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The National University of Ireland First World War Centenary Roll of Honour and Essays

Ronan McGreevy & Emer Purcell

At the beginning of the First World War, many Irish men were enticed to enlist by the promise of home rule, while others may have joined up to secure a decent l…

Brides of Christ

Women and monasticism in medieval and early modern Ireland

Martin Browne OSB, Tracy Collins, Bronagh Ann McShane & Colmán Ó Clabaigh OSB, editors

Throughout the long history of Irish monasticism, the experience of women monastics has, until recently, been relatively sidelined. A desire to redress this ins…

Magnates and Merchants in Early Modern Kilkenny

Jane Fenlon & Sarah Maguire

In the early modern period Kilkenny was the largest inland town in Ireland, where several factors had come into play that enabled the growth of prosperity and a…

Two Lives of Saint Brigid

Philip Freeman

St Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at K…

Spirit of Revolution

Ireland from below, 1917–1923

John Cunningham & Terry Dunne, editors

In the spring of 1919, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote: ‘The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit of revolution. There is a deep sense not only …

Anglicizing Tudor Connacht

The expansion of English rule in the lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many

Joseph Mannion

At the beginning of the sixteenth century, the south Connacht lordships of Clanrickard and Hy Many lay beyond the effective control of the Tudor government. Cla…

Armagh

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Donal Hall & Eoin Magennis

County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy betw…

The Irish-Scottish World in the Middle Ages

Seán Duffy, David Ditchburn & Peter Crooks, editors

In this volume, the proceedings of the second Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium (marking the 700th anniversary of the invasion of Ireland by Edward, brother of…

Representing Belfast's pasts

Raymond Gillespie & Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, editors

From port to commercial centre, and from textile town to centre of shipbuilding, Belfast has adapted, chameleon-like, to changing circumstances. Each of these c…

Limestone and River

Essays on Thomond history in honour of Liam Irwin

Catherine Swift, Brian Hodkinson & Tom Donovan, editors

From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick’s long history as Ireland’s oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its natural backdrop of …

Monasticism in Ireland, AD 900-1250

Edel Bhreathnach

The history of monasticism in early Ireland is dominated by its flourishing during the sixth and seventh centuries, a period dominated by Columba of Iona and Co…

Meath

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

This book looks at the people of Meath during the turmoil of the revolutionary era. As politics, war and revolution intruded on daily life, some embraced the ch…