Limerick, Ireland's third most populous city, has a rich and vibrant history stretching back to its foundation by the Vikings. Historian Sharon Slater explores the development of the city, showing how it has changed and grown over the years, recalling shops and industries, streets and buildings, societies and clubs and a lost way of life.
This is an account of social life in pre-Reformation Dublin, telling of its ruling class, its wealthy merchants, its all-powerful traditional church, the city's personalities, and Dublin's unwanted Irish.
The iconic Cotton Tree in the centre of Freetown, Sierra Leone, is a cherished monument to the life of that country for centuries. In Leaves from the Cotton Tree, the Sierra Leone Ireland Partnership (SLIP) has assembled thirty-seven essays by Irish people and Sierra Leoneans which share some of that experience spanning some seventy years.
The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience.