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Barristers in Ireland

Barristers in Ireland

An evolving profession since 1921

Niamh Howlin

Barristers played significant roles in Irish public life in the twentieth century as lawmakers, politicians, civil servants, broadcasters, judges, academics and…
Michael Healy, 1873-1941

Michael Healy, 1873-1941

An Túr Gloine’s stained glass pioneer

David Caron

This book tells the story of the reclusive stained glass artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, establ…
Armagh

Armagh

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Donal Hall & Eoin Magennis

County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy betw…
Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny

Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny

Jane Fenlon & Sarah Maguire

In the early modern period Kilkenny was the largest inland town in Ireland, where several factors had come into play that enabled the growth of prosperity and a…
The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine

The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine

An archaeological and landscape exploration of a later medieval inland Gaelic lordship

Daniel Patrick Curley

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…
Workers, Politics and Labour Relations in Independent Ireland, 1922–46

Workers, Politics and Labour Relations in Independent Ireland, 1922–46

Gerard Hanley

This book assesses the position of workers, trade unionism and labour relations from the foundation of the Irish Free State to the establishment of the Labour C…
Meath

Meath

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

This book looks at the people of Meath during the turmoil of the revolutionary era. As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily life, some embraced the ch…
The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts

The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts

Patrick Little

The ‘long seventeenth century’ was a time of enormous religious and political change in Ireland, but there has never been a satisfactory study of the Church of …
Visualizing the Celtic Revival

Visualizing the Celtic Revival

The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland – selected writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe

Róisín Kennedy

This volume brings together Nicola Gordon Bowe’s most important writings on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, including insightful essays on its cultural…
Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

Joseph McBrinn

Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to have found international fame and to have been describe…