

The Easter Rising mostly took place in Ireland’s capital city and directly impacted on Dublin City Council. Some fighting occurred in sites belonging to the cou…
Red Hugh O'Donnell and the Nine Years War

Red Hugh O'Donnell and the Nine Years War

Darren McGettigan

The war fought in Ireland from 1594 to 1603 was one of the most destructive and costly ever to take place on the island. By its end many thousands were dead, la…
Richmond Barracks 1916

Richmond Barracks 1916

“We were there” – 77 women of the Easter Rising

Mary McAuliffe & Liz Gillis

‘Not the least of the betrayals following the 1916 Rising was the way in which the women who took part in it were subsequently written out of the chronicles. Th…
The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

Davis Coakley & Mary Coakley

The history of St James’s Hospital stretches back to 1703 when an act was passed to build a workhouse on its site. Just under thirty years later a foundling hos…
Juries in Ireland

Juries in Ireland

Laypersons and law in the long nineteenth century

Niamh Howlin

Shortlisted for the Dublin Solicitors’ Bar Association Law Book of the Year Award 2018

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a wide range of legal issues …
Castle Hyde

Castle Hyde

The changing fortunes of an Irish country house

Terence Dooley

Castle Hyde is one of the most important surviving country houses in the south of Ireland. This book details its rise as a country residence during the heyday o…
More than concrete blocks: vol. II, 1940–72

More than concrete blocks: vol. II, 1940–72

Dublin city's twentieth-century buildings and their stories

Ellen Rowley, editor

More than Concrete Blocks: Dublin City’s twentieth-century buildings is a three-volume series of architectural history books which are richly illustrated and wr…
John Hume

John Hume

In his own words

Seán Farren, editor

John Hume is regarded as the key architect of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. This book collects extracts from Hume’s speeches, articles and interviews, and …