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…
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 …
Four Courts Press was founded in 1970 by Michael Adams (see below) as a small press. From 1992, Four Courts Press expanded rapidly from its theology base, first…
Aimed at the student and general reader, this is a study of Ireland’s people, landscape and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of Brian Bórama.…
Ireland’s part in the First World War is now receiving long-overdue acknowledgment. The role of Irish women, however, is less well detailed. The diaries of Emma…
The extraordinary rise of musicology in Ireland over the last twenty years has generated an increased interest in the sister discipline of music theory and anal…
This book charts the history and development of formal gardening in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and in particular the grand …
Drama, opera, ballet, circuses, concerts and puppet-shows: down the years, all these species of live entertainment faced innumerable difficulties in Ireland. Th…
Prominent in the literature of early Ireland are the tales known as echtrai (adventures) and immrama (voyages), stories telling of journeys to the Otherworld of…
The assimilation of the Gaelic Irish lordships into the British state marks the end of medieval Ireland and the beginning of a society more recognizable to mode…
