The Courts of Justice Act 1924 established the District Court, Circuit Court, High Court and Supreme Court. This book brings together legal scholars, historians…
May 2nd, 2019, marked the 850th anniversary of the first landing in Co. Wexford in 1169 of the Anglo-Norman adventurers enlisted by the king of Leinster, Diarma…
At the beginning of the First World War, many Irish men were enticed to enlist by the promise of home rule, while others may have joined up to secure a decent l…
Moynagh Lough is one of the most significant archaeological sites ever discovered in Ireland. From 1980 to 1998 excavations were directed by John Bradley. This …
First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north Britain in the era between the sixth a…
Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La Rochelle. After the …
From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were actively recruited to train and work as nurses in British hospitals. B…
Dedicated to John Waddell, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Galway, an internationally renowned and popular scholar whose long career and …
Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to have found international fame and to have been describe…
No organization was more central to the history of Ireland in the 20th century than the Irish Volunteers. This is the first authoritative history of that body f…
The Little Famine of 1880 resulted from disastrous harvest failures in Ireland in the late 1870s. Hunger and poverty were evident throughout the country and a r…
Killester: from medieval manor to garden suburb explores the development of Killester from its earliest days as Killester Demense, through its transformation in…
