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They shall grow not old

They shall grow not old

Irish soldiers and the Great War

Myles Dungan

they shall grown no old, as we that are left grow old,
age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn,
at the going down of the sun and in the morning
we wil…
Mister, are you a priest?

Mister, are you a priest?

Edward Daly

Edward Daly was Bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1993. Before then he had been a curate in the Bogside during some of the most turbulent and dramatic years of the N…
Propagating the word of Irish dissent, 1650–1800

Propagating the word of Irish dissent, 1650–1800

Kevin Herlihy, editor

The fourth book in this series on Irish Protestant dissent studies aspects of preaching and teaching. Professor David Hall sets the theme in the wider context o…
Derry labour in the age of agitation, 1889–1923: volume 2
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Derry labour in the age of agitation, 1889–1923: volume 2

Larkinism and syndicalism, 1907–23

Emmet O'Connor

Following on from volume 1 on new unionism and old (1889–1906), volume 2 reviews the impact of Larkinism and syndicalism on Derry. After impressive progress in …
He was Galway
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He was Galway

Máirtín Mór McDonogh, 1860–1934

Jackie Uí Chionna

Martin ‘Máirtín Mór’ McDonogh was, in every sense of the word, Galway’s ‘big man’. A natural entrepreneur, and a man of drive, ambition and no small intellect, …
The tenement dwellers of Church Street, Dublin, 1911

The tenement dwellers of Church Street, Dublin, 1911

Janet Moody

This publication aims to re-constitute a micro-community of 132 families living in Church Street in the heart of the worst slums in Dublin, using the 1911 censu…
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…
Rural tensions in nineteenth-century Knock, County Mayo

Rural tensions in nineteenth-century Knock, County Mayo

Frank Mayes

In 1879 the parish of Knock witnessed both the outbreak of the ‘land war’ and also a reported apparition of the Virgin Mary. The press coverage that resulted fr…
Dublin’s Stained Glass

Dublin’s Stained Glass

A guide to the finest twentieth-century windows

David Caron

This book features thirty sites which contain collections of the finest and most interesting – and in several instances, little known – twentieth-century staine…
The first century of Anglo-Irish relations, AD600–700

The first century of Anglo-Irish relations, AD600–700

The O'Donnell Lecture 2003

Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

Published by the National University of Ireland.

Charles James O’Donnell, born in Donegal and educated in Galway, provided in his will (1935) for a bequest to …