People, Prehistory and the Past

The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine

An archaeological and landscape exploration of a later medieval inland Gaelic lordship

Daniel Patrick Curley

The Ó Cellaig (O’Kelly) lordship of Uí Maine and Tír Maine was a substantial political territory and influential cultural power in later medieval Connacht. This…

Anglicizing Tudor Connacht

The expansion of English rule in the lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many

Joseph Mannion

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the south Connacht lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many lay beyond the effective control of the Tudor government. Cla…

Archaeology and Celtic myth

An exploration

John Waddell

In this book John Waddell contends that elements of pre-Christian Celtic myth preserved in medieval Irish literature shed light on older traditions and beliefs …

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 past and furious and nowhere more contentiously than …

Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250

Edel Bhreathnach

The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by Columba of Iona and Co…

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.…

An introduction to early Irish literature

Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin

This book discusses the rich written heritage of the Old and Middle Irish period, 600–1200, and is suitable for students of medieval Ireland as well as the gene…

The Early Finn Cycle

Kevin Murray

The Finn (or Fenian) Cycle (fíanaigecht) is classified by modern scholarship as one of four medieval Irish literary cycles along with the Ulster Cycle, the Cycl…