Industrial Yarns Ltd, a large textiles factory and one of Seán Lemass’s flagship industrial projects, provided well-paid employment for hundreds of workers in B…
A ballad about a woman street trader is widely regarded as Dublin’s anthem, yet the city’s relationship with those who traded on its streets was often acrimonio…
The Irish Civil War was fought with a greater intensity, violence and longevity in Co. Kerry than in any other Irish county, leaving behind a bitter and divisiv…
Although numbers varied, at any one time the Irish Jacobite army mustered about forty-five regiments of infantry and nineteen of cavalry and dragoons. In all, j…
Collecting essays from leading international academic experts on St Brigit of Kildare and early medieval Ireland, this book marks a unique historical and schola…
Few figures in twentieth-century Ireland remained at the centre of Irish public life as long as James Ryan. First coming to prominence as the GPO’s medical offi…
Click below for a sneaky glimpse of the insides of this stunning new book. https://online.flippingbook.com/view/170164431/ Castles speak. Especially in an age…
The late 1860s and the 1870s are important years in the history of the Irish judiciary, and for the structure and culture of the courts. On New Year’s Day 1878 …
Henry Paget, 1st Marquess Anglesey (1768–1854), was a war hero who had fought alongside the duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo. A glamorous and engagi…
This study of a woman’s management of a middle-sized estate contributes to the understanding of agrarian society and the role of women in it. At the age of 32, …
