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Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s

Dublin in the 1950s and 1960s

Cars, shops and suburbs

Joseph Brady

After the relative gloom of the 1950s, there was a rapid economic pick-up in the early 1960s. Car ownership increased as standards of living improved and Dublin…
Ulster-Scots and America

Ulster-Scots and America

Diaspora literature, history and migration, 1750–2000

Frank Ferguson & Richard MacMaster, edtiors

This collection of essays examines the contribution made by the Ulster-Scots diaspora upon the writing of North America. Themes covered by this collection inclu…
Juries in Ireland

Juries in Ireland

Laypersons and law in the long nineteenth century

Niamh Howlin

Shortlisted for the Dublin Solicitors’ Bar Association Law Book of the Year Award 2018

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a wide range of legal issues …
The life and times of Arthur Browne in Ireland and America, 1756–1805

The life and times of Arthur Browne in Ireland and America, 1756–1805

Civil law and civil liberties

Joseph C. Sweeney

Born in Rhode Island, Arthur Browne was a lawyer, a scholar, and a politician in the Ireland of the late eighteenth century and established a brilliant reputati…
More than concrete blocks, vol. I
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More than concrete blocks, vol. I

Dublin City's twentieth-century buildings and their stories: 1900–1940

Ellen Rowley, editor

More than Concrete Blocks: Dublin City’s twentieth-century buildings is a three-volume series of architectural history books which are richly illustrated and wr…
Architecture

Architecture
The Easter Proclamation 1916

The Easter Proclamation 1916

A comparative analysis

Liam de Paor

With an essay by W.J. Mc Cormack

The words of the Proclamation were put together by P.H. Pearse and revised by James Connolly and Thomas MacDonagh. The documen…
The Laity and the Church of Ireland, 1000–2000

The Laity and the Church of Ireland, 1000–2000

All sorts and conditions

Raymond Gillespie & W.G. Neely, editors

Religion has always been central to an understanding of the Irish past and the experience of the Church of Ireland, as the established church before 1870, has e…
He was Galway
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He was Galway

Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934

Jackie Uí Chionna

Martin ‘Máirtín Mór’ McDonogh was, in every sense of the word, Galway’s ‘big man’. A natural entrepreneur, and a man of drive, ambition and no small intellect, …
The world of the galloglass

The world of the galloglass

Kings, warlords and warriors in Ireland and Scotland, 1200–1600

Seán Duffy, editor

The intersection of Scottish and Irish politics and culture in the late Middle Ages is encapsulated in the figure of the galloglass. These West Highland and Heb…