From the author’s extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that poke fun at the Irish du…
Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In…
This collection of focused, cohesive and persuasive essays is based on the newest research on gender, sexuality and sexual politics. It offers historical reflec…
The Irish Jacobite army was the largest body of Irish soldiers ever to go into battle prior to the twentieth century. Although largely a new force, for three ye…
Éigse Volume 42 includes contributions on medieval texts and manuscripts, an edition of an aisling poem by Eoghan Rua Ó Súilleabháin and articles on Manx, the m…
Dublin’s Tholsel Court was a recourse for creditors to bring debtors to account. Ranging from the 16th to the 18th centuries, although fragmentary in nature, th…
Since 1824, the Ordnance Survey (now Tailte Éireann and OSNI) has become the essence of cartographic accuracy in Ireland, documenting the ever-changing relation…
The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by Columba of Iona and Co…
From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick’s long history as Ireland’s oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its natural backdrop of …
County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy betw…
In the spring of 1919, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote: ‘The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit of revolution. There is a deep sense not only …
Barristers played significant roles in Irish public life in the twentieth century as lawmakers, politicians, civil servants, broadcasters, judges, academics and…
