Between 1800 and 1914 over eight million people emigrated from Ireland. While the majority paid their own passage or had the fares paid by relations and friends…
On 28 May 1849 at the height of the Great Famine, one of the country’s darkest periods, over 500 people were cruelly evicted from the village of Toomevara, coun…
Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. Profe…
With Rodney Aist, Thomas Clancy & Thomas O'Loughlin. The abbot of Iona in the late 7th century, Adomnán, a kinsmen of the founder St Columba, was one of the mo…
Scholars occasionally refer to the Eastern origin or roots of certain Irish apocryphal texts. Proof of such Eastern origins or links are often rather difficult …
This book attempts to give a complete history of the cult of Colmán of Cloyne (560AD), patron of the diocese of Cloyne, Co. Cork. Scholars of the Early Irish Ch…
At the beginning of the 9th century the growing population of the three great branches of the Scandinavian race who people the countries abutting the Baltic – t…
Irish Kings and High-Kings is an analysis of the nature of early Irish kingship, using annalistic and genealogical material to interpret Irish saga and legend.P…
This volume acknowledges the personal scholarly contribution of Francis J. Byrne, one of Ireland's leading Celtic scholars. For a full list of contents, pleas…
Julius Pokorny (1887–1970) was the foremost Celtic scholar of his generation on the European mainland. Born in Prague, he studied at Vienna University, and lear…
