During the Land War of 1879–82, Galway was regarded as 'dangerously disturbed' because of the large number of agrarian incidents reported. These included murder…
Laurence O’Neill (1864-1943) was Lord Mayor of Dublin during key years in modern Irish history, 1917–1924. During these troubled years he held the confidence of…
This book examines Irish rural society and its basic social unit – the family farm – as well as important issues such as neighbourly ties and the use of hired l…
During the period 1912–23, Tyrone was at the centre of the conflict between nationalism and unionism, the evolution of partition and the emergence of two Irish …
Ireland’s part in the First World War is now receiving long-overdue acknowledgment. The role of Irish women, however, is less well detailed. The diaries of Emma…
In 1961 Irish United Nations peacekeepers went into combat in the Congolese province of Katanga. It was the Irish Defence Forces’ first experience of active ser…
Despite his vampire creation, Dracula, being world-famous, and in spite of a host of academic studies of the novel in which this vampire first appeared, Stoker …
Despite the association of J.R.R. Tolkien with the natural world, Middle-earth as landscape and built environment has been relatively neglected. Tolkien: the fo…
The seventh volume in the Studies in Children's Literature series, this volume examines how children’s books retain the ability to transform, activate, indoctri…
The extraordinary rise of musicology in Ireland over the last twenty years has generated an increased interest in the sister discipline of music theory and anal…
