Ireland–Japan Connections and Crossings celebrates sixty-five years of Irish–Japanese diplomatic relations and its publication is one part of a number of commemorative events designed to cherish past and future relations between the two countries. The book is a celebration of
This is the first English translation of an important seventeenth-century contention between two Irish clerics. The detail uncovered reveals much about Gaelic-Irish culture and society at this turbulent period in Irish history. The two clerics, Antonius Bruodinus and Thomas Carve,
“It is a brave, creative, radical and unflinching collection, rooted in the concept of transitional justice,” Lindsey Earner-Byrne, “REDRESS essay opens up the cathedral of Irish silence and shame,” Sunday Independent, 7 August 2022. “Redress should be read by anyone who cares
While the national narrative coming out of Ireland since the 2008 economic crisis has been relentlessly sanguine, fiction has offered a more nuanced perspective from both well-established and emerging authors. In Broken Irelands, McGlynn examines Irish novels of the post-crash
A gripping investigation into one of Irish history’s greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the true story behind one of the most significant political assassinations to ever have been committed on British soil. Praise for Great Hatred “McGreevy’s quite brilliant book
Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945) was a founding figure in the Gaelic League, the Irish Volunteers, and the government of Ireland. As Professor of Early (including Mediaeval) History at University College Dublin was also one of the foremost Irish historians of his
Hailed in the Irish Times as a ‘great Irish novelist’, Neil Jordan is, in the words of Fintan O’Toole, ‘a peculiarly emblematic figure of cultural change’. Yet, extraordinarily, such critical acclaim has come about without detailed scholarly engagement with Jordan’s
A study of the lives and legacy of Picts and Britons in the Irish Church, looking at their impact on early medieval Irish society and how this impact came to be perceived in later centuries.
To achieve a fuller understanding of the legal status of peoples within English Ireland, this book compares the treatment of Gaelic women and men to that of the English of Ireland and it also offers an in-depth examination of other
Reflecting the major developments in the scholarship of medieval art and architecture in the past forty years and using the island of Ireland as a central axis, this volume brings together new perspectives on medieval art and architecture from established