Compiled in celebration of the 150th anniversary of one of Ireland’s most distinguished and long-lived cultural institutions – the Royal Society of Antiquaries …
The University of Limerick was the first new university created since the foundation of the state. Its emergence was the result of a long and determined local c…
In this book, thirteen distinguished historians of early modern Ireland recreate the lost world of those who carved out a middle position between the aristocrac…
Written in the late thirteenth century, the so-called ‘Annals of Multyfarnham’ are fascinating for many reasons. They were given their title in the seventeenth …
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…
