This volume offers new perspectives on kingship and royal landscapes in Ireland and abroad in thirteen essays by leading experts which consider how topography, …
No standard format attaches to the composition of judgments by judges working within the Common Law dispensation. Normally, of course, we get a recital of the f…
Margaret Aylward was a wealthy Waterford woman who devoted her considerable talents to improving the lot of poor families in Dublin during the second half of th…
Michael Moore, priest, philosopher and educationalist, was one of the most prominent Irish émigré scholars of the 17th and early 18th centuries. He rose to prom…
David Howlett presents a radically new text, translation, and analysis of Muirchú Moccu Macthéni's Life of Saint Patrick, with newly discovered internal confirm…
Patrick McAlister was bishop of Down and Connor for only nine years, but during that short episcopate he had to cope with the worst riots of the 19th century in…
The passive and active of 'pawns or players' is in many ways the kernel of the ongoing debate within the analysis of the role of women in the past. The essays, …
A rare historical continuum in Anglo-Irish history ran from 1558 until 1612, years dominated by William and Robert Cecil, father and son. Among the significant …
This book charts the attempts made to introduce religious reforms into the diocese of Meath during the 16th century. The study opens with an investigation of th…
This study seeks to assess the role of informers in the 1790s in Ireland, and it does so in two ways. First, it offers a detailed assessment of the dozen or so …
