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October 2024
Farming and society since 1700 in the barony of Carbury, Co. Kildare
This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant challenges of civil strife, famine and the transition from tenancy to ownership, succeeding generations of...
This study examines Carbury’s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant...
Author/Editor:
Lesley Whiteside
October 2024
The Quaker community of Ballymurray, Co. Roscommon, 1717–1848
This volume considers the arrival of The Society of Friends/Quakers to Ballymurray in 1717, their relationship with local landowners the Croftons of Mote Park, and the challenges they encountered until the final discontinuance of Ballymurray...
This volume considers the arrival of The Society of Friends/Quakers to Ballymurray in 1717, their relationship with local landowners the...
Author/Editor:
Jacqueline née Creaven d'Towey
April 2025
Invasion 1169
May 2nd, 2019, marked the 850th anniversary of the first landing in Co. Wexford in 1169 of the Anglo-Norman adventurers enlisted by the king of Leinster, Diarmait Mac Murchada. Their arrival marked the start of...
May 2nd, 2019, marked the 850th anniversary of the first landing in Co. Wexford in 1169 of the Anglo-Norman adventurers...
Author/Editor:
Peter Crooks & Seán Duffy, editors
August 2024
Visualizing the Celtic Revival
The Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland – selected writings by Nicola Gordon Bowe
This volume brings together Nicola Gordon Bowe’s most important writings on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, including insightful essays on its cultural and art historical background and contexts, the leading patrons and artists...
This volume brings together Nicola Gordon Bowe’s most important writings on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland, including insightful...
Author/Editor:
Róisín Kennedy
April 2025
Moynagh Lough Studies 1
Moynagh Lough is one of the most significant archaeological sites ever discovered in Ireland. From 1980 to 1998 excavations were directed by John Bradley. This exceptional multi-period wetland site yielded a rich artefactual assemblage from...
Moynagh Lough is one of the most significant archaeological sites ever discovered in Ireland. From 1980 to 1998 excavations were...
Author/Editor:
Michael Potterton, editor
September 2025
Iona, Kells, and Derry
The history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba
First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north Britain in the era between the sixth and twelfth centuries. Three major works of hagiography...
First published in 1988, this book outlines the history of the ecclesiastical familia of Colum Cille in Ireland and north...
Author/Editor:
Máire Herbert
April 2025
Élie Bouhéreau
The collections and communities of a Huguenot refugee
Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church of La Rochelle. After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes Bouhéreau fled France, and...
Élie Bouhéreau (1643–1719) was a French medical doctor and scholar from a prosperous merchant family prominent in the Reformed Church...
Author/Editor:
Amy Boylan & Janée Allsman, editors
December 2024
Killester
Dublin Through the Ages
Dublin Through the Ages: Killester presents new research into the rich history and heritage of Killester Demesne, tracing its earliest origins in the twelfth century through to its more modern development. An archaeological assessment of...
Dublin Through the Ages: Killester presents new research into the rich history and heritage of Killester Demesne, tracing its earliest...
Author/Editor:
Ruth McManus, Joe Brady
April 2025
Evie Hone and the international avant-garde
Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to have found international fame and to have been described as ‘heroic’. Yet she was something...
Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to...
Author/Editor:
Joseph McBrinn
April 2025
The Irish Volunteers, 1913–19
A history
No organization was more central to the history of Ireland in the 20th century than the Irish Volunteers. This is the first authoritative history of that body from its inception in November 1913 to its...
No organization was more central to the history of Ireland in the 20th century than the Irish Volunteers. This is...
Author/Editor:
Daithí Ó Corráin
April 2025
The Mansion House Fund 1880
The Little Famine of 1880 resulted from disastrous harvest failures in Ireland in the late 1870s. Hunger and poverty were evident throughout the country and a rapid response was needed to prevent the catastrophic loss...
The Little Famine of 1880 resulted from disastrous harvest failures in Ireland in the late 1870s. Hunger and poverty were...
Author/Editor:
David O’Regan, editor
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