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Irish harping, 1900–2010
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Irish harping, 1900–2010

Helen Lawlor

This book provides a musical ethnography and a history of the Irish harp. It gives a socio-cultural and musical analysis of the music and song associated with a…
Legends of Scottish Saints

Legends of Scottish Saints

Readings, hymns and prayers for the commemorations of Scottish saints in the Aberdeen Breviary

Alan Macquarrie, editor

Scotland’s first full-scale printed book is the Aberdeen Breviary, published in Edinburgh in 1510. It contains the only major collection of legends of Scottish …
Françoise Henry in Co. Mayo

Françoise Henry in Co. Mayo

The Inishkea journals

Janet T. Marquardt, editor

French art historian Françoise Henry was one of the most important twentieth-century historians of Irish art. In 1937, she visited the island of Inishkea North …
The Bell magazine and the representation of Irish identity

The Bell magazine and the representation of Irish identity

Kelly Matthews

This new study of The Bell magazine opens a window onto the Irish literary and cultural landscape of the mid-20th century. The Bell, which appeared monthly from…
The changing fortunes of the Headfort estates, 1870–1928

The changing fortunes of the Headfort estates, 1870–1928

Joe Mooney

In 1870, Thomas Taylour succeeded his father as marquess of Headfort and inherited estates of over 20,000 acres in Cavan and Meath. He had experience as an esta…
The Vestry Records of the Parish of St Audoen, Dublin, 1636–1702

The Vestry Records of the Parish of St Audoen, Dublin, 1636–1702

Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha, editor

St Audoen’s, on a prominent site in Cornmarket, is one of the most distinctive churches in the city of Dublin. A medieval foundation dedicated to the seventh ce…
The Otherworld

The Otherworld

Music & song from Irish tradition

Ríonach uí Ógáin & Tom Sherlock editors

Belief in the existence of a parallel world and in otherworldly phenomena has long been established in Irish tradition and facets of such belief continue to be …
Independent Newspapers

Independent Newspapers

A history

Mark O'Brien & Kevin Rafter, editors

For over a century, Independent Newspapers has been the most successful media organization in Ireland. From William Martin Murphy to Tony O’Reilly, the newspape…
Mapping, measurement and metropolis

Mapping, measurement and metropolis

How land surveyors shaped eighteenth-century Dublin

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

This comprehensively illustrated book charts the exceptional impact that a small group of land surveyors had on the development of Dublin city during the eighte…
Bank architecture in Dublin

Bank architecture in Dublin

A history to c.1940

Michael O'Neill

This book, commissioned as an action of the Dublin City Heritage Plan, opens with an historical introduction to eighteenth and nineteenth century banking, begin…