Vinegar Hill

Carrick, County Wexford

Ireland’s first Anglo-Norman stronghold

Denis Shine, Michael Potterton, Stephen Mandal & Catherine McLoughlin, editors

Carrick, Co. Wexford, is one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood medieval sites in Ireland. Built in the autumn and winter of 1169 by Robert Fitz Stephen, o…

Arrogant Trespass

Anglo-Norman Wexford, 1169–1400

Billy Colfer

Arrogant Trespass is the first sustained treatment of the Anglo-Normans in Wexford since Orpen's century-old work. Profusely illustrated, meticulously researche…

William Marshal and Ireland

John Bradley, Cóilin Ó Drisceoil & Michael Potterton, editors

This richly illustrated collection of essays examines for the first time the important Irish career of one of the most famous personalities of medieval Europe, …

Religion, landscape and settlement in Ireland

From Patrick to present

Kevin Whelan

Published in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement

Irish history is often fast and furious and nowhere more contentiously than …

A guide to Irish military heritage

Brian Hanley

This guide is designed to help those conducting research in to all aspects of Irish military history. Commissioned by the Military Heritage of Ireland Trust, wh…

Franco-Irish military connections, 1590–1945

Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac & David Murphy, editors

The connection between France and Ireland is an historic one. For generations of Irish exiles, France has provided a new home and it is often forgotten that the…

The Nine Years War, 1593–1603

O'Neill, Mountjoy and the military revolution

James O'Neill

The Nine Years War was one of the most traumatic and bloody conflicts in the history of Ireland. Encroachment on the liberties of the Irish lords by the English…