This book examines Ireland's experiences of the Tudor reformations. Part 1 shows that the Irish Church, far from being in decline, enjoyed an upsurge in lay support before Henry VIII's reformation. Pa
Duffy (Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin) selects essays from the eighth annual Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium, 2006. Contributors include historians, archaeologists, librarians, and other profe
This volume contains a number of important studies relating to the archaeology of medieval Dublin, including the results of Antoine Giacometti's excavations piecing together the medieval urban landsca
There are many pasts within the Irish past. This book seeks to blend the insights of historical geography (with its field-based emphasis on environment, context and continuities), archaeology (with it
In the late twelfth century, Ireland was absorbed into the dominions of the kings of England. This transformed the social and political life of the island, with implications that resonate to the prese
Despite its name, the real subject of J.G. Farrell’s three-and-a-half-book Empire Series is not the British empire, but the human condition, a state characterized by ‘fall’ – l
This study reconstitutes a tenement community living in Church Street in the heart of the worst slums in Dublin, using the 1911 census as its main primary source. The census enables these tenement dwe
In this volume of the Study of Irish Historic Settlement series, scholars from the perspectives of archaeology, art history, and history offer insights into the development and consolidation of lordsh
This is the first biography of Victorian Britain's famous war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler. She was born in Lausanne in 1846, where her family had gone to join their friend, Charles Dickens. As E
Born in Ulster, John Black left Ireland for the West Indies in 1771 and never returned. Settling first in Grenada, he moved on to Trinidad in 1784 and established himself as a major slave owner and a
On 4 December 1851, Thomas Douglas Bateson, agent to the Templetown estate near Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, was murdered as he returned on foot to Castleblayney after visiting the estate's model farm
This volume opens with an essay where "style" is viewed medievally, as a near-synonym of "genre," with Zygmunt Baranski arguing that to fully appreciate the presence of Horace in Dante's works, the co
O'Connor's short stories are in virtually every anthology of modern Irish literature worth its salt, but he was also a skilled translator, poet, dramatist, novelist, critic and essayist in a time when
