Utilizing a range of previously unexplored primary sources from film trade publications to cinema records, Film exhibition and distribution in Ireland, 1909–201…
While picture-going or cinema is generally regarded as a twentieth-century activity, this book demonstrates that prior to the opening of Ireland’s first cinemas…
Cases of breach of promise to marry were tried frequently in a variety of Irish courts from the late eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Such cases provided …
In 1935 a Gaeltacht Colony was created in the townland of Ráth Cairn, Co. Meath, for twenty-seven Irish-speaking families. Fianna Fail had achieved an overall m…
This book traces the economic, social and cultural history of Ireland from the 1870s to 1914, when the prospect of partition moved from being almost unthinkable…
The period between 1939 and 1965 was a critical juncture in the history of the Scottish Highlands and Islands – a phase when war, welfarism and the planned inte…
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…
A troubled see: memoirs of a Derry bishop continues the story begun in Edward Daly’s bestselling Mister, are you a priest? (2000), which focused on his years as…
Nestled between Fanad and Inishowen peninsulas on Ireland’s most northern coast, is Lough Swilly, one of the largest of Ireland’s sea loughs. Long noted for its…
This book examines aspects of Gladstone’s relationship with Ireland, setting this in the context of the United Kingdom and Empire. It is based on papers given a…
This collection of essays looks at aspects of conflict and polarization in the north of Ireland during the twentieth century and illustrates that division was n…
Michael Davitt (1846–1906) is popularly known as the founder of the Irish National Land League and as the architect of the Land War of 1879–82. However, the end…
