Compiled in celebration of the 150th anniversary of one of Ireland’s most distinguished and long-lived cultural institutions – the Royal Society of Antiquaries …
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…
'Our brilliant ... and difficult Bishop', as novelist Kate O'Brien described him. O'Dwyer was brilliant intellectually, independent-minded and quarrel-some, but…
This book provides a summary of the contents of the documentary and published sources for the study of crime held in Irish and British repositories, offers sugg…
The two Carlist wars are probably the least remembered, outside Spain, of the civil conflicts of the country. In the first of these, as in 1936, foreign volunte…
Children’s traditional street-games play an important part in the folk-life of a country. This book will help parents and educators to realize how happy childre…
The battle of Kinsale, 1601, fought during the Nine Years War of 1594–1603, marked a turning point in Irish history. However, although the political power of th…
