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The Irish brigade in the Pope’s army 1860

The Irish brigade in the Pope’s army 1860

Faith, fatherland and fighting

Donal Corcoran

In 1860, some 1,300 young men from Ireland answered the call to cross Europe and defend Pope Pius IX’s Papal States, the territory he ruled on the Italian Penin…
Documents of Irish music history in the long nineteenth century

Documents of Irish music history in the long nineteenth century

Irish Musical Studies volume 12

Kerry Houston, Maria McHale & Michael Murphy, editors

This volume explores various aspects of Ireland's musical past through the lens of historical documents. The contributors have examined a range of published and…
Church and Settlement in Ireland

Church and Settlement in Ireland

James Lyttleton & Matthew Stout, editors

Published in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement and the American Society for Irish Medieval Studies, this exciting new book f…
The cultural reception of the Bible

The cultural reception of the Bible

Explorations in theology, literature and the arts

Salvador Ryan & Liam M. Tracey OSM, editors

The Bible is undoubtedly the most influential ‘book’ that the world has ever known. In thirty essays, this wide-ranging volume examines the cultural impact of b…
Tristernagh Priory, Co. Westmeath

Tristernagh Priory, Co. Westmeath

Colonial monasticism in medieval Ireland

Tadhg O’Keeffe

Little remains of the Augustinian priory of Tristernagh, Co. Westmeath, founded by Geoffrey de Costentin around the year 1200 and dedicated to the Blessed Virgi…
The Parnell split in Westmeath

The Parnell split in Westmeath

The bishop and the newspaper editor

Michael Nolan

This book tells the story of the Parnell split in Westmeath and argues that it was part of a wider revolt by a section of the Catholic middle class against the …
Fleeing from famine in Connemara

Fleeing from famine in Connemara

James Hack Tuke and his assisted emigration scheme in the 1880s

Gerard Moran

Between 1882 and 1884, the English Quaker and philanthropist James Hack Tuke assisted nearly 5,000 people, mainly families, to emigrate from Connemara – paying …
The Walker Testimonial and symbolic conflict in Derry

The Walker Testimonial and symbolic conflict in Derry

Heather Stanfiel

How did one 19th-century memorial to a 17th-century figure come to be so significant in the city of Derry that it would generate conflict for nearly 200 years? …
Louth

Louth

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

Donal Hall

This is the first comprehensive account of County Louth’s experience of the revolutionary period (1912–23), revealing a county with a strong industrial and agri…
The Great Famine in Kinsale

The Great Famine in Kinsale

Catherine Flanagan

This book examines the effects of the Great Famine on the people of Kinsale and surrounding countryside. It shows how famine, death and disease took their toll …