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The SDLP

The SDLP

The struggle for agreement in Northern Ireland, 1970–2000

Seán Farren

Established in the midst of civil unrest, community tensions and political uncertainty, the Social Democratic and Labour Party was not expected by many to endur…
The sieges of Derry

The sieges of Derry

William Kelly, editor

Few events in Irish history have generated such an output of writing, reaction and controversy as the siege of Derry in 1689. In fact, the events of those month…
The succession, bye and main plots of 1601–1603

The succession, bye and main plots of 1601–1603

Francis Edwards

Like his volume on earlier plots in the reign of Elizabeth I, Plots and plotters in the reign of Elizabeth I (2002), Edwards' new study draws heavily on archiva…
The vision of Tnugdal

The vision of Tnugdal

J.M. Picard & Y. de Pontfarcy

The Vision of Tnugdal, one of the great twelfth-century visions of the otherworld, was originally written in Latin by an Irish monk in Germany. This extraordina…
The Wilde legacy

The Wilde legacy

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, editor

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Oscar Wilde, Trinity College’s School of English held a conference on the Wilde family. This book is the pr…
Toleration and religious identity
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Toleration and religious identity

The Edict of Nantes and its implications in France, Britain and Ireland

Ruth Whelan & Carol Baxter, editors

The Edict of Nantes, passed in 1598, established an uneasy truce between the Protestants and Roman Catholics in France, ushering in an era of religious pluralis…
The history of Wexford Festival Opera, 1951–2021

The history of Wexford Festival Opera, 1951–2021

In a place like no other

Karina Daly

In 1951, the first ever Wexford Opera Festival (now known as ‘Wexford Festival Opera’) took place in a small town in the southeast corner of Ireland. What start…
Turas na dTaoiseach nUltach as Éirinn from Ráth Maoláin to Rome

Turas na dTaoiseach nUltach as Éirinn from Ráth Maoláin to Rome

Tadhg O Cianáin’s contemporary narrative of the so-called ‘Flight of the Earls’, 1607–8

Nollaig Ó Muraíle

When the principal lords of Gaelic Ulster and their followers sailed from Lough Swilly in September 1607 on the faithful journey that would end in Rome nine mon…
Ulster and the Isles in the fifteenth century

Ulster and the Isles in the fifteenth century

The lordship of the Clann Domhnaill of Antrim

Simon Kingston

The book is a comparative study of Gaelic lordships on the margins of the emerging nation states of the later middle ages. Kingston examines the fluctuating for…
Understanding Augustine

Understanding Augustine

John J. O'Meara

This collection of essays by a renowned scholar in this field focuses on one of the most important thinkers of the medieval, or indeed any, age.

With essays on…