Essays from over forty leading experts on Insular art c.AD400-1500, across all media including stone, vellum, cloth, metal and glass. Along with its customary focus on art of the Insular world of Brit
In 1912, a revolution had already taken place in Monaghan, a bloodless revolution that had resulted in the overthrow of one ruling elite, which was replaced by another. What began in 1912 with the sig
'Harp studies' presents new research on the Irish harp with perspectives from the disciplines of ethnomusicology, musicology, history, arts practice, folklore and cultural studies. Themes explored in
Charles James O'Donnell, born 1850, provided a bequest in 1935 to fund an annual lecture in the National University of Ireland on the history of Ireland since the time of Cromwell, with particular ref
Scholars from Scotland and elsewhere gathered on the island of Iona in September 2004 to mark the sixth centenary of Adomnan's (627-704) death. He was abbot of the monastery there for the last 25 year
Theological scholars explore teachings by Christian fathers of both the east and west from the second to the 20th centuries on the nature and activity of the Holy Spirit. Among the 10 topics are the H
This is the story of the men of the Kimmage Garrison who formed part of the vanguard of the Revolution in Dublin in 1916. The garrison comprised of approximately 90 men who were members of the Irish V
During the Second World War, aircraft (all German) dropped bombs on this officially neutral state on a number of occasions. On the nights of 2 and 3 January bombs were dropped for the first time on Du
This book traces the emergence of a Protestant middle-class family in late eighteenth-century Dublin. From relative obscurity, in just three generations, the Shaw family were to rise to the highest e
Onl 31 July 1835 the body of a local Catholic curate, Fr John Walsh, was found near Kilgraney bridge near Borris in Country Carlow. His death was most likely from being thrown from his horse, but in
This impressive volume, the first publication of the Discovery Programme's Medieval Rural Settlement Project, presents a scholarly summary of the archaeological and historical research to date on the
In charting previously unexplored patterns of communicative practice, these essays by leading experts examine the interchange between written and verbal cultures in Ireland from the seventeenth centu
Editors Breathnach (history, University of Limerick) and art historian Lawless present an interdisciplinary collection of essays in which the authors combine visual evidence with written to create a n
This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Trinity College Dublin in April 2014 marking the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf, one of the landmark events in Irish history. Organiz
This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Trinity College Dublin in April 2014 marking the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf, one of the landmark events in Irish history. Organiz
Martin 'Mairtin Mor' McDonogh was, in every sense of the word, Galway's 'big man'. A natural entrepreneur, and a man of drive, ambition and no small intellect, he took his father's company, Thomas McD
O'Connor's short stories are in virtually every anthology of modern Irish literature worth its salt, but he was also a skilled translator, poet, dramatist, novelist, critic and essayist in a time when
This volume opens with an essay where "style" is viewed medievally, as a near-synonym of "genre," with Zygmunt Baranski arguing that to fully appreciate the presence of Horace in Dante's works, the co
Scholars of language, literature, and other humanities consider Stokes as an individual, as a codifier of Anglo-Indian law and an Irishman living in London and India, and as a Celticist and translator
