Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History. This book investigates crime and sentencing at petty sessions, quarter sessions and assizes in Kilkenny city in …
Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History. This book is based on the burning of Ballydugan house in 1922, a middle-sized country house on a 1,500-acre esta…
Between 1905 and 1915 The Lepracaun Cartoon Monthly satirized society and politics in Dublin and beyond. Its proprietor, editor and chief cartoonist Thomas Fitz…
Dublin’s Mansion House is the only mayoral residence in Ireland and is older than any surviving in Great Britain. Originally the town house of merchant and prop…
This collection of essays looks at the interrelated themes of Catholicism, violence and politics in the Irish context in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.…
Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017 Beginning in the early 17th century and continuing to the present day, the city of Dubli…
The decade between 1938 and 1948 was a time of immense upheaval across Europe which deeply affected Irish writers and artists. Many of them had travelled extens…
Foreword by former President Bill Clinton John Hume, civil rights activist, founding member of the SDLP and leading politician in Northern Ireland during the l…
This volume opens with John Barnes exploring how Dante’s views on and experience of war are reflected in his literary works. Joseph Canning, addressing Dante’s …
This volume opens with the bold suggestion that the seven deadly sins constitute a key to the structure of Inferno and Paradiso as well as Purgatorio. It ends w…
