This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archa…
Edmund Sexten Pery was one of the great Irish parliamentarians of the eighteenth century. His political career, as a prominent patriot in the 1750s and 1760s an…
The Ó Cellaig (O’Kelly) lordship of Uí Maine and Tír Maine was a substantial political territory and influential cultural power in later medieval Connacht. This…
Castles speak. Especially in an age when they are no longer necessary. The act of union of 1800, which brought Ireland into closer association with Britain, cha…
John Skelton (c.1460–1529) wrote poetry and some prose, in Latin and English, for almost forty years, circulating his work through manuscript copies and the new…
This book examines Irish rural society and its basic social unit – the family farm – as well as important issues such as neighbourly ties and the use of hired l…
The Dubliner Walter Quin first came to prominence at the court of James VI, where he wrote poetry in support of the Stuart succession to Elizabeth I’s throne. T…
Using a great variety of source materials, and including a large number of photographs and other images, this book builds a picture of Dublin between 1930 and 1…
Studies of Irish children’s literature are relatively numerous in Ireland, and yet the study of children and childhood, and the concepts associated with these w…
Patrick Pye was born in Winchester, England, in 1929, but was raised in Dublin by his Irish mother. He started painting in 1943 under the sculptor Oisin Kelly, …
