With the dramatic increase in trade witnessed in Belfast during the seventeenth century, large numbers of Scottish families were attracted by the town's economi…
This book offers a major reassessment of the work of Brendan Behan (1923–64), author of The Quare Fellow, The Hostage and Borstal Boy. It charts Behan’s intelle…
This new edition of the book contains questions for parents and teachers on the subject of each chapter. Acclaimed originally when first published in 1992, this…
This collection of essays looks at aspects of conflict and polarization in the north of Ireland during the twentieth century and illustrates that division was n…
This collection of essays, assembled to celebrate the acquisition of the Geoffrey Aspin collection of 17th-century books by Trinity College Dublin, focuses on t…
These essays show how Dante’s Commedia was appropriated across Europe through the ages, beginning in 15th-century Spain and finishing in 19th-century Italy. Pub…
This anthology uses extracts from a wide variety of sources, to examine social and geographical change in Donegal over the past five centuries. Combining the ap…
This collection provides a number of important perspectives on the Anglo-Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen. Drawn from the annual lectures at the church in Farahy…
Between 1641 and 1649 Charles I experienced either civil war or insurrection in his three kingdoms. This book examines how English weekly newsbooks reported the…
