Charles Trevelyan, the assistant secretary to the Treasury during the Famine years, has received the bulk of the blame for the government’s parsimonious respons…
Beginning in 1778, Volunteers such as William Bruce and William Drennan gathered, often in uniform, to discuss a constitutional crisis in Ireland in terms of cl…
A major study of women and the medieval Irish church, this book includes ground-breaking investigations of medieval nunneries in Ireland, their personnel, patro…
Although many books have been written about the IRA, little attention has been paid to the rank and file of the organization as well as the movement in 1930s Ir…
A new and welcome contribution to Irish-Spanish historical studies has come with the publication of Ireland and Spain in the reign of Philip II. As the title re…
Charles Maturin (1780–1824) is best known today for his Gothic masterpiece Melmoth the Wanderer (1820). A thorough study of his wider work reveals him to have b…
Clubs and societies emerge as a distinct feature of the Irish social landscape from the end of the seventeenth century. The most notable early organization was …
Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland’s best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the cas…
The author presents from stones, mosaics, walls, brasses, inscribed artefacts, colophons etc. scores of compositions from twenty centuries, illustrating the tho…
This book, published in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement, is a collection of interdisciplinary essays by young scholars on …
