Scotland’s first full-scale printed book is the Aberdeen Breviary, published in Edinburgh in 1510. It contains the only major collection of legends of Scottish …
French art historian Françoise Henry was one of the most important twentieth-century historians of Irish art. In 1937, she visited the island of Inishkea North …
In 1870, Thomas Taylour succeeded his father as marquess of Headfort and inherited estates of over 20,000 acres in Cavan and Meath. He had experience as an esta…
St Audoen’s, on a prominent site in Cornmarket, is one of the most distinctive churches in the city of Dublin. A medieval foundation dedicated to the seventh ce…
The Fota International Liturgy Conferences are dedicated to the elucidation and promotion of Benedict XVI’s vision of liturgical reform, emphasizing the importa…
Written in the late thirteenth century, the so-called ‘Annals of Multyfarnham’ are fascinating for many reasons. They were given their title in the seventeenth …
For many years after its foundation in 1791, the Ordnance Survey was mainly concerned with making small scale military maps of England. The department had no de…
This is a cultural and intellectual history of the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland from 1824 to 1846. Captain Thomas Larcom of the Survey intended to prod…
This book aims to introduce the local history practitioner to the world of maps – the special character (and appeal) of maps as an historical source, why they a…
Continuing concern with the Gothic Revival in architecture is reflected in the first pair of essays, which offer corrections to the account given in the author’…
