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The Redmonds and Waterford

The Redmonds and Waterford

A political dynasty 1891–1952

Pat McCarthy

For sixty years the Redmonds – John, his son William Archer and his daughter-in-law Bridget – dominated the politics of Waterford city. From 1891 to 1922 a Redm…
Four Offaly Saints
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Four Offaly Saints

The Lives of Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Ciarán of Seir, Colmán of Lynally and Fíonán of Kinnitty

Pádraig Ó Riain

Lying just south of the line that divided Ireland’s two halves, Leath Chuinn to the north and Leath Mhogha to the south, the churches of the present county of O…
Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853

Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853

From United Irishman to liberal politician

Karina Holton

This study of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Lord Cloncurry (1773–1853), provides a fresh perspective on the life of a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century …
Medieval Welsh Poems

Medieval Welsh Poems

Joseph P. Clancy

This anthology of Welsh poems from c.575 to c.1525 offers the general reader the most substantial collection of medieval Welsh verse yet rendered into English, …
Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825

Irish Reading Societies and Circulating Libraries founded before 1825

Useful knowledge and agreeable entertainment

Keith Manley

'Reading is for the improvement of the understanding' wrote John Locke, and this sentiment fostered the idea of 'mutual improvement' in the eighteenth and early…
The archives of the valuation of Ireland, 1830–65

The archives of the valuation of Ireland, 1830–65

Frances McGee

Between 1830 and 1864, every piece of property in Ireland was valued, from houses on tiny plots of land to the great landed estates. The work of valuation creat…
Epigraphy in an intermedial context

Epigraphy in an intermedial context

Alessia Bauer, Elise Kleivane & Terje Spurkland, editors

Epigraphy refers to inscriptions on hard material such as stone, metal and wood. As a discipline, it is often considered to be part of the literary sources writ…
The Irish brigade in the Pope’s army 1860

The Irish brigade in the Pope’s army 1860

Faith, fatherland and fighting

Donal Corcoran

In 1860, some 1,300 young men from Ireland answered the call to cross Europe and defend Pope Pius IX’s Papal States, the territory he ruled on the Italian Penin…
Documents of Irish music history in the long nineteenth century

Documents of Irish music history in the long nineteenth century

Irish Musical Studies volume 12

Kerry Houston, Maria McHale & Michael Murphy, editors

This volume explores various aspects of Ireland's musical past through the lens of historical documents. The contributors have examined a range of published and…
Church and Settlement in Ireland

Church and Settlement in Ireland

James Lyttleton & Matthew Stout, editors

Published in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement and the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies, this exciting new book f…