Brings the particular perspective of the geographer to the theme of 'colonial/early modern' (c. 1550 - c.1750) Ireland.

Ranging from the ultra realistic "Some Hours in the Life of a Witch" to the surreal fantasy world of "Fulfilment" and "The Wife of Bath", the stories in this book describe ordinary and not so ordinary lives, and the lives of women in particular, in the feminist and post-feminist era in Ireland.

This book sets out to provide a scholarly analysis of money and capital, the institutional economic class interests that exist in Ireland, and alternatives to same in the spheres of paid labour and social reproduction. In essence it is a political work in that it picks a side in the debate over these issues.

An exceptional collection of original scholarship on the historical Irish Atlantic by leading scholars of modern Ireland and Irish-America. Topics including The Great Famine, the Boston Irish, 1916-era nationalism, and Northern Ireland's Troubles shed new light on the enduring historical theme of Irish identity on both sides of the Atlantic.

Neil Jordan: Works for the Page surveys the short stories and novels of one of Ireland's leading creative practitioners, altering the once well-mapped landscape of contemporary Irish fiction by revealing a most remarkable figure.

Newgrange is an archaeological site in Ireland. Every year around 250,000 people come to the see this Neolithic passage tomb. This book is designed for the general reader with an interest in Irish prehistory. It explains the results of decades of excavation and analysis.

The collection of 28 Ogham stones at UCC represents the largest collection of Ogham inscriptions in open display in Ireland. In this guide Damian McManus places the stones in their literary, linguistic and archaeological context, and discusses the origins of Ogham, its distribution, execution and significance.

"Paradiso Seasons" represents Denis Cotter's personal journal through the eternally shifting seasons, focusing on his favourite vegetables at their prime moment and, from them, creating tempting recipes.

Through the lives and work, rest and play of Protestant participants in the new Ireland these essays offer refreshing interpretations as to what it meant to be Protestant and Irish in the changed political dispensation after Irish independence in 1922.

Queer Notions is a seminal anthology of new plays and performance documentation from Ireland.

John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952) is the most popular cinematic representation of Ireland, and one of Hollywood's classic romantic comedies. For some viewers and critics the film is a powerful evocation of romantic Ireland and the search for home. This book contains new and original information and photographs about the film The Quiet Man.