The story of Ireland’s conversion to Christianity will never be known in detail. Too few records survive. Yet there are some, including two writings of St Patri…
An incandescent vision, a wildness of imagination, sensibility to sound and colour and form … human passion, love, sorrow and anger’. Thus Myles Dillon describe…
These papers comprise a balance of archaeological and historical studies and constitute the second volume in the series. Seán Duffy is Chairman of the 'Friends…
This 7th volume of proceedings of the annual Friends of Medieval Dublin symposium contains, in the archaeological arena, John Ó Néill's assessment of the signif…
This 8th volume of proceedings of the annual Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium contains reports on recent archaeological excavations: Edmund O’Donovan’s exca…
The proctors’ accounts of St Werburgh’s are unique in that no similar body of material has survived for any other Irish parish. These lay sources reveal the wor…
New Paperback Edition During the 16th century Ireland was dominated by a handful of great feudal dynasties controlling entire regions of the country by ancest…
Lady with a Mead Cup is a broad-ranging, innovative and strikingly original study of the early medieval barbarian cup-offering ritual and its social, institutio…
These studies on the Dominicans or Friars Preachers of medieval Ireland are unique, for no other account of equal length exists. The author, Father Benedict O’S…
This volume re-examines the relationship between Ireland and Scotland in the nineteenth century. It questions the received ideas about the extent of cultural ha…
