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The First World War diaries of Emma Duffin

The First World War diaries of Emma Duffin

Belfast Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse

Trevor Parkhill editor

Ireland’s part in the First World War is now receiving long-overdue acknowledgment. The role of Irish women, however, is less well detailed. The diaries of Emma…
Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo
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Ireland, the United Nations and the Congo

A military and diplomatic history, 1960–1

Michael Kennedy & Art Magennis

In 1961 Irish United Nations peacekeepers went into combat in the Congolese province of Katanga. It was the Irish Defence Forces’ first experience of active ser…
Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

Centenary essays

Jarlath Killeen editor

Despite his vampire creation, Dracula, being world-famous, and in spite of a host of academic studies of the novel in which this vampire first appeared, Stoker …
Tolkien

Tolkien

The forest and the city

Helen Conrad-O'Briain & Gerard Hynes editors

Despite the association of J.R.R. Tolkien with the natural world, Middle-earth as landscape and built environment has been relatively neglected. Tolkien: the fo…
Politics and ideology in children's literature

Politics and ideology in children's literature

Marian Thérèse Keyes & Áine McGillicuddy editors

The seventh volume in the Studies in Children's Literature series, this volume examines how children’s books retain the ability to transform, activate, indoctri…
Archives and archivists 2

Archives and archivists 2

Current trends, new voices

Ailsa C. Holland & Elizabeth Mullins editors

This book is the result of recent research by postgraduate students in archivistics in University College Dublin. Their work addresses many of the issues faced …
Irish musical analysis

Irish musical analysis

Irish musical studies 11

Gareth Cox & Julian Horton editors

The extraordinary rise of musicology in Ireland over the last twenty years has generated an increased interest in the sister discipline of music theory and anal…
The beauty of God's presence in the Fathers of the Church

The beauty of God's presence in the Fathers of the Church

The proceedings of the eighth International Patristic Conference, Maynooth, 2012

Janet Elaine Rutherford editor

This book, the proceedings of the eighth international patristic conference of St Patrick’s College Maynooth, contains fifteen essays by Catholic, Orthodox and …
Tales of medieval Dublin

Tales of medieval Dublin

Sparky Booker & Cherie N. Peters editors

Walking through Dublin Castle or along the surviving medieval city walls, you can see only glimpses of what it would have been like to live in the city centurie…
Medieval Dublin XIV

Medieval Dublin XIV

Proceedings of the Friends of Medieval Dublin symposium 2012

Seán Duffy editor

This volume contains reports on a number of important archaeological excavations in the Dublin area in recent years, including Claire Walsh’s discovery of a med…