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The clergy of the Church of Ireland, 1000–2000

The clergy of the Church of Ireland, 1000–2000

Messengers, watchmen and stewards

Toby Barnard & W.G. Neely, editors

This collaborative volume considers the clergy of the Church of Ireland before and after the 16th-century reformation and before and after disestablishment in 1…
Improving Ireland?

Improving Ireland?

Projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641–1786

Toby Barnard

The idea of improvement featured consistently in schemes to transform Ireland into a prosperous, peaceful and English place. Two strands were especially strong:…
Irish Protestant ascents and descents, 1641–1770
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Irish Protestant ascents and descents, 1641–1770

Toby Barnard

These essays explore what it meant to be a Protestant living in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland. These Protestants are shown responding to an enviro…
A guide to sources for the history of material culture in Ireland, 1500–2000

A guide to sources for the history of material culture in Ireland, 1500–2000

Toby Barnard

In recent years, archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and specialists in design, architecture and art have developed techniques that are now being expl…
Dante and the human body

Dante and the human body

John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors

The essays in this volume explore Dante’s interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, lite…
Mary, Mother of the Redeemer

Mary, Mother of the Redeemer

Juan Luís Bastero

Mary's connection with the mystery of Christ has led the Church to explain in an ever more articulate way her role in the redemptive work of her Son and of the …
The Irish novel in the nineteenth century

The Irish novel in the nineteenth century

Facts and fictions

Jacqueline Belanger, editor

Featuring twelve original essays by leading scholars in the fields of Irish literary and cultural studies, this book investigates how the 19th-century Irish nov…
The Irish Franciscans, 1534–1990
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The Irish Franciscans, 1534–1990

Edel Bhreathnach, Joseph MacMahon OFM & John McCafferty, editors

2009 marked the 800th anniversary of the foundation of the Franciscan Order. This volume examines all aspects of the Irish Franciscans and their impact in Irela…
The kingship and landscape of Tara

The kingship and landscape of Tara

Edel Bhreathnach

This volume is the culmination of an inter-disciplinary project undertaken as part of the Discovery Programme involving archaeologists, historians, linguists an…
Building Irish identity in America, 1870–1915

Building Irish identity in America, 1870–1915

The Gaelic Revival

Úna Ní Bhroiméil

The Irish language was the hook on which Irish cultural nationalism was hung in Ireland at the end of the 19th century. The foundation of the Gaelic League in 1…