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Judge John O'Hagan was a Young Irelander, poet, educationist, and liberal scholar.

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In 16th and 17th century Ireland religion and nationality fused together in a people's struggle to survive. In that struggle the country's links with Europe provided a life line. Members of religious orders, including the Irish Jesuits, with their international roots, played an important role.

This account of the Irish Jesuits from 1695 to 1811 is concerned with those who lived and worked in Dublin and, in particular, with a central figure, the quite remarkable educationalist and pastor, Thomas Betagh.

In Dom Eugene Boylan Thomas J. Morrissey tells the untold story: the life of a prize-winning student, music-lover, ladies' man and physicist who became the great spiritual writer of groundbreaking titles like This Tremendous Lover.

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Daniel Murray was undoubtedly the outstanding Irish Catholic archbishop of the nineteenth century. This comprehensive and well -researched biography gives a lively and accurate account of s contribution to church and society.

Our brilliant ... and difficult Bishop', as novelist Kate O'Brien described him. O'Dwyer was brilliant intellectually, independent-minded and quarrel-some, but a life-long supporter of the poor of Limerick. He played a major role in improving primary education, in helping to solve the University question, and as a leader in workhouse reform. In his final years he helped to change the course of Irish history. In 1916, when the population was co...

John Sullivan embraced in his life the two main traditions in Irish history: the unionist, anglo-Irish, Church of Ireland tradition and the Catholic tradition of the majority of the population.

Thomas F. Ryan was a man of immense energy, with a strong commitment to social justice. He combined religion and dedication to serve the poor in Ireland, China, and Hong Kong. He was deeply involved with the Belvedere Newsboys' Club and in work for young people in juvenile detention centers. He was a very capable organizer and administrator, both as a Jesuit and as member of the Hong Kong government.

Edward J. Byrne became Archbishop of Dublin in 1921 and remained in office till his death in 1940. He therefore ruled during the period of some of the critical events and developments in the new Irish Free State from the Civil War, through the change of government in 1932 and right up to the adoption of De Valera's Constitution of 1937. On the ecclesiastical side, his reign covered the two massive celebrations of the time, the centenary celebr...

A man with a strong social conscience and sense of social responsibility, William Martin Murphy has long been viewed as something of an ogre - as the man who starved the workers of Dublin into submission in 1913-14 and called for the execution of James Connolly in 1916. This revised biography re-examines Murphy's remarkable career. Thomas J. Morrissey, SJ, is a former headmaster of Crescent College Comprehensive in Limerick and president of th...

Morrissey has written a lengthy and detailed life and times biography of Peter Kenney. His book is an important contribution to 19th-century Irish and American religious history.

During the Easter Week insurrection, 1916, John Delaney SJ walked from one point of military activity to another, chronicling all he saw in his diary. This volume contains extracts from his eye-witness accounts of the effects of 1916 on ordinary people in Dublin and its suburbs.

I looked out at the rising sun. It formed a beautiful, translucently violet horizon where the curve of Andowhan ended and space began. I wondered if there might be something better beyond that horizon. There must be some real meaning, out there, but I felt isolated and constrained from it. Caleb Lonnergan is the youngest son of a family anxious to shield him from the civilization that has already claimed the life of his oldest brother. Althoug...

Edward Cahill SJ was an influential figure in Ireland during the early decades of the new Irish State Eamon de Valera was a good friend of Cahill's and shared many of is views.

John Sullivan embraced in his life the two main traditions in Irish history: both the Anglo-Irish, Church of Ireland tradition and the Catholic tradition. He was the son of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, studied in Trinty College, practiced as a lawyer in the English bar, and was known as 'the best dressed man in Dublin.' In his mid-thirties, John became a Catholic Jesuit. Most of the rest of his life was spent as a teacher and spiritual fath...