The Personality of IrelandThis classic study of Irish culture, extensively illustrated with photographs, maps and drawings, and reissued with a new foreword and an updated bibliography, gives a detailed yet panoramic view of Ireland. It follows in the great tradition of French historiography, adding the testament of landscape, antiquities and folk custom to that of document based history as a primary source of knowledge of our past. It is a justly acclaimed, stimulating work

'Ê- Frank Callanan

her government was making a substantial offer to the prisoners

a century after the abbey’s foundation

and translated and published by Kuno Meyer in 1911

intimacy and poverty of the north side

this audacious first novel perfectly captures the pain of young adult relationships

\n Dr Yvonne Whelan (Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages

He assesses the reaction of Swift’s serious biographers and commentators to the original publications: ‘… two remarkable books

Outstanding

she walks the viewer through a townscape and landscape little changed in the seventy years since Joyce’s death

Some have coped with the stress by drinking to excess while almost everybody finds they have not enough time to maintain their social bonds

art critic and radio broadcaster