Four Courts Press Ltd

Despite once being 'the best address in town, ' by 1900 almost every house on Henrietta Street was in use as tenements, some shockingly overcrowded. How did this happen? How did a location like Henrietta Street go from a street of mansions to one of tenements? And what was life like for those who lived within the walls of these houses?

This beautifully illustrated book explores sources for botany and gardening in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ireland.

Ireland's rich history of manuscript and printed maps is testament to the information that earlier generations sought from the environment around them.

THE INSPIRATIONAL recordings of the Ballyvourney singer Elizabeth “Bess” Cronin (1879-1956) are combined together with an exhaustive collection of her words and music in this beautiful large format book.

Patrick O'Donnell achieved the status of a national hero when he killed Ireland's most infamous informer James Carey on board a steamship off the coast of South Africa in 1883. Why did the quiet-spoken labourer from the Donegal Gaeltacht shoot the leading Fenian in the Phoenix Park murders? And why did the President of the United States of America and the French writer Victor Hugo plead that Patrick O'Donnell not be hanged for his crime?