'Our brilliant ... and difficult Bishop', as novelist Kate O'Brien described him. O'Dwyer was brilliant intellectually, independent-minded and quarrel-some, but…
This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Brendan Behan (1923–64), author of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. It charts Behan’s intelle…
This new edition of the book contains questions for parents and teachers on the subject of each chapter. Acclaimed originally when first published in 1992, this…
In 1886 the earl of Clanricarde evicted the tenants of Woodford on his east Galway estate. The ramifications of his actions echoed through Ireland in the late n…
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…
This collection of essays, assembled to celebrate the acquisition of the Geoffrey Aspin collection of 17th-century books by Trinity College Dublin, focuses on t…
These essays show how Dante’s Commedia was appropriated across Europe through the ages, beginning in 15th-century Spain and finishing in 19th-century Italy. Pub…
This anthology uses extracts from a wide variety of sources, to examine social and geographical change in Donegal over the past five centuries. Combining the ap…
This collection provides a number of important perspectives on the Anglo-Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen. Drawn from the annual lectures at the church in Farahy…
