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Roscommon

Roscommon

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

John Burke

The history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 period is one of transition to new political allegiances while retaining old economic desires. Almost wholly dependent o…
Dublin City University, 1980–2020

Dublin City University, 1980–2020

Designed to be different

Eoin Kinsella

Dublin City University has grown rapidly from its origins as the National Institute for Higher Education, Dublin, which opened its doors in November 1980 to adm…
Carrick, County Wexford

Carrick, County Wexford

Ireland’s first Anglo-Norman stronghold

Denis Shine, Michael Potterton, Stephen Mandal & Catherine McLoughlin, editors

Carrick, Co. Wexford, is one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood medieval sites in Ireland. Built in the autumn and winter of 1169 by Robert Fitz Stephen, o…
Moygara Castle, County Sligo and the O’Gara's of Coolavin

Moygara Castle, County Sligo and the O’Gara's of Coolavin

Kieran O’Conor, editor

Moygara Castle, with its four towers, gatehouse and high curtain walls, is one of the most impressive masonry-built monuments in north Connacht. Constructed in …
Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

Alison FitzGerald, editor

Irish silver, for long renowned among collectors and connoisseurs, is increasingly being considered as an aspect of the material world of the past. Its making, …
Medieval Dublin XVIII

Medieval Dublin XVIII

Seán Duffy, editor

This volume contains a number of important papers on an ecclesiastical theme. Lorcan Harney examines early medieval ecclesiastical enclosures in Dublin and its …
Law and revolution in seventeenth-century Ireland

Law and revolution in seventeenth-century Ireland

Coleman A. Dennehy, editor

In October 1641, violence erupted in mid-Ulster that spread throughout the whole kingdom and lasted for more than a decade. The war was neither unpredictable no…
Life, lore and song / 'Binneas an tSiansa'

Life, lore and song / 'Binneas an tSiansa'

Essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin / Aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin

Kelly Fitzgerald, Bairbre Ní Fhloinn, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Anne O’Connor, editors

In Life, lore and song: essays in Irish tradition in honour of Ríonach uí Ógáin / 'Binneas an tSiansa': Aistí in onóir do Ríonach uí Ógáin, twenty-seven contrib…
Irish Anglicanism, 1969–2019

Irish Anglicanism, 1969–2019

Essays to mark the 150th anniversary of the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland

Kenneth Milne & Paul Harron, editors

The publication of this collection of new essays, introduced by the Most Revd Dr Richard Clarke, archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, marks the 150t…
Irish houses and castles, 1400–1740

Irish houses and castles, 1400–1740

Rolf Loeber

This volume assembles Rolf Loeber’s groundbreaking articles on Irish houses and castles from the late medieval period to the mid eighteenth century. Read togeth…