The Finn (or Fenian) Cycle (fianaigecht ) is classified by modern scholarship as one of four medieval Irish literary cycles along with the Ulster Cycle, the Cycle of Historical Tales (or Cycles of the
This book considers what was written, printed, published, owned and sometimes read in Ireland between 1680 and 1784. It seeks to evaluate the ephemeral and what has subsequently vanished in order to c
This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders, and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a sto
At Mallow petty sessions on 31 October 1893, two young Cork girls were committed to an industrial school at Kinsale, on the south coast of the county. They were committed on the grounds that they were
Why do a number of children look like the local dean? Did you hear that the bishop did not like the communion wine and spat it out, exclaiming "this is the basest wine I have ever tasted"? Such issues
'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
Despite being the female patron saint of Ireland and one of the most remarkable women in Irish history, St Brigid has always been an elusive figure. Some scholars have argued that she never existed as
This is a study of a single riddle as it is transmitted, translated, and transformed over more than a thousand years. Beginning with the influential late-antique riddle text Aenigmata Symphosii, In en
In this book, author John Waddell contends that elements of pre-Christian Celtic myth preserved in medieval Irish literature shed light on older traditions and beliefs not just in Ireland but elsewher
Between the seventh and twelfth centuries, a distinctive form of script and illumination predominated in the manuscripts produced in the milieu of the Irish church. Although associated principally wit
This collection of original essays sheds new light on the political history of Ireland during the Victorian period. These include major reassessments of the attitudes of Queen Victoria and her prime m
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
Food rioting is one of the most studied manifestations of purposeful protest. Practised in Ireland for a century and a half between the early eighteenth century and the Great Famine, 1846-7, author Ja
Castle Hyde is one of the most important surviving country houses in the south of Ireland. This book traces its rise, fall, and rise again in the early twentieth century when it was impressively, rest
Daly retired as a bishop in 1993, and Devlin retired as a parish priest in 2008, and both have served in the Derry Diocesan Archive. They draw from that to list priests alphabetically in the diocese i
Most textbook accounts of the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 note only that Spanish sailors who were washed ashore in Ireland were protected. They do not mention how many Irish were part of the
These essays chart the development of Ciaran Carson's career, scrutinizing his experiments in a new urban poetics, including his obsessive concern with maps and labyrinths. The essays examine his inte
"Trim is one of Ireland's best-known medieval towns, and yet for a very long time many aspects of its early history and development were poorly understood. A series of important archaeological excavat
