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The lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages

The lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages

Revised edition

James Lydon

The lordship of Ireland in the middle ages was vested in the English crown by the famous grant of Pope Adrian IV in 1155, resulting in the invasion of 1169. Thi…
Hearing Heaney

Hearing Heaney

The sixth Seamus Heaney lectures

Eugene McNulty & Ciarán Mac Murchaidh editors

The impact of Seamus Heaney on the cultural landscape has been profound and far-reaching. His sure-footed voice has been an important record of our time and pla…
The South Circular Road, Dublin, on the eve of the First World War

The South Circular Road, Dublin, on the eve of the First World War

Catherine Scuffil

This publication examines life for Dublin’s South Circular Road population under a variety of topics using databases created with the 1911 census data supported…
The Otherworld

The Otherworld

Music & song from Irish tradition

Ríonach uí Ógáin & Tom Sherlock editors

Belief in the existence of a parallel world and in otherworldly phenomena has long been established in Irish tradition and facets of such belief continue to be …
Italian novels of peasant crisis, 1930–1950

Italian novels of peasant crisis, 1930–1950

Bonfires in the night

Brian Moloney

This book brings together the insights of historians and critics to examine the account given in a range of novels of the effect on peasant society of Fascist r…
The alchemy of medicine and print

The alchemy of medicine and print

The Edward Worth Library, Dublin

Danielle Westerhof, editor

This volume arises from a conference held in November 2008 at the Royal Society in London to mark the 275th anniversary of the establishment of the Edward Worth…
The Christological assimilation of the apocalypse

The Christological assimilation of the apocalypse

An essay on fundamental eschatology

Paul O'Callaghan

Biblical apocalyptic texts that make imminent predictions of the end of the world as we know it, have fascinated Christians from the earliest times. Understanda…
Who killed the Franks family?

Who killed the Franks family?

Agrarian violence in pre-Famine Cork

Denis A. Cronin

This study examines the violent world of north Cork during the Rockite disturbances of the early 1820s. Agrarian gangs attempted to regulate rural society, thre…
Dublin, 1745–1922

Dublin, 1745–1922

Hospitals, spectacle & vice

Gary A. Boyd

Based on material from the Rotunda Hospital, the Lock (venereal) Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables, this book challenges the vision of 18th-century Dubli…
The registers of Christ Church Cathedral

The registers of Christ Church Cathedral

Raymond Refaussé & Colm Lennon, editors

Among the most important of modern documents associated with Christ Church Cathedral are the registers of baptisms, marriages and burials which stretch from 171…