Humans are fallible and heroes are not perfect. The men and women examined in this volume are par...

Examines the history of the Irish landscape since the last Ice Age until now.

Opening up a topic long closed to debate, this is the first study ever to survey the developments...

How do people transform a house, condo, or flat into a home that nourishes body and soul? This bo...

Discover how Irish revolutionaries transformed their independence struggle into a global diplomat...

Dive into the captivating journey of Irish pubs from humble 17th-century taverns to today's globa...

Reformation Women in Ireland, 1660-1760

In this unique book, Irish women who stayed living on the island, who did not emigrate, describe ...

In the middle of the nineteenth century thousands of Irish children, some as young as two years o...

Luke Kelly (1940-1984) was an Irish singer and folk musician from Dublin, most famous as a member...

The Atlas of the Irish Revolution draws together existing and ongoing new research into the revol...

Landscapes across Europe were transformed, both physically and conceptually, during the early med...

George Boole was appointed first Professor of Mathematics at the newly founded Queen's College Co...

This book provides a political and geographical history of how boglands (or bogs) are represented...

How do we give a future to the past? How do we perform acts of double remembrance which honor bot...

After decades of neglect--and indeed misrepresentation--this atlas seeks to put Donegal on the ma...

'The devastation of disease, the pace of death, and fears of contagion not only altered the pract...

Even considering recent advances in the development of women's studies as a discipline, women rem...

In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, poor people were, in places, so 'reduced' that they treate...

Between 1980 and 2015 the one-way story of emigration from Ireland to America changed. The Irish ...

This is the first full-length critical study of author, critic, and translator Hannah Lynch. It e...

Even before the end of the union with Britain, southern Irish unionists were being represented as...

The scale of the Great Irish Famine, and the horror of it, were unprecedented. It permeated every...

With its penchant for comic doubling and self-contradiction, Flann O'Brien's writing displays an ...

The period c. 1200-1600 was marked by the achievements and decline of the Anglo-Norman colony in ...

Previously published as: The kick: a life among writers, London: Granta, 2002.

The history of Cork City is built around the River Lee and the access to the open sea. The Cork D...

Through the lives and work, rest and play of Protestant participants in the new Ireland - sportsm...

Lyn Madden worked for twenty years as a prostitute until one night she watched her lover and pimp...

This book is an account of the life and early career of John Edward Redmond (1856-1918). Breaking...

This book looks at the development of sport in Donegal from 1880 until 1935. It is the first book...

Combining close textual analysis with theoretically informed readings, this group of internationa...

The first interdisciplinary study of violence and the modern Irish experience, Shadows of the Gun...

This is the first book-length study dedicated to the Ulster Literary Theatre. Officially establis...

Ireland Through the Looking Glass explores O'Nolan's broad-ranging humor (as novelist and newspap...

Richard Murphy's poetry is central to the evolution of Irish poetry since 1950. These original es...

Samuel Beckett referred to Brendan Behan as 'the new O'Casey' and yet, despite all his internatio...

This book examines the development of sports in Victorian Ireland using the example of Westmeath ...

Tracing the cultural origins of this particular period in maritime plunder from the late-1500s an...

This collection of essays, written by many of the foremost McGahern scholars, provides solid reas...

Public concerns about the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry have intensified in recent ye...

After Bloody Sunday investigates the ways in which the events in Derry on January 30, 1972, have ...

The influence of revivalism is writ large in the history of modern Ireland, particularly as we co...

The Natural History of Ireland by Philip O'Sullivan Beare (c.1590 - 1660) is an important source ...

This annotated anthology of poems makes available a rich variety of Irish texts depicting the rel...

Sisters

This book looks at relationships in all their forms -whether between a parent and child, two love...

Anna's adopted. She's also 14, sassy and bored, and fed up with her siblings. All she wants to do...