The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine

Ireland in the medieval world, AD400–1000

Landscape, kingship and religion

Edel Bhreathnach

Aimed at the student and general reader, this is a study of Ireland’s people, landscape and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of Brian Bórama.…

Plantagenet Ireland

Robin Frame

For more than two centuries after 1199, Ireland was ruled by Plantagenet kings, lineal descendants of Henry II. The island became closely tied to the English cr…

Charles Owen O’Conor, the O’Conor Don

Landlordism, liberal Catholicism and unionism in nineteenth-century Ireland

Aidan Enright

This book uncovers the world of Charles Owen O’Conor, the O‘Conor Don (1838–1906), one of the most prominent Catholic landlords and Liberal MPs of his generatio…

Roscommon

The Irish Revolution, 1912–23

John Burke

The history of Roscommon in the 1912–23 period is one of transition to new political allegiances while retaining old economic desires. Almost wholly dependent o…

The Kings of Aileach and the Vikings AD 800-1060

Darren McGettigan

The kings of Aileach came to prominence in the north of Ireland c.AD 800, just as the first Viking fleets began to raid the coasts of Ulster. At first, Viking a…

The Geraldines and medieval Ireland

The making of a myth

Peter Crooks & Seán Duffy, editors

Geraldines (or FitzGeralds) are the most celebrated of the dynasties established in Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion; and the dynasty’s most cel…