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The Gaelic Finn Tradition

The Gaelic Finn Tradition

Sharon J. Arbuthnot & Geraldine Parsons, editors

Stories of Finn Mac Cumaill and his fían (warband) constitute the most enduringly popular branch of Gaelic literature. These thirteen essays, the first English-…
Clanricard and Thomond, 1540–1640

Clanricard and Thomond, 1540–1640

Provincial politics and society transformed

Bernadette Cunningham

This book compares and contrasts key developments in two neighbouring lordships in counties Galway and Clare, investigating how and why the impact of central go…
Sligo

Sligo

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

Michael Farry

Using a wide array of sources and interviews, Michael Farry has produced a balanced, comprehensive and absorbing study of county Sligo from 1912 when the Irish …
The case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879–85

The case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879–85

Pat Finnegan

At the height of the Land War in 1881, a dispute over land led to the shooting dead of a young man called Peter Doherty near Craughwell, Co. Galway. Intense pol…
Irish socialist republicanism, 1909–36

Irish socialist republicanism, 1909–36

Adrian Grant

This book examines Irish socialist republicanism in the early part of the 20th century. Previous studies of the subject have pointed to the left wing of the IRA…
The Bell magazine and the representation of Irish identity

The Bell magazine and the representation of Irish identity

Kelly Matthews

This new study of The Bell magazine opens a window onto the Irish literary and cultural landscape of the mid-20th century. The Bell, which appeared monthly from…
Mapping, measurement and metropolis

Mapping, measurement and metropolis

How land surveyors shaped eighteenth-century Dublin

Finnian Ó Cionnaith

This comprehensively illustrated book charts the exceptional impact that a small group of land surveyors had on the development of Dublin city during the eighte…
Benedict XVI and beauty in sacred music

Benedict XVI and beauty in sacred music

Janet E. Rutherford editor

The Fota International Liturgy Conferences are dedicated to the elucidation and promotion of Benedict XVI’s vision of liturgical reform, emphasizing the importa…
The mystery of Christ in the fathers of the Church

The mystery of Christ in the fathers of the Church

Janet E. Rutherford & David Woods, editors

The Patristic Symposium, SPCM, has produced this special volume in celebration of the 25th anniversary of its founding by D. Vincent Twomey SVD.

Please see th…
A biographical dictionary of Cork

A biographical dictionary of Cork

Tim Cadogan & Jeremiah Falvey

This book is an original and comprehensive exposition of both native and 'settler' Corkonians, covering such areas as politics, industry, sport, church history …