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Princes, prelates and poets in medieval Ireland

Princes, prelates and poets in medieval Ireland

Essays in honour of Katharine Simms

Seán Duffy editor

This volume presents one of the largest and most authoritative collections of essays on the theme of medieval Ireland to appear in many years. Published to mark…
Christ Church Cathedral Dublin

Christ Church Cathedral Dublin

A history

Kenneth Milne

The cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, commonly called Christ Church, is by Irish standards rich in archival and architectural remains, and so it comes as s…
Hospitality in medieval Ireland, 900–1500

Hospitality in medieval Ireland, 900–1500

Catherine Marie O'Sullivan

Hospitality was, without question, one of the most important social institutions in medieval Ireland. It occupied a prominent place in the pantheon of virtues m…
Medieval Dublin XVI

Medieval Dublin XVI

Proceedings of Clontarf 1014–2014: national conference marking the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf

Seán Duffy, editor

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Trinity College Dublin in April 2014 marking the millennium of the battle of Clontarf, one of the l…
Social memory, reputation and the politics of death in the medieval Irish lordship

Social memory, reputation and the politics of death in the medieval Irish lordship

Joanna MacGugan

Stories of murderous monks, tavern brawls, robberies gone wrong, tragic accidents and criminal gangs from court records reveal how the English of medieval Irela…
The Viking Age: Ireland and the west

The Viking Age: Ireland and the west

Proceedings of the fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 2005

John Sheehan & Donnchadh Ó Corráin, editors

The relationship of Ireland with the Viking World is one of the enduring themes of the study of the Viking Age. The Fifteenth Viking Congress addressed key issu…
The Dublin region in the middle ages
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The Dublin region in the middle ages

Settlement, land-use and economy

Margaret Murphy & Michael Potterton

This is the first major publication of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. The book is a study of the medieval region that contained an…
Transmission and transformation in the Middle Ages

Transmission and transformation in the Middle Ages

Texts and contexts

Jason Harris & Kathleen Cawsey, editors

Nine case studies of cultural or textual transformation in the medieval period are presented here. Written by some of Ireland's leading young medievalists, thes…
Sacred histories
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Sacred histories

A festschrift for Máire Herbert

John Carey, Kevin Murray & Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh, editors

This collection of essays in honour of Máire Herbert focuses primarily on the textual culture of Ireland (in Latin and Irish) in its historical context from the…
Brides of Christ

Brides of Christ

Women and monasticism in medieval and early modern Ireland

Martin Browne OSB, Tracy Collins, Bronagh Ann McShane & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors

Throughout the long history of Irish monasticism, the experience of women monastics has, until recently, been relatively sidelined. A desire to redress this ins…