Irish Names

Irish Names contains just under a thousand names selected from the enourmous wealth of historical sources - annals, genealogies, myth, legend and epic poetry - that make up the literature of early medieval Ireland. Of the the extraordinary variety of ...

She Moves Through the Boom

What's happening in Ireland? Behind the triumphalist headlines of the boom, there are changes going on - in the way people work, speak, eat, even the way they think - that cannot be quantified by statistics nor squared with the hollow cliché of the ...

Ten Thousand Saints: A Study in Irish and European Origins

"During the twenty years from the early 1950s to the [1972] publication of Ten Thousand Saints Hubert Butler amassed, by hand, every possible reference to every possible saint in the Irish corpus in Irish and Latin ... His understanding of Irelan...

The Ancestor Album

Part One of this large format book will enable you to collect information for your family tree simply by talking to people, and provides a series of beautiful fill-in charts to permanently record a family tree of up to five generations.

Part Two...

The Irish Roots Guide

'Tony McCarthy's book gives invaluable advice for anyone setting out on the elusive trail of their ancestors.'
- Sunday Press

Irish genealogy now attracts unprecedented interest both at home and abroad. Many who try to trace their roots, how...

Wordgloss: A Cultural Lexicon

'Wordgloss is a vast grid of knowledge and information, as dense as chain mail and as intricate as a spiderweb. It is wide-ranging, erudite, accommodating and witty ... a real reference work that will carry the reader far beyond the dictionary.' - John Ban...