This book examines the roles of magic in medieval romance. Magic’s crucial function in the romances may be established by studying the diverse works of Chrétien…
Margaret Aylward was a wealthy Waterford woman who devoted her considerable talents to improving the lot of poor families in Dublin during the second half of th…
Michael Moore, priest, philosopher and educationalist, was one of the most prominent Irish émigré scholars of the 17th and early 18th centuries. He rose to prom…
The ‘Irish Big House’ novelist, Molly Keane, was born in 1904. This book explores the writings of this important literary voice within twentieth-century Irish w…
David Howlett presents a radically new text, translation, and analysis of Muirchú Moccu Macthéni's Life of Saint Patrick, with newly discovered internal confirm…
This book is a second collection of papers arising from the work of the Irish Legal History Society and includes three lectures given at the meeting held in Bel…
This is the third volume of papers from the Irish Postgraduate Film Research Seminar designed to encourage Irish film scholarship and the study of Irish film. T…
Patrick McAlister was bishop of Down and Connor for only nine years, but during that short episcopate he had to cope with the worst riots of the 19th century in…
The passive and active of 'pawns or players' is in many ways the kernel of the ongoing debate within the analysis of the role of women in the past. The essays, …
This book explores the visit of the English tourist Richard Twiss to Ireland and the resulting controversy - enthusiastically stoked by Dublin's printers - that…
