General Reference

The medieval manuscripts at Maynooth

Explorations in the unknown

Peter J. Lucas & Angela M. Lucas

This book provides an in-depth guide to the Maynooth medieval manuscripts (some sixteen of them, plus fragments) with illustrations. The descriptions of the man…

Archives and archivists 2

Current trends, new voices

Ailsa C. Holland & Elizabeth Mullins editors

This book is the result of recent research by postgraduate students in archivistics in University College Dublin. Their work addresses many of the issues faced …

A supplement to the dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe

In a preface to his ground-breaking and highly praised Dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland, the author wrote that what he r…

A dictionary of Anglo-Irish

Words and phrases from Gaelic in the English of Ireland

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe

This work fills a long-felt void in the study of both Irish and English, by providing the first extensive compilation of Hiberno-English words, their meanings a…

The Vestry Records of the parishes of St Bride, St Michael Le Pole and St Stephen, Dublin, 1662–1742

W.J.R. Wallace

This is the fifth volume in the RCB Library ‘Texts and Calendars’ series. Like the earlier volumes, it seeks to make key texts for the history of the Church of …

Directory of Irish archives: 5th edition

Seamus Helferty & Raymond Refaussé

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…

Archives and Archivists

Ailsa C. Holland & Kate Manning, editors

University College Dublin has provided education on archives for 35 years mainly in the Archives Department. This book of essays celebrates its role in a timely…

An English-Irish lexicon of scientific and technological space-related terminology

Susan McKenna Lawlor & Damien Ó Muirí

This unique lexicon features over 3,500 astronautical terms, listed alphabetically in English, with their Irish translation. It is a stand-alone edition based o…

The Dublin region in the middle ages

Settlement, land-use and economy

Margaret Murphy & Michael Potterton

This is the first major publication of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. The book is a study of the medieval region that contained an…

From the Viking word-hoard

A dictionary of Scandinavian words in the languages of Britain and Ireland

Diarmaid Ó Muirithe

At the beginning of the 9th century the growing population of the three great branches of the Scandinavian race who people the countries abutting the Baltic – t…

Business archival sources for the local historian

Ciarán Ó hÓgartaigh & Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh

This book provides a practical guide to the major collections of business archives for the whole of Ireland and to their appropriate use in historical research.…

A guide to sources for the history of Irish education, 1780–1922

Susan M. Parkes

This book is an introductory guide for students and researchers in the history of Irish education from 1780–1922. The nineteenth century saw the foundation of t…