Brides of Christ

Households of God

The Regular Canons and Canonesses of St Augustine and of Prémontré in Medieval Ireland

Martin Browne OSB & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors

Although the most numerous and widespread of all the religious orders in medieval Ireland, the regular canons and canonesses have been somewhat neglected in Iri…

The Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland, 1560-1760

Mary Ann Lyons & Brian Mac Cuarta SJ, editors

This collection featuring eleven essays by established and early career scholars, explores multiple dimensions to the Jesuit mission in early modern Ireland. Th…

Ireland and the Crusades

Edward Coleman, Paul Duffy & Tadhg O'Keeffe, editors

The crusades – a broad term encompassing a disparate series of military expeditions, with the avowed intent of preserving/expanding Christianity and the heterod…

A dictionary of Irish saints

Pádraig Ó Riain

Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. Profe…

Life and death in medieval Gaelic Ireland

The skeletons from Ballyhanna, Co. Donegal

Catriona J. McKenzie & Eileen M. Murphy

In 2003, the skeletal remains of some 1,300 individuals – men, women and children – were uncovered from Ballyhanna, near Ballyshannon in Co. Donegal. Radiocarbo…

Athassel Priory and the Cult of St Edmund in medieval Ireland

Francis Young

The English royal saint Edmund, king and martyr (d. 869) was venerated in Ireland from at least the twelfth century, and Athassel priory in Co. Tipperary was th…

Medieval Ireland

Territorial, political and economic divisions

Paul MacCotter

Describes, for the first time, the nature of the unique economic areal system of Gaelic Ireland as it developed and changed between the Early Medieval and Anglo…

Ireland in the medieval world, AD400–1000

Landscape, kingship and religion

Edel Bhreathnach

Aimed at the student and general reader, this is a study of Ireland’s people, landscape and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of Brian Bórama.…

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 …