In 2009–2010 Ireland experienced a remarkable sequence of weather disasters and freak natural occurrences. The summer of 2009 broke all sorts of rainfall record…
When Henry II departed Ireland in 1172, he handed over to Hugh de Lacy I the gift of the land of Meath; an enormous tract which covered the modern counties of M…
The essays in this book are accompanied by original illustrations from Louis le Brocquy and Imogen Stuart in honour of Peter Harbison on the occasion of his 65t…
Irish Sea studies, 900–1200 examines some of the events and personalities round the Irish Sea province at a crucial time in the development of medieval Europe. …
The author, who won the Beckett Prize in Irish History for 2000, uses approaches developed in the study of English social conflict to investigate social conflic…
The studies in this volume range across history, literature, archaeology, law and theology. Challenging assumptions as to the medieval isolation of what were in…
Early medieval Ireland was ruled by a large number of lords, kings and overkings. In a complicated network of affiliations the Irish kings and the dynasties to …
This book presents a new interpretation of the state of the Irish Church before the Tudor reformations. Part I shows that the Irish Church, far from being in de…
Between 1740 and 1848, an overwhelming majority of the British ruling class determined that a legislative union with Ireland was preferable to the devolved cons…
Clubs and societies emerge as a distinct feature of the Irish social landscape from the end of the seventeenth century. The most notable early organization was …
