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Leaders of the city

Leaders of the city

Dublin's first citizens, 1500–1950

Ruth McManus & Lisa-Marie Griffith, editors

The lord mayor is the first citizen of Dublin city and chairperson of the elected council. The office of mayor, created in 1229 and restyled lord mayor in 1665,…
Wolves in Ireland

Wolves in Ireland

A natural and cultural history

Kieran Hickey

'A fascinating overview of the wolf in Ireland through the ages. Hickey redresses the demonization of this iconic animal.' – Ciaran Mc Mahon, Team leader, Dubli…
Changes in practice and law

Changes in practice and law

A selection of essays by members of the legal profession to mark twenty-five years of the Irish Legal History Society

Daire Hogan & Colum Kenny editors

Changes in practice and law is a selection of essays by members of the legal profession, including judges, counsel and solicitors, who explore a number of trans…
Walter Starkie

Walter Starkie

An odyssey

Jacqueline Hurtley

Hispanic scholar, musician and writer, Walter Starkie is perhaps best remembered for his travel books Raggle Taggle – subtitled ‘Adventures with a fiddle in Hun…
Medieval and monastic Derry

Medieval and monastic Derry

Sixth century to 1600

Brian Lacey

According to legend, Derry originated as a monastery founded by St Columba/Colum Cille. That story was almost certainly a later rationalization and simplificati…
Borris House, Co. Carlow, and elite regency patronage

Borris House, Co. Carlow, and elite regency patronage

Edmund Joyce

Borris House, situated in the small town of Borris in Co. Carlow, is the ancestral home of the MacMurrough Kavanagh family. The family have had a residence at B…
John Toland's 'Letters to Serena'

John Toland's 'Letters to Serena'

Ian Leask editor

John Toland’s Letters to Serena is one of the most important texts of the early Enlightenment. Synthesizing an array of European thought – from radical biblical…
The Jacobean plantations in seventeenth-century Offaly

The Jacobean plantations in seventeenth-century Offaly

An archaeology of a changing world

James Lyttleton

The assimilation of the Gaelic Irish lordships into the British state marks the end of medieval Ireland and the beginning of a society more recognizable to mode…
Children's literature on the move

Children's literature on the move

Nations, translations, migrations

Nora Maguire & Beth Rodgers editors

Children’s Literature on the Move is the sixth volume in the Studies in Children’s Literature series. From translating Alice in Wonderland for a newly independe…
Patrick Pye, life and work

Patrick Pye, life and work

A counter-cultural story

Brian McAvera

Patrick Pye was born in Winchester, England, in 1929, but was raised in Dublin by his Irish mother. He started painting in 1943 under the sculptor Oisin Kelly, …