A Danger to the Men? A History of Women in Trinity College Dublin 1904-2004

'Insightful and thought-provoking.' - Mary Robinson, President of Ireland 1990 - 1997

For over three hundred years, Trinity College, Dublin - founded in 1592 - refused entry to women. In 1892, this bar wa...

A Flame Now Quenched Rebels & Frenchmen In Leitrim: 1793-1798

'A fine study with an exemplary apparatus... A Flame Now Quenched represents a significant addition to the publications which have marked the bicentenary of 1798.'
- Daire Keogh, Studies

The Irish rebellion of 1798 comprised a scattered seri...

Ancestral Voices The Big House in Anglo-Irish Literature

The Big House motif has long been prominent in Anglo-Irish literature, but a comprehensive study of the subject is still awaited. Ancestral Voices brings together new essays on relevant work by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Lever, George Moore, Somerville ...

As By Law Established The Church of Ireland since the Reformation

'As the churches decline, interest in their history paradoxically increases.' These sixteen essays in ecclesiastical history, selected from research papers presented at the 1993 UCD Conference on the Church of Ireland, constitute the best of recent and...

Dan Donnelly: Pugilist, Publican, Playboy

This book tells the remarkable story of an Irishman whose exploits in the bare-knuckle ring made him into an early 19th century folk hero. His victories over highly regarded English opponents came in the wake of several armed rebellions and were seen as sy...

Field of Bones: An Irish Division at Gallipoli

‘Masterly and moving … Philip Orr enhances his already high reputation as a military historian for not only illuminating and meticulous command of detail but for a sense of balance and a fair-mindedness too rare in work on the long-neglec...

Forgotten Stones

CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT

This guide to the 'forgotten stones' of early ecclesiastical sites and buildings is a lovingly detailed record of 82 churches secreted in the hundred-odd square miles of the Burren, a primeval li...

Franciscan Ireland

Franciscan Ireland tells the story of the arrival and spread of the Order of Friars Minor in Ireland from 1226 to present day. It encompasses the work of foreign missions, other Orders within the Franciscan family, and the rich legacy of Franciscan ar...

Gaelic and Gaelicized Ireland in the Middle Ages

When the first edition of this book appeared in 1972 it was acclaimed as a revolutionary breakthrough in the study of late medieval Ireland and of the autonomous lordships into which it was divided. Since then it has repeatedly and extensively cited a...

Goodly Barrow: A Voyage on an Irish River

'Not so much a book to be read as a wine to be savoured. ... The blend of scholarship and imaginative sensibility is rare.' - Sean O'Faolain

Goodly Barrow is a long-unavailable classic that charts the history and character of Irel...

Grattan:A Life

'Grattan's Parliament' has a permanent place in Irish historical lore, but who was Henry Grattan? R.B. McDowell's biography traces the varied career of this elusive figure whose political fortunes were as tempestuous as his own character.

McDowell begi...

High Tension: Life on the Shannon Scheme

High Tension lends an entirely different dimension to the history of the great hydro-electric Shannon Scheme of 1925-1929. Hitherto the story has been told from an engineering viewpoint. Now historian Michael McCarthy brings new perspectives to bear on the...

Historical Essays 1938-2001

'No one alive has waded through more collections of correspondence, legislation, administrative records, ecclesiastical and collegiate fasti, than Professor McDowell. His knowledge of the fine print of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is truly aweso...

Ideology and the Historians

Exaggerated reports have been heard of history's demise, with sociology or postmodernism as suspected killer. At the heart of this debate lies the notion of Ideology, addressed here in a wide-ranging series of papers by Irish and international his...

Ireland and the European Union: The First Thirty Years

Ireland, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, has changed enormously since 1973 when the Irish electorate's decision to join the then European Economic Community was put into effect. The country is different and so too are its people. Ireland ...

Land & Learning: Two Irish Clubs

This is the tale of two Dublin gentlemen's clubs, Kildare Street (founded in 1782) and University (founded in 1849), which united in 1975 to become the Kildare Street and University Club. Since their formation each has done much to nurture, and to...

Life of Colman

This work, whose full title is Life of Colman, son of Luachain, or Betha Colmain maic Luachain, is a thirteenth-century Life of a seventh-century saint Colman (who first gave Mullingar its name, 'the wry mill', An Muileann gCearr), written ori...

Longford Essays in County History

'A very valuable addition to our understanding of one county... any native of the county or anybody interested in history generally will find that it illuminates a hidden corner of the past.'
- Stephen Collins, The Sunday Press

Longford, Ess...

Men, Women and War

Military conflict is a perennial feature of human society. These essays by leading historians from Belgium, Canada, England, France, Ireland, Norway and the USA share an appreciation that war is central to historical experience in the modern world. R...

Refiguring Ireland: Essays in Honour of L.M. Cullen

This collection of essays has been specially commissioned in order to mark the quite exceptional contribution that Louis Cullen has made to historical studies in Ireland and abroad over the last forty-five years, spanning economic, social, cultural and pol...

That Woman - Studies in Irish Bibliography: A Festschrift for Mary 'Paul' Pollard

Dr Mary 'Paul' Pollard is the most distinguished historian of the book in Ireland. Her two volumes, Dublin's Trade in Books 1550-1800 (Oxford, 1989) and Dictionary of members of the Dublin booktrade 1550-1800 (London, 2000) received international acclaim a...

The Atlantean Irish: Ireland's Oriental and Maritime Heritage

Foreword by Barry Cunliffe, Professor of European Archaeology

Irish identity is best understood from a maritime perspective. For eight millennia the island has been a haven for explorers, settlers, colonists, navigators, pirates and traders, ...

The Bible War in Ireland: The 'Second Reformation' and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840

NB THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT

' With evangelical politics born again on a global scale, Irene Whelan's vivid and compelling account of nineteenth-century Ireland is a timely reminder of the intolerance and intensity that acc...

The Bold Collegians The Development of Sport in Trinity College, Dublin

Modern sport - with its teams, rules, clubs and federations - evolved as a Victorian phenomenon, beginning in English public schools and spreading to the ancient universities and thenc...

The Farm By Lough Gur

The Farm by Lough Gur was first published in London in 1937 and quickly reprinted. It was well received in England and a best-seller in Dublin. Some questioned its quiet recall of an elysian rural Ireland before the Land War, its image of a contented Victo...

The Hidden Ireland: Reassessment of a Concept

Daniel Corkery's The Hidden Ireland: A Study of Gaelic Munster in the Eighteenth Century, has had sustained appeal since its publication in 1925. There Corkery used literary evidence to sustain a picture of relieved poverty and oppression, spiritu...

The Hist & Edmund Burke's Club

'An admirable and varied anthology.'
- Frank Callanan, The Irish Times

The College Historical Society has been a microcosm of the politics of Ireland since the first discussions in Edmund Burke's Club in 1747. As a student debating society...

The Irish Art of Controversy

'The Irish Art of Controversy is what serious scholarship should be: meticulously informed, lucid, original. I enjoyed every page.' - Samuel Hynes, Princeton University

North American customers should order from Cornell University Press.

'Lucy McDi...

The Irish Brandy Houses of Eighteenth-Century France

The Irish traders in beef and butter who settled in the Charente area moved on to the rapidly growing brandy trade by the mid-eighteenth century. As world demand for brandy grew with u...

The Irish Chateaux In Search of Descendants of the Wild Geese

'Fascinating material, beautifully accompanied by drawings of chateaux... a pleasurable and thought-provoking book.'
- The Irish Times

The Irish Chateaux looks back over ce...

The Irish Women's Movement

'Ireland's first book-length study of this transformative social movement . . . Linda Connolly not only charts a tradition but lays down a challenge.' - Aine McCarthy, Sunday Tribune

This superbly incisive, comprehensive history of the Irish women's mo...

The Shannon Navigation HB

‘A magnificent book … extremely well illustrated and produced. Rush out now and buy a copy.' - Afloat

The Shannon Navigation traces the history of the River Shannon as a navigation up to the present day from the 1750s when the earl...

The Shannon Navigation PB

‘A magnificent book … extremely well illustrated and produced. Rush out now and buy a copy.' - Afloat

The Shannon Navigation traces the history of the River Shannon as a navigation up to the present day from the 1750s...

The Synge Letters. Bishop Edward Synge to His Daughter Alicia, Roscommon to Dublin 1746-1752

Edward Synge wrote 221 letters to Alicia, his daughter, betweeen May and October of 1746 to 1752. He was an adoring though not uncritical father, advising, gossiping and instructing her from his country estate. Synge was a wealthy man and Alicia a con...

The United Irishman

The 1790s, coloured by revolutions in France and North America, were to see the birth of republicanism in Ireland and the emergence of radical Presbyterianism in the north. The decade is increasingly being considered as one of the most formative in modern...

The Wartime Broadcasts of Francis Stuart 1942- 1944

'It has taken Brendan Barrington's superbly scholarly edition of Stuart's broadcasts to show us how such crucial moral and cultural debates ought to be conducted: calmly, rigorously and on the basis of real evidence. If Stuart comes badly ...

The World of Mary O'Connell 1778-1836

In 1800 Daniel O'Connell, a young Kerry barrister who had just made his first forays into national politics, began a clandestine correspondence with his distant cousin Mary O'Connell of Tralee. Two years later Daniel secretly married the dowerless Mary...

Two Brothers, Two Wars

"Quite the best description of the life of a front line infantry soldier in the period 1914-1918 that I have read . It  shows this pre-war soldier goes on to become commissioned and gains the Military Cross for single-handedly, armed only with a revolver,...

Vanishing Kingdoms: The Irish Chiefs and Their Families PB

'A lasting memorial to those ancient families ... ably chronicled in Mr Curley's timely book.' - The Kinght of Glin, Sunday Independent

Vanishing Kingdoms combines an account of aristocracy and its history in Ireland with an inter...

Your Children are not your Children: The Story Of Headfort School

HEADFORT SCHOOL has always been an idiosyncratic place. Beginning as an ‘outpost of Empire’ at a time when that empire was locally destitute and internationally disintegrating, it prepared the sons of the landed cla...