Item category 1: Local Studies

For over four decades, Marian Finucane was a familiar voice in homes across the country, one of a small group of Irish people recognisable by their first name. But John Clarke, Marian's widow, doesn't use her eponymous moniker - instead, he calls her 'Finucane'. It widens the gap between the woma...

This book explores the Skelligs, Ireland's most dramatic and beautiful Atlantic islands, and focuses particularly on Skellig Michael, a famous UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This work is a study of the Irish parliament as an administrative and legal institution. It is particularly interested in how parliament dispatched the business put before it, how its various parts interacted and how this colonial institution engaged with other elements of the administrative mach...