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The Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin

The Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin

Michael English

Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge is one of the symbols of the city. Opened on 19 May 1816, the first dedicated footbridge over the river Liffey, it was also the first i…
Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising

Dublin City Council and the 1916 Rising

John Gibney, editor

The Easter Rising mostly took place in Ireland’s capital city and directly impacted on Dublin City Council. Some fighting occurred in sites belonging to the cou…
The Three Castles of Dublin

The Three Castles of Dublin

An eclectic history of Dublin through the evolution of the city's Coat of Arms

Michael English

The Three Castles have been the symbol of Dublin since 1230AD, when they first appeared on a city seal as three towers situated around one of the fortified gate…
Red Hugh O'Donnell and the Nine Years War

Red Hugh O'Donnell and the Nine Years War

Darren McGettigan

The war fought in Ireland from 1594 to 1603 was one of the most destructive and costly ever to take place on the island. By its end many thousands were dead, la…
Mister, are you a priest?

Mister, are you a priest?

Edward Daly

Edward Daly was Bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1993. Before then he had been a curate in the Bogside during some of the most turbulent and dramatic years of the N…
Ourselves Alone?

Ourselves Alone?

Religion, society and politics in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ireland: essays presented to S.J. Connolly

D.W. Hayton & Andrew R. Holmes, editors

This collection of new work by established scholars explores a range of topics in the history of Ireland between the Williamite Revolution and the mid-nineteent…
Richmond Barracks 1916

Richmond Barracks 1916

“We were there” – 77 women of the Easter Rising

Mary McAuliffe & Liz Gillis

‘Not the least of the betrayals following the 1916 Rising was the way in which the women who took part in it were subsequently written out of the chronicles. Th…
The politics of judicial selection in Ireland
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The politics of judicial selection in Ireland

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill

Nominated for Law Book of the Year by the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association

“A defense of the basic principles of democracy ... This book is indispensable for…
Ireland and Quebec
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Ireland and Quebec

Multidisciplinary perspectives on history, culture and society

Margaret Kelleher & Michael Kenneally, editors

The essays in this volume bring together leading Irish and Québécois scholars from eight different disciplines (history, literature, linguistics, design and mat…
Dublin, 1950–1970

Dublin, 1950–1970

Houses, flats and high rise

Joseph Brady

Housing occupies more land than any other urban use and it helps define the character of any city. Dublin continued to expand its footprint during the 1950s and…