This volume contains an abundance of new scholarship to shed light on Dublin’s fascinating medieval past, including reports of major archaeological excavations:…
This is the first book-length transnational history of the Marshal family between the 1189 marriage of the flower of chivalry William Marshal to Isabel de Clare…
Take a sneak peak inside this stunning new book here. From the earliest Ice Age cave paintings to the metalwork and statuary in the pre-Roman Celtic world, wes…
This book is the story of Matthew Stout’s trip to Ireland in 1973, based on his journals from the time and his long letters home. It describes an Ireland that i…
Moynagh Lough is one of the most important archaeological sites ever excavated in Ireland. Situated in the rolling terrain of north Co. Meath, it preserves an e…
This book represents the first interdisciplinary study of early Irish kingship. Kingship represents the core institution and central problem of early medieval I…
While ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’, in Ireland virtually all castles were built for defensive purposes. The medieval castles of Ireland traces the devel…
Winner of the Prestigious 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction. At the dawn of history the Celts occupied a vast swathe of Europe from Ireland in the west to…
Cenél nEógain, a royal dynasty from Inishowen in Donegal, defeated its previously more successful opponent, Cenél Conaill – also from Donegal – at the battle of…
This, the twentieth volume in the series, is the most ambitious yet. It presents a rich variety of new scholarly explorations of life in medieval Dublin, includ…
New paperback edition Burial rites and associated events can provide a unique insight into the attitudes and beliefs of diverse communities at any given moment…
Dedicated to John Waddell, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Galway, an internationally renowned and popular scholar whose long career and …
