Wordwell

400 illustrations. Magisterial survey of this area by the author of the prize-winning Mapping Laois.

Exposes a political conspiracy which cynically exploited virulent homophobia to destroy a heroic pioneer of human rights.

In 1784, a small group of Irish surgeons broke ranks with the Guild of Barber-Surgeons to form the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Ronan Kelly tells the story of RCSI through its contributions to a near-quarter-millennium of surgical, medical and societal change. From nineteenth-century bodysnatchers to the 1916 Rising, through two pandemics and two World Wars, with a vivid cast of characters, and reaching right to the present daythis history is a fast-moving narrative of a great Irish - and, now, global - institution.

This is the story of a remarkable man's efforts to help starving people during the Irish Great Famine. It reveals their terrible experiences inside and outside one of the national 'workhouses' and throws new light on the relationship between class, religion and poverty in Ireland before independence.

Ireland’s archaeological monuments are evidence of a long and fascinating history. They are in a sense part of the very essence of the country, without which we would all be much the poorer.

The great tradition of public art on our island reaches back thousands of years to a time when the earliest inhabitants first raised the megaliths and ancient monuments which can still be found across our country.

“A gang of police thugs.” “Renegades and perverted types.”