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Ailerani Interpretatio Mystica Progenitorum Domini Iesu Christi

Ailerani Interpretatio Mystica Progenitorum Domini Iesu Christi

Aidan Breen, editor

Little is known of Ailerán, except that he was lector of Clonard, Co. Meath, and that he died in the great plague of 665. He is also credited with the authorshi…
The Ulster earls and Baroque Europe

The Ulster earls and Baroque Europe

Thomas O'Connor & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

Interest in the Irish in Europe in the early modern period has quickened in recent years, facilitated by better funding, increased research co-operation and enh…
Irish communities in early modern Europe

Irish communities in early modern Europe

Thomas O'Connor & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

The third collection of essays by the Irish in Europe Project, this book explores the emergence of Irish communities across Europe from Sweden to the southerly …
Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602–1820

Irish migrants in Europe after Kinsale, 1602–1820

Thomas O'Connor & Mary Ann Lyons, editors

The battle of Kinsale, 1601, fought during the Nine Years War of 1594–1603, marked a turning point in Irish history. However, although the political power of th…
The Irish in Europe, 1580–1815

The Irish in Europe, 1580–1815

Thomas O'Connor, editor

This book explores the activities and achievements of the considerable number of Irish men and women who divided their lives between their homeland and its Euro…
The life of John Buncle, Esq.

The life of John Buncle, Esq.

by Thomas Amory

Moyra Haslett, editor

Thomas Amory’s The Life of John Buncle, Esq (1756) is an appealingly eccentric fiction, in which Buncle, a student in Trinity College Dublin, embarks on a serie…
The triumph of prudence over passion

The triumph of prudence over passion

by Elizabeth Sheridan

Aileen Douglas & Ian Campbell Ross, editors

Originally published in 1781, The Triumph of Prudence over Passion; or, The History of Miss Mortimer and Miss Fitzgerald is an unconventional epistolary novel s…
Children's fiction, 1765–1808

Children's fiction, 1765–1808

by John Carey; Margaret King Moore, Lady Mount Cashell; and Henry Brooke

Anne Markey, editor

The present volume offers a pioneering selection of stories for children, published between 1765 and 1808 by Irish authors. Learning better than House and Land …
Irish Tales (1716)

Irish Tales (1716)

by Sarah Butler

Ian Campbell Ross, Aileen Douglas & Anne Markey, editors

Published in London only months after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, Irish Tales is an historical romance offering a Jacobite reading of early Irish history, c…
Vertue rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (1693)

Vertue rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (1693)

Ian Campbell Ross & Anne Markey, editors

Vertue Rewarded; or, The Irish Princess (1693) is one of the earliest examples of Irish prose fiction. Published in London, the novel is set in and around Clonm…