The two Carlist wars are probably the least remembered, outside Spain, of the civil conflicts of the country. In the first of these, as in 1936, foreign volunte…
Children’s traditional street-games play an important part in the folk-life of a country. This book will help parents and educators to realize how happy childre…
The battle of Kinsale, 1601, fought during the Nine Years War of 1594–1603, marked a turning point in Irish history. However, although the political power of th…
This book is designed to provide historians and all those interested in local history, specifically the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with prac…
Dublin is an unusual city in having two Anglican cathedrals within a few hundred yards of each other, St Patrick’s cathedral and the diocesan cathedral of Chris…
On 31 July 1835 the body of a local catholic curate, Fr John Walsh, was found near Kilgraney bridge near Borris in County Carlow. How had he died? It was likely…
This 7th volume of proceedings of the annual Friends of Medieval Dublin symposium contains, in the archaeological arena, John Ó Néill's assessment of the signif…
The English exchequer customs accounts are the most thorough, comprehensive and long-running records of foreign trade to exist for any country in the pre-modern…
Charles Trevelyan, the assistant secretary to the Treasury during the Famine years, has received the bulk of the blame for the government’s parsimonious respons…
In 2009–2010 Ireland experienced a remarkable sequence of weather disasters and freak natural occurrences. The summer of 2009 broke all sorts of rainfall record…
