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The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England

The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England

Ambrose Macaulay

Catholics in Ireland and England campaigning for relief from the penal laws, and later, for emancipation, were obliged to deal with the Holy See and the governm…
Grave Matters
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Grave Matters

Death and dying in Dublin, 1500 to the present

Lisa Marie Griffith & Ciarán Wallace, editors

Grave Matters examines the universal subject of death – looking at the particular experience of death, burial and commemoration in Dublin since the sixteenth ce…
Politics, interdenominational relations and education in the public ministry of Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin, 1786–1834

Politics, interdenominational relations and education in the public ministry of Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin, 1786–1834

Thomas McGrath

Bishop James Doyle of Kildare and Leighlin (J.K.L) is regarded by many as the outstanding Irish bishop of the nineteenth century. This new book and its companio…
Richard II and the Irish kings

Richard II and the Irish kings

Darren McGettigan

Most late-medieval kings of England showed little interest in their lordship of Ireland. They showed even less interest in the Gaelic Irish population of the is…
Medieval Dublin XVI

Medieval Dublin XVI

Proceedings of Clontarf 1014–2014: national conference marking the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf

Seán Duffy, editor

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Trinity College Dublin in April 2014 marking the millennium of the battle of Clontarf, one of the l…
Frontiers, states and identity in early modern Ireland and beyond

Frontiers, states and identity in early modern Ireland and beyond

Essays in honour of Steven G. Ellis

Christopher Maginn & Gerald Power, editors

The scholarship of the influential historian Steven G. Ellis provides inspiration and coherence to this collection of original essays assembled in his honour. E…
Episcopal visitations of the diocese of Meath, 1622–1799

Episcopal visitations of the diocese of Meath, 1622–1799

Michael O'Neill, editor

The visitation records of the Church of Ireland were largely destroyed in the fire in the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922, thus greatly enhancing the si…
The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

The history and heritage of St James's Hospital, Dublin

Davis Coakley & Mary Coakley

The history of St James’s Hospital stretches back to 1703 when an act was passed to build a workhouse on its site. Just under thirty years later a foundling hos…
The Nugents of Westmeath and Queen Elizabeth's Irish primer

The Nugents of Westmeath and Queen Elizabeth's Irish primer

Denis Casey

This is the first in-depth study of the oldest surviving ‘beginner’s guide’ to the Irish language. Christopher Nugent, baron of Delvin, presented Queen Elizabet…
The world of Thomas Ward

The world of Thomas Ward

Sex and scandal in late-17th century Co. Antrim

Eamon Darcy

Why do a number of children look like the local dean? Did you hear that the bishop did not like the communion wine and spat it out, exclaiming “this is the base…