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October 2024
The Dublin Annals of Prior John de Pembridge OP and his Dominican continuator
An account of Irish affairs, 1162-1370
When the Dominicans arrived in Dublin in 1224, they established a house on the north bank of the river Liffey next to the bridge where the Four Courts are situated today. Anyone who wanted to...
When the Dominicans arrived in Dublin in 1224, they established a house on the north bank of the river Liffey...
Author/Editor:
Bernadette Williams, editor
September 2024
Caricature and the Irish
Satirical prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780-1830
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 during London’s golden age of caricature. Some of them lampoon...
From the author’s extensive collection given to Trinity College in 1996, 105 caricatures, political and social, have been selected that...
Author/Editor:
Nicholas K. Robinson
September 2024
A century of courts
The Courts of Justice Act, 1924
The Courts of Justice Act 1924 established the District Court, Circuit Court, High Court and Supreme Court. This book brings together legal scholars, historians and members of the judiciary, to reflect on the legacies of...
The Courts of Justice Act 1924 established the District Court, Circuit Court, High Court and Supreme Court. This book brings...
Author/Editor:
Niamh Howlin, editor
September 2024
Sea and Settlement in Ireland
Ireland is an island, situated on the western fringes of Atlantic Europe. Any settlers to this island had to first cross the sea and it is this sea connection that brought new ideas, technologies and...
Ireland is an island, situated on the western fringes of Atlantic Europe. Any settlers to this island had to first...
Author/Editor:
Geraldine Stout & Matthew Stout
April 2025
The Church of Ireland under the Stuarts
The ‘long seventeenth century’ was a time of enormous religious and political change in Ireland, but there has never been a satisfactory study of the Church of Ireland throughout this turbulent period. This book fills...
The ‘long seventeenth century’ was a time of enormous religious and political change in Ireland, but there has never been...
Author/Editor:
Patrick Little
October 2024
Land reform and legislation in Ireland, 1800-2024
This volume explores the provenance, mechanisms and impact of land legislation and land reform in Ireland from the 1800 to 2024, one of the dominant issues in Irish politics, society, economy and culture through the...
This volume explores the provenance, mechanisms and impact of land legislation and land reform in Ireland from the 1800 to...
Author/Editor:
Terence Dooley, Tony McCarthy & Annie Tindley
November 2024
The Latin Lives of St Laurence of Dublin
The four Latin ‘lives’ of St Laurence O’Toole (with ancillary material) were critically edited for a doctoral thesis by Maurice Roche in 1981. Sadly Dr Roche died in an accident in 2003. The thesis went...
The four Latin ‘lives’ of St Laurence O’Toole (with ancillary material) were critically edited for a doctoral thesis by Maurice...
Author/Editor:
Maurice F. Roche
April 2025
Medieval Dublin XX
This volume presents a rich variety of new scholarly explorations of life in medieval Dublin, including an analysis by Bruce Campbell of the occupational profile of medieval Dubliners as revealed by records such as the...
This volume presents a rich variety of new scholarly explorations of life in medieval Dublin, including an analysis by Bruce...
Author/Editor:
Seán Duffy, editor
October 2024
Mary Mercer’s Dublin legacy, 1724-2024
This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to the later voluntary hospital and her school in Rathcoole, which subsequently merged with the King’s...
This book details the various charitable endeavours of Mary Mercer, from her shelter for orphaned girls (built in 1724), to...
Author/Editor:
Peter A. Daly
October 2024
From Carrigdrumruske to Carrick-on-Shannon
The St George estate, 1613-1864
Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the story of the St George family and their Carrick-on-Shannon estate. It explores how military prowess...
Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the...
Author/Editor:
Mairead Lynch
October 2024
Dún na nGall, ‘Fort of the Foreigners’?
The Vikings and their legacy in Donegal
Dún na nGall, the Irish name for ‘Donegal’, translates as ‘Fort of the Foreigners’, but who were the foreigners in question? This book considers that they were Vikings and reviews the archaeological and documentary evidence...
Dún na nGall, the Irish name for ‘Donegal’, translates as ‘Fort of the Foreigners’, but who were the foreigners in...
Author/Editor:
Megan McAuley
October 2024
The perjury trial of Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare
Elite Catholic responses to the emerging Protestant ascendancy
On 31 May 1701, the former Jacobite functionary, and notorious cheat, Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare, was convicted of perjury for swearing a false affidavit in respect of a ‘sham robbery’ of gold and...
On 31 May 1701, the former Jacobite functionary, and notorious cheat, Patrick Hurly of Moughna, Co. Clare, was convicted of...
Author/Editor:
Brendan Twomey
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