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The mystery of Christ in the fathers of the Church

The mystery of Christ in the fathers of the Church

Janet E. Rutherford & David Woods, editors

The Patristic Symposium, SPCM, has produced this special volume in celebration of the 25th anniversary of its founding by D. Vincent Twomey SVD.

Please see th…
A biographical dictionary of Cork

A biographical dictionary of Cork

Tim Cadogan & Jeremiah Falvey

This book is an original and comprehensive exposition of both native and 'settler' Corkonians, covering such areas as politics, industry, sport, church history …
A biographical dictionary of Irish Quakers

A biographical dictionary of Irish Quakers

Second edition

Richard S. Harrison

This revised and expanded second edition of a book first published in 1997 offers sketches of a wide range of Irish Quakers, mostly 18th- and 19th-century figur…
According to your word

According to your word

Essays honouring Desmond Cardinal Connell

Liam Bergin editor

This book presents the proceedings of a conference held at the Pontifical Irish College to honour Cardinal Desmond Connell on his eightieth birthday. The papers…
An Garda Síochána and the Scott Medal

An Garda Síochána and the Scott Medal

Gerard O'Brien

This book recounts in detail each of the incidents in respect of which members of An Garda Síochána, even today an unarmed police force, were awarded the Scott …
Archbishop William King and the Anglican Irish context, 1688–1729

Archbishop William King and the Anglican Irish context, 1688–1729

Christopher Fauske editor

William King, archbishop of Dublin, was one of the most influential ecclesiastical and political figures of his day – a cleric, theologian and statesman whose s…
Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer of Limerick, 1842–1917

Bishop Edward Thomas O'Dwyer of Limerick, 1842–1917

Thomas J. Morrissey SJ

'Our brilliant ... and difficult Bishop', as novelist Kate O'Brien described him. O'Dwyer was brilliant intellectually, independent-minded and quarrel-some, but…
Brendan Behan

Brendan Behan

Cultural nationalism and the revisionist writer

John Brannigan

This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Brendan Behan (1923–64), author of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. It charts Behan’s intelle…
Dante Metamorphoses

Dante Metamorphoses

Episodes in a literary afterlife

Eric Haywood, editor

These essays show how Dante’s Commedia was appropriated across Europe through the ages, beginning in 15th-century Spain and finishing in 19th-century Italy. Pub…
Donegal

Donegal

The making of a Northern county

Jim Mac Laughlin

This anthology uses extracts from a wide variety of sources, to examine social and geographical change in Donegal over the past five centuries. Combining the ap…