According to legend, Derry originated as a monastery founded by St Columba/Colum Cille. That story was almost certainly a later rationalization and simplificati…
John Toland’s Letters to Serena is one of the most important texts of the early Enlightenment. Synthesizing an array of European thought – from radical biblical…
But for the 1916 Rising, self-governing Ireland’s founding political generation would have been drawn not from Sinn Féin and the IRA, but from among the ranks o…
The story of the Battle of Clontarf, fought almost a thousand years ago, on 23 April 1014, is an inspiring one. It is a tale of ambition, determination, courage…
This collection of essays honours one of Ireland’s foremost Celticists. It contains contributions from some forty scholars, many of them his former students or …
In a preface to his ground-breaking and highly praised Dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland, the author wrote that what he r…
This volume opens with an essay in which Jennifer Petrie explores Dante’s own use of the term arte, before applying the findings of that exploration to the ques…
This collection of essays, published in association with the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, challenges the view that national identificati…
In its 25th anniversary year, the Irish Legal History Society republishes two bibliographical essays by its progenitor and former president, Professor W.N. Osbo…
This is the story of Sir Frederick Hamilton, an ambitious and boastful 17th-century Scottish nobleman who secured a grant of land during the Leitrim Plantation …
