Once Dublin’s most exclusive residential street, throughout the eighteenth century Henrietta Street was home to the country’s foremost figures from church, mili…
New paperback edition Burial rites and associated events can provide a unique insight into the attitudes and beliefs of diverse communities at any given moment…
In 1800, Dublin was one of the largest and most impressive cities in Europe. The city’s town houses and squares represented the pinnacle of Georgian elegance. H…
King-maker, land-grabber, wronged husband and vengeful man of honour — just some of the popular views of Tigernán Ua Ruairc (died 1172), the long-lived king of …
This book charts the plantation town of Belturbet from its inception in the early seventeenth century up to the early eighteenth century. It was a period of pro…
During the first half of the nineteenth century, thousands of Irish men and woman were transported as convicts to Britain’s penal colonies in Australia. Few, ho…
From port to commercial centre, and from textile town to centre of shipbuilding, Belfast has adapted, chameleon-like, to changing circumstances. Each of these c…
When the Dominicans arrived in Dublin in 1224, they established a house on the north bank of the river Liffey next to the bridge where the Four Courts are situa…
This volume contains a wealth of new scholarly research on Dublin’s medieval past, including a fascinating examination by Catherine Swift of traders and trading…
Country houses have been defined by their contents as much as by their architecture, landscapes and the families who occupied them. They have boasted assemblies…
