Medieval history

Gaelic Ireland c.1250–c.1650

Land, lordship & settlement

Patrick J. Duffy David Edwards & Liz FitzPatrick editors

Published to critical acclaim in hardback in 2001, this book has become one of the definitive books on Gaelic Ireland in publication. Now made available in pape…

Regions and rulers in Ireland, 1100–1650

David Edwards

For over thirty-five years much of the most original and most exciting research into the history of medieval and early modern Ireland has been the world of one …

'Civilizing' Gaelic Leinster

The extension of Tudor rule in the O'Byrne and O'Toole lordships

Christopher Maginn

This book charts the extension of Tudor government into the independent Gaelic lordships of the O'Byrnes and O'Tooles (Wicklow, Kildare, Dublin) from the origin…

Ulster and the Isles in the fifteenth century

The lordship of the Clann Domhnaill of Antrim

Simon Kingston

The book is a comparative study of Gaelic lordships on the margins of the emerging nation states of the later middle ages. Kingston examines the fluctuating for…

The role of the hospital in medieval England

Gift-giving and the spiritual economy

Sheila Sweetinburgh

Hospitals in medieval England gave and received gifts as part of the spiritual economy, engaging in an ongoing process of gift-exchange and reciprocity with the…

Handbook & select calendar of sources for medieval Ireland in the National Archives of the United Kingdom

Paul Dryburgh & Brendan Smith editors

The establishment of English rule in Ireland in the late 12th century involved the introduction not only of foreign settlers, but also of administrative practic…

The exercise of power in medieval Scotland, 1200–1500

Steve Boardman & Alasdair Ross, editors

Through detailed case studies this volume re-evaluates the notion that the Scottish kingdom experienced a rapid and revolutionary change in government and arist…

Irish leaders and learning through the ages

Paul Walsh

Essays collected, edited and introduced by Nollaig Ó Muraíle.

Described as 'the prince of Irish historians' by the great Belgian medievalist Paul Grosjean, SJ,…

Toleration and religious identity

The Edict of Nantes and its implications in France, Britain and Ireland

Ruth Whelan & Carol Baxter, editors

The Edict of Nantes, passed in 1598, established an uneasy truce between the Protestants and Roman Catholics in France, ushering in an era of religious pluralis…

The lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages

Revised edition

James Lydon

The lordship of Ireland in the middle ages was vested in the English crown by the famous grant of Pope Adrian IV in 1155, resulting in the invasion of 1169. Thi…

Irish villages

Studies in local history

Karina Holton, Brian Ó Daláigh & Liam Clare, editors

This significant book is the first attempt to understand the problems of evolution in Irish villages from the local perspective. These essays contrast and compa…

War, politics and the Irish of Leinster, 1156–1606

Emmett O'Byrne

Until now there has been no linear political study of the Irish of Leinster from the death of Toirdhealbhach O’Connor in 1156 to the establishment, in 1606, of …