Item category 2: Irish Collection

This is a fully illustrated, behind-the-scenes, look at Dublin's iconic market district including its buildings, people and industry.

Until alarmingly recently, the Catholic Church, acting in concert with the Irish State, operated a network of institutions for the concealment, punishment and exploitation of "fallen women".. This book talks of the damage done to survivors, their families and is an astounding portrait of a deeply...

By exploring previously unknown or rarely seen artworks by prominent Irish and British artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Vicereines of Ireland tells the untold story of the women who were the faces of the British administration in Ireland.

Richard Nairn has spent a lifetime studying and learning from nature. When an opportunity arose for him to buy a small woodland filled with mature native trees beside a fast-flowing river, he set about understanding all its moods and seasons, discovering its wildlife secrets and learning how to m...

Once upon a time, most of Britain and Ireland was covered in woodland. Many of the trees have been cleared, but our connection with the wildwood remains. It is a place of danger, adventure and transformation, where anything could happen. Here is a collection of traditional folk tales of oak, ash...