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Medieval Irish pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela
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Medieval Irish pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela

Bernadette Cunningham

There has been a tremendous resurgence of interest in pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. In this book the author reveals a story of a much longer connection …
Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850

Book collecting in Ireland and Britain, 1650–1850

Elizabethanne Boran, editor

This volume explores the world of book collecting in early modern Ireland and Britain. It investigates the modalities of collecting texts, both manuscript and p…
Limerick

Limerick

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

John O'Callaghan

Limerick was a key social, political and military battleground during the Irish revolution of 1912–23. By examining a wide range of contemporary sources, O’Call…
Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present

Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present

Peter Crooks & Thomas Mohr, editors

Magna Carta is among the most famous documents in the history of the world, credited with being the first effective check in writing on arbitrary, oppressive an…
The making of medieval Derry

The making of medieval Derry

Ciarán J. Devlin

‘[T]his is a most comprehensive and in many ways a revolutionary work which [...] will stand the test of time and find a place on the book shelves of anyone who…
J.G. Farrell’s Empire Novels

J.G. Farrell’s Empire Novels

The decline and fall of the human condition

Rebecca Ziegler

Despite its name, the real subject of J.G. Farrell’s three-and-a-half-book Empire Series is not the British empire, but the human condition, a state characteriz…
Religion, landscape and settlement in Ireland

Religion, landscape and settlement in Ireland

From Patrick to present

Kevin Whelan

Published in association with the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement

Irish history is often past and furious and nowhere more contentiously than …
The Egan Irish Harps

The Egan Irish Harps

Tradition, patrons and players

Nancy Hurrell

An Ireland without harps is inconceivable, but in 1800 the native Gaelic harp had become obsolete. This is the compelling story of John Egan (fl.1797–1829), a s…
Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916
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Defending Trinity College Dublin, Easter 1916

Anzacs and the Rising

Rory Sweetman

Little has been written on Trinity College’s role in Easter Week 1916 as a ‘loyal nucleus’ dividing the insurgents and providing an effective counterweight to r…
The shattered worlds of Standish O'Grady

The shattered worlds of Standish O'Grady

An Irish life in writing

Christopher Boettcher

Standish O’Grady (1846–1928) is best remembered as the ‘Father of the Irish Literary Revival’. Critics of have long puzzled, however, about the turns and contra…