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Robin Hood

Medieval and post-medieval

Helen Phillips, editors

This collection of essays on the Robin Hood tradition explores both its medieval contexts and the evolution of the legend after the medieval period. They deal w…
Newspapers and empire in Ireland and Britain

Newspapers and empire in Ireland and Britain

Reporting the British Empire, c.1857–1921

Simon Potter, editor

These essays explore the varied attitudes towards empire once sustained by different groups in Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland, and by their diasporic desc…
Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, c.1540–1660

Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, c.1540–1660

Michael Potterton & Thomas Herron, editors

Following the ground-breaking volume Ireland in the Renaissance, c.1540–1660 (2007) by the same editors, this multidisciplinary collection in history, art histo…
Clonsilla and the rebellion of 1798

Clonsilla and the rebellion of 1798

Ciarán Priestley

This study examines the response of the inhabitants of Clonsilla to the social disorder, violent attacks and civil unrest that were a feature of their community…
The Catholic Church and the Protestant State

The Catholic Church and the Protestant State

Nineteenth-century Irish realities

Oliver Rafferty

Beginning with Catholic attitudes to the Act of Union this work traces various elements in the interrelationship between the Catholic Church and the state in Ir…
George Tyrrell and Catholic modernism

George Tyrrell and Catholic modernism

Oliver P. Rafferty SJ, editor

This work re-evaluates the life and thought of George Tyrrell, one of the most prominent of the modernist thinkers, on the centenary of his death. A Jesuit prie…
Ireland and the Spanish empire, 1600–1825

Ireland and the Spanish empire, 1600–1825

Óscar Recio Morales

This book has been selected by Choice, a journal which provides book reviews for academic libraries, to be part of their annual Outstanding Academic Title list.…
Bobbio in the early middle ages

Bobbio in the early middle ages

The abiding legacy of Columbanus

Michael Richter

Bobbio was the last monastery founded by St Columbanus, who died two years after its inception. It soon became the most important monastery in northern Italy.

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Restoration Strabane, 1660–1740

Restoration Strabane, 1660–1740

Economy and society in provincial Ireland

William Roulston

During the seventeenth century its larger and more imposing neighbour, Derry, often overshadowed Strabane, in the west of Ulster. Yet the story of Strabane in t…
The lost tradition

The lost tradition

Essays on Middle English alliterative poetry

John Scattergood

Four stresses, a line broken in two by a caesura, and a pattern of alliteration linking the two half-lines were features of the staple manner of Anglo-Saxon ver…