Product Description: In 1747, James Saurin, a descendant of a prominent Huguenot family, was appointed as vicar of Belfast. One of his first acts was to write a series of sermons that he preached to his congregation over his long tenure as vicar. Many sermons he recycled a number of times since they were, for him, fundamental statements of belief and meaning in the contemporary world...read more

Product Description: This third installment of the examination of Dublin - from the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series - traces the history and development of Dublin through the late 18th and early 19th centuries. During this period, many of the city's modern streets were laid out...read more

Product Description: This fascinating and innovative study explores the lives of people living in early modern Ireland through the books and printed ephemera which they bought, borrowed or stole from others. While the importance of books and printing in influencing the outlook of early modern people is well known, recent years have seen significant changes in our understanding of how writing and print shaped lives, and was in turn shaped by those who appropriated the written word...read more

Complete with photographs, maps, and period artwork, this informative atlas provides the complete historical evolution of Ireland and its people, from the days of the ancient Celts to those of the Great Famine. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of essays casts light on the history of Dublin, of the Church of Ireland, and of Ireland generally. It charts the effects of events such as the Reformation in the 16th century and disestablishment in the 19th century at St Patrick's, as well as chronicling the evolving architecture of the building and describing the changing pattern of liturgy and music performed in it...read more

Product Description: This book studies one of the most remarkable collections of medieval manuscripts in Ireland. In the popular mind the medieval manuscripts of Ireland were all destroyed in the Four Courts fire of 1922 but this is far from the truth...read more

Product Description: In this innovative volume, ten leading scholars from a variety of backgrounds examine how the production, circulation, and reception of books reflected Irish intellectual life. Through rigorous encounters with seminal works in their own particular fields-law, music, archaeology, Celtic studies, history, literary criticism, and art-the contributors explore how print and publishing impacted on the way ideas were shaped and spread in modern Ireland...read more

Product Description: Contents: Charles Doherty (UCD) The idea of the parish - Patrick J. Duffy (NUI Maynooth) The shape of the parish - Elizabeth FitzPatrick (NUI, Galway) The buildings and settlement of the parish - Colmán Etchingham (NUI Maynooth) Pastoral provision in the first millennium: a two-tier service? - Tomás Ó Carragáin (NUI Cork) Church buildings and pastoral care in early medieval Ireland - Tadhg O'Keeffe (UCD) The built environment of local community worship between the late eleventh and early thirteenth centuries - Sinéad Ní Ghabhláin (Archaeologist) Late twelfth-century church construction: evidence of parish formation? - Helen Bermingham (Archaeologist) Priest's residences in later medieval Ireland - Patrick Nugent (Archaeologist) The dynamics of parish formation in high medieval and late˜medieval Clare - Henry A...read more

Product Description: In 1850, a set of maps was prepared and printed for Belfast for the purpose of sales through the Incumbered Estates Court. Over a century later, C.E.B. Brett laboriously transferred in pencil the basic information contained in the leases of the Donegall family onto the printed maps...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of essays with a new preface by Raymond Gillespie, highlighting some of the more significant contributions to Cavan history over the last decade.

Product Description: The publication of J.C. Beckett's The making of modern Ireland in 1966 was a milestone in the modern study of Irish history. A new generation of students has since built on Beckett's insights and has added new questions and problems to the historical agenda...read more

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Product Description: Narcissus Marsh (1638–1713) was an English clergyman who spent his later life in Ireland, initially as Provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and ultimately as Archbishop of Armagh. Despised by Jonathan Swift for his pietism and timidity, his achievements as churchman and scholar were impressive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Sponsored by the Church of Ireland Historical Society, 12 chapters on the everyday religious experience of the members of the Church through its history are presented by Gillespie (history, National U. of Ireland Maynooth) and Neely (rector of the parish of Keady, County Armagh, Ireland)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)