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Factory life in Industrial Yarns Ltd, Bray, 1958-98

Factory life in Industrial Yarns Ltd, Bray, 1958-98

Kieran Devenish

Industrial Yarns Ltd, a large textiles factory and one of Seán Lemass’s flagship industrial projects, provided well-paid employment for hundreds of workers in B…
Dublin’s women street traders, 1882-1932

Dublin’s women street traders, 1882-1932

Susan Marie Martin

A ballad about a woman street trader is widely regarded as Dublin’s anthem, yet the city’s relationship with those who traded on its streets was often acrimonio…
Pre-Famine Fever Epidemics

Pre-Famine Fever Epidemics

A case study of the Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin

Ciarán McCabe

This book explores the workings of the Cork Street Fever Hospital in Dublin’s south-western quarter in the decades after its opening in May 1804. The foundation…
The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond

The Civil War in Kerry and Beyond

Histories, memories and legacies

Bridget McAuliffe, Mary McAuliffe and Owen O’Shea, editors

The Irish Civil War was fought with a greater intensity, violence and longevity in Co. Kerry than in any other Irish county, leaving behind a bitter and divisiv…
A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place

Studies in Irish and British legal history in memory of W.N. Osborough

Sparky Booker and Kevin Costello, editors

W.N. Osborough was described by the Irish Times on his death in 2020 as Ireland’s ‘greatest legal historian’. He wrote prolifically on Irish legal history and c…
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Regimental lineages and officer lists of the Irish Jacobite army

Regimental lineages and officer lists of the Irish Jacobite army

Harman Murtagh

Although numbers varied, at any one time the Irish Jacobite army mustered about forty-five regiments of infantry and nineteen of cavalry and dragoons. In all, j…
Brigid’s Worlds

Brigid’s Worlds

Proceedings from the Brigid 1500 Maynooth University and Kildare County Council Conference

Niamh Wycherley, editor

Collecting essays from leading international academic experts on St Brigit of Kildare and early medieval Ireland, this book marks a unique historical and schola…
The Celtic World

The Celtic World

A History

John Waddell

Click below for a sneaky glimpse of the insides of this stunning new book.

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At the dawn of history the Celts o…
James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1892-1970

James Ryan and the Development of Independent Ireland, 1892-1970

Michael Loughman

Few figures in twentieth-century Ireland remained at the centre of Irish public life as long as James Ryan. First coming to prominence as the GPO’s medical offi…