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Daniel O'Connell was one of Ireland's most significant politicians. In 1840 he visited Belfast and while there was challenged to debate the Repeal of the Act of Union. He refused, partly for fear of violence. The visit produced extensive rioting, his meetings were cancelled, and he had to travel in disguise.

A guide to the increasingly allusive and complex Peppercanister poems. All the poems are discussed in chronological order and are accompanied by illustrations and reproductions of covers, which are fully explained in the text.

How exactly were books printed in the Middle Ages, before the age of printing? As Thomas Cahill's book, How the Irish Saved Civilization, dramatically demonstrates that without the medieval Irish monks' devotion to transcription, much of the knowledge of Western civilization would have been lost forever. At that time, the author was often his own scribe and almost invariably his own editor and publisher. In the age of manuscript culture, every...

Land has been a dominant theme in modern Irish history, extending to political and cultural issues as well as permeating social and economic ones.

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