This is the most comprehensive study of the history of sea fishing in Ireland to date. It charts the evolution of fisheries from the earliest times, and discuss…
Named as the Best Book about Irish Music in 2010 by The Irish Echo 'I love the Joe Holmes book. What a great achievement', Paul Muldoon. 'One of the book's ma…
This work re-evaluates the life and thought of George Tyrrell, one of the most prominent of the modernist thinkers, on the centenary of his death. A Jesuit prie…
1972 proved to be by far the bloodiest and most eventful year of the Northern Ireland conflict. The January shootings in Derry precipitated the downfall of the …
Children’s traditional street-games play an important part in the folk-life of a country. This book will help parents and educators to realize how happy childre…
This new, revised, expanded and updated edition of a book first published in 1997 includes comprehensive entries on saints associated with the see; bishops (inc…
This collection of essays, memoirs and poems is an acknowledgment of the work of Pierre Joannon. Over four decades he has made an outstanding contribution to Ir…
In the early 1800s a fruitless pursuit of coal on the Shirley estate in south Monaghan led to the discovery and the intermittent exploitation of gypsum on the e…
The connection between France and Ireland is an historic one. For generations of Irish exiles, France has provided a new home and it is often forgotten that the…
2009 marked the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Franciscan Order. This volume examines all aspects of the Irish Franciscans and their impact in Irela…
The book describes how the courts dealt with murder, beginning with the coroner's inquest and ending with the conviction and hanging of the murderer. Between th…
This collection of thirteen essays, penned by an array of leading scholars in the field, is the first full-length critical study of the Belfast poet and prose w…
