Four Courts Press logo
Cart (0 item items) ►
Search

Search Results

The English Isles

The English Isles

Cultural transmission and political conflict in Britain and Ireland, 1100–1500

Seán Duffy & Susan Foran, editors

Leading medieval scholars discuss the impact of English imperialism and the ways in which English and wider European cultural norms were transmitted outwards to…
Medieval Dublin XII

Medieval Dublin XII

Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin symposium 2010

Seán Duffy editor

This twelfth volume of proceedings of the annual Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium contains reports on recent archaeological excavations in and around Dublin…
Medieval Dublin XIII

Medieval Dublin XIII

Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin symposium 2011

Seán Duffy editor

This volume has important studies on the political, social and literary history of Dublin from the Viking Age to the dawn of the modern era. Eoin O’Flynn recons…
Princes, prelates and poets in medieval Ireland

Princes, prelates and poets in medieval Ireland

Essays in honour of Katharine Simms

Seán Duffy editor

This volume presents one of the largest and most authoritative collections of essays on the theme of medieval Ireland to appear in many years. Published to mark…
Richard FitzRalph

Richard FitzRalph

His life, times and thought

Michael Dunne & Simon Nolan O.Carm., editors

The essays in this volume are the fruit of a major conference held in Maynooth on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the death at Avignon of fourteenth-ce…
Prophecy and kingship in Adomnán's 'Life of Saint Columba'

Prophecy and kingship in Adomnán's 'Life of Saint Columba'

Michael J. Enright

This book offers a new interpretation of Adomnán’s 'Life of Saint Columba', a crucial source for the study of early Irish and north British history. Whereas pre…
A north light

A north light

Twenty-five years in a municipal art gallery

John Hewitt

Edited by Frank Ferguson & Kathryn White.

A North Light – John Hewitt’s own account of his life in Northern Ireland from his early years until his ‘enforced ex…
Imagination in the classroom

Imagination in the classroom

Teaching and learning creative writing in Ireland

Anne Fogarty Éilís Ní Dhuibhne & Eibhear Walshe editors

This collection of essays is the first extensive exploration of the history and practice of teaching creative writing as a distinct discipline in Ireland. The v…
The royal manors of medieval Co. Dublin

The royal manors of medieval Co. Dublin

Crown and community

Áine Foley

This book is the first full-length study of the royal manors of Crumlin, Esker, Saggart and Newcastle Lyons (all in south Co. Dublin) in the period 1170 to 1400…
Irish Europe, 1600–1650

Irish Europe, 1600–1650

Writing and learning

Raymond Gillespie & Ruairí Ó hUiginn, editors

The experience of the Irish abroad has been a vibrant and exciting area of scholarly research in recent years. Most of that work has chronicled the political, m…