This volume contains a collection of essays on the centrepiece of fíanaigecht scholarship, Agallamh na Seanórach ‘The Dialogue of the Ancients’. Initially deliv…
John Skelton (c.1460–1529) wrote poetry and some prose, in Latin and English, for almost forty years, circulating his work through manuscript copies and the new…
John Donne has never seemed a simple figure. For his contemporaries, the poet and preacher, the courtier-turned-convert-turned-celebrity churchman defied defini…
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…
The accepted view of Irish woodlands is that Ireland was covered in trees until the English came and chopped them down. While admirable in its brevity, this int…
In the period prior to the Famine, Ulster’s Protestant community faced major change – social, political and economical. These challenges were created by the col…
Land agents have been stereotypically represented in Irish history as alien, capricious and in general the tormentors of the tenantry. However, to date, no defi…
In the history of Norman monasteries founded in Ireland, the Benedictine priory of Fore stands apart. While many foundations were independent entities and other…
