This book, first published in 1997, examines all aspects of Irish ringforts – their shape and size, their date and function – with special attention to national…
This book is the first full-length assessment of the history of soccer in Dublin and the game’s role within society in the city. It examines the sport's growth …
This beautifully illustrated book explores sources for botany and gardening in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. It investigates the contributions of…
There is ample evidence, from the earliest periods onwards, that mankind has sought to measure and organize temporal movement by means of intellectual theories …
This book explores the everyday character and functions of domestic spaces in Georgian Ireland. Reflecting real as opposed to ideal patterns of living, the topi…
The town of Galway occupied a unique situation in medieval Ireland. Conspicuously English in its religious and political allegiances, it existed in an overwhelm…
This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it…
On the evening of 20 June 1921, Colonel-Commandant Thomas Stanton Lambert was assassinated at Benown near Glasson in Co. Westmeath. Hours later, the small villa…
Nathaniel Colgan MRIA, a self-taught botanist, was known for his research on the ‘real’ shamrock and for his encyclopaedic survey, The flora of the county Dubli…
In the sixteenth century the Duhallow region of north-west Co. Cork was one of the most indisputably Irish parts of Ireland. Characterized geographically by the…
This study examines how the professionalization and development of nursing and midwifery in the nineteenth century was reflected in the poor-law unions of Borri…
In December 1922 General Nevil Macready sailed away from Dublin for the last time, marking the end of British rule in most of Ireland. Macready was the last in …
