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The Dublin Annals of Prior John de Pembridge OP and his Dominican continuator

The Dublin Annals of Prior John de Pembridge OP and his Dominican continuator

An account of Irish affairs, 1162-1370

Bernadette Williams, editor

When the Dominicans arrived in Dublin in 1224, they established a house on the north bank of the river Liffey next to the bridge where the Four Courts are situa…
Building Healthy Homes
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Building Healthy Homes

Dublin Corporation's first housing schemes, 1880-1925

Joseph Brady & Ruth McManus

During the twentieth century, Dublin Corporation transformed the urban landscape of Dublin. Its many housing developments sought to end a housing and public hea…
Medieval Dublin XIX

Medieval Dublin XIX

Seán Duffy, editor

This volume contains a wealth of new scholarly research on Dublin’s medieval past, including a fascinating examination by Catherine Swift of traders and trading…
Iona, Kells, and Derry

Iona, Kells, and Derry

The history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba

Máire Herbert

First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north Britain in the era between the sixth a…
A history of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry

A history of the Irish Pharmaceutical Industry

Making medicines for the World

Pat McCarthy

Ireland has become a key manufacturing centre for the global pharmaceutical market and in turn pharmaceutical manufacturing is now the backbone of the Irish man…
The early residential buildings of Trinity College Dublin

The early residential buildings of Trinity College Dublin

Architecture, financing, people

R.A. Somerville

This book contains a history of the early buildings of Trinity College, from the Elizabethan Quadrangle up to the residential ranges of the early eighteenth cen…
Country House Collections

Country House Collections

Their lives and afterlives

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country houses have been defined by their contents as much as by their architecture, landscapes and the families who occupied them. They have boasted assemblies…
Rural tensions in nineteenth-century Knock, County Mayo

Rural tensions in nineteenth-century Knock, County Mayo

Frank Mayes

In 1879 the parish of Knock witnessed both the outbreak of the ‘land war’ and also a reported apparition of the Virgin Mary. The press coverage that resulted fr…
The impact of the Great Famine on Sir William Palmer's estates in Mayo, 1840-69
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The impact of the Great Famine on Sir William Palmer's estates in Mayo, 1840-69

David Byrne

This book examines the impact of the Famine on Sir William Palmer’s Mayo estates, one of the largest in the county. It describes the estates’ social and economi…
Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800

Politics and political culture in Ireland from Restoration to Union, 1660-1800

Essays in honour of Jacqueline R. Hill

Raymond Gillespie, James Kelly & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

Political culture is not an idea that many historians of Ireland have engaged with, preferring more straightforward ways of thinking about the distribution of p…