Royal Irish Academy

Forty extracts from John Rocque's detailed map of Dublin, dating to 1756, are reproduced with accompanying commentaries and illustrations.

Includes a map with an introductory essay folded to pocket size. This book features over 200 historical sites with colour and symbols for reader accessibility. It is part of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series.

Read Patrick's account of his capture and slavery in Ireland in a straightforward and accurate translation by Padraig McCarthy.

Presents the results of the analysis of the animal bone assemblage from excavations of the medieval settlement at Knowth, Co Meath. This title provides an opportunity to review the zooarchaeological evidence for Early Christian Ireland and to place the Knowth results in context.

Includes a topographical information section that lists historical and archaeological details of over 1,200 sites and an essay, all tracing the development of the city of Armagh from its earliest origins to 1900.

Eye-witness narratives- diaries, memoirs, letters, autobiographies and official witness statements- were written by nationalists and unionists, Catholics and Protestants, women who felt completely at home in the garrisons, cooking for the men and treating their wounds, and women who stayed at home during the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland.

Drogheda, the twenty-ninth in the IHTA series, will bring this important Irish settlement into the Irish and European Historic Towns Atlas scheme where it can be compared with towns across Ireland and over 500 in Europe

The austerity that followed the recent economic and financial crisis has led to impassioned debates across the social sciences and the public at large. Although Ireland was not its only victim, the depth of the interacting economic, banking and budgetary crises has meant that the level of public interest has been especially intense.

Lebor na hUidre (LU) is the oldest manuscript we have that is written entirely in the Irish language. This book represents the proceedings of a conference organised to mark the centenary of one of the most important studies on LU-R.I. Best's 'Notes on the script of Lebor na hUidre'.

Codices Hibernenses Eximii II: Book of Ballymote will look afresh at some of the questions relating to the background and contents of the Book of Ballymote, one of the most extensive and most lavishly illuminated Irish manuscripts we have from the Late Middle Ages.