Martin ‘Máirtín Mór’ McDonogh was, in every sense of the word, Galway’s ‘big man’. A natural entrepreneur, and a man of drive, ambition and no small intellect, …
Most late-medieval kings of England showed little interest in their lordship of Ireland. They showed even less interest in the Gaelic Irish population of the is…
Foreword by former President Bill Clinton John Hume, civil rights activist, founding member of the SDLP and leading politician in Northern Ireland during the l…
During the period 1912–23, Tyrone was at the centre of the conflict between nationalism and unionism, the evolution of partition and the emergence of two Irish …
This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland’s premier aristocratic family – the dukes of Leinster – who, for almost 300 years, lived amidst glo…
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.…
Edited by Frank Ferguson & Kathryn White. A North Light – John Hewitt’s own account of his life in Northern Ireland from his early years until his ‘enforced ex…
Using a wide array of sources and interviews, Michael Farry has produced a balanced, comprehensive and absorbing study of county Sligo from 1912 when the Irish …
At the height of the Land War in 1881, a dispute over land led to the shooting dead of a young man called Peter Doherty near Craughwell, Co. Galway. Intense pol…
Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland’s best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the cas…
Since its first appearance the Directory of Irish Archives has become the standard work for those who need introductory information on archival and manuscript c…
From the Amazon rainforest to the South Pacific islands, and from India to the African plains, thousands of Irish missionaries devote themselves to the practica…
