Royal Irish Academy

Mullingar is the fifth in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series, which assembles topographical documentations on the development of Irish towns and publishes them as individual fascicles.

This book tells a history of Ireland by looking at the development of 100 medieval Irish words drawn from the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of the Irish Language. Words tell stories and encapsulate histories and this book captures aspects of Ireland’s changing history by examining the changing meaning of 100 key words. The book is aimed at a general readership and no prior knowledge of the Irish language is required to delve into the fascinating insights it provides.

Third in the series Codices Hibernenses Eximmii, the Book of Ui Mhaine is miscellaneous in content, comprising a wide range of texts in Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish, in prose and poetry, and covering a diverse range of genres from history to poetry, grammar to dindshenchas, glossaries to genealogies.

Dublin, part I, is the eleventh in the IHTA series. It contains a topographical information section with historical and archaeological details of c. 1,300 sites. Collection of maps includes: a large composite medieval map of Dublin in c. 840-c. 1540; a map depicting the growth of the city to 1610; and John Speed's map of Dublin.

This map offers a visual insight into medieval Dublin. This book includes a map complemented by an index and introductory booklet.

This new historical atlas of Cork will explore the city from its origins to the present day. The emergence of Cork from a monastic settlement on a marshland site through to the thriving city we know today is explained in a thoroughly researched text, illustrated with newly created thematic maps, early views and photographs.

This is a book about life and death over 8,500 years in Ireland.

Dublin 1911 is a multilayered history of that year, richly illustrated with newspaper articles, advertisements, census returns and previously unpublished photographs. With accompanying thematic essays, this book gives an accessible but no less intricate picture of daily life in the capital city.

'DIFP IX' brings together the entire spectrum of Ireland's foreign relations between 1948 and 1951. It includes Ireland's role as a founder member of the Council of Europe in 1949 and the state's response to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1950 - the origins of today's EU.