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The Irish Parliamentary Party and the third Home Rule crisis

The Irish Parliamentary Party and the third Home Rule crisis

James McConnel

But for the 1916 Rising, self-governing Ireland’s founding political generation would have been drawn not from Sinn Féin and the IRA, but from among the ranks o…
The Battle of Clontarf, Good Friday 1014

The Battle of Clontarf, Good Friday 1014

Darren McGettigan

The story of the Battle of Clontarf, fought almost a thousand years ago, on 23 April 1014, is an inspiring one. It is a tale of ambition, determination, courage…
Alice Milligan and the Irish cultural revival

Alice Milligan and the Irish cultural revival

Catherine Morris

'A profound and moving analysis of one of the greatest inventors of modern Ireland, this account of Alice Milligan itself displays those qualities of intellectu…
Envisioning Christ on the cross

Envisioning Christ on the cross

Ireland and the early medieval West

Juliet Mullins Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh & Richard Hawtree editors

The crucifixion is at the very centre of Christian art and thought. This volume brings together leading medieval scholars from a wide range of disciplines in an…
Saltair saíochta, sanasaíochta agus seanchais

Saltair saíochta, sanasaíochta agus seanchais

A festschrift for Gearóid Mac Eoin

Dónall Ó Baoill, Donncha Ó hAodha & Nollaig Ó Muraíle, editors

This collection of essays honours one of Ireland’s foremost Celticists. It contains contributions from some forty scholars, many of them his former students or …
A supplement to the dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland

A supplement to the dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe

In a preface to his ground-breaking and highly praised Dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland, the author wrote that what he r…
Nature and art in Dante

Nature and art in Dante

Daragh O'Connell & Jennifer Petrie, editors

This volume opens with an essay in which Jennifer Petrie explores Dante’s own use of the term arte, before applying the findings of that exploration to the ques…
Irish elites in the nineteenth century

Irish elites in the nineteenth century

Ciaran O'Neill, editor

This collection of essays, published in association with the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, challenges the view that national identificati…
An island's law

An island's law

A bibliographical guide to Ireland’s legal past

W.N. Osborough

In its 25th anniversary year, the Irish Legal History Society republishes two bibliographical essays by its progenitor and former president, Professor W.N. Osbo…
The Morpeth Roll

The Morpeth Roll

Ireland identified in 1841

Christopher Ridgway, editor

In 1841, on stepping down as chief secretary, George Howard, Lord Morpeth, received a grand farewell testimonial from the people of Ireland. This took the form …