A major study of women and the medieval Irish church, this book includes ground-breaking investigations of medieval nunneries in Ireland, their personnel, patro…
The publication of this book in 1999 provided the first detailed examination of the many Irish men and women, all volunteers, who served in the Second World War…
This book explores aspects of the social, political and cultural life of Dublin at a defining point in Irish history during the 1913 Lockout. Certain personalit…
The publication of this collection of new essays, introduced by the Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke, archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, marks the 150t…
Ingenious Ireland is a unique study of this country’s natural wonders, clever inventions and historic industries. Richly illustrated, meticulously researched an…
St Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at K…
This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland’s premier aristocratic family – the dukes of Leinster – who, for almost 300 years, lived amidst glo…
Laurence O’Neill (1864-1943) was Lord Mayor of Dublin during key years in modern Irish history, 1917–1924. During these troubled years he held the confidence of…
The transformation of Ireland from a predominantly Irish-speaking country to a primarily English-speaking country was the most profound social change to take pl…
The ‘Irish Big House’ novelist, Molly Keane, was born in 1904. This book explores the writings of this important literary voice within twentieth-century Irish w…
