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Dublin, 1930–1950

Dublin, 1930–1950

The emergence of the modern city

Joseph Brady

Using a great variety of source materials, and including a large number of photographs and other images, this book builds a picture of Dublin between 1930 and 1…
Langland and the Rokele family

Langland and the Rokele family

The gentry background to 'Piers Plowman'

Robert Adams

The social and political opinions of the author of Piers Plowman derive from, and reflect, a personal background significantly different from that of Chaucer, G…
Translation right or wrong

Translation right or wrong

Susana Bayó Belenguer, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin & Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin, editors

Translation was for centuries a locus of controversy, and the work of good translators has often been dismissed in an arbitrary, prescriptive manner. Today, suc…
Chaucer's Poetry

Chaucer's Poetry

Words, authority and ethics

Clíodhna Carney & Frances McCormack, editors

This book reminds us of the reasons to read, and re-read, Chaucer. The essays cast new light on the poetry and, in their careful scholarship and sensitivity to …
Marcella Gerrard's Galway estate, 1820–70

Marcella Gerrard's Galway estate, 1820–70

Tom Crehan

This book explores the transition that took place in a landed estate in the barony of Killian, east Galway, in the years 1820–70. It examines how the landlord, …
A capital in conflict

A capital in conflict

Dublin city and the 1913 Lockout

Francis Devine editor

This book explores aspects of the social, political and cultural life of Dublin at a defining point in Irish history during the 1913 Lockout. Certain personalit…
Richard FitzRalph

Richard FitzRalph

His life, times and thought

Michael Dunne & Simon Nolan O.Carm., editors

The essays in this volume are the fruit of a major conference held in Maynooth on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the death at Avignon of fourteenth-ce…
Leaders of the city

Leaders of the city

Dublin's first citizens, 1500–1950

Ruth McManus & Lisa-Marie Griffith, editors

The lord mayor is the first citizen of Dublin city and chairperson of the elected council. The office of mayor, created in 1229 and restyled lord mayor in 1665,…
Borris House, Co. Carlow, and elite regency patronage

Borris House, Co. Carlow, and elite regency patronage

Edmund Joyce

Borris House, situated in the small town of Borris in Co. Carlow, is the ancestral home of the MacMurrough Kavanagh family. The family have had a residence at B…
John Toland's 'Letters to Serena'

John Toland's 'Letters to Serena'

Ian Leask editor

John Toland’s Letters to Serena is one of the most important texts of the early Enlightenment. Synthesizing an array of European thought – from radical biblical…