While ' an Englishman's home is his castle', in Ireland virtually all castles were built for defe...

The life and politics of Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, 1862-1935

This book chronicles the ending of landlordism in Carlow. In the depression of the late 1870s ten...

Donegal town, 1474-1974

Scandal, satire and the battle for reputation in Limerick's ascendancy, 1815-20

The day-books of Joshua Boyle

John Boyle, the Freeholder and pre-Famine Cork society

Lough is one of the most significant archaeological sites ever discovered in Ireland. From 1980 t...

'A miserable thing to be a woman'

To augment the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Land War, 1879- 82, a new auxiliary police for...

Ireland's first sanitorium

Arrogant Trespass is the first sustained treatment of the Anglo-Normans in Wexford since Orpen's ...

W.N. Osborough was described by the Irish Times on his death in 2020 as Ireland's ' greatest lega...

This book represents the first interdisciplinary study of early Irish kingship. Kingship represen...

This volume contains the proceedings of a recent Edinburgh conference at which scholars discussed...

In 1912, a bloodless revolution had already taken place in Monaghan that resulted in the overthro...

Recounting the eventful travels of Selim, an intrepid young Arab who runs away from his parental ...

This volume explores the provenance, mechanisms and impact of land legislation and land reform in...

Lord Anglesey was a war hero and glamorous figure in London society when appointed lord lieutenan...

Irish silver, for long renowned among collectors and connoisseurs, is increasingly being consider...

At the beginning of the First World War, many Irish men were enticed to enlist by the promise of ...

This book explores a new way of looking at the reformation in Ireland. Traditionally Irish histor...

Uncover the life of a prominent Catholic landlord and MP in 19th-century Ireland. This biography ...

This volume brings together Nicola Gordon Bowe's most important writings on the Arts and Crafts m...

The Lismore (O'Callaghan) estate under William Robert Hood Rochfort, 1891-1902, in Counties Cork,...

There was something about the form and substance of the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled in t...

Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, bu...

A critical edition of the Latin Lives of St Laurence O'Toole, a key figure in 12th-century Ireland.

County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict durin...

Building Mitchelstown, 1779-1830

Cené l nEó gain, a royal dynasty from Inishowen in Donegal, defeated its previously more successf...

In the ten years since its publication by Four Courts Press in 2011, a dictionary of Irish saints...

Throughout the long history of Irish monasticism, the experience of women monastics has, until re...

In the spring of 1919, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote: ' The whole of Europe is fille...

The Finn (or Fenian) Cycle (fianaigecht) is classified by modern scholarship as one of four medie...

The Irish Jacobite army was the largest body of Irish soldiers ever to go into battle prior to th...

Explore Dublin's rich medieval past through new scholarly research.

From the inception of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, Irish women and men were activel...

This collection of focused, cohesive and persuasive essays is based on the newest research on gen...

Marking the 2020 centenary of his death, this book explores the judicial legacy of chief baron Ch...

Ireland is an island, situated on the western fringes of Atlantic Europe. Any settlers to this is...

This book explores the workings of the Cork Street Fever Hospital in Dublin's south-western quart...

This collection featuring eleven essays by established and early career scholars explores multipl...

The Ó Cellaig (O' Kelly) lordship of Uí Maine and Tí r Maine was a substantial political territor...

During a robbery on 10 March 1844, 14-year-old servant Mary Doherty was murdered in a farmhouse n...

The world-famous collection of manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin Library largely consists of ...

Discover the untold story of Fermanagh during the Irish Revolution, 1912-1923.

The ' long seventeenth century' was a time of enormous religious and political change in Ireland,...