Item category 1: Local Studies Local History Collection

Beginning with the original Trench exile from France in 1575, and the family's early time in Ireland, this book then covers nine generations over 220 years (1803-2023) unveiling the fascinating history of the Earls of Clancarty from life at Garbally House, County Galway to their eventual retreat ...

When the Dominicans arrived in Dublin in 1224, they established a house on the north bank of the river Liffey next to the bridge where the Four Courts are situated today. Anyone who wanted to enter the city of Dublin from the north, or leave across the bridge, had to pass the gate of the priory. ...

'Dubs' collects Tony Murray's evocative photographs of Dubliners and their city captured as the 1970s gave way to the 1980s. The work is a powerful portrayal of the citizens of Dublin at work and at play-protesting and parading; hawking and trading; busking and begging; courting and sunbathing-ag...

Beginning on the eve of the Leitrim Plantation and concluding in the wake of the Great Famine, this is the story of the St George family and their Carrick-on-Shannon estate. It explores how military prowess and political acuity helped build their wealth, power and status and the extent to which t...

The Connemara region in Western Ireland is world-renowned for its outstanding geology and spectacular landscapes. This book and its many colorful illustrations, maps, diagrams, field, and landscape images, detail the origin and formation of Connemara's igneous rocks in deep time, geological obser...