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 …
At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the south Connacht lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many lay beyond the effective control of the Tudor government. Cla…
This book assesses the position of workers, trade unionism and labour relations from the foundation of the Irish Free State to the establishment of the Labour C…
This book situates harping activity as a vital aspect of music making in traditions around the world. Contributors: Helen Lawlor (TU Dublin); Sandra Joyce (UL)…
St Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at K…
In 1912, Fermanagh lay awkwardly between two competing and often hostile communities – the Ulster unionists in the north and the Irish nationalists in the south…
This book tells the story of the reclusive stained glass artist, raised in a Dublin tenement, who ahead of Harry Clarke, Wilhelmina Geddes and Evie Hone, establ…
Moygara Castle, with its four towers, gatehouse and high curtain walls, is one of the most impressive masonry-built monuments in north Connacht. Constructed in …
This is the first operational account of the Irish House of Commons in the early Stuart period, a time of immense change in early modern Ireland, when the parli…
Medieval Ferns was one of south-eastern Ireland’s most important settlements. It played a key role in local, regional and national history from its foundation b…
Barristers played significant roles in Irish public life in the twentieth century as lawmakers, politicians, civil servants, broadcasters, judges, academics and…
In the early modern period Kilkenny was the largest inland town in Ireland, where several factors had come into play that enabled the growth of prosperity and a…
