The accepted view of Irish woodlands is that Ireland was covered in trees until the English came and chopped them down. While admirable in its brevity, this int…
This book charts the history and development of formal gardening in Ireland in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and in particular the grand …
This book highlights the principal themes and elements in the making of the landscape, and the sources which can assist historians and historical geographers in…
Shortlisted for The Apollo Awards 2016 Book of the Year and The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2016. Also, Times Literary Supplement choice f…
The history of St James’s Hospital stretches back to 1703 when an act was passed to build a workhouse on its site. Just under thirty years later a foundling hos…
This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimea…
A critical edition with introduction and notes Regarded as the most celebrated Irish political pamphlet published before 1801, William Molyneux’s Case of Irela…
