Item category 1: Local Studies Local History Collection

From Glendalough in the Wicklow mountains to Tipperary's Rock of Cashel and Offaly's Clonmacnoise, from Aghagower in County Mayo to County Dublin's Clondalkin, 'Round Towers of Ireland' features over 40 of these remarkable and intriguing structures.

The Phoenix Park: An Illustrated history of its landscape and management 1880 – 1980 displays the role of the park in Irish life, from hosting events like the Tailteann Games and the Papal Visit, to serving as a hub for sports from cricket to Gaelic football, and adjusting during wartime and poli...

The existence of Monto - Europe's biggest red-light district from 1860 to 1925 with up to 1600 sex workers at any one time - is not a secret, but what happened to the women at the end of their lives and after death is less clear. This account balances the historical origins of Monto, its expansio...

This new volume in the award-winning Atlas Series presents fresh perspectives on, and a nuanced understanding of, the history of the Irish Civil War (1922-3). The centenary of the Civil War has prompted wide-ranging research into that tumultuous and complex period in Irish history. Featuring con...

The world-famous Kylemore Abbey, dramatically located in a magnificent former castle on the shores of Kylemore Lough in Connemara, has been home to a branch of Benedictine nuns that fled Belgium during World War I. Bombed out of Ypres, where they had been based for hundreds of years, the nuns wer...

At the age of 30, IRA Commandant Thomas Keating met an untimely end in the Comeragh Mountains of County Waterford. The Irish Civil War starkly contrasted with the War of Independence, as the IRA faced a formidable adversary and a lack of broad public support and Church backing. The Civil War's...