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Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann/ Folklore of Ireland Council

Comhairle Bhéaloideas Éireann/ Folklore of Ireland Council
Landgartha: a tragie-comedy

Landgartha: a tragie-comedy

By Henry Burnell

Deana Rankin editor

Landgartha (1641), first performed in Dublin on St Patrick’s Day 1640, was the last play produced before political unrest forced the closure of Dublin’s only th…
Irish musical analysis

Irish musical analysis

Irish musical studies 11

Gareth Cox & Julian Horton editors

The extraordinary rise of musicology in Ireland over the last twenty years has generated an increased interest in the sister discipline of music theory and anal…
The Vikings in Ireland and beyond

The Vikings in Ireland and beyond

Before and after the battle of Clontarf

Howard B. Clarke & Ruth Johnson, editors

This richly illustrated book contains contributions by many leading scholars in Viking studies from Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia, on diverse subjects includ…
The Otherworld Voyage in early Irish literature

The Otherworld Voyage in early Irish literature

An anthology of criticism

Jonathan Wooding editor

Prominent in the literature of early Ireland are the tales known as echtrai (adventures) and immrama (voyages), stories telling of journeys to the Otherworld of…
The history of Jack Connor

The history of Jack Connor

by William Chaigneau

Ian Campbell Ross, editor

The history of Jack Connor (1752) is the only, and once very popular, novel of the Irish writer of Huguenot descent, William Chaigneau (1709–81). An example of …
Imagination in the classroom

Imagination in the classroom

Teaching and learning creative writing in Ireland

Anne Fogarty Éilís Ní Dhuibhne & Eibhear Walshe editors

This collection of essays is the first extensive exploration of the history and practice of teaching creative writing as a distinct discipline in Ireland. The v…
Children's literature on the move

Children's literature on the move

Nations, translations, migrations

Nora Maguire & Beth Rodgers editors

Children’s Literature on the Move is the sixth volume in the Studies in Children’s Literature series. From translating Alice in Wonderland for a newly independe…
The Irish Parliamentary Party and the third Home Rule crisis

The Irish Parliamentary Party and the third Home Rule crisis

James McConnel

But for the 1916 Rising, self-governing Ireland’s founding political generation would have been drawn not from Sinn Féin and the IRA, but from among the ranks o…
An island's law

An island's law

A bibliographical guide to Ireland’s legal past

W.N. Osborough

In its 25th anniversary year, the Irish Legal History Society republishes two bibliographical essays by its progenitor and former president, Professor W.N. Osbo…