Grave Matters examines the universal subject of death – looking at the particular experience of death, burial and commemoration in Dublin since the sixteenth ce…
Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin (J.K.L) is regarded by many as the outstanding Irish bishop of the nineteenth century. This new book and its companio…
The fourth book in this series on Irish Protestant dissent studies aspects of preaching and teaching. Professor David Hall sets the theme in the wider context o…
Most late-medieval kings of England showed little interest in their lordship of Ireland. They showed even less interest in the Gaelic Irish population of the is…
This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Trinity College Dublin in April 2014 marking the millennium of the battle of Clontarf, one of the l…
The visitation records of the Church of Ireland were largely destroyed in the fire in the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922, thus greatly enhancing the si…
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…
Why do a number of children look like the local dean? Did you hear that the bishop did not like the communion wine and spat it out, exclaiming “this is the base…
At Mallow petty sessions on 31 October 1893, two young Cork girls were committed to an industrial school at Kinsale, on the south coast of the county. They were…
Following on from volume 1 on new unionism and old (1889–1906), volume 2 reviews the impact of Larkinism and syndicalism on Derry. After impressive progress in …
