Combining archaeology, historical geography, history and literature, this book explores the settlement history of Lough Ree through the centuries. Themes includ…
Foreword by former President Bill Clinton John Hume, civil rights activist, founding member of the SDLP and leading politician in Northern Ireland during the l…
The beatified Irish martyrs are a selection of seventeen of the hundreds of bishops, priests, religious and laity, male and female, who died for their faith in …
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…
Drawing on archival materials, and incorporating never-before-seen images, this volume presents a spectrum of experience: from owners, to servants and tenants, …
The Finn (or Fenian) Cycle (fíanaigecht) is classified by modern scholarship as one of four medieval Irish literary cycles along with the Ulster Cycle, the Cycl…
Despite being the female patron saint of Ireland and one of the most remarkable women in Irish history, St Brigid has always been an elusive figure. Some schola…
Between the seventh and twelfth centuries, a distinctive form of script and illumination predominated in the manuscripts produced in the milieu of the Irish chu…
This book brings together leading Irish historians who examine how the history of the Church of Ireland has been written in the 500 years since the Reformation.…
For centuries, working-class Irish women survived as street traders, selling fruit, vegetables and second-hand clothing. In Cork they were known as ‘the Shawlie…
