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Elizabeth Bowen remembered

Elizabeth Bowen remembered

The Farahy addresses

Eibhear Walshe, editor

This collection provides a number of important perspectives on the Anglo-Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen. Drawn from the annual lectures at the church in Farahy…
Georgian Dublin

Georgian Dublin

Gillian O'Brien & Finola O'Kane editors

This collection looks at the less obvious remnants of Dublin’s Georgian past; the literature, the publishing industry, the clothes, the music and the hobbies as…
Kevin Myers 'An Irishman's diary'

Kevin Myers 'An Irishman's diary'

From the Irish Times column

Kevin Myers

Since the early 1990s Kevin Myers was the mainstay of the Irish Times ‘Irishman’s Diary’ column. ‘Did you see Myers today?’ Often we meant to and didn’t. Often …
Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I

Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I

Francis Edwards SJ

A rare historical continuum in Anglo-Irish history ran from 1558 until 1612, years dominated by William and Robert Cecil, father and son. Among the significant …
Religion and reformation in the Tudor diocese of Meath

Religion and reformation in the Tudor diocese of Meath

Brendan Scott

This book charts the attempts made to introduce religious reforms into the diocese of Meath during the 16th century. The study opens with an investigation of th…
The Dublin Metropolitan Police Alphabetical listing

The Dublin Metropolitan Police Alphabetical listing

A complete alphabetical list of officers and men, 1836–1925

Jim Herlihy

This book contains the names of all 12,566 members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police as recorded in the Numerical Register of Service. Each entry provides infor…
The enigma of the gunpowder plot, 1605
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The enigma of the gunpowder plot, 1605

The third solution

Francis Edwards SJ

According to the orthodox, old-fashioned view Salisbury discovered the conspiracy, a second judgement is that he nourished it and a third that he invented it'. …
The Kimmage garrison, 1916

The Kimmage garrison, 1916

Making billy-can bombs at Larkfield

Ann Matthews

The Kimmage Garrison in Dublin was comprised of approximately ninety men, the majority of whom were members of the Irish Volunteers in Scotland and England. The…
The planters of Luggacurran, County Laois

The planters of Luggacurran, County Laois

A Protestant community, 1879–1927

Leigh-Ann Coffey

In late March 1922, a group of armed men forcibly evicted two protestant farmers from their homes at Luggacurran, County Laois. The evictions marked the beginni…
The Wilde legacy

The Wilde legacy

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, editor

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Oscar Wilde, Trinity College’s School of English held a conference on the Wilde family. This book is the pr…